The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-30

. IkitIChuCuSc anu NesS
Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill. We
want this practical religion mob only t. take
hold OF what are called the lower classes.
/ but to take hold OF what are calict tbs
. HIGHER classes The trouble Is that people
I have an idea they can do all tn air religion on
Sunday with hymn book and prayer book
and 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 cO:nc out from
under their arms the wings OF an angel, there
come out from their forehead tEb hu.rIS qf
beast.
There has go; to be 4 new departar, III
religion. L do not say new rciigon.
Oh. no; but the old brought to new
appliances. la oar time We hIrc had III,
.iaguerreotype. and tine anorotyps, and tas
photograph, bat ii Is the s1rle Cd sun, and
these arts are only new ap9iiln'es o. the old
suul -ht. SO this S,o.ious GOSPEL IL JUt
what we want to photograph the IMAGE OF
God on one soul, dGgu5rr1Ctype 1t on another
soul. Not new Gospel but the oil Gospel
put 10 new work. In GU: time We have had
the telegra3aic invention, AMI the tc!e )!:oaic
invention and the electric li@ht Invention
but they are all the children ot Oil elcc-
trcity, an element that the Philosophers
have a Ion, while known mGcu ahoni. .,
this electric Gospe, needs 10 ildsh It's light
on rlo cgeS an s'i ? SfttS Ia sIti-s ttib
became q &c epi,olc medium t. make tas
lie Il hear, a Geographic nc iium 10 dart i'll
vitation and warning, to all nations; an e.cc-
trio light to illuminate the eastern and west
ern henispheres. Not new Gospel, but ths
old Gospel doing new work.
Now you say, THAT is a very beautifu
theory, but is it possible TO take ones relig
ion into all the 2vocationS and business Of
Iife" Yes. and L will give you a few speci
Malicnl doctors W n tool THAR
Iigion into everyday life: Dr. John Aber-
crombie. of Aberdeen, the greatest Scottish
physician of the day, his book on Diseases
of the Brain and Spinal Cord, no more won-
derful than his book on 1.-The Philosophy of
the Moral Feelings" and often kneeiing at
the bedside OF his patients to commend them
to God in prayer. DIR. John Brown. OF Ed
inburgh, immortal as an author. diving under
the beneiictiOn of the sick of Edinburgh,
myself remembering him rs he sat in his
study in Edinburgh talking to mo about
Christ and his hops of heaven. And score
of Christian family physicians In Brooklyn
Just as good as they were.
Lawyers who carrie their religion into
their profession: The late Lord Cairns, the
Queens adviser for many years, the highest
IL gal authority in Great Britain-Lord
Cairns every summer in his vacation, preach
ing as an Evangelist among the poor OF his
country. John Mclean, Judge of the SUI
preme Court of the United States and Presi-
dent of the American Sunday School Union.
feeling more satisfaction i'll 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 CONNER
cinl standing of business men, starting that
entire system, derided for it then, himself,
as l knew him well, IN moral character Al.
Monday mornings inviting to a room in the
top of his storehouse the clerks of his eStab-
lisnment, asking them about their worldly
interests and their spiritual interests, then
giving out hymn. leading in prayer, CIV
ing them few words of good advice, asking
them what church they attended on the Sab
bath, what the text was, whether they had
any especial troubles their own. Arthur
rappan, / never heard his eulogy pro-
louncet. / pronounce it nov. And other
merchants Just as gooi William E. Dodge.
in the iron business; Moses I'll. Grinneii. in
the shipping business: Peter Cooper, in the
glue business. Scores OF men just as good
Is they were.
Farmers who take their religion into their
occupation: Why, this minute their horses
and wagons stand around all the meeting
houses in America. They began this day by
prayer to God, and when they get honle at
noon, after they have put their horses up,
will offer prayer to God at the table, seeking
q blessing. and this summer there will be in
their fields not one dishonest head of rye,
not one dishonest ear of corn, not one dis
honest apple. Worshiping God to-day away
up among the Berkshire Hills, or away down
amid the lagoons OF Florida, or away out
amid the mines of Colorado, or along the
banks OF the Passaic and the Raritan, where
knew them better because went to school
with them.
Mechanics VINO took their religion into
their occupations: James Brindley, tho ia
nous millwright: Nathaniel BOwditch. tho
famous ship chandler; Elihu Burritt, tho ia
nous blacksmith, and hundreds and thou
sands of strong arms which have made tho
hammer, and the saw, and the adze and the
drill, and the az sound in the grand march
of our national industries.
Give your heart to God and then fill your
life with good works. Consecrate to Him
your store, your shop your banking house.
your factory and your home. They say no
one will hear it. God will hear it. That 10
enough. You hardly know of any one else
than Wellington as connected with the vic
tory at Waterloo; but he did not do the hard
Somerset cavalry, and the Ryland reginienks,
and Kempt's infantry. and the Scots Grays
and the Life Guards. Who cares, il only
the day was won!
In the latter part OF the last century gipl
in England became a kitchen maid in farm
house. She had many styics OF work, and
much hard work. Time rolled on, and she
married the son OF a weaver Of Halifax.
They were industrious; they saved mopey
enough after a while to build them a home.
On the morning Of the day when they were
to enter that home the young wife rosa at 4
O'Clock, entered the front door yard. knelt
down, consecrated the place TO God, and
there maize this solemn vow: 10 Lord, II
Thou will bless me in this place. the poor
shall have q share of it." Time rolled ON and