The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-25

not trying to cover up lack of diagnosis
with pOnderous teebnicaiities, or send
the pat ent to a reckless drug store be-
cause the apotheeary happens to pay
percentage on the presc iptiOns sent
And this rActieal religion will come
to the schoOl-tescher. making her feel
her responsibility in preparing our
youth Tor usefulness and for happi-
ness ami for honor, and will keep her
from giving a sly bOx to a dull head,
chastising him for wha' he can
not help. and sending discourage
nent all through the after years OF a
lifetime. This practical religion will
also come to the newspaper men, and
it will help them in the gathering of
the news. and it Will help them in set
ting forth the best interests of soc iety,
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 disappearing interviews with
public men, and from starting suspi-
cions that never can be allayed; and
will make them staunch friends OF the
oppressed instead of the oppresSor.
Yes, this religion. this practical re-
ligion, will come and put its hands on
what is called good society, elevated
society, successful society. so that
people will have their expenditures
within their income, and they will ex-
change the hypocritical mot at home"
for the honest explanation too tired"
or too busy to see you, and will keep
innocent reception from becoming in
toxicated conviviality.
Yea. there is great opportunity for
missionary work in what are called
the successful classes of society. In
some of the cities it is no rare thing
now to see a fashionable woman in
toxicated in the street. or the rail car,
or the restaurant. The number of fine
ladies who drink too much is increas-
ing. Perhaps you may find her at the
reception in most exalted company, but
she has made too many visits to the
wine room, and now her eve is CLASSY,
and after awhile her cheek is unnatur-
ally flushed, and then she falls into fits
of excruciating laughter about moth
ing, and then she offers sickening fiat
teries, telling some homely man how
we'll he looks, and then she is helped
into the carriage, and by the time the
carriage gets to her home 1t takes the
husband and the coachman to get her
up the 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.
There has got to be a new departure
in religion. lido not say new religion
Oh, no; but the old religion brought to
new appliances. In our time we have
had the daguerreotype and the ambrO-
type and the photographs; 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 in the image of
God on one soul and daguerreotype 1T
on another soul. Not a new gospel,
but the old gospel put to new work.
In our time we have had the telegraph
invention and the telephone invention
aud the electric light invention; but
they are all children of the old cleo
tricity, an element that the philosO-
piers have a long while known much
about. 20 this electric gospel needs to
flash its light on the eyes and ears and
souls of men, and to become tele-
phonic medium to dart invitation and
warning to ali nations; an electric light
to illuminate the eastern and western
hemispheres. Not new gospel, but
the old gospel doing a new work.
Give your heart to God and then fill
your life with good works Consecrate
to Him vOnr 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 vic
tory at Waterloo; but he did not do
the hard fighting. The hard fighting
was done by the Somerset cavalry, and
the Ryland regiments, and Kemp's in
fantry, and the Scotch Grays, and the
life guards. Who cares, if only the day
was won?
In the latter part of the last century
girl in England became a 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 Halifax. They
were industrious; they saved money
enough after awhile to build them a
home. On the morning of the day they
were to enter that home the young
wife arose at four o'clock. entered the
front dooryard, knelt down, eonse-
Grated the place to God. and there
made this solemn vow: 20 Lord, if
Thou wilt bless me in this place, the
poor shall have share of it." Time
rolled on and fortune rolled in. Chill
dren grew up around them and they
all became aff1uent; one, member of
parliament, in public place declared
that his success came from that prayer
of his mother in the dooryard. All
of them were affiuent- Four thou
sand hands in the factories. They
built dwelling houses for laborers at
cheap rents, and where they were in
valid 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
a great public park, and made it