The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

But this practical religion will not only
rectify all merchandise, it will also rec
tify all mechanism and all toll. A time
will come when imam will york as faith
fully by the job as he does by the day.
All things must be watched and in
spected. Inpcrfections in the wood
covered with putty. Garments war
ranted to last until you put them on the
third time. Shoddy in all kinds of
clothing. Chromos. Pinchbeck. Dia-
monds for $1.5O. Bookbindery that
holds on until you read the third chap
ter. Spawned horses, by skillful dose
of jockeys, for several days made to
look spry. Wagon tires poorly put on.
Horses poorly shod. Plastering that
cracks without any p~rovocation and
falls off. 1 tell you, my friends, the
law of man will never rectify these
things. 1t will be the all ~pervading in.
1uence of the practical religion of Jesus
Christ that will make the change for
the better.
Yes, this practical religion will also
go into agriculture, which is %proverbi-
ally honest, but needs to be rectihed,
and it will keep the farmer from send
ing TO the New York market real that
is too young to kill, and when the
farmer farms on shares it will keep the
man who does the wort from making
his half thr~ee-fourths, and it will keep
the farmer from building his post and
rail fence on his neighbours premises,
and it will make him shelter his cattle
In the winter storm, and it will keep
the old elder from working on Sunday
afternoon in the new ground where no.
body sees him.
Yes, this practical religion of which l
spenk will come into the learned pro-
LESSONS. The lawyer will feel his re.
sponsibility in defending innoncence
and arraigning evil and expounding the
law, and it will keep him from charg-
ing for briefs he never wrote and for
pleas he never made, and for percent
ages he never earned, and from robbing
widow and orphan because they are
defenseless.
Yes, this practical religion will come
into the physicians life, and he will
feel his responsibility us the conser-
vator of the public health, a profession
honored by the fact that Christ Himself
was a physician. And 1t will make him
honest, and when he does not under
stand a case he will say SO, not trying
to cover up lack of diagnosis with pom
derous tec~hnicalities, or send the pa
tient to a reckless drug store because
the ~apothecary happens to pay a per-
centage on the prescriptions sent.
And this practical religion will come
to the school teacher, making her feel
her responsibility in preparing our
youth for usefulness and for happiness
and for honor, and will keep her from
giving a sly box to a dull head, chastis-
ing him for what he can not help and
sending encouragement all through the
after ear of a lifetime. This practical
religion will also come to the newspa-
per men, and It will help them in the
gathering Of the news, in setting forth
the best interests of society, and keep
them from putting the sins of the
world in larger type than its virtues
and its mistakes than its achievements.
Yes, this religion, this practical re-
ligion, will come and put its hand on
what Is called good society, elevated
society, successful society, so that
people will have their expenditures
within their income, and they will
exchange the hypocritical mot at
home for the honest explana-
ton ''too tired" or too busy to see
you," and will keep innocent reception
from becoming intoxicated co~nviviality.
Yes, there Is great opportunity for
missionary work in what are called the
successful classes of society. The num-
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
visits to the wine room.
Yes, this practical religion will have
to come in and fix mp the marriage rela-
ton in America. There are members
Of churches who have too many wives
and too many husbands. Society needs
to be e~xpurgated and washed and fumi.
gated and Christianized. We have mis-
sionary societies to reform Mulberry
street in New York, and Bedford street,
Philadelphia, and S~horeditch, London,
and the Brooklyn docks; but there Is
need of an organization to reform much
that is going on in Beacon street, and
in Madison Square, and Rittenhouse
Sanare. and West End. and Brooklyn
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.
There has got to be a new departure
In religion. l do not say a new religion.
o, no, but the old religion brought to
new appliances. In our time we nave
had the daguerreotype and the ambro-
type 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
OF one soul and daguerreotype 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 in
vention and the electric light invention,
but they are all the children of old cleo
tricity, IN element that the philosophers
have a long while known much about.
So this electric Gospel needs to flash It's
light upon the eyes and ears and souls
Of men and becomes a telephone me.
dunn to make the deaf hear, a tele-
graphic 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 a new work.
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 I will
give you some specimens. Medical
doctors who took their religion into
everyday life: DR.. John Abercrombie,
Of Aberdeen. the greatest Scottish ply.
stefan of his day, his book on "Dis-
eases Of the Brain and Spinal Cord, " no
more wonderful than his book on ''The
Philosophy Of the Moral Feelings" and
often kneeling at the bedside of his pa-
tients to commend them to God In
prayer. DIR. John Brown, Of Edin-
burgh, immortal as an author, dying
under the benediction 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 a 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 MS 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
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