Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-23
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CdbGIA COlINANletiAcy
Yes, there is great opportunity for
missionary work in what are called the
successful classes OF society 1t is no
rare thing now to see q fashionable
woman 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 exalted
company, but she has made too many
visits to the wine room, and now her
eve 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 it
/ takes the husband and the coachman
! to get her up the stairs The report is,
! She was taken suddenly i'll at a ger
/ man All! no. She took too much
champagne, and mixed liquors, and got
drunk That was all.
SOCIAL SINS IN HIGH PLACES.
Yea, this practical religion will have
to come in and fix up the marriage re
lation in America. There are mem
| bers Of churches who have too many
! wives and too many husbands Socie-
! ty needs to be expurgated and washed
| and funigated and Christianized. We
| have missionary societies to reform
Elm street, in New York, and Bedford
| street, Philadelphia, and Shoreditch,
London, and the Brooklyn docks; but
| there is need Of an organization to re-
| form much that is going on in Beacon
street and Madison square and Ritten-
| house square and West End and Brook
| Ign Heights and Brooklyn 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 called the higher classes. The
trouble is THAI people have an idea
| 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 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 beast.
There has got to be new departure
in religion. I do not say a new relig-
ion Oh, not but the old religion
brought to new appliances, In our
time we have had the daguerreotype,
and the ambrotype, and the photo
graph but it is the same old sun, and
these arts are only new appliances of
the old sunlight So this glorious Cos
pei is just what we want to photograph
the image of God on one soul and da-
guerreotype it on another soul. Not a
new gospel, but the old gospel put to
new work.
In our time we have had the tele-
graphic invention, and the telephone
invention, and the electric light inven-
ton, but they are all the children of
old electricity, an element that the
philosophers have a long while known
much about. So this electric gospel
needs to flash its light on the eyes and
ears and souls of men, and become a
telephone medium to make the deaf
hear, Geographic medium to dart in
vitation and warning to all nations, an
electric light to illulnine the eastern
and western hemispheres. Not a new
gospel, but the old gospel doing a new
work
CHRISTIANITY ALWAYS PRACTICABLE.
Now you say. THAT is a very beau
tifuI theory, but is it possible to take
ones religion into all the avocations
and business of life2" Yes, and | will
give you some specimens. Medical
doctors who took their religion into
everyday life: DR.. John Abercrombie,
of Aberdeen, the greatest Scottish
physician 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 kneeling at the
bedside of his patients to commend
them to God in prayer DR.. John
Brown, of Edinburgh, immortal as an
author, dying under the benedictiOn of
the sick of Edinburgh; myself remem-
bering him as he sat in his study in
Edinburgh talking to me about Christ
and his hope of heaven. And a 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, the queens adviser for many
years, the highest legal authority in
Great Britain-Lord Cairns, every sum
mer in his vacation, preaching as an
evangelist among the poor of his cOun-
try. John Mclean, judge of the su
preme court of the United States and
president of the American Sunday
School union, feeling more satisfaction
in the latter Office than in the former.
And scores of Christian lawyers as emf
nent in the church of God as they are
eminent at the bar
Merchants who took their religion
into everyday life: Arthur Tappan,
derided in his day because he estab
lished that system by which we come
to find out the commercial standing of
business men, starting that entire sys-
tenn, derided for it then, himself, as /
knew him we'll, in moral character Al.
Monday mornings inviting to a room
in the top of his stOrehOuse the clerks
of his establishments asking them about
their worldly interests and their spirit
ual interests, then giving out a hymn,
leading in prayer, giving them a 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 of their own.
Arthur Tappan. | never heard his
eulogy pronounced. I pronounce it
now. And other merchants just as
good. William E. Dodge in the iron
business, Moses II. Grinnell in the ship
ping business, Peter Cooper in the glue
business. Scores of men just as good
as they we're.
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 to
God, and when they get home at noon,
after they have put their horses up,
will offer prayer to God at the table,
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