The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-26

putting the sins of the world in larger
type than its virtues, and its mistakes
than its achievements.
Yes, this religion-this practical re-
ligion-will come and put its hand on
what is called good society, elevated
society, successful society, so that peo-
pie will have their expenditures within
their income, and they will exchange
the hvpocritical mot at home" for the
honest explanation, too tired, or TOO
busy to see you" and will keep inno-
cent reception from becoming intoXl-
Gated conviviality.
Yea, there is great opportunity for
missionary work in what are called the
successful classes of society. 1t is no
rare thing now to see fashionable
woman intoxicated in the street, or the
rail-car, or the restaurant. The num-
Der of fine ladies who drink too much
is increasing. Perhaps 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
awhile her cheek Is unnaturally
flushed, and then she falls into
fits of excruciating laughter about
nothing, and then she offers sickening
batteries, telling some homely man
how well he looks, and then she rs
helped into the carriage, and by the
time the carriage gets to her no me 1t
takes the husband and the coachman
to get her upstairs The report is, she
was taken suddenly i'll at German.
All. no. She took too much cham
payne and mixed liquors and got drunk.
That was all.
Yea, this practical religion will have
to come in and fix up the marriage re-
lation in America. There are members
of churches who have too many wives
and too many husbands. Society needs
to be expurgated and washed, and fuml-
gated and ChristianiZed. We have mis-
sionary societies to reform Mulberry
street. New York, and Bedford street,
Philadelphia, and Shoreditch, London,
and the Brooklyn docks, but there is
need of an organization to reform much
that is going on in Beacon street,
and Madison sqnare and Ritten-
house square, and West End, and
Brooklyn Heights, and Brooklyn Hill
We want this practical religion not only
to take hold of what are called the low
err 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 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
come out from nder their arms the
wings of an angel, tn ere come out from
their forehead the hor1os of beast.
There has got to be a new departure
in religion. | do not say q new rell glon.
Oh, no; but the old religion brought to
new appliances. In our tint, we have
had the daguerrcotype and tina ambro-
type and the photograph; but il is the
same old sun, and these arts ara 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 and daguerreotype it
on another soul. Not a new Cos;
pei but the old Gospel put to
new work In our time we have had
the telegraphic invention and the
telephone invention and the electric
light invention; but they are all the
children of old electricity, an element
that the philosophers have long while
known much about. SO this electric
Gospel needs to flash its light on the
eyes and ears and souls of men, and be-
come a telephone medium to make the
deaf hear; telegraphlc medium to
dart invitation and warning to all ma
tons; an electric light to illuminate tho
Eastern and Western hemispheres.
Not new Gospel, but the old Gospel
doing a new work.
Lawyers who carried their religion
into their professions: The late Lord
Cairns, the Queens adviser for many
years. the highest legal authority in
Great Britain-Lord Cairns, every sum-
mer in his vacation, preaching as an
evangelist among the poor of his coun-
try; John Mclean, Judge of the SUI
preme 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 emf
nent in the Church of God as they are
eminent at the bar.
Merchants who took their religion in
to everyday life: Arthur Tappan de-
rided in his day because he established
that system by which we come to find
out the commercial standing of bust
ness men, starting that entire system
derided for it then, himself, as l knew
him well, in moral character Al. Mon
day mornings inviting to a room in the
top of his store house the clerks of his
establishment, asking them about their
worldly interests and their spiritual in
terests, then giving out hymn, leading
in prayer, giving them few words of
good advice, asking them what church
they attended on the Sabbath, what the
text was, whether they had any espe-
ciai troubles of their own. Arthur
Tappan. never heard his eulogy pro-
nounced. l pronounce it now. And
other merchants Just as good William
Z. Dodge, in the iron business; Moses
ii. Grinnell, in the shipping business;
Peter Cooper, in the glue business.
Scores of men just as good as they were.
Farmers who take their religion into
theiv occupation. Why, this minute
theie horses and wagons stand around
all the meeting houses in America.
They began this day by prayer to