Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-12-23
THE RIGHT SORT OF RELIGION

We want religion that goes into the
family and keeps the husband from be-
ing spiteful when the dinner is 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
floor mat; keeps the mother patient when
the baby is cross, and keeps the baby
pleasant; amuses the children as we'll as
instructs them wins as we'll as governs
projects tie honeymoon into the harvest
moon, and makes the happy hours like
the Eastern tree, 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 exceeding "sinfulness of sin,
but the exceeding rascality of lying and
stealing a religion that banishes small
measures from the counters, small bas-
kets from the stalls, pebbles from the
cotton bags, clay from paper sand from
sugar, chiccory 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 Of
fer more baskets of foreign wine than
the vineyards ever produced bottles, and
more barrels of Genesee -four than all
the fields of New York grew and all hel
mills grind. 1t will not make one-halt
pair Of shoes of good leather and thu
other of poor, so that the first shall re
dound to the makers credit and the sec
ond to his cash. 1t will not put Jou
wins stamps on Jenkins kid gloves, no
Paris bonnets in the back room of
Boston milliner's shop, nor let piece 0
; velvet that processes to measure lively
S yards come to an untimely end in tn
a tenth, or a spool of sewing silk tina
vouches for twenty yards be nipped i
, the bud at fourteen and half, nor tn
It cotton thread to the yard stick fit
!, of the two hundred yards of promise tia
: was given to the eye, nor yard-wide clot
e measure less than thirty-six inches fro
r selvedge, all-wool delaines and all line
is handkerchiefs be amalgamized with clal
n destine cotton, nor coats made of woole
rags pressed together and sold to the III
'e suspecting public for legal broadclot
,e 1t does not put bricks at five dollars
4, thousand into chimneys it contracted
IN build of seven dollar materials, nor smu
| gle white pine floors that have paid
Id hard pine, nor have yawning cracks
d, closets where boards ought to join, n
I'd daub ceilings that ought to be smooth
s. plastered, nor makes window blinds
st. slaJs that cannot stand the wind, a.
st, paint that cannot stand the sun, and fa
as ners that may be looked at, but are
IL no account to be touched. The religi
Up. that is to sanctify the world pays
we debts. 1t does not consider that fol-
I'D cents returned for one hundred is acc
ne, ding to law. 1t looks upon a man "
,ep has failed in trade and who continues
ate live III luxury, as thief. 1t looks
her on man who promises to pay fifty d
lci- lars on demand with interest. and v
mt, neglects to pay it Oh demand with
'th without interest, as a liar.-Conqre
, to tionaliSt
ich -.
was 1t is easier to set man against
had the world than to make him fight Y