Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-16

will come and put its hand on what is
called good society, elevated society, sue
cessful society, so that people win 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 innocent reception from becom-
ing Intoxicating couviviality.
Yes, there is great opportunity for mis-
siOnary work in what are called the sue
| cessful classes of society. It is no rare
thing now to see a 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, bit she has made
| too many visits to the wine room, and now
her eye is CLASSY, and after a while 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 be 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
| german. Ali no. She took too much
champagne, and mixed llqliors, and got
drunk. That was all.
Yes, this practical religion will have to
come in and fix up the marriage relation
| in America. There are members of churches
! who have too many wives and too many
| husbands. Society needs to be eXpurgated
and washed and fumigated 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 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 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 All angel, there come out
from their forehead the horns of beast.
THERE MUST BE NEW DEPARTURE.
There has got to be a new departure in
religion. do not say new religion. Oh
no; but the old religion brought to new
appliances. In our time we have had the
daguerreotype, and the am0rotype, 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-
- k,,.
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
a long while known much about. So
this electric gospel needs to flash it's light
on the eyes and ears and souls of men, and
become telePhOnic 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 a new gospel,
but the old gospel doing new work.
Now you say, That is a very beautiful
theory, but is it possible to take ones re
igion into all the avocations and business
of life?" Yes, and l 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 '"fhe |
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-
berin2 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-Lord |
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 ohtce than in the former And
scores of Christian lawyers az eminent in
the church of God as they are eminent at
the bar.
GODfEARlNG bU5lNESS MEN.
Merchants who took their religion into
everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided in
bis day because he established that system
by which we come to find out the com
mcrcial standing Of business men, starting
that entire system, derided for it then,
himself, as knew him well, in moral char
lcter Al. Monday mornings inviting 10 a
room in the top OF his storehouse the clerks
If his establishment, asking them about
their worldly interests and their spiritual
interests, then giving out hymn, leading
n prayer, giving them few words Of
good advice, asking them what church
hey attended on the Sabbath, what the
ext was, whether they had any especial
roubles Of their own. Arthur Tappan, !
never heard his eulogy pronounced. | pro
lounce it now. And other merchants just |
IS good, William T. Dodge in the iron ,
BUSINESS; Moses II. Grinnell In the ship ,
ing business Peter Cooper in the glue {
business, Scores Of men just as good as ,
hey were, 4
Farmers who take their religion into
heir occupation: Why, this minute their !
orses and wagons stand around all the
leeting houses In America They began
bis day by prayer 70 God. and when they
ct home at noon, after they have put
heir horses up will offer prayer 70 God al =
be table, seeking a blessing, and this sum q
ler there will be in their fields not one c
ishonest head Of rye, not one dishonest y
Ar Of corn, not one dishonest apple. Wor- r
inning God today away up Among the Y
arksbire hills or away down amid the o