The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-02-20


/ or woman in America Heaven only
knows what they put into the spices
/ and into the sugars and into the butter
! and into the apOthecary drug But
chemical analysis and the microscope
! have made wonderful revelations
The Board of Health in Massachusetts
analysed a great amount of what was
called pure coffee and found in it not
one particle of coffee. In England there
/ Is law that fOrbids the putting of alum
! in bread The public authorities exam
/ ined hfty-One packages of bread and
found them all guilty. The honest
/ physician, writing a prescription, does
not know but that it may bring death
instead of health to his patient, because
there may be one of the drugs weak
ened by cheaper article and another
drug may be in full force and 50 the
prescription may have just the opposite
effect intended. Oil of NORWOOD war
ranted pure from Boston was found to
have Al per cent. of resin and alcohol
and chlOrOfOrm.
Now, practical religion will yet rec
tify all this. 1t Will go to those hyPO-
critical professors 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 bFeadstuffs IN
their own hands, or controlling them
until the prices going up and up and
up, they were, after awhile, ready to
sell, and they sold out, making them
selves milliOnaires in one or two years
trying to fix the matter up with the
Lord by building a church or a univer-
sity or a MISUNDERSTANDING themselves
with the idea that the Lord would be
50 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,
I col hi hirh he
practically is making: 20 Lord, we,
by getting a corner in breadstuffs,
swindled the people of the United
States ont of SO, 900, 600 and made suf-
fering all up and down the land, and
we would like to compromise this mat
ter with Thee. Thou knOwest 1t was a
scaly job, but then it was smart. Now,
here we compromise it. Take one per
cent. of the PnOfits and with that one
per cent. you can build an asylum for
these poor ragamuffins and I will take
a yacht and go to Europe, forever and
ever. Amen
All! my friends, if a man has gotten
his estate wrongfuly and he build a
line of hospitals and universities from
here to Alaska he can not atone for it.
After while this man who has been
getting a corner" on wheat dies, and
then Satan gets a corner on him.
But this practical religion will not only
tify all mechanism and all toll. A time
will come when man will work as faith
fully by the job as he does by the day.
All things must be watched and in
spected. Imperfections 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 $3.50. 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. Piastering that
falls off. / tell yOu, my friends the
law of man will never rectify these
things. 1t viii be the all pervading in
fuence 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 rectified,
and it Will keep the farmer from send
/ ing to the New York market veal that
/ is too young to kill, and when the
! farmer farms on shares it viii keep the
I man who does the wOrI 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 viii make him shelter his cattle
in the winter storm, and it viii keep
! the old elder from working on Sunday
afternoon in the new ground where no
body sees him.
Yes, this practical religion of which
! speak will come into. the learned pro
| fessions. 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 as the conser-
| vator of the public health, a profession
hOnOred by the fact that Christ Himself
was physician. And it will make him
honest, and when he does not under
stand a case he will say so, not irving