The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-10-25
The Right Kind Of Religion.

We want religion that gees into the
family, and keeps the husband from being
spitefui when the dinner table is late-keeps
the wife from frottiDg when the husband
tracks tho newly washed floor with his mud
dy boots, and makos the husband mindful Of
the scrnper aud door mat keeps tho moth
or patient when the baby is cross, and keeps
the baby pleasant; amuses the children al
vol as instructs them wins as we'll as gov
orns projects the honeymoon into the har-
vest moon, and makes the happy hours like
the eastern fig treo, bearing in its bosom at
once the beauty Of the tender blossom and
the glory of the ripening fruit. We want .
religion that bears heavily. not on the 'ex-
coeding sinfulness Of sin, but on the ex-
cecding rascality of lying and stealing,
religion that banishes small measures from
the counter, small baskets from the stalls,
pebbles from tho cotton bags, clay from
paper, sand from sugar, chicory from coffee,
otter from buttor, beef juice from vinegar,
alum from bread, Strychnine from wine,
the contribution box.
Tho religion that is to save the world will
not put all the big strawberries at the top
and all bad ones at the bottom. II will noe
offer more baskets Of foreign wine than tho
vineyards ever produced bottles, and moro
barrels of Gouessee -four than all the whoat
folds Of New York grows, and her mills
grind. Ii will not make one half pair OF
shoes of good leather and the other OF poor
leather, SO that the first shall bound to the
makers credit and the second to his cash.
IL will not put Jouvin's stamp upon Jen-
kin's kid gloves, nor mark Paris bonDets in
the back room of Boston milliner's shop.
nor lot piece of velvet that processes to
measure twelve yards come to an untimely
end in the tenth, or . spool Of sewing silk
that vouches for twenty yards bo nipped in
the bud at fourteen and q half, nor the cot
ton thread spool break to the yard stick nifty
of the two hundred yards Of promise that
was given to the eye, nor a yard wide cloth
measure Ices than thirty.six inches from
selvedge to selvedge, nor all-wool delaines
and all linen hsndkerchiefs to be amalgam-
ised with c!andestine cotton, nor coats
made of woolen rags pressed together to DO
sold to unsuspecting public for legal broad
cloth. Il does uot put brick at five dollars
a thousand into the cbimneys it contracted
to build of seven dollar materials, nor SNUG
gle white pine floors that have paid foe
bard pine, nor leave yawDiDg cracks 10
closets whore boards ought to join, nor cell
ings that ought to be smoothly plastered,
nor make window blinds OF Stats that can.
not stand the sun, and fasteniDgs that may
be looked at, but arc on no account TO Do
touched. The religion that is to sanctify
the world pays it's debts. 1t does not con-
slider that forty cents returned for one
hundred cents given is according to the Cos
pei, though it may be according to law. tt
looks upon man who has failed in trade.
aud who continues to live in luxury, as .
thief. 1t looks upon man who promises
to pay fifty dollars upon demand, with iu-
terest, and who neglects to pay it on de-
mand, with or without interest, as liar
CongregaiionGiist.