Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-02-21

farmer from building his post and rail
fence on his neighbours promises and
Il will mako him shelter his cattle In
the winter storm, and It will keep the
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 the barn
and over the field and over the or
chard.
Yes, this practical religion OF which
/ speak will come into the learned pro-
LESSONS. The lawyer will feel his re-
sponsibility in defending innocence and
arraigning evifand eKpounding the law,
and it will keep him from charging for
briefs he never wrote and for pleas he
never made, and for percentage he
never earned, and from robbing widow
and orphan because they are defense
less. Yes, this practical religion will
come into the physicians life, and he
will feel his responsibility NJ the con-
servator OF the public health, probes
sion hOnored by the fact that Christ
Himself was physician.
And It will make him honest, and
when he does not understand case he
he will say 30, not trying to cover up
lack of diagnosis with ponderous tech
nicalities, or send the patient TO. q reck-
less drug store because the apothecary
happens to pay o percentage on the pre-
scriptions sent. And this practical
religion will come to the school teacher,
making her feel her responsibility In
preparing our youth for usefulness and
for happiness and for honor, and will
keep her from giving q sly box to q dull
head, chastising him for what he can
not help and sending Encouragement
all through the after years OF life
time. This practical religion will also
come to the newspaper men, and 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
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, 30 that pe0-
| PIC Will u6tO tuolT CApOhuAbuiOo "AVhAh
their income, and they will change the
hypOcritical mot at home" for the
honest explanation too tired" or "toC
busy to see yOu," and will keep innocent
reception from becoming intoxicated
cOnviviality.
Yea, there is great opportunity foi
missionary work in what are called the
successful classes of society. 1t is nc
rare thing now to see q fashionable
woman intoxicated in the street, or the
rail car or the restaurant. The num-
ber of fine ladies who drink too much Is
increasing. Perhaps you may find her
at the reception in the 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 when
she falls into fits Of excruciating laugh
ter about nothingf and then she offers
sickening batteries, telling some home
" man how we'll he looks, and then she
is helped into the carriage, and by the
time the carriage gets to her home II
takes the husband and the coachman tC
get her up the stairs. The report Is,
"She was taken suddenly Ill at the Ger
man." All, no. She took too much
champagne and mixed liquors, and got
drunk. That was all.
Yea, this practical religion will have
come in and fix up the marriage rela-
ton in America. There are members
of churches who have too many wives
and too many husbands. Society needs
to be expurgated and washed aud fumi-
gate and christianized. We have mis-
sionary societies to reform Mulberry
street In 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 square, and Rittenhouse
square, and West end, and Brooklyn
heights and Brooklyn hill. We want
this practical religion to take hold OF
what was called the lower classes. The
trouble Is that people have an idea that
they can do all their religion on Sum
day with hymn book and prayer book
and liturgy, and some of them sit in
church rolling up their ewes as though
they were ready for translation, when
their Sabbath Is bounded on all sides by
an inconsistent life, and while you are
expt citing to come out from under their
arms the wings of an angel, there come
out from their forhead the horns OF a
beast.
There has got to be a new departure
in religion. lido not say new religion.
o, no, but the old religion brought to
anDliauCes. In our time we have had the
daguerrotype and the ambrotype and
the photograph, but it is the same old
sun and these arts are only new appli-
ances Of the old sunlight. So this glor-
ious gospel is just what we want TO
photograph the image Of God on
one soul and daguerreotype it on anoth-
er soul. Not new gospel, but old Cos
pei put to new work. In our time we
have had the Geographic invention and
the telephone invention and the cleo
trio light invention, but they are all the
children OF old electricity, an element
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