Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-03-05


isssors of religion who got 'scorner: i,
corn and wheat in Chicago and New York
sending prices up ana up until they wera
beyond the reach of the poor. keenn,
these breadstuffs in their own hands or
controlling them until the prices going un
and up and up, they were, after awhile
ready to sell, they sold out, making them.
selves millionaires in one or two years
trying to fix the matter up with the Lord
by building church or univcrsitv
or hospital - deluding themselye.
with the idea that the Lord would
be so pleased with the gift He would forget
the swindle. Now, as such q man NAV
not have any liturgy in which to saw his
prayers, will compose for him one which
he practically is making: 20 Lord. we
by getting corner in breadstufs
swindled the people of the United States
out of ten million dollars, and made suffer-
ing all up and down the land, and we
would like to compromise this matter with
thee. Thou knowest it was q scaly lob
but then it was smart. Now, here wa
compromise it. Take one per cent of the
profits, and with that one per cent of the
profits you can build an asylum for these
poor miserable ragamufins of the street
and will take yacht and go to Europe.
forever and ever. Amen"
Yes, this practical religion will also 90
into agriculture, which is proyerbiallv
honest. but needs to be rcctitied, and it
will keep the farmer from sending to the
New York market veal that is to young to
kill, and when the farmer farms on shares
it will keep tho man who does the work
from making his half three fourths. and il
will keep the farmer from building his post
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 Sunday afternoon
in the new ground where nobody sees him.
And this practical religion will hover over
tho house, and over the barn, and over
the field. and over the orchard.
Yes, this practical religion of which I
speak will come into the learned profess
sions. The lawyer will feel his response
bility in defending innocence and arraign-
ing evil, and expounding the law. and it
will keep him from charging for briefs he
never wrote, and for pleas he never made.
and for percentages he never earned, and
from robbing widow and orphan because
they are defenceless. Yes, this practical
religion will come into the physicians life
and he will feel his responsibility as the
conservator of the public health, a profess
sion honored by the fact that Christ him
him honest, and when he DIES not under
stand a case he will say so, not trying to
cover up lack Of diagnosis with ponderous
technicalities, or send the patient to
reckless drug store because tho apothecary
happens to pay percentage on the pre-
scriptions sent. And this practical reig-
ion will come to tho school teacher, maxi
ing her feel her responsibility in prepar-
ing our youth for usefulness and for hap
piness and for honor, and will keep her
from giving a sly box to dull head,
chastising him for what he cannot help,
and sending Encouragement all through the
after years of II lifetime. This practical
religion will 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 society,
and it will keep them from putting tho sins
of the world in larger type than its virtues.
and its mistakes than its achievements.
Yes, this practical religion will come and
put its hand on what is called good society.
elevated society, successful society. so that
people will have their expenditures within
their income, and they will exchange the
hypocritical mot at home' for the honest
explanation ''too tired" or ''too busy to
see you," and will keep innocent reception
from becoming intoxicated conviviality.
There has got to be new departure in
religion. do not say new religion. Oh,
no; but the old religion brought to new ap-
pliances. In our time we have had the
daguerreotype and the ambrotypc and the
photographs; but it is the same old sun,
and these arts are only new appliances Of
the old sunlight So this glorious gospel
isjust what we want to photograph the i'm
age Of God on one soul, and daguerrotype
it on another soul. Not new gospel, but
the old gospel put to now 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 time 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 me-
dunn to make the deaf hear; q Geographic
medium to dart invitation and warning to
all nations; an electric light to illumine the
eastern and western hemispheres. Not
new gospel, but the old gospel doing q
new work.
Give your heart to God and then fill your
life with good works. Consecrate to him
your store, your shop, your banking house,
your factory and your home. They say no
one will near it. God will hear it. That
Is enough. You hardly knew Of anyone
else than Wellington as connected with the
victory at Waterloo; but he did no. do the
hard fighting. The hard fighting was done
by the Somerset cavalry and the Ryland
regiments, and Kempt's infantry, and the
Scots Grays and the Life Guards. Who
cares, il only the day was won.
In the latter part of the last century
| gill in England became kitchen maid in o
ho hoA o<v1o ~
aud much hard work. Time rolled on, and
she married the son of weaver Of Hall
fax. They were Industrious; they saved
| money enough after awhile to build them
home. On the morning Of tho day when
they were to enter that home, the young
| wife arose at four o'clock. entered the
front door-yard, knelt down, consecratd
the place to God, and there made this
solemn vow: 20 Lord, IL though wilt