Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-03-26
Religion for the Times.

We adopt the sentiment of cotempora-
~, commencing the following article to the
careful consideration Of all our readers,
and If any of them find the hints applicable
TO their individual case, let them put it
on" II is from o writer in the CongTega-
sionalist, and he describes a religion which
the times require, in sensible pointed
language:
We want a religion that goes into the
family and keeps the husband from being
spiteful when dinner is late, and keeps the
dinner from being late-keeps the wife
from frstting when the husband tracks the
newly washed floor with his muddy boots,
and makes the husband mindful of the
scraper and the door mat-keeps the mother
patient when the baby is cross, and keeps
the baby pleasant-amuses the children as
we'll as instracts them-wins as well as
governs-projects the honey moon into the
harvest moon, and makes the happy hours
like the eastern fig tree, bearing in its bo-
som at once the beauty of the tender bios
som and the glory Of the ripened fruit. We
want religion that bears heavily, not only
on the exceeding sinfulness Of SIM" but
on the exceeding rasculity Of lying and
stealipg-a religion that banishes small
from the stalls, pebbles from the cotton
bags, clay FROM pepper, sand from sugar,
cbicory from coffee, otter from butter, beer
juice from vinegar, alum from bread, strych-
nine from wine, water from milk cans, and
buttons 10 the contribution box.
The religion that is to save the world
will not put all the big straw berries at the
top, and all the bad ones at the bottom. 1t
n bna bzak. &c r..
than the vineyards ever produced bottles,
and more barrels Of -four than all the wheat
fields Of New York grow, and their mills
grind. Il will not make one half Of a pair
of shoes of good leather and the other Of
poor leather, so that the first shall rebound
20 the makers credit and the other 70 his
cash. 1t will not make Gouvin's stamp on
jenkins kid gloves, nor make Paris bon
nets in the back rooms Of Boston milliner's
shop, nor let piece of velvet that processes
TO measure twelve yards, come to an IN
timely end in the tenth, or a spool Of sew
ing silk that vouehes for twenty yards, be
nipped in the bud at fourteen and a half.
nor the cotton thread spool, break to the
yard stick fifty of the two hundred of the
promise that was given to the eye, nor yard
wide cloth measure less than thirty six
inches from selvedge to selyedge, nor ell
wool delalnes nor all linen handkerchief
be amalgamated with clandestine cotton,
nor coats made of old wooden rags pressed
together be sold to the unsuspecting public
for legal broadcl6th. 1t does not put bricks
at FIVE dollars per thousand into chimneys
it contracted to build of seven dollar mate
rials, nor smuggle white pine floors that
have paid for hard pine, nor leave yawniDg
cracks in closets where boards ought 10
join, nor daub the ceilings that ought to be
smoothly plastered, nor make window blinds
with Stats that cannot stand the wind, and
paint that cannot stand the sun, and fas
Jennings that may be looked at, but are on
no account to be touched.
The religion which is to saUctify the
world pays its debts. II does not consider
that forty cents returned for one hundred
cents given, is according to law. Ii looks
upon a man who has failed in trade, and
continue to live in luxury as a thief 1t
looks upon a man who promises to pay fifty
dollars on demand, with interest, and who
neglects to pay it on demand, with or with
out interest, as q liar.