The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-04-24
The Right Sort of Religion.

We want a religion that goes into the family,
and keeps the husband from being spiteful when
the dinner is late, and keeps the dinner from being
late-keeps the wife from fretting when the hus-
band tracks the newly washed floor with mis- mud
dy 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 them-wins as well as g~overns-projects
the honeymoon into the harvest moon, and makes
the happy hours like the eastern fg-tree, bearing
in its bosom at once the beauty of the tender
blossom, and the glory of the ripened fruit. We
want a religion that bears heavily, not on the
8 exceeding sinfulness of sin" but on the exceed
ing rascality of lying and stealing-a 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 milkcans, 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 flour than all the wheat
fields of New York grow, and all her mills grind.
Ii will not make one half a 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 kid gloves, nor make Paris
bOnnets In the back room Of a Boston m!lllners
shop, nor let a piece Cf velvet that Processes to
measure twelve yards, come to an untimely end
in the tenth, or Il spool of sewing silk that vouches
for twenty yards, be nipped in the bud at four
teen-and-a-half, mol the cotton thread spool break
to the yardstick fifty of the two hundred yards
of promise that was given to the eye, nor yard
wide cloth measure less than thirty-six inches
from seIvedge to selyedge, nor all-wOol delains
and all linen handkerchiefs be amalgamized with
clandestine cotton, nor coats made of wooden rags
pressed together, he sold TO the unsuspecting pub
lie for legal broadcloth. 1t does not put bricks
at FIVE dollars per thousand into ~chimneys it con-
tracted to build of seven dollar materials, nor
smuggle white pine floors that have paid for hard
pine, nor leave yawning cracks IN closets where
boards ought to join, nor daub ceilings that
ought to be smoothly plastered. nor 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 s%anctify the
world, pays Its debts. 1t does not consider that
forty cents returned for one hundred cents given,
is according to gospel, though 1t may be accord
ing to law. Ii looks upon IA man who has failed
in trade, and who continues to live in luxury, as
q thief. It looks upon n man who promises To
pay fifty dollars on demand with interest, and
who neglects to pay it on demand, with d or with
out interest, rs n liar.