Sharp County record., 1891-03-12
speak will come into the learned pro-

speak Will come INTO tne learned pro-
fessions. The lawyer will feel the re-
sponsibility in defending innocence and
arraigning evil, and expounding the
law, and it win keep him from charg-
| ing for briefs he never wrote, and foI
pleas he never made, and for percent
ages he never earned, and from robbing
widow and orphan because they are de-
fenseless. Yes, this practical religion
will come into the physicians life, and
he will feel his responsibility as the
conservator of the public health, pro-
fession honored by the fact that Christ
Himself was physician. And it will
make him honest and when he does not
understand a case he will say so, not
trying to cover up lack of diagnosis
with ponderous technicalities, or send
the patient to reckless drugstore 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 Civ
ing a sly box to dull head, chastising
him for what he can not help, and send
ing Encouragement all through the
after years of lifetime. This prac.
tical religion will also come to the news
paper N n, and it will help them in the
gathering of the news, and it will help
them in setting forth the 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 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 peo-
pie will have their expenditures within
their income, and they will exchange
the hypocritical mot at home" for the
honest explanation, too tired, or ''too
busy to see you," and will keep inno-
cent reception from becoming intoxi.
Gated conviviality.
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 a fashionable
woman intoxicated in the street, or the
rail-car or the restaurant. The num-
ber 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 her eye is CLASSY, and after
awhile her cheek IS unnaturally
flushed, and then she falls into
fits of excruciating laughter about
nothing, and then she offers sickening
batteries, telling some homely man
how well ne looks and then she is
helped into the carriage, . and by the
time the carriage gets to her home it
takes the husband and the coachman
to get her upstairs The report is, she
was taken suddenly i'll at German.
All! no. She took too much cham
pagne and mixed liquors and got drunk.
That was all.
YEA this practical religion will have
to come in and fix up the marriage re-
lation in America. There are members
Of churches who have too many wives
and too many husbands. Society needs
to be expurgated and washed, and fumi-
gated and Christianized. We have mis-
sionary societies to reform Mulberry
street, New York and Bedford street,
Philadelphia, and Shoreditch, London,
and the Brooklyn docks, but there is
need of an organization to reform much
that is going on in Beacon street,
and Madison square and Ritten-
house square, and West End, and
Brooklyn Heights, and Brooklyn Hill.
We want this practical religion not only
to take hold of what are called the low
er classes but to take hold of what are
called the higher classes. The trouble
is that people have an idea they can do
all their religion on Sunday with hymn
book and prayer book and liturgy, and
some of them sit in church rolling up
their eyes as though they were ready
for translation, when their Sabbath s
bounded on all sides by an inconsistent
life, and while you are expecting to
come out from under their arms the
wings of an angel, there come out from
their forehead the horns of beast.
There has got to be a new depart ure
in religion. | do not say new religion.
Oh, no; but the old religion brought to
new appliances. In our time we have
had the daguerreotype and the ambro-
type and the photographs 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
on one soul and daguerreotype it
on another soul, Not o new Cos
pei, but the old Gospel put to
new work, In our time we have had
the telegruphic invention and the
telephone invention and the electric
light invention; but they are all the
children of old electricity an element
that the philosophers have long while
known much about So this electric
Gospel needs to flash its light on tho
eyes and ears and souls of men, and be.
co ne u telephone medium to make the
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