The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15


rectify these things. It viii be 60 Z !
vading influence Of the practical religion q
Jesus Christ that will make the change for
the better.
Yes. this practical religion viii also go int
agriculture. which IS prOverbially honest, bIll
needs to be rectifieli, and it will keep the
farmer from sending TO the New York mar.
ket veal that is tooFoung TO kill. and when
the farmer farms Oh shares it will keep the
man who does the work from making bis
half three-fourths, and it viii keep the farmer
from building his posts and rail fence on his
neighbor's premises, and it will make him
shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and it
will keep the old elder from workiugou Sun
day afternoon in the new ground when no.
body secs 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 relig ion Of which l speak
will come into the learned professions. The
lawyer will feel his responsibility in defend
ing Innocence, aud arraigning evil and ex
/ pounding the law, and it will keep him from
charging for briefs he never wrote, and for
pleas he never made, AMI for percentages he
never earned, and from robbing widow and
! orphan because they arg defenseless. Yes,
this prss.iesl Eelslfa E5yI ys es%ss6 ne.
\ biity as the conservatorS,fr the public health.
( a prOfesslzr-s. nored by tie fact that Christ
Himselw.las physician. And it will make
him honest and when be does not understand
a case he will say SO, not trying to cover up
lack OF diaznosis with ponderous TECHNICAL
ties or send the patient to a reckless drug
1 store because the apothecary happens to pay
Z E percentage on the prescriptions sent
And this practical religion will come to
the school teacher, making her feel her re-
I sponsibillty in preparing ouI youth for USE
tulness, and for happiness, and for honor,
and will keep her from giving sly box to a
dnu head, chastising him for what he cannot
/ help, end sending discourgement all through
/ the after years OF n lifetime. This practical
/ religion will also come to the newspaper
men, and it will help them il the gathering
OF the news, and it will help them in setting
/ forth the best interests Of society, and it viii
\ keep them from putting the sins of the
I world in larger type than its virtues, and
I its mistakes than its achievements.
Yes; this religion, this practical religion,
! viii come and put its hand on what is called
J good society, elevated society. successful So
/ ciety, 50 that people VIII have their expendi-
/ lures within their income, and they will ex-
! change the hypocritical mot at homer for
4 the honest explanation ''too tired or "too
busy to see you" and viii keep innocent re-
csption from becoming intoxicating convivi-
Atty.
Yes, there is a great opportunity for mis-
: MUIA III Nuat CtlAtl Alb Succt-,s-
full classes Of society. II is no rare thing
now to see a fashionable woman intoxicated
in the street, or the rail car, or the restau-
rant. The number 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 while her cheek is unnaturally
flushed, and then she falls into fits OF
excruciating laughter about nothing, and
then she offers sckening batteries, telling
some homely man how well he looks, and
then she is helped into the carriage. and by
the time the carriage get TO her home It
takes The husband and cOachnan 10 get her
I'D tho stairs The report Is, She was taken
suddenly i'll at german. Ali no. She
took TOO much champagne, and mixed
liquors, and got drank. That was all.
Yes, this practical religion will have to
come in and fix up the marriage relation in
America. There are members OF churches
who have too many wives and too many hus-
bands. Society needs 70 be expurgated and
washed and fumigated and Christianized.
We hare missionary societies to reform Elm
street, in New York, Beiford street, Phile-
delphis, and Shoreiitch, London, and the
Brooklyn slocSs; but there is need q On orr
EanizatioslNta REFORM &C. gong ~
In Beacon strest and Madison square ana
kittenhouse square and West End and
Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill. We
want this practical religion nos only to take
hold OF what are called the lower classes,
but 10 take bold of what are called the
higher classes The trouble is that people
have an idea they can do al their religion on
Sunday with hymn book and prayer book
and liturgy, and some Of than sit in church
rolling up their eyes as though they were
ready for translation, VIXEN their Sabbath is
bounded on all sides by an inconsistent life,
end while YOU are expecting 70 come out from
under their arms the wings OF an angel, there
come out from their forehead the horns Of a
beast.
There has got to be a new departure in
religion l do not say a new religion.
Ga, no; but the old brought 10 new
appliances. In our time we have had the
daguerreotype. and the amhrotyps, and the
photograph, but it is the same old sun, aud
these arts are only new appliances Of the Old
sunlight So this glorious Gospel is Just
what We want 10 photograph the image OF
God on one soul, daguerreotype it on another
soul Not new Gospel but the old Gospel
put to new work In our time we have had
the teiegraphic invention, and the telephone
invention, and the electric light invention,
but they are ali the children OF old cleo
tricity, an element that the philosophers
have long while known much about. So
this electric Gospel needs TO fash its light
on the eyes and ears and souls Of men, and
became telephone medium TO make the
deaf hear, telegraphic medium TO dart in
vitation and warning 70 all nations: an cleo
trie light 70 illuminate the eastern and west
EN- hemispheres Not a new Gospel, but the
old Gospel doing z new work.
Now you say, That is very beautiful
theory, but Is It possible to take ones relig-
ion into all the avocations and business OF
hfe97 Yes, and viii give you few speci-
mems. Medical doctors who took their re-
HnflTs Irffr 4nr 1ffns T- InIn Aha--
cromhie, Of Aberdeen, the greatest Scottish
physician Of the day, his book on Diseases
Of the Brain and Spinal Cord, " no more Won
derful than his book on 1.-The Philosophy of
the Moral Feelings and often kneelng at
the bedside Of his patients to commend them
to God in prayer DR.. John Brown, of Ed
lnburgh, immortal as an author. dying under
the benediction OF the sick OF Edinburgh,
myself remembering him as he sat in his
study In Edinburgh talking 70 me about
Christ and his hope Of heaven. And score
Of Christian family physicians in Brooklyn
just as good as they were
Lawyers vino carrie their religion into
their profession: The late Lord Cairns, the
Queens a5yissr Tor many , ears the hlglsSf
Cairns, every summer in his vacation, preach
Ing as an Evangelist among the poor OF his
John Mclean, Judge Of the Su-
prene Court OF the United States and Presi-
A-lAA u AAAI A@ll-A ANaAl ADlAlyl CIApls
feeling more satisfaction in the latter Office
than in the former. And scores of Christian
awyers as eminent in the church Of God as
ihey are eminent at the bar.
Merchants who took their religion into
everyday life: Arthur Tappan. derided in
bis day becauss he established that system
by which we come to find out the CONNER
cial standing OF business men, starting that
entire system, derided for it then, himself,
as l knew him we'll IN moral character Al
Monday mornings inviting 70 room IN the
top OF his storehouse the clerks Of his estab-
lishment, asking them about their worldly
interests and their spiritual interests, then
giving cut hymn. leading in prayer, Civ
ing them few words of good advice, asking
them what church they attended on the Sab
bath, what the text was whether they had
any especial troubles o. their own. Arthur
Tappan, l never heard his eulogy pro-
nounced. pronounce it now. And other
merchants just as good. William z. Dodge,
in the iron business; Moses Il. Grinnell, in
the shipping business: Peter Cooper, in the
glue business. Scores OF men just as good
IS they were.
Farmers who take their religion into their
Why, this minute their horses
and wagons stand around all the meeting
houses in America. They began this day by
a prayer 10 God, and when they get home at
noon, after they have put their horses up,