The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-20

root of the tree is exposed, an inclslOn
is made into the root and then shells
are placed at this incision to catch the
sap or gum as il exudes. 1t Is very
precious, this scammony. But the
peasant mixes it with cheaper material
then it is taken TO AleppO, and the
merchant there mixes it with a cheap
er material; then it comos on to the
wholesale druggist in London or New
| York, he and mixes it with cheaper
material: then it comes 10 the feUal
druggist. and he mixes it with cheap
er material, and by the time the poor
sick man gets it into his bottle, II Il
ashes and chalk and sand, and some OF
what has been called pure scammony
after ANALYSIS has been found TO be nc
scammony at all.
Now, practical religion will yet rectl'
| fy all this. 1t will go to THESE
| hypocritical professors OF religion wno
rot corner in corn and wheat III
Chicago and New York, sending prices
UP and UP until they were beyond the
| reach of the poor. keeping these bread
stuff in their own hands, or controlling
them until the prices going up and up
and IN. they were, after awhile, ready
| IL.
selves millionaires in one or two years
trying to fix the matter up with the
Lord by building church or university
or a notwithstanding themselves
with the idea that the Lord would be
so pleased with the gift He would for
get 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: 20 Lord, we by
getting a corner in breadstuffs swindled
the people of the United states out OF
$40, 900. 900 and made suffering all up
and down the land and we would like
to compromise this matter with Thee.
Thou knowest it was scaly job, but then
it was smart. Now, here we compromlse
it. Take per cent of the profits and
with that per cent you can build an
asylum for these poor miserable raga-
mullins OF the street and l will take a
yacht and go to Europe, forever and
ever. AmenF'
All! my friends, if a man has gotten
his estate wrongfully and he built line
of fospitals and universities from here
to Alaska, he can not atone for II.
After while this man who has been
getting corner" in wheat dies and
then Satan gets corner" on him. He
goes into a great, long black Friday.
There is break" in the market.
According to Wall street parlance.
he wiped others out and now he is
himself wiped out. No collaterals on
which to make spiritual loan. Eter-
nal defalcation.
But this practical religion not only
rectify all merchandise, it will also re-
citify all mechanism and all toll. A
time will come when a man will work as
faithfully by the job as he does by the
day. You say when thing is slight
ingly done: 20, that was done by the
job" You can tell by the swiftness or
slowness with which a hickman drives
whether he is hired by the hour or by
the excursion. II he is hired by the
excursion he whips up his horses, SO as
to get around and get another customer.
All STYLES of work have to be inspected;
ships inspected, houses inspected, ma
chinery inspected. Boss to watch the
journeyman. Capitalist coming down
Unexpectedly to watch the boss. Con-
ductor of a city car sounding the punch
bell to prove his honesty, as passenger
hands him a clipped nickel.
FAR TOO LITTLE DONE RIGHT.
All things must be watched and inspect
ed. Imperfections in 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
$3.50. Bookbindery that holds on until
you read the third chapter. 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 pro-
vocation and falls off. Plumbing that
needs to be plumbed. Imperfect car
wheel that halts the whole train with a
hot box. So little practical religion of
the mechanism of the world. l tell you
my frieUds, the law of man will never
recitify these things. 1t will be the all
pervading influence of the practical re-
ligion of Jesus Christ that makes the
change for the better.
Yes, this practical religion will also
go into agriculture, which is proverbi-
ally honest. but needs to be rectified,
and it will keep the farmer from send
ing to the New York market veal that
lis too young to kill, and when the farm
err farms on shares it will keep the man
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 it will keep the
elder from working on Sunday afternoon
in the 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 or
chard.
Yes, this practical religion of which
I speak will come into the learned pro-
fessions. The lawyer will feel his re-
sponsibility in defending innocence and
arraigning evil and expounding the law.
and it will keep him from charging foI
briefs he never wrote and for pleas he
never made, and for percentage he
never earned, and from robbing widow
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 con
servator of the public health, profes'
sion honored by the fact that Christ
Himself was physician.
And it will make him honest, and
when he does not understand case he
he will say so, not trying to cover VI
lack of diagnosis with ponderous tech
nicalities, or send the patient to a reck
/ less drug store because the apothecary
happens to pay percentage on the pre-
scriptions sent. And this practical
religion will come to the school teacher
making her feel her responsibility il
preparing our youth for usefulness ant
for happiness and for honor, and vii
keep her from giving sly box to a dull
head, chastising him for what he car
not help and sending Encouragement