St. Landry democrat., 1883-05-26

| fectly set, or horses poorly shOd; Dlas-
tering that cracks without any provoca-
ton and falls off !; plumbing that needs
to be plumbed: carswheels that stop the
whole train with hot-box. Practical
religion IN all departments is Woefully
needed. Even agriculture, proven
bially honest, needs religion to rectify
it, Then it will need not to send veal
/ too young to kill to New York markets.
Then, when farmers farm on shares, the
man who does the farming will not
make his half three-qnarters, and post
and rail fences will not oncroach on the
neighbor's homestead, and the live stock
! will not be allowed to suffer for lack OF
shelter, and the old elder will not do a
| little work on Sunday afternoon in the
new ground, because no one sees him,
and practical religion will hover over
house and barn and granary and field
and orchard. Yea, we must have reli-
gion come into all professional life. 1t
will keep the lawyer true to his high res
possibility as the expounder of law and
advocate OF innocence and an avenger
of wrong, and will hinder him from
charging for services he never rem
dered and for pleas he never made and
for writs he never wrote and for per-
centages to which he was never entitled
and from robbing widows and orphans
because they cannot protect themselves.
guide the physician as custodian of pub
lie health, and make him feel the res
possibility of his profession typifed by
Christ, who was Himself a physician,
and will hinder the doctor, if he does
not understand case, from covering up
his lack of diagnosis with ponderous
technicality and sending his patients to
reckless drug stores because that
apothecary allows liberal percentage
to the doctor for every prescription.
Yea. it will help the school teacher in
her high work of preparing the young
for usefulness instead of giving the sly
box to head because it is dull, chas-
tisement for what he cannot help, send
ing discouragementt through all the af-
ter years OF life time. twill
HELP THE NEWSPAPER MEN
in educating the public taste and gath
ering the news and advancing all de-
partments of intelligence and virtue
and hinder them from putting in larger
type the sins of the world than its vir-
tues, it's mistakes than it's achievements,
and from misrepresenting interviews
with public men and exciting unjust
suspicious that can never be silenced
and by putting themselves in sympaty
with the defenseless and unfortunate
rather than the oppressors.
Yea, practical religion is needed to
put its hand on all circles of what is
called good society, keeping its expen-
diture within the income and exchang-
ing the hypocritical apology of s'not at
home" for the honest explanation of
"too tired" or "to busy to be seen," and
from allowing innocent reception be-
coming Intoxicating coviviallty. And
by allowing intelligent conversation
and frank manners and Christian sentl-
ment to drive out that creature with
pointed shoe-toe and tight bandaged
limb and elbows drawn back and infni-
tesimal cane and sickening swagger and
idiotic talk, born in America vet poor
copy of foppish Englishwan, the
nur Uo4nicG of modern society, common
ly called
THE DUDE.
Great opportunity now for missiona-
nv work among the successful classes.
It is no unusual thing to see fashion
able women intoxicated in street car
and restaurant The number of fine la
dies who drink too much is terribly in
creasing. You sometimes see them in
the drawing room of exalted society.
First the eye gets glossy, and then the
cheek unnaturally flushed, and then
she goes into fits Of excruciating laugh
ter about nothing, and then she offers
some sickening batteries and tells some
homely man how well he looks, and
then her friends get her into the car
riage, and by the time the home is
reached it takes the eoaehman and the
gentlemen of the party to get her up
the front steps. People say: "She was
taken i'll at the German" but the fact
is she took too much champagne and
mixed liquors and was drank. Yes, re-
ligion needs to come and fix up even the
marriage relation in America. There
are professors Of religion who have too
many wives and too many husbands,
and society needs to be eXpurgated and
washed and fnmigated and christian
lied. There are missionary societies for
the reformation of Five Points, New
York, and Bedford street, Philadelphia,
and Brooklyn docks. There is as much
need for missionary society for the
reformation of Beacon street and Madi-
son Square and Rittenhouse Square
and West End and Brooklyn Heights
Hill. The trouble is in all
departments that people have an idea
they can do all the religion that is ne
cessary on Sunday with the hymn book
and creed liturgy, aud while some of
them sit and roll up their eyes as though
they were ready for translation, their
Sabbath day is bounded on all sides by
inconsistency of life, and while you are
looking out for the coming out under
their arms of the wings of an angel
there come out on their forehead the
horns of beast.
We want religion to make new de-
Raitgre sons MtSy ;ay We need naW re
have had the deguerrotype, and the
ambrotype, and the photograph, but it
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