The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-05-09

and from allowing innocent reception
becoming intoxicating gcOnYiyiality, and
by allowing Intelligent conversation
and frank manners and Christian senti-
| ment to drive out that creature with
pointed shoe toe and tight bandaged
limb, and elbows drawn back aud infinl-
tesimal cane and sickening swagger
and idiOtic talk, born in America, yet a
poor copy of f0ppish Englishman, the
nuX VOmiea of modern society, common
ly called the dude. Great Opportunity
now for missionary work among the
successful CLASSES. 1t is no unusual
thing to see fashionable women in
tOXicated in street and car and restauT-
ant. The number of fine ladies' who
drink too much ls terriically incrtas-
ing. YOn sometimes see them in the
dTawing-roOm Of exalted society. First
the ey gets CLASSY and then the cheek
unnatuTally flushed, and then she goes
into fits of excrueiRting laughter about
nothing, and then she offers some
sickening batteries and tells some home
ly man how we'll he looks, and then her
friends get her intpstht carriage, and by
the time the home Is reached 1t takes
the cOachman and the gentleman 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 to
much champagne aud mixed liquors
and was drunk. Yes, religion needs to
come and fix up even the marriage rela-
tiOn in America. There are professors
of religion who have too many, wives
and too many husbands, and society
needs to be expurRated aud washed aud
fumlgated and ChrIstianiZed. 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 Madison Square, and Ritten-
house Square, aud West End, and Brook
lyn Heights, ami Brooklyn Hill. The
trouble Is in all departments that peO-
pie have an idea that they can do all
the religion that is necessary on Sun
day with hymn books, and creed and
liturgy, and 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 comes out
on their forehead the harms of beast.
Wewant religion to make new depar-
ture. Some say We need a new religion.
And a score Of Christian family physi-
clans that could mention in your own
city. Lawyers who carried their reliR-
ion into every day life: Lord Cairn,
Queens counsellor and highest legal
authority In Great Britain for many
years, preaching as an evangelist dur
ing his vacation. John Mclean, Judge
Of the United States Supreme Court.
Merchants who carry their religion into
every day life: Arthur Tappan, in his
day the much derided of a book which
gave the commercial standing of all
business men, himself, asrI knew him
In Rhu A 1 hrfg
tian merchant, better appreciated after
death than living. Abbott Lawrence
blessing every charitable institution he
could put his hands on, dying In Chris
tian triumph. William E. Dodge, in the
iron business. Moses H. Grinnell,yi In
the shipping business. Peter Cooper in
the glue business, and ten thousand
merchants just as good as they were,
whose names we never heard Of Far.
mers who take their religion into every
day life: This moment their horses and
wagons stand around every meeting
house in America; way up among the
Berkshire hills, way down among the
lagoons of Florida, way out among the
Colorado mines, down by the Passaic OF
Raritan of New Jersey, where know
them better. for went to school with
them. Christian farmers who began this
day with prayer at the family altar and
will this noon, after they get home and
have put up the horses, ask blessing at
the table, and there will not this sum-
mer be in all their fields dishonest
head of rye or dishonest ear of corn or
a dishonest apple. Mechanics who car
ry their religion into everyday life: Ma
thaniel BOwditch, the ship chandler;
Elihu Burritt, the blacksmith; James
Brindley, the famous mIllwrlght, and
thousands of stout men who have maze
hammer and saw and adze and drill and
plane and tr-adle resounh IN the grand
march of our national industries. I
Within our memory we have had the
daguerreOtype and the ambrOtype and
the photograph, but it is the same old
sun shining in the heavens, and all these
are only putting the same sunlight
to new uses. SO 1t must be the old Cos
pei with new appliances; now dagueTre-
otyping the image of God on one class,
now phOtographing IL on the other.
Within our time we have had telegraph
ic invention and electric light; but all
born Of old electricity, that element of
which philosophers have long known,
applied to new uses. So we have the
same old electric Gospel, and only new
ways of flashing 1t upon the eyes and
the ears and the souls of the human
race. Telephone medium thr ugh
which the deaf are made to hear; tele-
graphic medium through which dart In
VitatiOn and warning to all nations.
Electric light shall yetilluminate East
ern and Western hemispheres. Now is
1t possible to take religion into all the
paths of life? Yes, l will give you spec
linen. Medical men who took their re-
ligiOn into every day life: DIR. John Alb
ercrOmbie of Aberdeen, the greatest
Scotch physician of his day his book on
Diseases Of the Brain and Spinal Chord
not more wonderful than his boob on
PHILOSOPHY of the Moral Feelings, "and
often kneeling at the bedside Of his pa
tients. DR.. John Brown, within a few
months departed, immortal as an author
and dying with the benediction
of the sick of Edinburgh, and
speaking, as 1 heard him, with
deepest emotion of the Gospel
First give your hearts to God and then
fill your life with good works. COnse-
crate to him your stOFehOuse, your fac
tory, your banks, your homes. The world
may not hear of it,. butGod will, which
is better. WellingtOI's name is abOnt
the only one you knOwpf as gaining the
victory at Waterloo, but the victory was
really gained by the hard fighting Of
the Somerset cavalry, aud Ryland's reg
iments, and the Scotch Greys,and Kent's
infantry, and the Life Guards. But it
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