Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20

corn and wheat in Ch cago and New York,
! sending prices up ana up until they were
beyond the reach Of tho poor, keeping
these breadstuffs in their own hands or
controlling them until tho prices going up
and up and up they were. after awhile,
ready to sell, they sold out making them
selves millionaires in one or two years
trying 10 fix the matter up with the Lord
by building a church or university
or a hospital deluding themselves
with the idea that the Lord would
be so pleased with the gift He would forget
the swindle. Now, as such man may
not have any liturgy in which TO say his
prayers. l will compose for him one which
| he practically is making: 20 Lord, we,
! by getting corner in breadstuffs
swinded the people of the United States
out of ten million dollars, and made suffer-
ing all up and down the land, and we
would Se to compromise this matter with
thee. Thou knowcst it was a scly Job,
but then it was smart. Now, here we
compromise it. Take one per cent Of the
profits. and with that ono per cent OF tho
profits you can build an asylum for these
poor miserable ragamufflns OF the street,
and will take yacht and go to Europe,
forever and ever Amenw
Yes, this practical religion will also go
into agriculture, which is proverbinlly
honest, but needs 10 be rcctfed, and il
will keep the farmer from sending to the
New York market veal that is too young TO
| kill, and when the farmer farms on shares,
il will keep the man who does the work
from making his half thrce-fourths. and IL
| will keep the farmer from building his post
and rail fence on his neighbours premises,
and it will make him shelter his cattle in
the winter storm, and il will keep the old
elder from working on Sunday afternoon
in the new ground where nobody sees him.
And this practical religion will hover over
the house, and over tho barn, and over
the field. and over the orchard.
Yes, this practical religion OF which
speak will come into the learned profess
sions. The lawyer will feel his RESPONSE
bility in defending innocence and arraign-
ing evil, and expounding the law, and IL
will Keep him from charging for briefs he
never wrote, and for pleas he never made,
and for percentages he never earned, and
from robbing widow and orphan because
they are defenceless. Yes, this practical
religion will come into the phys clans life,
and he will feel his responsibility as the
conservator of the public health, profes-
sion honored by the fact that Christ him
self was physician. And 1t will make
him honest, and when he does not under
stand a case he will say so, not trying 10
cover up lack Of diagnosis with ponderous
technicalities, or send the pat ent to q
reckless drug store because the apothecary
happens to pay percentage on the pre-
scriptons sent. And this practical relig-
ion will come TO tho school teacher, max
ing her feel her responsibility in prepar-
| aftt1p han
piness and for honor, and will keep her
from giving sly box to a dull head,
chastising him for what he cannot help,
md sending discouragement all through the
after years Of Il lifetime. This practical
religion will also come to the newspaper
men. and it will help them in the gather
ng of the news, and it will help them in
setting forth the best interests of society.
and it viii keep them from putting the sins
of the world in larger type than its virtues,
and its mistakes than its achievements.
Yes, this practical religion will come and
put its hand on what is called good society,
elevated society, successful society, so that
people will have their expenditures within
their income, and they will exchange the
hypocritcal mot at home" for the honest
explanation "too tired" or ''too busy &c
see YOU" and will keep innocent reception
from becoming intoxicated conviviality.
There has got TO be new departure in
religion. / do not say new religion. Oh,
no; but the old religion brought to new ap-
pliances. In our time we have had the
daguerreotype 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 gospe
isiust what we want TO photograph the inn
lge of God on one soul, and daguerrotypt
I on another soul. Not a new gospel, but
the old gospel put to new work. In ouI
time we have had the Geographic invention
md the telephone invention and the cleo
trio light invention; but they are all the
children of old electricity, an element that
the philosophers have a long time known
much about So this electric gospel need:
to flash its light on the eyes and ears anC
souls Of men, and become telephone me
lium to make the deaf hear; teleyraphic
Medium to dart invitation and warning u
al nations; an electric light 10 illumine the
EASTERN and western hemispheres. Not
new gospel, but the old gospel doing 9
now work.
Give your heart to God and then ill you
life with good works. Consecrate to him
your store, your shop, your banking house,
your factory and your home. They say nj
one will hear it. God will hear it That
is enough. You hardly knew of anyone
else than Wellington as connected with the
victory at Waterloo; but he did not do the
hard fighting. The hard fighting was done
by the Somerset cavalry and the Rylan(
regiments, and Kempt's infantry, and tn,
Scots Grays and the Life Guards. WhC
cares, If only the day was won.
In the latter part of the last century
girl in England became a kitchen maid in
farm house. She had many styles of work
md much harl work. Time rolled on, ant
she married the son of weaver of Hall.
fax. They were industrious; they savet
money enough after awhile to build them
home. On the morning of the day whel
they were TO enter th at home the younl
wife arose at four o'clock, entered the
front door-yard, knelt down, consecrateC
the place to God, and there made thi
solemn vow: 20 Lord, IL though will
bless me in this place, the poor shall hav,
q share of it," Time rolled on and for
tune rolled in. Children grew up aroun,
them, and they all became affluent; one,
member of parliament, in a public plac,
declared that his success cam,
from that prayer of his mothe