The Forrest City times., 1891-02-20
prayers. will compcse for him one whicl


 would like to compromise this matter witl thee. Thou knowest it was scaly iot but then it was smart. Now, hero ", Compromise it. Take one per cent of tht profits, and with that one per cent of tho profits you can build an asylum for these poor miserable ragamufflns of the street and l will take yacht and go to Europe, forever and ever. Amen."
 Yes, this practical religion will also gc into agriculture, which is proverbiallN honest. but needs to be rectihed, and Ii VIII keep tho farmer from sending to tnt New York market veal that is to o young tt kill, and when the farmer farms on shares. it will keep the man who does the work from making his half three-fourths, and it will keep the farm5l from building his post and rail fence on his neighbours promises and it will make him shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and 1t 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 the house, and over the barn, and over the field, and over the orchard.
 Yes, this practical religion of which l speak will come into the learned profes- sions. The lawyer will feel his responsi- bilty 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 phys clans life, and he will feel his responsibility as the conservator of the public health, a profes- sion honored by the fact that Christ him self was a physician. And it will make hun honest, and when he does not under stand case he will say so, not trying to cover up lack of diagnosis with ponderous technicalities, or send the patient to a reckless drug store because the apothecary happens to pay q percentage on the pre- scriptions sent. And this practical reig- ion will come to tho school teacher mall- ing her feel her responsibility in prcpar- ing our youth for usefulness and for hap piness and for honor, and will keep her rom giving q sly box to a dull head, chastlsng him fer what be cannot help, and sending gdiscouragemeut all through the after years of lifetime. This practical religion will also come to tue newspaper men, and it will help them in the gather ing of the news, and 1t will help them iu setting forth the best interests of society. and it will keep them from putting the sins of the world in larger type than it's virtues, and it's mistakes than its achievements.
 Yes, this practical religion will come and put it's 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 hypoeritical mot at homea for the honest explanation ''too tired, or 'toa busy to see you, and will keep innocent reception from becoming intoxicated conviviality.
 There has got to be new departure in religion. l do not say new religion. Oh, no; bat the old religion brought to new ap. plianees. In our time we have had the daguerreotype and the ambrotype and tho photographs; but it is the same old sun. and these arts are only new appliances oi the old sunlight. So this glorious gospe is just what we want to photograph the i'm. age of God on one soul, and dGguerrotype it on another soul. Not a new gospel. bu; the old gospel put to now wcrk In ou1 time we have had the telegraphc invention and the telephonie invention and tho elee- tiic light invention; but they ase all tht children of old electricity, au element that the philosophers have a long time bnowa much about So this electric gospel needs to flash it's light on the eyes and ears ana souls of men, and become q telephonic me dium to make the deaf hear: a talegraphie medium to dart invitation and warning tc all nations: an electric light to illumine the eastern and western hemspheres. Not q new gospel, but the old gospel doing a new work.
 Give your heart to God and then fill youi life with good works Consecrate to him your store your shop, your banking house, your factory and your homc They say no one win 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 not do the hard fighting. Tho 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, if only the day was won.
 In the latter part of the last century a girl in England became kitchen maid in a farm house. She had many styles of work and much hard work. Time rolled on, and she married the son of weaver of Hali- fax. They wtre industrious; they saved money enough after awhile to build them 9 home. On the morning of the day wheu they were to enter that home the young Wlfe arose at Tour o'clock, entered the front door-yard, kuelt down. eonsccrated the place to God. and there made this e3lemn vow; 70 Lord, if though wilt bless mo ia this place, the peor shall nave a share of it. Time rolled on and n for tune rolled in. Children grew up around them, and they all became afliueut; one, a member of parliament in public place declared that his success came from that prayer of his mother in the dooryard. All of them were afluent Four thousand hands in their factories. They eutlt dwelling houses for laborers at cheap rents, and when they were invalid and could not pay they had the houses for nothing One of these sons came to this country admired our parks, went back, bought land, opened great public park, and made it q present to the city of Hali- fax, England They endowed an orphan age, they endowed two almshouses All England has heard of tho generosity and tho good works Of the Crossleys. Moral. Consecrate to God your small means and your humble surroundings. and you will have larger means and grander surround ings. ''Godliness is profitable unto all things. having promise of the life that now is and of that wnicn IS to come Have faith in God by all means, but rememb be I that :aith without works is dead
 
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