Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-16
PRACTICE, NOT THEORY
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the peasant mixes it with cheaper mate
rial; then Is is taken to Aleppo, and the
merchant there mixes it with a cheaper
material; then IL comes on to the whole
sale druggist in London or New York, and
he mixes 1t with cheaper materials then
1t comes TO the retail druggist, and he
mixes it with cheaper material, and by
the time the poor sick man gets it into his
bottle it is ashes and oii;lak; and sand, and
some Of what has been called pure scam
mony after analysis has been found to be
no scammony at all
THE sPECULATIEG HYPOCRITE.
Now, practical religion viii yet rectify
all this, twill go to those hypocritical pro-
fessors Of religion who got a Corner in
corn and wheat in Chicago and New York,
sending prices up and up until they were
beyond the reach of the poor, keeping these
breadstuffs in their own hands, or control
ling them until, the prices going up and up
and up, they were after awhile ready to
sell, and they sold out making themselves
millionaires in one or two years-trying to
fix the matter up with the Lord by building
a church, or university, or a hospital
deluding themselves with the idea that the
Lord would be so pleased with the gift He
would forget the swindle. Now, as such a
man may not have any liturgy in which to
say his prayers, | will compose for him
one which he practically is making: 80
Lord, we, by getting a corner in bread
Btuffs, swindled the people of the United
States out of ten million dollars, and made
suffering all up and down the land, and
we would like to compromise this matter
with thee. Thou knoWest it was u scaly
job, but then it was smart, Now, here we
compromise it. Take one per cent. of the
profits, and with that one per cent. you
can build an asylum for these poor miser-
able ragamufflnS Of the street, and / will
take yacht and go to Europe, for ever and
ever, amenW
All, my friends, If man hath gotten his
estate wrongfully and he build line of
hospitals and universities from here to
Alaska, he cannot atone for it. After
a while this man who has been getting a
corner" in wheat dies, and then Satan
gets corner" on him. He goes into a
great, long Black Friday There is n
"break" in the market. According to
Wall street parlanoe he wiped others out,
and now he is himself wiped out. No col.
laterals on which to make a spiritual loan
Eternal defalcationl
But this practical religion will not only
rectify all merchandise, it will also rectify
all mechanism and all toll. A time viii
come when n man will work as faithfully
by the job rs he does by the day. You say
when q thing is slightingly done, ooh, that
was done by the job" You can tell by the
swiftness or slowness with which a hack
man drives whether he is hired by the hour
or by the excursion. IL he is hired by the
excursion he whips up the horses, so as to
get around and get another customer. All
styles of work have to be inspected. Ships
inspected, horses inspected, machinery in
spected, Boss TO watch the journeyman.
Capitalist coming down unexpectedly to
watch the boss. Conductor Of a city car
sounding the punch bell to prove his hon
esty rs passenger hands to him clipped
nickel. All things must be Watched and in
spected. Imperfections ia the wood covered
with putty Garments warranted to last
until you put them on the third time.
Shoddy in all kinds Of clothing. Chromos.
Pinchbeck. Diamonds for dollar and n
nalf. Bookbindery that holds on until
you read the third chapter. Spawned
horses by skillful dose of jockeys for sew
eral days made to look spry. Wagon tires
poorly put on. Horses poorly shod. Plas-
tering that cracks without any provoca-
tion and falls off. Plumbing that needs
to be plumbed. Imperfect cur wheel that
halts the whole train with a hot box. So
little practical religion In the mechanism
Of the world. ! tell you, my friends, the
law of man will never rectfy these things
1t will DO the all peryading influence of the
practical religion of Jesus Christ that will
make the change for the better.
THERE Is NONE PERFECT.
Yes, this practical religion will also go
into agriculture which sprOyerbially hon
est, but needs to be recti6ed, and It viii
keep the farmer from sending TO the New
York market veal that is too young to kill,
and when the farmer farms on shares it
will keep the nun who does the work from
making his half three-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 1t will keep the old elder
from working on Sunday afternoon in tho
new ground where nobody sees him. And
this practical religion will hover over the
house, and over the barn, and over the
field, and over the orchard
Yes, this practical religion of which
speak will come into the learned profes-
sions. The lawyer will feel his RESPONSE
a., c,i II onJ nvnenn5ing t,o law and II
iii taan bi', frr,,, nhnrseir,, for hricfs be
80. $50 od Tow ,,iag o ,,a,,o. Md
GA co., ,,erconto,,os Lo povar oornod and
from robbino widow and orphan because
thoy oro d,fonseloes Yeq tbfg nroctical
religion will come into the physicians life
and he will feel his responsibility as the
conservator of the public health, profess
sion honored by the fact that Christ him