Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-16


who have too many wives and too many
/ husbands. Society needs to be expurgateo
and washed and fimigated and Christian
! lied. We have missionary societies to re
/ form Elm street, in New York, Bedford
| street, Philadelphia, and Shoreditch, Lon
don, and the Brooklyn docks but there is
need Of an organization to reform much
that Is going on in Beacon street and Madi.
/ son square and Rittenhouse square and
| West Endand Brooklyn Heights end Brook
| Ign 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 eyes as
! though they were ready for translation,
when their Sabbath Is bounded on all sides
! by an inconsistent life, and while you are
| expecting to come out from under theiI
arms the wings of an angel, there come out
| from their forehead the horns of beast.
THERE MUST BE A NEW DEPARTURE.
There has got to be new departure in
| religion do not say a new religion. Oh,
no; but the old religion brought to new
appliances. In our time we have had the
| daguerreotype, 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 q new gospel,
but the old gospel put to new work. In
our time we have had the Geographic
! 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 electric gospel needs to flash its light
on the eyes and ears and souls of men, and
become telephone medium to make the
deaf hear n telegraphic 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 a new work.
Now you say, "1hat is very beautiful
theory, but is it possible to take ones re-
ligion into all the avocations and business
of lifeP Yes, and l will give you few
specimens. Medical doctors who took their
religion into everyday life; DR. John
Abercrombie, of Aberdeen, the greatest
Scottish physician of his day, his book on
Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord"
no more wonderful than his book on '"Fhe
Philosophy of the Moral Feelings" and
often kneeling at the bedside of his pa
tients to commend them to God in prayer.
DR.. John Brown, of Edinburgh, immortal
as an author, dying under the benediction
of the sick of Edinburgh, myself remem-
bering him as he sat in his study in Edin-
burgh talking to me about Christ and his
hope of heaven. And a score of Christian
family physicians in Brooklyn just as good
as they We're.
Lawyers who carried their religion into
their profession; The late Lord Cairns, the
queens adviser for many years, the highest
legal authority in Great BriJain-Lord
Cairns, every summer in his vacation,
preaching as an evangelist among the poor
Of his country John Mclean, judge of
the supreme court of the United States
and president of the American Sunday
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,
GODTEARING business MEN.
Merchants who took their religion into
everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided in
his day because he established that system
by which we come to find out the com
mcrcial standing of business men, starting
that entire system, deridcd for it then,
himself, as I knew him well, in moral char
acter Al, Monday mornings inviting to Il
room in the top Of hisstorehouse the clerks
OF his establishment, asking them about
their worldly interests and their spiritual
interests, then giving out hymn, leading
In prayer giving them a 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. pro-
nOunce it now. And other merchants just
as good. William II. Dodge in the iron
business; Moses II. Grinnell in the ship
ping business; Peter Cooper in the glue
business, Scores Of men just as good as
they We're.
Farmers who take their religion into
their occupation; Why, this minute their
horses and wagons stand around all the
meeting houses in America. They began
this day by a prayer to God, and when they
get home at noon, after they have put
their horses up, will offer prayer to God at
the table, seeking n blessing, and this sum.
mer there will be in their fields not one
dishonest head of rye, not one dishonest
ear Of corn not one dishonest apple Wor-
Shipping 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 Raritan, where /
knew them better because ! went to school
with them.
Mechanics who took their religion into
their occupations; James Brindley, the
famous millwnght; 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 indus
tries.
Give your henrt TO God and then fill your
life with good works Cousecrate to him
your store, your shop, your banking house,
your factory and your home. They say no
one wit hear it. God wliI near It. That
is enough. You hardly know of any ono
else than Wellington as connected with
the victory at Waterloo; but he did not do
the hard fighting. The hard fighting was
done by the Somerset cavalry, and the Ry-
land regiments, and Kempt's infantry, and
the Scots Gr8ys and the Life Guards Who
cares, if only the day was wont
A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE.
In the latter part of the last century
girliu 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 a weaver of Hall
fax. They were Industrious; they saved
money enough after while to build them
q home. On the morning of the day when