The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25

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band and the coachman to get her up the
stairs. The report is che was taken sud
denly i'll at a german. An no. She took
too mucn Champagne and mixed liquors
and got drunk. That was all.
Yea, 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 husbands. Society needs to be
expurgated and washed, and fumigated
and Christianized. We have missionary
societies to reform Mulberry-st, New
York, and BedfoTd-st., Philadelphia, and
Shoreditch, London, and the Brooklyn
docks, but there is need OF an organiza-
ton to reform much that is going on in
BeacCn-st, and Madison square and Rit-
tenhouse 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 church rolling up their ewes as
though they were ready for translation.
when their Sabbath is bounded on al
sides by an inconsistent lie, 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
abeast.
There has got To be new departure in
religion. / 90 not say new religion. Oh,
no but the old religion brought to new
appliances. In our time we have had the
! da2uerreotype and the ambrOtype and the
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 and daguerreo-
type it on another soul. Not new Cos
pei, 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 invention; but they
are all the children of old electricity, an
element that the philosophers have long
while known much about. So this cleo
tric gospel needs to flash it's light on the
eyes and ears and souls of men, and be-
come telephone medium TO make the
deaf hear; a telegraphic medium to dart
invitations and warning TO ell nations m
electric light to illuminate the Eastern
end Western hemispheres. Not q new
gospel, but the old gospel doing new
work.
Now You say: "That is very beautiful
theory, but is it possible to take ones re-
ligion into all the avocations and business
OF liie?" Yes, and | will give you some
specimens. Medical doctors who took
their religion into everyday life: DR..
John Abercrombe OF Aberdeen, the great
est Scottish physician of mis- day, his book
on Diseases of the Brain and Spinal
Cord" no more wonderful than his book
on The Philosophy of the Moral Feel
ings," and often kneeling at the bedside OF
his patients to commend them 70 God in
PRAYER; DR.. John Brown of Edinburgh,
immortal as an author, dying under the
benediction of the sick OF Edinburgh, N.Y.
/ self remembering 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
| BROOKLYN Just as good az 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 summer in his yaCa-
ton, preaching as an evangelist among
the poor o. his country; John Mclean,
! judge OF the supreme court OF the United
States and president OF the American SUN
! dsy-school union, feeling more satisfaction
in the latter office than in the former; and
scores OF Christian lawyers as eminent 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 ne established that system
! by which we come TO find out the COM
mercial standing of business men, starting
| that entire system, derided for it then
himself, as l knew him well. in moral
| oh inv
| to a room in the top of his storehouse the
| clerks of his establishment, asking them
| about their worldly interests and their
| spiritual interests, then giving ort 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 especial
/ troubles of their own. Arthur Tappan,
never heard his eulogy pronounced. /
pronounce it now. And other merchants
| Just as good. William T.. Dodge in the
/ iron business, Moses III. Grlnneil i'm the
! shipping business. Peter Cooper in the
| glue business. Scores of men just as good
/ az they were.
Farmers who take their religion into
I their occupation. Why, this minute their
| horses and wagons stand around all the
meeting houses in America. They began
J tilio ud1 by W pcut anu
| they get home at noon, after they have
put their horses up, will offer a prayer to
| God at the table, seeking a blessing, aud
| this summer there will be in their fields
not one dishonest head OF rye, not one dis
| honest ear OF corn, not one dishonest APP
! pie. Worshiping God today away up
! among the Berkshire hills, or away down
amid the lagoons of Florida or away out
amid the mines of Colorado, or along the
banks OF the Passaic and the Rsritan,
where i knew them better because went
| to school with them.
] Mechanics who took their religion into
| their occupations: James Brindley, the
/ famous millwright; Nathaniel Bowditch,
! the famous ship chandler; Elihu Burritt,
! the famous blacksmith, and hundreds and
thousands OF strong arms which have
| made the hammer and the saw and the
adze and the drill and the AK sound in the
! grand march of our national industries.
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 hear il. God will hear it.
! That is enough. You hardly know of any
one else than Wellington as connected
with the victory Mt Waterloo; but he did
not do the hard fighting. The hard fight
! ing was done by the Somerset cavalry and
/ the Ryland regiments, and Kempt's infan-