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pitals and universities from here to Alas';a,
he cannot atone for It. After while this
man who has been getting corner in
wheat dies. and then Satan gets 'corner"
Friday. There Is "breek" in the market.
According to Wall street parlance, he wiped
others out, and now he Is himself wiped out.
No collaterals on which to make spiritual
loan. Eternal defalcation!
rut this practical religion VIII not only
rectify all merchandise, It will also rectify
all mechanism and all toll. A time will come
when man will work as faithfully by the
job as he does by the day. You say when
thing is slightingly done, "Oh, that was
done by the jobr' You can tell by the swift
ness or siowness with which a hackman
drives whether he is hired by the hour or by
the EXCURSION. If be IS hi"sd hY thu axcl,r-
sion he whips up the horses, SO as to get
around and get another customer. All
styles of work have to be inspected. Ships
inspected, horses inspected, machinery in
spected. Boss to watch the journsyman.
Capitalist coming down unexpectedly to
watch the boss. Conductor Of city car
sounding the punch bell to prove his honesty
as passenger hands to him clipped nickel.
All things must be watched and inspected.
Imperfections in the wood covered with
putty. Garments warranted to last until
you put them on the third time. Shoddy in
all kinds of clothing. Chromos Pinchbeck.
bindery that holds on until you read the
third chapter Spawned horses by skillful
dose of jockeys for several days made to
look spry. Wagon tires poorly put on.
Horses poorly shod. Plastering that cracks
without any provocation and falls off.
Plumbing that needs to be plumbed. I'm.
perfect car wheel that halts the whole train
with hot box. So little practical religion
in the mechanism Of the world. l tell you,
nv friends, the law Of man will never
rectify these things. 1t will be the all per-
,ading influence Of the practical religion Of
Jesus Christ that will make the change for
the better.
Yes, this practical religion will also go into
agriculture, which Is proverbially honest but
needs to be rectified, and it will keep the
farmer from sending to the New York mar
ket veal that is too young to kill. and when
the farmer farms on shares 1t will keep tho
man who does the work from making his
half three-fourths, and it will keep the farmer
from building his posts and rail fence on his
neighbours premises and it will make him
shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and it
will keep the old elder from working on Sum
day afternoon in the new ground when no
body sees 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 religion Of which speak
will come into the learned professions. The
lawyer will feel his responsibility in defend
ing innocence, and 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 are defenseless. Yes,
this practical religion will come into the
physicians life, and he will feel the response
bility as the conservator of the public health,
q profession honored by the fact that Christ
Himself was physician. And it will make
him honest, and when he does not understand
q case he will say 80, not trying to cover up
lack Of DIAGNOSIS with ponderous technicali-
ties, or send the patient to reckless drug
store because the apothecary happens to pay
q percentage on the prescriptions sent.
And this practical religion will come to
the school teacher, making her feel her re-
sponsibility in preparing our youth for use
fulness and for happiness, and for honor,
and will keep her from giving sly box to
dull head, chastising him for what he cannot
help, and sending discourgement all through
the after years OF 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 Will
keep them from putting the sins OF the
world in larger type than its virtues ana
its mistakes than its achievements.
Yes, this religion, this practical religion,
will come and put its hand on what is called
good society," elevated society. successful So
ciety, so that people Will have their expendi-
lures within their income, and they will ex-
change the hypocritical mot at home" for
the honest explanation 'too tired" or ''too
busy to see you," and will keep innocent re-
ception from becoming intoxicating conV1v1-
ality.
Yes, there is great opportunity for mis-
sionary work in what are called the success
full classes of society. It is no rare thing
now to see 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 unnatural!y
flushed. and then she fails into fits OF
excruciating laughter about nothing, and
then she offers sickening batteries, telling
some homely man how we'll he looks, and
then she is helped into the carriage and BY
the time the carriage get to her home 1t
up the stairs. The report is, She was taken
suddenly i'll at q german. All! no. Sne
took too much champagne, and mixed
LIQUORS, and got drunk. 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 nus,
bands. Society needs to be expurgated ana
washed and fumigated and Christianized.
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street. In New York, Bedford street, Phila-
delphia, and Shoreditch, London, and the
Brooklyn docks; but there is need of an Or
ganization to reform much that is going on
in Beacon street and Madison square and
Rittenhouse 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 lower 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 cnurcn
rolling up their eyes as though they were
ready for translation, when their Saobatn ID
bounded on all sides by an inconsistent h1e,
and while you are expecting to comeout from
under their arms the wings or an angel tnsre
come out from their forehead the horns OF
beast.
There has got to be new departure In
religion. I do not say new religion.
Oh. no; but the old brought to new
appliances. In our time we have had t tne
daguerreotype, and the amorotype' anu tne
photograph, 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, daguerreotype it on another
soul. Not a new Gospel, but the old Gospel
put to. new work. In our time we have had
the telegraphic invention, and the telephone
invention, and the electric light inyention'
but they are oil the children OF old cleo
tricity, an element that the philosophers