Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-02-20


mot at home" for the honest explanation
"too tired" or too busy to see YOU" and
will keep Innocent reception from beconi-
ing intoxicating conviviahty.
Yes, there is a great opportunity for mis-
sionary work in what are called the sue I
cessful classes of society. 1t is no rare
thing now to see a fashionable woman in
toxicated in the street, or the rail- car, or
the restaurant. The number of fine ladies
who drink too much is increasing. Per-
haps you may find her at the reception in
most exalted company, but she has made
too many visits to the wine room, and now
her eye is CLASSY, and after while her
cheek is unnaturally flushed, and then she
falls into fits of excruciating laughter about
nothing, and then she offers sickeninS
batteries, telling some homely man how
well he looks, and then she is helped into
the carriage, aud by the time the carriage
gets to her home it takes the husband and
the coachman to get her up the stairs. The
report Is, She was taken suddenly i'll at
german All! no. She took too much
champagne, and mixed liquors, and got
drunk. That was all.
Yes this practical religion will have to
come in and fix up the marriage relation
in America There are members of churches
who have too many wives and too many
husbands. Society needs to be eXpurgated
and washed and fumigatcd and Christian
lied. We have missionary societies to re-
form Elm street, in New York, Bedford
street, Philadelphia, and Shoreditch, Lon
don, and the Brooklyn docks; but there is
need of AZ organization TO reform much
that is going on in Beacon street and Madi-
son square and Rittenhouse square and
West End and Brooklyn Iielghtsand Brook
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not only to take hold of what are called
the lower classes, but to take hold Of what
are called the higher classes. The trouble
Is that people have an idea they can do all
their religion on Sunday with hymn book
and prayer book aud liturgy and some of
them sit in church rolling up their eyes as
though they were ready for translation,
when their sabbath is bounded ON all sides
by an inconsistent life and while you are
expecting to come ont from under their
arms the wings Of an angel, there come out
from their forehead the horns of a beast
yHTGE MUST BE \ NEW DEPARTURE.
There has got to he new departure IN
religion. do NOT say n new religion. Oh,
no: but the old rel ,ion brought TO new
appliances In orr time we have bad the
da,uerreotvur. and he anbrot lpe. and LIE
photograph, but it is the same old sun,
and these arts are only new appliances OF
the old sunlight. So this glorious gospel
is lust what we want 70 photograph the
irooc of God ON one -opl. and darncrreo.
type i on another soul. Not a new gospel,
buf the old ,c4r.l mt 20 new work In
orr -ip,o we bo,e had the teleoranhic
irveotior and the +elerIo,,ic iuvc,,ti,n
and the electric light Invention. but tl.cy
are all the children Of old eiactri.itv
mn element tb,r the ,lilosopners hav.
lony while known uaob about so
tl{e @lertrjc ,e5sDpl need. TO lash its liupt
on IN. ayes and elrs md ,oul.; Of men. and
become q tci,pbotfc Medium TO yual,e the
deaf hear. n tei.lTapnt, medium TO dart
iny;tarion md ,,.,rnin,, to all nntious. an
e,po;,;c I;ul,to i1iuuoi,ie +he eastern and
western l4l,ii,0horrs. No- a new. rosnel.
but the Oil ga-prl doing q new work.
Now Won saw "Thar is = very beautiful
theorr bul il it ,o,sib,, to take ones re.
lipi.r jD;oall the ayucntio,ls and busjpcs.
Of ff.t" Yc-. and will rive Won a few
gl.ecincns. Medical doctors who touh their
religion into everyday lie: Or. John
Aborcrombe, Of Aberdeen, the greatest
sc1t.i5h physician OF his day, his book Oh
"Diselses Of Tie Brain and Spinal Cora -
no more wonderful thun his book on THE
PHILOSOPHY OF the Moral FeelinQ,," and
Olttl hUtt4lUR az tllt Dt'l-ltiS OL l. IS pa
tients to commend them to God in prrv yer.
Dr. John Brown, Of Edinburgh, immortal
as an author, diving vnGcr the benediction
OF the sick Of ElinhUrch myself remem-
bering him as h. sat in his study in Edin-
buych talking to me about Christ and his
hope of heaven And a score Of Christian
family physicians in Brooklyn Just us good
as they were
Lawyers who carried their religion into
their profession: The late Lord Cairns, the
queens adviser for many years, the highest
legal authority in Great Britain-Lord
Cairns, every summer in his vacation
preaching as an evangelist among the poor
of bis country. John McIea Judge OIL
the supreme court OF the United States
and president Of the American Sunday
School union, feeling more satisfaction in
the latter office than in the former. And
scores of Christian lawyers as eminent il
the church Of God as they are eminent a,
the bar.
GoDFRARING BUSINESS MEN.
Merchants who took their religion int
everyday lie. Arthur Tnnnan derided If
bis Sav heconse 10 as,a bIipbad ,hot e,,.,or