Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-02-08

As quite number of clergymen have
undertaken to 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 worry desirable
character of religion advertised for some
years lince by the Congregationalist:
1--WE want 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 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 instrncts
them; wins as we'll as governs; projects
the honeymoon into the harvest moon,
and makes the happy hours like the East
ern fig tree, bearing in its bosom at once
the beauty of the tender blossom and the
glory of the ripening fruit We want a
religion that bears heavily. not on the
exceeding sinfulness of SIM but on the
exceeding rascality of lying and stealing
n 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 milk cans and buttons
from the contribution box. This 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. 1t will not make one
half of 4 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 Jouvin's stamp on
Jenkins kid gloves, nor make Paris bon
nets in the back room of Boston mili-
ner's shop. nor let a 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 be nipped in the bud at fourteen
and half, nor the cotton thread spool
break to the yard-stick ifty of the two
hundred yards of promise that was given
to the eye. nor yard-wile cloth measure
less than thirty-six inches from selvedge
to selvedge, nor all wool delaines and all
linen handkerchicfs be amalgamized with
clandestine cotton, nor coats ma de of
wooden rags pressed together be sold to
TIE unsuspecting public for legal broad
cloth. 1t does not put bricks at FIVE dol
lars thousand into chimneys it contract
cd 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 ac-
count to be touched. The religion that
is to ssnctify the world pays its debts. 1t
does not consider that forty cents return
ed for one hundred cents given is accord
ing to the gospel, though it may be ac-
cording to law" .s-u5 -.E