The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-27
,utting The sins of the world in LARGER

putting the sins of the world in larger
| type than it's virtues, and its mistakes
than its achievements.
Yes, this religion-this practical re-
ligion-wil1 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 hypocritical mot at home" for the
honest explanation, too tired, or ''too
busy to see you," and will keep inno-
cent reception from becoming intoxi-
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 sicl<ening
batteries, telling some homely man
how well he looks, and then she is
helped into the carriage, and by the
time the carriage gets to her no me it
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 furni
| gated and Christianized. We have mis-
sionary societies to reform Mulberry
| street, New York, and Bedford street,
Philadelphia, and Shorediteh, London,
and the Brooklyn docks, but there is
need of an organization to reform much
that is going on in Beacon street,
and Madison square and Ritten-
house square, and West End, ana
Brooklyn Heights, and Brooklyn Hill
We want this practical religion not only
| to take hold of what are called the low
4 CT CldSSCS, OuO W edhC IOlu VI WIldO aIC
| 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 under their arms the
wings of an angel, there come out from
their forehead the horns of a beast.
| There has got to be a new departure
| in religion. / do not say new religion.
| Oh, no; but the old religion brought to
new appliances. In our time we have
had the daguerreotype and the ambro-
| type 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 and daguerreotype it
on another soul. Not 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 telephone medium to make the
deaf hear; telegraphic medium to
dart invitation and warning to all ma
tions; an electric light to illuminate tho
Eastern and Western hemispheres.
Not a new Gospel, but the old Gospel
doing new work.
Lawyers who carried their religion
into their profession: 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 Su--
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 emil
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 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 a few words of
good advice, asking them what church
they attended on the Sabbath, what the
text was, whether they had any 1spe-
cial troubles of their own. Arthur
| Tappan. / never heard his eulogy pro-
nounced. / pronounce it now. And
other merchants just as good. William
E. Dodge, in the iron business; Moses
III. 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
theiy occupation. Why, this minute
| thei horses and wagons stand around
all the meeting houses in America.
They began this day by prayer to
God, and when they got home at noon,
after they had put their horses up, will
offer "a prayer to God at the table, seek.
ing a blessing, and this summer there
will be in their fields not one dishonest
head of rye,.nQt one dishonest ear of
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