The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-07


eessful socicty, so that people will have
their expenditures within their income,
and they will exchange the hypocriticaI
mot at home" for the honest explanation
'.too tired" or tttoo busy to see you," and
will keep innocent reception from beconl-
ing intoxicating conviviality.
Yes, there is a great opportunity FOR mis-
sionary work in what are called the sue
cessful classes of society 1t is no rare
thing now to see a fashionable woman in
toxicated in the street, the rail car, or
the restaurant. The number of fine ladies
who drink too much is increasing Per
haps yon 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 while her
check is unnaturally flushed, and then she
falls into fits of fexcruciating laughter about
nothing, and then she offers sickening
batteries, telling some homely man how
well be looks, and then she is helped into
tine 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 rs, She was taken suddenly ill at n
german. All! no. She took too much
cham pagne, and mixed liqnors, and got
drunk. That was all.
Yes, this practical religion will have to
come in and tx up the marriage relation
in America. Thereare members of churches
who have too many wives and too many
husbands. Society needs to be expurgated
and washed and fuInigated and Christian
lied. We have missionary societies to re-
form Elm street, in New York, Bedford
street, Philadelphia, and Shoreditch. Lon
don, and the Brooklyn docks; but there is
need of an organization to reform much
that is going on in Beacon street and Madi-
son square and Rittenhouse square and
West End ana Brooklyn Heightsand Brook
lyn 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 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 beast
THERE MUST BE A NEW DEPARTURE.
There has got to be a new departure ir
religion. do not say a new religion Oh
no; but the old religion brought to new
appliances. In our time we have had the
daguerreotype, and the ambrotype, 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 daguerreo-
type it on another soul Not a new gospel,
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 it's light
on the eyes and ears and souls of men, aud
become a telephone medium to make the
deaf hear. telegraphic medium to dart
invitation and warning to all nations; an
electric light to illumine the eastern and
western hemispheres. Not new gospel,
but the old gospel doing a new work
Now you say, "That is verysbeautifnl
theory, but is it possible to take ones re-
Egion into all the avoca6ions and business
of hfes' Yes, al L will give you few
specimens. Medical doctors who took their
religion into everyday life: DIR. John
Abercrombie, of Aberdeen, the greatest
Scottish physician of his day, his book on
Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord''
no more wonderful than his book on .s,rhe
Philosophy of the Moral Feelings and
often kneeling at the bedside of his pa
tients to commend them to God in prayer
DR.. John Brown, of Edinburgh, immortal
as an author, dying under the benediction
of the sick of Edinburgh, myself remem-
bering him as he sat in his study in Edin-
burgh talking to me about Christ and his
hope of heaven. And a score of Christian
family physicians in Brooklyn just as good
as they WERE
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-I.ord
Cairns, every summer in his vacation
preaching as an evangelist among the poor
of his country. John Mclean, Judge of
the supreme 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 eminent in
the church of God as they are eminent at
the bar.
GoDFEARING BUSINESS MEN.
Merchants who took their religion into
everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided in
his day because he established that system
by which we come to find out the com
mercial standing of business men, starting
that entire system, derided for it then,
himself, as knew him well, in moral char
acter AL Monday mornings inviting to
room in the top of his storehouse the clerks
of his establishments. asking them about
their worldly interests and their spiritual
interests, 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 especial
troubles of their own. Arthur Tappan,
never heard his eulogy pronounced. pro
nounce it now. And other merchants just
as good. William E Dodge in the iron
business; Moses h. GFinnen in the ship
ping business; Peter Cooper in the glue
business. Scores of men just as good as
they were.
Farmers who take their religion into
their occupation: Why, this minute their
horses and wagons stand around all the
meeting houses in America They began