Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-01-25

We want religion that goes into the fam
lily, and keeps the husband from being spite
full when the dinner is late, and keeps the
dinner from being late-keeps the wife from
,freting when the husband tracks the newly
washed -four with his muddy boots; and
makes the husband mindful of the scraper
and the door mat keeps the mother patient
when the baby cries, and keeps the baby
pleasant--amuses the children as well as
instruct them--wins as well as governs
project the honeymoon into the harvest
moon, 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 ripned fruit. We want reli-
gion that bears heavily, not only or the
i" exceeding sinfulness of sn," but on the
exceeding rascality of lying and stealing
religion that banishes small measures
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 contribution box. The religion
that is to save the world will not put all the
big strawberries AT the top, and all the bad
ones at the bottom. 1t will not offer more
baskets of foreign wines than the vineyards
ever produced bottles, and more barrels OF
| Genesee -four than all the wheat fields Of
New York grow and all her mills grind. 1t
will not make one half of pair of shoes OF
good leather and the other of poor leather,
so that the first shall rebound TO the makers
credit, and the second to his cash. 1t will
not put Gouvin's stamp on Jenkins's kid
gloves, nor make Paris bonnets in the back
room of Boston milliner's shop, nor let a
piece Of velvet the processes to measure
twelve yards, come TO an untimiy end in the
tenth, or a spool Of sewing silk that vouch-
es for twenty yards, be nipped in the bud at
fourteen and half, nor the cotton thread
spool break to the yard-stick fifty of the
two hundred yards of promise that was CIV
to the eye. nor yard wide cloth measure less
than thirty six inches from selvedge to sely-
edge, nor all-wool delaines and all-linnen
handkerchiefs be amalgamated with clandes-
tine cotton, nor coats made Of woolen rags
pressed together, TO be sold to the unsus-
pecting public for legal broadcloth. 1t does
not put bricks at five dollars per thousand
into chimneys it contracted to buildo of seven
dollar materials, no smugele white pine into
floors that have paid for hard pine,nor leave
yawning cracks in closets where boards
ought 10 join, nor daub ceilings that ought
to be smoothly plastered, uor make window
/ blinds Of Stats that cannot stand the wind,
and paint that cannot stand the sun, and
fastenings that may be looked at but are on
/ no account TO be touched. The religion
that is to sanctify the world pays its debts.
/ 1t does not consider that forty cents return
ed for one hundred cents given, IS according
to gospel, although it may be according TO
law. 1t looks upon man who has failed
| in trade, and who continues TO live in luxury,
as thief. Il look upon man who promi-
ses to pay fifty dollars on demand, with in
terest, and who neglects to pay it on demand,
with or without interest is liar.
Congregatioaaii.t.