The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-31

L or, a nd will keep her from giving a sly
box to a dull head chastising him for
what he cannot help, and sending dis
3couIa cement all through the after
| years of his lifetime This practical
| religion. Will also cone to the reWspa 4.
per men, and it will Ielp them in the
gathering Of the news. and it will help
them in setting forth the best interests
| OF society, and it will keep them from
putting The sins Of the world in larger
type than its virtues, and its mistakes
than its achievements, and it will keep
them from misrepresenting interviews
with public men, and from starting slls-
plclons that can never be allayed: and
| Will make them stlnch friends of the
oppressed instead of the oppressOr.s
Yes. this religion, this practical re-
llglOn. will come and put it's hand on
what is called good society elevated
society, successful sHciety. so that peo-
PIE will have their expenditures within
their income, and they will exchange
the hypocritical mot at home for the
honest explanation too tired, !" or sstoo
busy to see you and will keep inno-
cent reception from becoming intoxi-8
Gated conviviality
1 Yea. there is great opportunity for
missionary work in what are called the
successful classes of society. In some
/ 1T the cities it is no rare thing now y
see a fashionable woman intoxicated
IN the street, or the rail car: OF the res
taurant. The number of fine ladies'
who drink too much is increasing.
| Perhaps you may find her at the re-
ceptlon in most exalted company; but
she has made too many visits to the
Wine room, and now her eye is CLASSY,
and after a while her cheek is unnatur-
ally flushed, and when she falls into
1 hts Of excruciating laughter about
nothing, and then she offers sickening
| 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 it
takes the husband and the coacbman
to get her up stairs. The report is, she
was taken suddenly i'll at a german.
All no. She took too much champagne.
and mixed liquors, and got drunk.
That was all.
I ca. this practical religion will have
to come III and fix up the marriage re-
latl0n in America. There are members
OF churches who have too many wives
and others who have too many hus-
bands. Society needs to be .expurgat-
1
Christianized. We want this practical
net 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 own
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 inconsis-
tent life, and while you are expecting
to come out from under their arms the
wings of an angel, there come out from
| their fOreheads the horns of a beast.
There has got to DE new departure
in religion. [ do not say new relig-
ion. Oh, no; but the old religion
brought to Few appliances. In our
time we have had tho da",lcrreotyne
and the ambrotype and the photograph;
! but it is the same old sun, and these
arts are only new appliances fthe old
sunlight. So, this glorious gospel is
just what we want to photograph the
Image of God on one soul and da-s
guerreotype it on another soul. Not a
new Gospel, but tie old Gospel put TO
new work. In Oll'' time we have had
slllu tile EC0le-s
phonic Invention and the electric light
invention; but they are all children of
the old electricity,..n clement that the
philosophers have 4 long While known
| much about. So this electric Gospel
needs to flash its light on the eyes and
ears and souls of men, and to become
a telephone medium to dart invitation
and warning to all nations; an electric
light to illuminate the Eastern and
| Western HemisDReres. Not asl,eW SGOs-
pei, but the old Gospel doing a new
work.
Give your heart to God. and then fill
your life with good works Gonsecrate
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. That4is enough You
hardly know of anyone else than
Wellington as connected with the Wet
DRY at Waterloo. but he did not do the
hard fighting. The hard fighting was
done by the Somerset c-:yalry. and the
Kyland regiments. and Kcmp's infant
ry, and the Scotch 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 a kitchen
maid in a farm house. She had MANY
styles Of work, and hard work Time
rolled on, s:d she married the son of q
weaver of Halifax. They were indus
trious; they saved money enough after
a while to build them home. On the
morning of the day they were to enter.
that home the young wife arose ut
O'clock. entc.cd the front dooryarl,
lSnelt dcwn, consecrated the place to
God. and then made this solemn vow.
80, Lord, if Thou wilt bless ne in this
place, the poor shall have share OF
it. Z Time relied on, and fortune
rolled in. Children grew up around
them, and they all became wealthy;
one. a member of parliament, in pub
lie place, declared that his success
came from that prayer Of his mother
| in the dooryard. All of them were
rich. Four thousand hands in the fact
cries. Tha " built dwelling houses for
laborers at cheap rents, and when they
We're invalid and could not pay they
had the houses for nothing. One OF a
these SONS came to this country adj
lnired our parks, went back. bought
land. opened a great public park, and
Il. adesit a present to the CITY OF Hail.