The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-06
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There has got to be a new de-
parture in religion. l do not say a
new religion. Oh, no; but the old
religion brought to new appliances.
In our time we have had the da-
| guerreotyge, and the ambrotype,
and the photograph; but it is the
same old sun, and these arts are
only new appliances of the old sun
light. So this glorious gospel is
lust what we want to photograph
the image of God on one soul. and
daguerreotype it on another soul.
Not new gospel, brt the old gospel
put to new work. In our tIlle We
have had the telegraphic invention,
and the telephone invention, and
the electric light invention; but
they are all the children of old
electricity, an element that the
philosophers have understood long
while and know much about. So
this electric gospel needs TO fash
its light on the eyes and ears and
souls of men, and become a tele-
phon;c medium to make the deaf
hear: telegraphic medium to give
invitation and warning to all ma
tions; an electric light to iilumine
the eastern and western hemis
pheres. Not new gospel, but the
old gospel doing new work. Now
you say, "That is very beautiful
theory, but is it possible to take
ones religion into all the avoca-
tions and bQsinese of life?" Yes,
and 1 will give you some specll linens.
Medical doctors who took their re
ligion into everyday life: DR.. John
Abercrombie, of Aberdeen, the
greatest Scottish physician of his
day, his book on Diseases of the
Brain and Spinal Cord" no more
wonderful than his book on s'Fhe |
Philosophy of the Moral Feelings"
and often kneeling at the bedside of
his patients to commend them to
God in prayer. DR.. John Brown
of Edinburgh, immortal as an
author, dying recently under the
benediction of the sick of Edin-
burgh; myself remembering him as
he sat in his study in Edinburgh,
talking to me about Christ and his
hope of heaven. And a score of
Christian family physicians in
Brooklyn just as good as they were.
Lawyers who carried their religion
into their profession; Lord Cairn,
the Queens adviser for mapy years,
the highest legal authority in Great
Britain-Lord Cairn every summer
in his vacation preached as an
evangelist among the poor of his
country. And John Mclean, judge
of the supreme court of the United
States and president of the Ameri-
can Sunday-school Union, feeling
more satisfaction in the latter office
than in the former. And scores of
christian lawyers as eminent in the
church of God as they are eminent
at the bar. Merchants who took
their religion into everyday life:
Arthur Tappan, derided in his day
because he established that system
by which we come to find out the
standing Of business
men, starting that entire system,
III AZ
knew him well, in moral character {
A 1. Monday mornings inviting to
a room in the top Of his storehouse l
the clerks of his establishment, /
asking them about their worldly
interests and their spiritual inter
ests. then giving out hymn, lead
ne in prayer, giving them few '
words of good advice, asking them
What church they attended on the j
Sabbath, Ehat the text was, whether q
hey had any especial troubles of
her own. Arthur Tappsn, l never
heard his eulogy pronounced. l
pronounce it now. And other mer 4
:hants just as good. William Z. +
Dodge, in the iron business; Moses l
7. Grinneil. in the shipping bust t
less; Peter Cooper. in the glue t
BUSINESS. Scores of men Just as
God as they were. Farmers who
axe their religion into their occupa- P
ion. Mechanics who took their re- n
gion into their occupations: James le
'rindley, the famous millwright; L
nathaniel Bowditch, the famous "
Elihu Burritt, the d.