The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-02-18

law IL Will Keep MIN from cnurBlnB IOl
briefs he never wrote, and for pleas HI
never made, and for percentages ht
never earned, and from robbing widow
and orphan because they are defence
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 u physician. And 1t will
make him honest, and when he does moi
understand case he will say so, moi
trying to cover up lack Of diaguosii
with ponderous technicalities, or senC
the patient to reckless drug store
because the apothecary happens tc
pay percentage on the prescription,
sent. And this practical religion will
come to the school-teacher, making hei
feel her responsibility in preparing oui
youth for usefulness and for happiness
dior honor, and will keep her from
giving a sly box to dull head, chastis.
ing him for what he can not help, and
sending encouragement all through the
after years Of lifetime. This practical
religion wi also come to the newspaper
men, and It will help them in the gather.
ing Of the news, and it will help them
in setting forth the best interests of so
ciety, and IL will keep them from put
ting 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 so
ciety, successful society, so that people
will have their expenditures within
their income and they will exchange
their hypocritical-''not at home" for
the honest explanation ''too tired" or
too busy to see you," and will keep in
nocent reception from becoming intoxi-
Gated conviviality.
Yea. there is great opportunity for
missionary work in what is called the
successful classes of society. 1t is no
rare thing now TO see fashionable wo-
man intoxicated in the street, or the
rail car, or the restaurant. The num-
Der of fine ladies who drink too much is
increasing. Perhaps you may find her
at the reception in most exhalted COM
pany, 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 he looks, and then she is helped
into the carriage, and by the time the
carriage gets to her home II takes the
husband and the coachman to get her
up stairs. The report is: She was taken
suddenly i'll at german. All! NJ. She
took too much champagne 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 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 Rit-
tenhouse Square, and West End,
and Brooklyn Heights and Brook
lyn Hill. We want this practical
religion not only TO take hold of
what are called the lower classes, but
TO take hold of what are callrd 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 is
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 a beast.
There has got TO be a new departure
in religion. / do not say a new relig-
ion. o, no, but the old religion brought
TO new appliances. In our time we
have had the daguerrcotype and the
ambrotype and the photograph; but II
rs the same old sun, and these arts are
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 IL on
another soul. Not new gospel, but
the old gospel put TO new work. In our
time we have had the telegraphic in
vention and the telephone invention
and the electric light invention; but
they are all the children OF old electri-
city, an element that the philosophers
have long while known mu<h about.
So this electric gospel needs TO fash its
light on the eyes and ears and souls of
men and become telephone medium
TO make the deaf hear; q telegraphic
medium to dart invitation and warning
TO all nations; an electric light to illu-
mine the Eastern and Western hemi-
sphere. Not new gospel, but the old
gospel doing new work.
Now You say, THAT is very beauti-
full theory, but is IL possible TO take
ones religion into all the svocations
and business of lifes" Yes, and will
give you some specimens Medical doc
tors who took their religion into every
day life: DIR. John Abercrombe, OF
Aberdeen, the greatest Scottish physi-
clan Of his day, his book on Diseases
Of the Brain and Spinal Cord" no
more wonderful than his book on 'The
Philosophy Of the Moral Feelings" and
often lsneeling at the bedside Of his pa
tients 10 commend them 10 God In