The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-05

rLn nirht sort of RelIglOn.

AZ quito number oil Clergymen have
Undertaken to carry religion and religious
eminent into the counting room, the
rork,hop, the Office and the family circle,
we commend to their consideration the
@lIowing schedule of very desirable
character Of religion advertised for some
yr,rs since by The CongregationalM'
We want religion that goes into the
family and keeps the husband from being
.mileul when the dinner is late anu keeps
,hc dinner from being ate-kCcps the
wife from irCtting when Tue husband
racks the newly washed tloof with MS
muddy boots, and makes the husband
%iniiul Of the scapcr and the floor mat
T"cnS the mother patient when the baby
"' Use and keeps the baby pleasant;
omnocs The children us well US instructs
hem wins as well MS governs; projects
tho honeymoon into the harvest moon,
emI makes the happy hours like the East
" "rn Gr tree, bearing in It's bosom at once
tho beauty of tho tender blossom and the
"Iory Of the ripening fruit. We
wan. a religion that bears heavily, not on
the exceeding siniulncsS Of sim" but on
,6e exceeding fasCality OF lying and steal.
iOr. religion that banishcs small meas
urcs from the counters, small baskets from
The stalls, pebbles from the cotton bags,
cIay from paper, sand from sugar chicory
from coffee, otter from butter, best juice
from vinegar, alum from bread, strych'
nine from wine, water from milk cans
and buttons from the contribution box.
The religion that is to save the world will
not nut all the big strawberries at the top
and all the bad ones ut the bottom. 1t
will not OtIer more baskets OF foreign wine
Than the vineyards ever produced bottles,
and moro barrels oil GencsCe flour than all
lhe wheat fields of New York grow and
all her mills grind. It will not make one.
Mlfa pair Of shoes Of good leather and
the other oil poor leather, so that the first
shall rebound to the makers credit Rnd
the second to his cash.
at will not put Jouvin's stamp on Jen.
kns' kid gloves, nor make Paris bonnets
in the back room OF q Boston milliner's
shop. nor let piece of velvet that pro.
Esses to measure twelve yards come to IN
untimely end in the tenth, or spool Of
sewing silk that vOuches for twenty yards
he nipped in the bud ut fourteen and u
half nor the cotton thread spool break to
the yard.stiCk fifty Of the two hundred
wards OF promise that was given to the
eye nor yard'wide cloth measure less
than thirly.six inches from selvedge to
sclyedge, nor Atwood dclaines and all.
linen handkerchiefs be amalgamized with
Clanjestine cotton, nor coats made Of
woolIcn rags pressed together DO sold to
the unsnspecting public for legal broad
cloth. 1t does not put bricks at five dollars
a thousand into Chimneys it contracted
To build Of seven dollar materials, nor
smugglc white pine floors that have paid
for hard pine, nor leave yawning cracks
in closets where boards ought to join, nor
danb ceilings that ought 10 be smoothly
pastCrcd, nor make window blinds Of
Stats that cannot stand the wind, and
paint that cannot stand the sun, and ias.
Jennings that may be look at but are on no
account TO be touched The religion
that is to sanctiIy the world pays its debts.
II does not consider that forty cents re.
turned for one hundred cents given is nc.
COrding to the gospel, though it may be
according to law. 1t looks upon man
who has failed in trade and who continues
10 live in luxury rs thief. Itlooks upon
amnn who promises to pay fifty dollars
on demand with interest, and who neg.
lrcts to pMy it on demand with or without
interest, MS Il liar."