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

she 1dllS 1QUO nus vi eACfuCiatitiS iouS u
ter about nothingf and then she Offers
sickening batteries, telling some home
ly man how well he looks, and then she
is helped into the carriage, and by the
time the carriage gets to her home Il
| takes the husband and the coachman tC
get her up the stairs. The report Is
''She was taken suddenly i'll at the Ger
man." All. no. She took too mucE
champagne and mixed liquors, and go
drunk THAI was all.
| Yea. this practical religion will have
come in and fix up the marriage rela
! ton i'm America. There are member:
of churches who have too many wives
and too many husbands Society needs
| 10 he expurgated and washed aud fumi
gate and christianized. We have mis-
sionary societies to reform Mulberry
street in 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 Rlttenhouse
square. and West end, and Brooklyn
heights and Brooklyn hill. We want
this practical religion TO take hold OF
| what was called the lower classes. The
! trouble is that people have an idea that
| they can do all their religion on Sun
day with hymn book and prayer book
and liturgy, and some of them sit in
church rolling up their eyes as though
they were ready Tor translation, when
their Sabbath is bounded on all sides by
an inconsistent life. and while you are
expo citing to come out from under their
h., e
out from their forhead the horns of q
beast.
There has got to be a new departure
in religion. do not say new religion.
o, no, but the old religion brought to
appliances. In our time we have had the
daguerrotype and the ambrotype and
the photograph. but it is the same old
sun and these arts are only new appli'
ances of the old sunlight. So this glor-
ious gospel is Just what we want to
Photograph the image of God on
one soul and daguerreOtype it on anOth-
er soul. Not a new gospel, but old Cos
pei put to new work. In our time we
have had the Geographic invention and
the telephone invention and the cleo
trio 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 fash its light on the
ewes and ears and souls of men and be-
come telephone medium to make the
deaf hear, a Geographic medium to dart
invitation and warning to all nations,
an electric light to illumine the eastern
and western hemispheres. Not a new
gospel, but the old gospel doing a new
work.
Now you say, THAT is very beauti'
full theory, but is it possible to take
ones religion into all the avocations
and business of life?" Yes, and l will
give you some specimens. Medical
doctors who took their religion into
every day life: DR.. John Abercrombie
of Aberdeen, the great Scottish physi
clan of his day, his book on Diseases
of the Brain and Spinal Cord" no more
wonderful than his book on THE Phil
osophy of the Moral Feeling" and often
kneeling at the bedside of his patients
to commend them to God in prayer
DIR. John Brown of Edinburg, immortal
as an author, dying under the benedic'
ton of the sick of Edinburg: myself re-
Numbering him as he sat in his study
in Edinburg talking to me about Christ
and his hope of heaven. And score OF
Christian family physicians in Brook
Ign just as good as they were.
Lawyers who carried their religion
into their profession: The late Lord
Cairns, every summer in his vacation.
preaching as an evangelist among the
poor of his country. John Mclean.
Judge of the supreme court of the
United States and president Of the
American sunday school union, feeling
more satisfaction in the latter office
than the former. And scores of Chris
tian lawyers as eminent in the church
of God as they are eminent at the bar.
Merchants who took their religion in
to every day life: Arthur Tappan, de
rided in his day because he established
that system by which he come to find
out the commercial standing of business
men. starting that entire system, de-
rided for it then, himself, as | knew
him well, in moral character A |.
Monday mornings inviting to room in
the top of his store house the clerks OF
his establishment, asking them about
their worldly interests and their spirit
ual interests, then giving out hymn,
leading in prayer, giving them few
words of good advice, asking them what
church they attended on the Sabbath,
what the text was, whether they had
any special troubles of their own. Ar
thur Tappan. 1 never heard his
eulogy pronounced. pronounce it now.
And other merchants just as good.
William f. Dodge in the iron business,
Peter Cooper in the glue business.
Scores of men Just as good as they were.
Farmers who take their religion into
their occupation: Why, this minute
their horses and wagons stand around
all the meeting houses in America
They began this day by a prayer t.
God and when they get home at noon
after they have put their horses up, vii
offer a prayer to God at the table
seeking blessing and this summer
| there will be in the fields not one dis
honest head of rye. not one dishones
ear of corn, not one dishonest apple
WorShiping God today way up in the
| Berkshire hills, or away down i'll thu
lago"ns of Florada, or away out annie
the mines of Colorado. or along the
banks of the Passiac and the Raritan
where l knew them better because
went to school with them.
| Mechanics who took their religion in
TO their occupation: James Brindley
the famous mil wright: Nathanie
Bowditch, the famous ship chandler
Elihu Burritt. the famous blacksmith
and hundreds and thousands of stron!
arms which have made the hamme
and the saw and the adZe and the drill
and the AK sound in the grand march o
OR national industries.
Give your heart to God and then fill
your life with good works. COnsecrat'
to him your store, your shop, you
banking house, your factory and home
They say no one will hear it. Coz