News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-19

. their income, and they will exchange
the hypocritical mot at home" for tho
' honest explanation too tired" or ''toC
busy to see you" and will keep limo
; cent reception from becoming intoxi
Gated conviviality.
Yes, there is great opportunity fol
{ missionary work in what are called the
f successful classes of society. 1t is nc
: rare thing now to see q fashionable
: woman intoxicated in the street, or the
rail ear, or the restaurant. The mum
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
visats 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 i'll at a 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
| harC of ol,r1rchnc Nxrho hn1ra 70
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
Ign 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 q beast
| There has got to be a new departure
in religion. l do not say a 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 this 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 a
new gospel, but the old gospel put to
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 of
old electricity, an element that the |
philosophers have a long while known
much about. So this electric gospel |
needs to flash its light on the eyes and |
ears and souls of men, and become a |
telephone medium to make the deaf |
hear, telegraphic medium to dart in |
vitation 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
CHRISTIANITY ALWAYS PRACTICABLE.
Now you say, That is a very beau
tiful theory, but is it possible to 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: 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 ''The Philosophy of the Moral
Feelings" and often kneelng at the
bedside of his patients 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-
boring him as he sat in his study in
Edinburgh talking to Inc about Christ
and his hope of heaven. And a score of
Christian family physicians in Brook.
Ign just as good rs 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-Lord Cairns, every sum-
mer in his vacation, preaching as an
evangelist among the poor of his coun- !
try. John Mclean, judge of the SUI
preme court of the United States and
president of the American Sunday n
School union, feeling more satisfaction +
in the latter Office than in the former. 4
And scores of Christian lawyers as emf
lent in the church of God as they are y
eminent at the bar. it
Merchants who took their religion b
nto everyday life: Arthur Tappan, a
lerided in his day because he estab. r,
ished that system by which we come q
o find out the commercial standing of b
business men, starting that entire sys "
EN-, derided for it then, himself, as / as
NEW him well, in moral character Al. N
Monday mornings inviting to a room g
n the top of his storehouse the clerks G.
# his establishment, asking them about =
heir worldly interests and their spirit Fl
al interests, then giving out a hymn, "
eading in prayer, giving them few
7ords of good advice, asking them IN
that church they attended on the Sab
ath what the text was whether they
ad any especial troubles of their own. :
rthur Tappan. l never heard his
ulogy pronounced. l pronounce il
ow. And other merchants just as
God. William e. Dodge in the iron
Moses II. Grinnell in the ship
ing business, Peter Cooper in the glue
usiness. Scores of men just as good
5 they were.
Farmers who take their religion into
leir occupation: Why this minute
leir horses and wagons stand around
the meeting houses in America. :
hey began this day by a prayer to L.
cd, and when they get home at noon. s.
ter they have put their horses up. s.
i'll offer prayer to God at the table,