The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26

| 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, profes-
sion honored by the fact that Christ
himself was a physician, And it will
make him honest, and when he does
not understan 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 school teacher making her feel her
responsibility in preparing our youth
for usefulness, and for happiness and
for honor, and will keep her from Civ
ing sly box to n duh head, chastising
him for what he cannot help, and send
ing Encouragement all through the
after years of 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 tho 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 PEG
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 limo
cent reception from becoming intoxi-
Gated conviviality.
Yes, 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
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 ill at ger
man. Ali 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 Shoreditch,
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 Ritten-
house square and West End and Brook
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 that 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
come out from their forehead the horns
of beast.
There has got to be a new departure
in religion. do not say 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 Snis glorious Cos
pei is just what we want to photograph
the image of God on one soul and da
guerreotype it on another soul. Not 9
new gospel, but the old gospel put tc
new work
In our time we have had the tele
graphic invention, and the telephone
invention, and the electric light inven
ton, but they are all the children o.
old electricity, an element that the
philosophers have long while known
much about. So this electric gospe
needs to flash its light on the eyes ant
ears and souls of men, and become {
telephone medium to make the dea
hear, Geographic medium to dart in
vitation and warning to all nations, al
electric light to illumine the eastern
and western hemispheres. Not nev
gospel, but the old gospel doing new
work
CHRISTIANITY ALWAYS PRACTICABLE
Now you say. THAT is a very beau
tiful theory, bat is it possible to talk
ones religion into all the avocation
, and business of life" Yes, and | vii
give you some specimens. Medica
, doctors who took their religion int
everyday life: DR.. John Abercrombie
OF Aberdeen, the greatest Scottisl
physician of his day, his book o.
Diseases of the Brain and Spina
: Cord" no more wonderful than hi
7 book on "The Philosophy of the Mors
Feelings" and often kneeling at th
: bedside of his patients to common
: them to God in prayer. DR.. job