Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-04
The Right Sort OF Religion---How Can
it be "ReYiVed."

The Copgregaiiopulist thus describes kind
nf religion Of which more persons have leard
than have lately seen. How many existing
Churches make it their standaro?:
We want a religion that g,cs iatn 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 bnots, and makes the husba nd
mindful Of the scrnper and the floor mat keeps
the mother patient when the baby is cross, al d
keeps the baby pleasant amuses the children
as well as iustruc,s them wins as well as gov.
erns; projects the honey mnon into the harvest
moon and makes the happy hours like the Eas-
tern tree bearing in its bosom once the beauty
OF the tender blossom and the glory Of tho
! ri5eulng fruit. We want a religion that bears
heavily, not on the exceeding 'sinfulness of
! sin" but the exceeding ras"alty Of l,ing and
! stealing religion that banishes small meas
ures from the counters. small baskets from the
stalls, pebbles from tie cotton bags, cay from
paper, sand iiam sugar. chicory from coffee,
otter from butter. beet juice from vinegar, alum
from bread, stryehnine from wine, water from
milk cans, AMI buttons from the contribution
box The religion that is to save The world.
will not put all the big straw berries at the tnp
and the had nnes at the botom. II will not nf
fer more baskets of ioreigu wine than the vine
yards ever produced bolles, aud more barrels
Of Genesses flour than all the fields oC New
York grow and all her mills grind. It will not
make une half pair Of shoes of good leather
aud the other Of poor, 50 that the first shall re
| dnund 10 the makers credit and the second to
his cash. IL will MT put JouvIn's stamp on
Jenkins kid glove, nor make Paris bunne's n
the back room OF a Boston milliner's shop nor
let piece o; velvet that processes to measure
twelve yards come Ia an untim " end in the
tenth, or a spool Of sewing silk that vouches
tor twenty yards be nipped in the bud at four.
teen and half, nor the cotton thread tn the
yard stick fifty OF the two hundred Yards of
promise that was given to the eve nor yard
wide cloth measure less than thiTly-six inches
from the srlvedge, all wool delIines and all lin.
4 en- haudkerchels be ANA amiZed with elan
destiue cotton nor coats made nf wOolen rags
pressed together to be sold 10 the unsnspecGng
! public for legal broadclrth. 1t does not nut
bricks at five dollars a thousand into chimnevs
it contracted t. build Of seven dollar material
urr smuggle white pine ioors that have paid for
hlrd pine-nnr leave yawuing cracks in closets
where boards ought to irin-uor daub ceilings
that aug ht t0 b. smpnthlv plastered-nDr make
window blinds of Stats that cannot stand the
! wind, and paint that cannot stand the sun, and
fasteners thar NAV he lonked at but are on no
! account 10 be touched. The religion that is To
sanclify the world paws its debts 1t does not
consider that fnrty cents returned for one hun
| dred is according IN law. II lnnks upon a man
who has failed in trade. and who continues To
| live in nxnry as a thief. II lnoks upon a man
/ who promises TO paw ftv dollars on demand
! with interest, and whn refuses 10 paw il on de-
mand, with or without interest, as a liar