The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-04

arralgnlng evil. and, expounding the |
law, sad it will keep him from oLarg-
ing for briefs he never wrote, and for |
pleas he never made, and for percentages
henever earned, and from robbing
and orphan because they are defense
less.
Yes, this practical religion will come
into the physicians life, and he will
feel his responsibility as the conserv-
ator of the public health, pro
fession honored by the fact that Christ
Himself was a physician. And it will
make him honest, and when he does NOT
understand case he will say so, not
trying to cover up lack Of diagnosis
with ponderous technicalities, or send
the patient to reckless drug store be-
cause the apothecary happens to pay a
percentage 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 dull head, chastising him
for what he can not help, and ending
in encouragement all through the after
years of a lifetime.
This practical religion will also come
to the newspaper men, and it will help
them in the gathering of the news, and
it will help them in setting forth sthe
best interests of society, and it will
keep them from putting the sins of the
world in larger type than its virtues,
and its mistakes than it's achievements.
Yes, this religion, this practical re-
ligion, will come and put it's hand on
what is called good society, elevated
society, successful society, so that peo-
pie will have their expenditures within
their income, and they will exchange
hypocritical mot at home" for the hon.
est explanation ''too tired" or "too busy
to see you" and will keep innocent re-
ception from becoming Intoxicating con.
VITALITY. ..........
| Yea, there is great opportunity for
missionary work in what are called the
successful classes of society. 1t is no
rare thing now to see fashionable
woman intoxicated in the street, or the
rail car, or the restaurant. 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, and now heI
eye is CLASSY, and after awhile her
cheek is unnaturally flushed, and then
she falls into fits of eXcruciating laugh
ter about nothing, and then she offers
sickening batteries, telling some home
ly man how well he looks, and then she
is helped into the carriage, and by the
time the carriage gets to her home il
takes the husband and the coachman te
get her up the stairs. The report is
She was taken suddenly i'll at german
All! no. She took too much champaign,
and mixed liquors, and got drunk.
That was all. Yea, this practical re
l ligion will have to come in and fix w
the marriage relation in America
) There are numbers of churches wht
|. have too many wives and too many
husbands. Society needs to be expur
gated and washed and fumigated ant
+ Christianized. We have missionary so
cieties tc reform Mulberry street, il
> New York, and Bedford street, Phila
delphia, and Shoredich street, London
$ and the Brooklyn Docks; blu
I there is need of an organization
o to reform much that is &c
r ing on in Beacon street an,
g Madison Square and West End an
n Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill
S We want this practical religion to tax
e hold, not only of what are called tn
g lower classes, but to take hold of wha
S are called the higher classes. Th
:. trouble is that people have an idea tina
a they can do all their religion on Sunda
with hymn-book and prayer-book an
/ liturgy, and some of them sit in churc
o rolling ups their eyes as though the
A were ready for translation, when thei
k Sabbath is bounded on all sides by a
y inconsistent life, and while you are es
IS pecting to come out from under thei
e arms the wings of an angel there com
i out from their forehead the horns of
beast.
+ There has got to be a new departur
J in religion. do not say a new. relig
o ion. Oh, no; but the old religion bfough
$ to rev appliances. In our time W
have had the daguereotype and the an
T. brotype and the photograph; but it
l. the same old sun, and these arts ar
h only new appliances of the old sunlight
g So this glorious gospel is just what W
5. want to photograph the image {
e God on one soul, and daguerreotyp
a it on another soul. Not a new Go
l. pei, but the old Gospel put to ne'
l. work. In our time We have had tn
ID telegraphic invention and the tel'
t phonic invention and the electric ligh
he invention; but they are all the childre
II of old electricity, an element that tn
a. philosophers have a long while know
Y much about. So this electric Gospt
I'd needs to flash its light on the eyes an
S, ears and souls of men, and become
al Geographic medium to make the dea
es hear; telegraph medium to dart inv
d. tation and warning to all nations; a
o. electric light to illumine the Easter
at and Western hemispheres. Not ne
r Gospel, but the old Gospel doing ne
a work.
in "Now you say, ''That is very bea'
u, tiful theory, but is it possible to tax
er ones religion into all the avocatior
u and business of life:" Yes, and wi
al give you some specimens. Medic'
Re doctors who take their religion int
everyday life; DR.. John Abercromb
so of Aberdeen, the greatest Scottish phi.
j. sician of his day, his book on ''Diseas'