Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-02-14
THE RIGHT SORT OF RELIGION.

As quite a number of clergymen
have undertaken 10 carry religion and
religious sentiment into the counting
room, the workshop, the Office and the
family circle, we commend to their
consideration the following schedule
of a very desirable character of reli-
gion advertised for some years since
BY The CongregationRlist: 1--WE want
a religion that goes into the family
and keeps the husband from being
spitefuI when the dinner is late, and
keeps the dinner from being 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 well as instructs them,
wins as well as governs; projects 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 bios
som and the glory Of the ripening
fruit. We want a religion that bears
heavily, not on the exceeding sinful
ness ofsin,' but on the exceeding ras-
cality OF lying and stealing, a religion
that banishes small measures from
tie 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 wine
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. II
will not make one-half q 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.
at will not put Jouvin's stamp on
Jenkins kid gloves, nor make Paris
bonnets in the back room of q Boston
milliner's shop, nor let q piece of vel
vet that PROCESSES to measure twelve
yards come to an untimely end in the
tenth, or spool of sewing silk that
vouches for twenty yards be nfpped
in the bud at fourteen and a-half, nor
the cotton thread spool break 10 the
yard stick 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 sell
wedge toselvedge, nor allow wool de-
laines and all-linen handkerchiefs be
with clandestine cotton,
TOR coats made of wooden rags pressed
together be sold to the unsuspecting
public for legal broadcloth. 1t does
not put bricks at five dollars a thOus-
and into chimneys it contracted 70
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 !
NAV be looked at, but are on no ae- /
count to be touched. The religion |
that is to sanctify the world pays its |
debts. It does not consider that forty |
cents returned for one hundred cents |
given is according to law. 1t looks !
upon a man who has failed in trade 1
and who continues to live in luxury |
as a thief. 1t looks upon man who |
promises to pay fifty dollars on de- !
mapd with interest, and who neglects /
to pay it on demand with or without |
interest. as liar