Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
PRACTICAL RELIGION.

A Good Thing Everywhere. at All Times
and in All Places-How to Obtain 1t.
like to see religion that makes a
man as polite and tender and consider
ate to his own wife as he is to some
body else's wife. l like to see re-
igion that makes man as tender and
helpful and considerate about the edu-
cation and habits of his own children
as he is about every body else's chill
dren. l want a religion that gets
around the breakfast table in the morn
ing, that makes man what he ought
to be in his family; that makes a man,
when he goes TO the store, exhibit some
consideration for the health of his en-
ployes, for their happiness; that makes
him inquire how they are getting along.
about their moral character, whether
they are going to the church, whether
they are economiZing their wages and
making themselves better in this world
and preparing for the world to come.
want to see a religion that makes 4
man considerate not on Y of his own
profits, but makes him considerable
of the profits of his employees;
that makes man care for the
temporal and eternal welfare of those
committed to his charge and keeping.
/ want to see religion in this country
that will make men honest in their
traffic. ! want some thirty-six inch,
sixteen ounce religion. Religion is a
good thing everywhere. 1t was made
to permcate everywhere. 1t was meant
to be the constant vivifying principle
in human life. 1t was meant to soften,
to amelioriate, and to nerve their life.
1t was meant to produce the happiness,
the establishing and the perpetuity of
the human race: and when we are
preaching righteousness, we are preach
ing just that character of religion-the
religion of Jesus Christ = religion
footsteps, adding glory to him and
doing good to himself and to all men;
a religion that makes man deny HIM
self rather than his fellow men, re-
ligion that makes him gentle, noble.
considerable, cheerful, merciful; a relig-
ion that makes YOU be every thing to
your neighbor that you would have
your neighbor be to you. And ifcvery
man and every woman in this country
will only do as Jesus did, acting to-
ward every man with the cOnSidera-
ton of a neighbor and brother. then
YOU will have other people acting that
way toward you. Did you ever notice
that if you are angry with another man
he will get angry with you; that if you
laugh good-naturedly he will laugh
with YOU: that if he is in good humor
you will be in good humor: that if YOU
treat man level he will treat you
level; that if YOU are true to him he
will be true to you? Most of all the
riots and rumpuses in this country.
most of the troubles that are settled,
and that are disturbing business and
creating lack of business confidence,
come from the fact that men turn their
greedy sides to each other. and not their
just sides. And we want religion that
makes men upright and just in their
business. What YOU want to do in order
to accomplish this good is to give your
heart to Christ; to make His life-teach-
ings YOURS, and to live them, and with
loyalty; and then you will be man
that will show out to this present world
the glory and the goodness of God.
And as you follow in the footsteps OF
Jesus Christ. as You make those foot
steps correspond with His all through
your life here on earth. so shall be the
glory of your life above when you shall
look down from the battlements of the
celestial city on the world belOw.-San
Small.