Connecticut western news., 1891-02-18
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vS~~AAAAS5 AAAAANSAASS HANSSeAS~SA ion of Jesus Christ that will make the change for the better.
 Yes, this practical religion will also go into agriculture, which is proverbial- ly honest, but needs to be rectified, and it will keep the farmer from send ing to the New York market 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 post and rail fence on his neighbours premises, and it will make him shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and it will keep the old elder from working on Sunday afternoon in the new ground where no body sees him. And this practical re- igion will hover over the house. and over the barn, and over the field, and over the orchard. .@.
 TRICKY LAWYERS AND DOCTORS.
 Yes, this practical religion of which 1 speak will come into the learned pro- fessions. The lawyer will feel his re- sponsibility in defending innocence, and arraigning evil, and expounding the law, and it will keep him from charg- ing for briefs he never wrote, and for pleas he never made, and for percent ages 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 his responsibility as the con servator of the public health, a profes- sion honored by the fact that Christ himself was physician. And it will make him honest, and when he does not underst and case he will say so. not trying to cover up lack of diagnosis with ponderous technicalities or send the patient to reckless drug store be- cause the apothecary happens to pay percentage on the prescriptions sent.
 And this practical religion will come to the eschool teacher, making her feel her responsibility in preparing our youth for usefulness, and for happiness, and for honor, and will keep her from giv' ing sly box to dull head, chastising him for what he cannot help. and send ing Encouragement all through the after years of a lifetime. This practical religion will also come to the news paper men, and it will help them in the gathering of the news, and it will help them in setting forth the best in terests of society, and it will keep them from putting the sins of the world in larger type than it's virtues, and its mistakes than it's achievements.
 Yes, this religion, this practical re- ligion, will come and put it's hand or 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 hypocritical mot at home" for the honest explanation ''too tired" or ''too busy to see you," and will keep inno- cated conviviality.
 Yes, there is great opportunity for missionary work in what are called the successful classes of society. It is no rare thing now to see fashionable woman intoxicated in the street, or the
  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 glassy, and after awhile her cheek is unnaturally flushed, and then she falls into fits of excruciating laughter about nothing, and then she offers sickening fatteries, telling some homely man how we'll he looks, and then she is helped into the carriage, and 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 ger man. An! no. She took too much champagne, and mixed liquors, and got drunk. That was all.
 SOCIAL SINS IN HIGH PLACES.
 Yea, this practical religion will have to come in and fix up the marriage re- lation in America. There are mem bers of churches who have too many wives and too many husbands. Socie ty needs to be expurgated and washed and fumigated and Christianized. We have missionary societies to reform Elm street, in New York, and Bedford street, Philadelphia, and Sl,oreditch, London, and the Brooklyn docks; but there is need of an organization to re- form much that is going on in Beacon street and Madison square and Kitten Evol nd lyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill.
 We want this practical religion 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 tLat people have an idea they can do all their religion on Sun day 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 under their arms the wings of an angel there of beast.
 There has got to be a new departure in religion. I do not say a new relig- ion Oh, no! but the old religion brought to new appliances. In our time we have had the daguerreotype, and the ambrotype, and the photo graph; but it is the same old sun, and these arts are only new appliances of the old sunlight. So this glorious gos- pei is just what we want to photograph the image of God on one soul and da- guerreotype it on another soul. Not a new gospel but the old gospel put to Dow work