The Penn's Grove record., 1891-02-27

MI H. AAItlio, IL
estate wrongfully. and he build a line of hos
pitfalls aud universities from here to Alaska
he cannot atone Tor 1t. After q while thi
man who has teen getting a corner" II
wheat dies, and then Satan gets q corner
on him. He goes into a great, long Black
Friday. There is a ''break" in the market
According to Wall street parlance, he wiped
others out, and o he is himself wiped out
No collaterais ON which TO make a spiritual
loan. Eternal defalcationi
But this practical religion will not only
rectify all merchandise, it will also rectify
all mechanism and all toll. A time will CONF
when a man will work as faithfully by the
job as he docs by the day. You say when a
thing is slightingly done, 'Uh, that was
done by the jobr' You can tell by the swift
ness or slowness with which a hackman
drives whether he is hired by the hour or by
the excursion. II he is hired by the excur-
sion he whips up the horses, SO as to get
around and get another customer. AL
styles of work ave to DO inspected. Ships
inspected, horses inspected, machinery In
spected. Boss to watch the journeyman.
Capitalist coming down unexpectedly to
watch the boss. Conductor of q city car
sounding the punch bell to prove his honesty
as a passenger hands to him a clipped nickel.
All things must be watched and inspected.
Imperfections in the wood covered with
putty. Garments warranted to last until
you put them on the third time Shoddy in
ell kinds of clothing. Chromos. P~inohbeck.
Diamonds for a dollar and a hah. Book
bindery that holds on until you read tbs
third chapter. Spawned horses by skillfui
dose Of jockeys for several days made to
look spry. Wagon tires poorly put IN.
Horses poorly shod. Plastering that cracks
without any provocation n falls of.
Plumbing that needs to be plumbed. I'm
perfect car wheel that halts the whole train
with q hot box. So little practical religion
In the mechanism Of the world / tell you,
my friends, the law of man will never
rectify these things. 1t will be the all per-
vading influence Of the practical religion Of
Jesus Christ that will make the change for
the better.
Yes, this practical religion will also go into
agriculture, which is proverbially honest but
needs to be r~ectified, and 1t will keep the
farmer from sending to the New York mar
ket veal that is too young to kill. and when
the farmer farms on shares it will keep the
man who does the work from making his
half three-fourths, and it will keep the farmer
from building his posts and rail fence on his
neighbours premises, and 1t will make him
shelter his cattle in the winter storm, n it
will keep the old elder from working on Sum-
day afternoon in the new ground when no
body sees him And this practical religion
will hover over the house, and over the barn,
Anu ONcI tHc iGtf, dIu oNCA IA oASu6ibs
Yes, this practical religion OF which I speak
will come into the learned professions. Thu
lawyer will feel his responsibility in defend
ing innocence, and a~rraigning evil, n ex-
pounding the law, and it will keep him from
charging for briefs he never wrote, and for
pleas he never made, AMI for percentages he
never earned, and from robbing widow and
orphan because they are defenseless. Yes,
this practical religion will come into the
physicians life, and he will feel the RESPONSE
bility as the conservator Of the public health,
q profession honored by the fact that Christ
himself was a physician. And 1t will make
aim honest. and when he does not understand
4 case he will say so, not trying to cover up
lack of dia 1nosis with ponderous TECHNICAL
ties, or send the patient to q reckless drug
store because the apothecary happens to pay
1 percentage on the prescriptions sent.
And this practical religion will come to
the school teacher, making her feel her re-
,ponsibility in preparing our youth for use
~Fulness, and for happiness, and for honor,
and will keep her from giving a sly box to a
1ull head, chastisiug him for what he cannot
help, n sending d-iscourgement all through
the after years OF a lifetime. This practical
religion will also come to the newspaper
men, and it will help them In the gathering
Of the news, and it will help them in setting
forth the best interests of society, and it will
keep them from putting the sins of the
world in larger type than its virtues, and
It's mistakes than its achievements.
Yes, this religion, this practical religion,
will come and put its hand on what is called
good society, elevated society. successful 30
:iety, so that people will have their expendi-
lures within their income, and they will ex-
change the hypocritical mot at home' for
the honest explanation ''too tired" or 'too
busy to see YOU" and will keep innocent re-
,eption from becoming Intoxicating convivi-
ilfty.
Yes, there Is a great opportunity for mis-.
,ionary work in what are called the success
'ul classes of society. 1t Is no rare thing
low to see a fashionable woman intoxicated
n the street, or the rail car, or the restau-
100 much is increasing. Perhaps you may
ind her at the reception in most exalted
company, but she has made too many visits
% the wine room, and now her eye Is CLASSY,
and after q while her cheek 10 u~nnaturally
Iushed, and then she falls into fits Of
,xcruciating laughter about nothing, and
hen she offers sickening batteries, telling
'ome homely man how well he looks. and
;hen she Ia helped into the carriage, and by
,he time the carriage get to her home it
axes the husband and coachman to get her
,p the stairs. The report Is She was taken
mddenly ill at a german. Ali NO. She
ook too much champagne and mixed
liquors, and got drunk. That PAS all.
Yes, this practical religion will have to
,ome in and fix up the marriage relation in
America. There are members Of churches
who nave too many wives and too many hus
oands. Society needs to be expurgated and
washed and fumigated and C~hristianized.
We have missionary societies to reform Elm
street, in New York, Bedford street, Phila-
ieIphia, and Shoreditoh, London, and the
Brooklyn docks; but there 10 need Of an Or
yanization to reform much that Is going on
n Beacon street and Madison square and
Rittenhouse square and West End and
Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill. We
want this practical religion not only to take
mold of what are called the lower classes,
out to take hold Of what are called the
higher classes. r'N trouble 10 that people
nave an idea they RI do all tbeir religion on
Sunday with hymn book and prayer book
and liturgy, and some Of them sit in church
rolling up their eyes a. though they were
ready for translation, when their Sabbath il
bounded on all sides by an inconsistent life,
and while you are expecting to come out from
under their arms the wings Of an angel, there
come out from their forehead the horns Of .
beast.
There has got to be a new departure in
religion. I do not say q new religion.
Oh. no; but the old brought to new
appliances. In our time we have had the
daCuerreotype, and the ambrotype, and the
photograph, but it is the same old sun, and
these arts are only new appliances of the old
sunlight. So this glorious Gospel Is just
what we want to photograph the image OF
God on one soul, daguerreotype it on another
soul, Not a new Gospel but the old Gospel
nut to new work. In our time VI have had
the telegraphic invention, and the telephone
invention. and the electric light invention,
but they are all the children Of old cleo
tricity. an element that the philosophers
have 4 long while known much about. So
this electric Gospel needs TO fash its light
on the ewes and ears and souls of men, and
became a telephone medium to make thu
deaf hear. a Geographic medium to dart in
yitation and warning to all nations; ar cleo
trio light to illuminate b eastern and west
ern nenispheres Not q new Gospel but thu
old Gospel doing a new work. 80,
Now you say, That iss very beautiful
theory, but is it possible TO take ones rslig.
ion into all the avocations and busfness. Of
lifey' Yes, and / viii give you a few speci
mems. Medical doctors who took their re
ligion into everyday lifes 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 thau his book on 1.-THE Philosophy OF
the Moral Fselings,"- and often kneefing al
the bedside Of his patients to commend them
to God in prayer. DR.. John BrowA Of Ed
inburqh. immortal as an author, dying undsx
the benediction of the sick Of Edinburgh,
myself remembering him as he sat in his