Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19


win come and put its hand on what is
called good society, elevated society, sue
cessful society, SO that people VIII nave
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 innocent reception from becom-
ing intoxicating conviviality.
Yes, there is a great opportunity for mis-
sionary work in what are called the sue
cessfli classes of society It is no rare
thing now to see fashionable woman in
toxicated in the street, or the rail car, or
the restaurant The number of fine ladies
who drink too much is increasing. Per.
haps 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 a while her
check is unnaturaliy flushed, and then she
falls intoiits 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 10 her home il takes the husband and
the coachman 10 get her up the stairs The
report is She was taken suddenly i'll at
german Ali 20. She took too much
champagne and mixed liquors, and got
drunk That was all.
Yes, this practical religion viii have 70
come ia and Tx up the marriage relation
| inAmerica There are members of churches
who have too many wives and too many
| husbands. Society needs to be eypurgated
and washed and fumgatcd and Christian
lied. We have missionary societies TO re-
form Elm street, in New York, Bedford
street, Philadelphia and Shorediteh. Lon
don, and the Brooklyn docks; but there is
need of an organization 10 reform much
that is going on in Beacon street and Madi-
son square and Rittenhouse square and
West End and Brooklyn Heights and 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 10 church rolling ap their eyes as
though they were ready for translation,
when their Sabbath is bounded on all sides
by an inconsistent life, aud while You are
expecting to come ont from under their
arms the wings of M angel, there come out
from their forehead be horns OF beast.
THERE MUST o. NEw DEPARTURE
There hes uot TO tie a new departure 10
religion | do not say q new religion Oh,
no: bat the Old religion brought 10 new
appliances In our time we have had the
daguerreotypc and licambrotype. and the
photograph but il 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 70 photograph the
image Of God on one soul, and daguerreo
type ii on another soul. Not new gospel,
but the old gospel put 10 new work. In
our time we have had the Geographic
invention, and the telephone invention,
aud the electric light invention, bat 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 fash its light
on the eyes and ears and souls OF men, and
become "A telephone medium TO make the
deaf hear, Geographic medium 10 dart
invitation and warning to all nations; an
electric light to illumine the eastern and
western hemispheres. Not a new gospel.
but the old gospel doing new work
Now you say, THAT is very beautiful
theory, but is it possible 70 take ones re
ligion into all the avocations and business
Of lfe:n Yes, and | will give you few
specimens. Medical doctors who took their
religion into everyday life: DR. 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 "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
rs an author, dying under the bcnediction
n the sick Of Edinburgh, myself remem
bering him AZ he sat in his-,tudy 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 professions: The late Lord Cairns, the
queens adviser for many years, the highest
legal authority in Great Briiain-Lord
Cairns, every summer ia his vacation,
preaching as an evangelist among he 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
CONFIRMING BUSINESS MEN.
Merchants who took their religion into
everyday life: Arthur Tappan, deridesi 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 ia the top OF his storehouse the clerks l
of his establishment. asking them about
their worldly interests and their spiritual
interests, then giving out a hymn. leading
in prayer. giving them asfew words Of
good advice. asking them what church
they attended on the Sabbath, what the
text WIS, 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 +. Dodge in the iron
business; Moses H. GrinnelI in the ship