Gazette and sentinel., 1861-04-13
Religion for the Times.

4 writer in the COngregatiOnaiist de-
scribes a religion which the times re
quirc, in the following sensible and
pointed language:
We want a religion that goes into the
family, and keeps the husband from be-
ing spiteful when the dinner is late, and
keeps the dinner from being late
keeps the wife from fretting 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
well as instructs thcm-win as well as
governs-proiects the honeymoon into
tho harvestmoOn, and makes the happy
hours like the eastern fig tree, bearing
in its bosom at once the beauty of the
tender blossom and the glory of the
ripcned fruit. We want a religion that
bears heavily, not only on the exceed.
ing sinfulness Of sin" but on the ex-
ceeding rascality of lying and stealing
"A religion that banishes small meas
ures from the counters, small baskets
from the stalls, pebbles from the cotton
bags, clay from paper, sand from sugar,
chicory from coffee, otter from butter,
beet juice from vinegar, alum from
bread, strychnine from wine, water from
milk cans, and buttons from the cOntri-
button box"
The religion that is to save the world
will not put all the big Strawberries on
the top, and all the bad ones at the bot
tom 1t will not offer more baskets of
foreign wines than the vineyards evcr
produced bottles, and more barrels OF
flour than all the wheat fields of New
York grow, and all the mills grind. 1t
will not make one-half of a pair of
shoes of good leather, and the other of
poor leather, so that the first shall re-
doUnd to the makers credit, and second
to his cash. 1t will not put GOWNS
stamp on Jenkins kid gloves, nor make
Boston milIiner's shop, nor let a piece
of velvet that Processes to Measure
twelve yards, come 10 an untlmely end
in the tenth, or spool of sewing silk
that vouches for twenty yards, be MP
ped in the bud at fourteen and a half,
nor the cotton thread spool break to the
yardstick fifty of the two hundred yards
OF promise that vas given To the eye,
nor yard wide cloth a less
than t~hirty-six inches from salvage to
salvage, nor all wool delaines and all
linen handkerchicls amalgamate with
c~iandcstinc cotton, nor coats made Of
old wooden rags pressed together, be
sold 10 the unSuspecting public for le-
gal broadcloth. 1t does not put bricks
at FIVE dollars per thousand into chin
neys it contracted to build of seven
dollar materials, nor smuggle white
pine into floors that have paid for hard
pine, nor leave yawning cracks in the
closets, where boards ought to join, nor
daub the ceiling that ought to be
smoothly plastered, nor make window
blinds with Stats that cannot stand the
winds, and paint that cannot stand the
sun, and f~astenings that may be looked
at, but are on no account to be touched.
The religion which is to sanctify the
world, pays its debts. 1t does not con-
slider that forty cents returned for one
hundred cents given, is according to
law. 1t looks upon n man who has fall
ed in trade, and who continues to live
in luxury, as a thief.
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