The Red Cloud chief., 1891-02-27


Heights and Brooklyn Hill. We want
this practical religion not only 60 take
hold OF what are called the lower classes.
but TO take hold Of what are called the
higher classes The trouble IL that peo-
pie have an idea that 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 rs though they were ready
for translation, when their Sabbath is
bounded on all sides by an inconsistent
life.
There has got 20 be . new departure
in religion. do not say a new religion
o. no, but the old religion brought 20
new appliances In our time we have
had the daguerreotype and the ambrc
type and the photograph, but IL is the
same old sun and these arts are only
ne. appliances OF the old sunlight So
this glorious Gospel is just what we
want 20 photograph the image of God
on one soul and daguerreotype it IN
another soul Not a new Gospel. but
the old Gospel put 10 new work
In our time We have had the tele-
graphic invention and the telephone in
~yention and the electric light invention.
but they are all the children Of old cleo
tricity, an element that the philosophers
have a long while known much about
SO this electric Gospel needs % fash its
light upon the eyes and ears and souls
Of men and becomes "A telephone me-
dunn 10 make the deaf hear, a tele-
graphic medium 10 dart invitation and
warning to all nations. 8n electric light
- illumine the Eastern and Western
hemiSphcres- Not q new Gospel, but
the old Gospel doing q new work
Now you say: That is n very beau
.iful theory, but is IL possible 10 take
ones religion into all the avocations
and business Of life?" Yes, and ] will
give you some specimens. Medical
doctors who took their religion into
everyday life: DIR. John Abcrcrurnbic,
Of Aberdeen, the greatest Scottish ply
stefan Of hts day. his book on Dis
eases of the Brain and Spinal Cord" no
more wonderful than his book on 1.-THE
Philosophy of the Moral Feelings" and
often kneeling at the bedside of his pa
lffIAS W toilAifitid tit'hi ~ 'brl IA
prayer. DIR. John Brown, OF Edin-
burgh, immortal as an author, dying
under the benedic;ion Of the sick of
Edinburgh; myself remembering him
as he sat in his study in Edinburgh
talking TO me about Christ and his hope
of Heaven. And q score of Christian
family physicians in Brooklyn just az
good as they were
Lawyers who carried their religion
into their profession: Lord Cairns, the
Queens adviser for many years, the
highest legal authority in Great Britain
Lord Cairns, every summer In his va
cation, 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 the former. And scores of Chris
tinn lawyers as eminent in the church
of God AS they are eminent at the bar.
Merchants who took their religion
into every day life: Arthur Tappan, de-
rided in his day because he established
that system 10y which we come % find
out the commercial standing of bust
ness men. starting hat entire system,
derided for il then, himself, rs l knew
him well, in moral character Al. Mon
day mornings inviting 10 a room in the
top of his store house the clerks of his
establishment, asking them about their
worldly interests and their spiritual in
tcrcsts, then giving out a 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 es-
pecial troubles Of their own. Arthur
Tappan. never heard his eulogy pro-
nounced. / pronounce it now. And
other merchants just as good. William
T.. Dodge in the iron business, Moses ii.
Grinnell in the shipping business, Peter
Cooper in the glue business. Scores OF
men just as good rs 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 this day by a praycrto God
and when they get home at noon. after
NV soNt Ibt btb esESS eHr "hA 's
fer a prayer 10 God at the table. seek
ing n blessing and this summer there
will be In their fields not one dishonest
head of rye, not one dishonest a OF
corn, not one dishonest apple.
Mechanics who took their religion in
To their occupations: James Brindley,
the famous millwright; Nathaniel Bow
ditch. the famous ship GAMBLER: Elihu
Burritt the famous blacksmith. and
hundreds and thousands of strong arms
which have made the hammer and the
saw and the adze and the drill and the
axe sound in the grand march of our
National industries.
Give your heart TO God and then fill
your life with good works Consccrate
to Him your store, your shop, your
banking house, your factory and your
home. They say no will hear IT
God will hear IT, That is enough. You
hardly know of any one else than Vel.
linCton rs connected with the victory
mt Waterloo; but he did not do the hard
fighting. Who cares, il only the day
vas won
In the latter part Of the last century
q girl in England became n kitchen
maid in a farm house. She had many
STYLES of work and much hard work.
Time rolled on and she married the
son Of n weaver Of Halifax. They were
industrious: they saved money enough
after q while 20 build them q home On
the morning Of the day when they were
10 enter that home the young wife arose
at Z O'Clock. entered the front door
yard, knelt down. ~eonsecrated the place
80 God and there made this solemn row:
- Lord. il Thou wilt bless me in
this place. the poor shall have .
/ share of it." Time rolled on
and q fortune rolled in Children
grew MP around them and they al be-
came afiuenI one a member of Parlia-
ment, in q public place declared that
his success came from the prayer of his
mother in the door yard. All of them
were afiuent Four thousand hands in
their factories They built dwelling
houses for lsborers 1T cheap rents and
when they were invalid and could not