Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-16
WORKS AND FAITH.
COMMUNICATION First Page. !

COMMUNICATION First Page.
found them all guilty. The honest phys
ician, writing prescription, does no
know but that it may bring death in
stead OF health TO his patient, because
there may be one of the drugs weakened
by a cheaper article. and another DRUG
NAV be in full force, and so the
prescription may have just the oppo
site effect intended. Oil of wOrmwOod
warranted pure from Boston was found
10 have forty-one per cent Of resin and
I alcohol and chlorofOrm. ScammOny Is
one of the most valuable medical drugs
| IL is very rare, very precious. IL is the
sap or the gum OF tree or bush in
/ Syria. The root Of the tree is exposed,
an inciSion is made into the root and
/ then shells are placed 40 this incision
TO catch the sap or the gum as il ex-
ude>. 10 is very precious, this scam
mony. But the peasant mixes il with
cheaper material: then II Is taken to
Alcppo. and the merchant there mixes
il with a cheaper material; then it
comes on 10 the wholesale druggist in
London or New York. and he mixes il
with a cheaper material: then il comes
90 the retail druggist, and he mixes IL
with cheaper material, and by the
time the poor sick man gets il into his
bottle, ii is ashes and chalk and sand,
and some Of what has been called pure
Scammony after analysis has been found
To be no scammOny At all.
Now. practical religion will yet rec
tify all this. Ii will so TO those hypo-
critical professors of religion who got a
corner i'm corn and wheat i'm Chicago
and New York, sending prices up and
up until they were beyond the reach of
the poor, keeping these breadStutfS in
their own hands or controlling them un-
iii the prices going up and up and up,
they were, after 4 while, ready to sell,
and they sold out, making themselves
millionaireS in one or two years-trying
to iX the matter up with the Lord by
building Il church or a university or a
hoSpital-deluding themselves with the
idea that the Lord would be so pleased
with the gift He would forgive the swim
die Now, as such a man may not have
any liturgy i'm which TO say his prayers,
/ will compose for him one which he
practically is making; 80 Lord, we,
by getting corner in breadStuifS,
Swindled the people of the United States
out OF ten million dollars. and made Suf-
fering all up aud down the land, and
we would like to compromise this mat
ter with thee. Thou SnOweSt il was 4
Scaly job, but then il was smart. Now,
here We compromise it. Take one per
cent. of the profits. and with that one
per cent. YOU eau build an asylum for
these poor miserable ragamutiinS of the
street. and will take a yacht and go to
Europe, forever and ever, Amen"
PRACTICAL RELIGION.
Yes, this religion, this practical re-
ligion will come and put its hand on
what is called good society, elevated
society. successful society, so that peo-
pie will have their expenditures within
their income. and they will exchange
the hypOcrtical mot at home for the
honest explanation "toO tired" or too
busy to see YOU" and will keep limo
cent reception from becoming intoXi-
Gated conviviality.
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 4 fashionable
woman intoxicated in the street, or the
rail-car. or the restaurant. The num-
Der of fine ladies who drinking too
much is increasing. Perhaps you may
lind her at the reception in most exalted
company, but She has made too many
visits 10 the winC-rOOm, and now her
eve is CLASSY, and after awhile her cheek
is unnaturally flushed. and then she
falls into fits OF eNcruciating laughter
about nothing, and then she offers sick
cniug 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 ii
takes the husband and the coachman To
get her M the stairs. The report is:
She was taken suddenly III at a german.
All. no. She took too much champagne,
and mixed liquors. and got drunk. That
was all.
Yea. this practical religion will have
10 come ia and fix up the marriage rela-
ton I'm America. There are members
Of churches who have too many wives
and TOO many husbands. Society needs
20 be eNpurgated and washed and fumi-
gated and be ChriStianized. We
have missionary societies TO re-
form Mulberry street, in New York,
and Bedford street, Philadelphia, and
Shorcditch, London. and the Brooklyn
docks: but there is need Of an organiza-
tion 20 reform much that Is going ON in
Beacon street. and Madison square, and
RittenhouSc square and West End, and
I Brooklyn Heights and brooklyn Hill.
We want this practical religion not only
90 take hold OF what are called the
/ lower classes. The trouble is that peO-
T pie 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 zap their eyes
as though they We're ready for tranSla-
ton. when their sabbath is bounded on
/ 90 sides 10y au Inconsistent life, and
while you are expecting % come oui
from under their arms the wings Of an
angel there come out from their fore
head the horns OF q beast.
NEw Departure.
There has got 20 be o. new departure
'n religion. ! do not say new relg-
iou. ON. no.; but the old religion