The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-31
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% prescript ion, does not know but that
it may bring death instead of health
to his patient, because there may be
one of the drugs weakened by a cheap
er article, and another drug may be in
+ full force, and SO the prescription may
L nave just the opposite effect intended.
Oil of NORWOOD warranted pure from
4 Boston was found to have Al per cent
of resin and alcohol and chloroform.
! Schammony is one of the most valua-
bic medical drugs. 1t is very rare, very
i precious It is the sap or the gum of
q tree or q bush in Syria. The root OF
the tree is exposed, an mcision is made
into the root and then shells are placed
i at the iEcision to catch the sap or the
i gum as it eXudes. 1t is very precious,
this scammony. But the peasant mikes
1T with cheaper material; then it is
taken to Aleppo, and the merchant
there mixes it with a cheaper mate
rial; then it comes on to the Wholesale
4 druggist in London or New York, and
he mixes it with cheaper material;
then it comes to tie retail druggist,
and he mixes it with a cheaper mate
riai and by the time the poor. sick
! man gets it into his bottle it is ashes
and chalk and sand, and some of what
has been called pure scammanoy after
analysis has been found to be no
/ ScammOny at all.
Now, practical religion will yet rec
i tify all this. Ii will go to those hypo-
critical professors of religion who got
i corner in corn and wheat in Chi
cago and New York, sending prices UP
and up until they We're beyond the
reach of the poor, keeping these bread
xsf,,
them until the prices going up and up
| and up, they We're, after awhile ready
/ to SELL and they sold out, making
/ themselves milllonaires in one or two
! years trying to fix the matter up with
1 the Lord by building a church or a
university or a hospital eluding
themselves with the idea that the Load
would be SO pleased with the gift he
would forget the swindle. Now, as
such q man may not have any liturgy
in which to say his prayers, will
compose for him one which he practi-
cally is, making: .Oh, Lord, we, by
getting q corner in breadstuffs, swim
died the people of the United States
out of ten million dollars, and made
suffering all up and down. the land,
and we would like to compromise this
matter with thee Thou knowest it
j was a scaly job, but then it was smart.
Now, here we compromise it. Take 1
per cent OF the profits and with that
B I per cent you can build an asylum for.
these poor miserable ragamutfins Of
the street, and will take a yacht and
/ go to Europe, forever and ever.
4 An,en!
All, my friends, if a man hath got
/ ten his estate wrongfully and he build
a line of hospitals and universities
from here to Alaska. he cannot atone
for it. After awhile this man who has
been getting a corner in wheat dies,
and then Satan gets a corner in him.
4 He goes into a great, long Black Fri.
day There is break in the mar
ket. According to Wall street par
lance, he wiped others out, and now
4 he is himself wiped cut. No collater-
ais on which to make q spiritual loan.
Eternal defalcation.
But this practical religion will: not
/ only rectify all merchandise; it will
also rectify all mechanism, and all
1 toll A time will come when man
will work as faithfully by the job as.
he does by the day. Vol say. when a:
/ thing is slightingly done: .Oh, that.
/ was; done by the job You can tell
/ by the swiftness or slowness with!
! which a hackinan drives whether he is
i hired by the hour or by the excursion.
/ If he is hired by the hour. he drives
/ very slowly, so as to make as many
hours as possible. If he is hired by
/ the excursion, he whips up the norses.
i so as to get around and get another
customer. All styles Of work have. to
/ be inspected. Ships inspected, houses
inspected, machinery inspected. Boss
i to watch the iourney,nan. Capitalist,
coming down unexpectedly to watch
/ the boss. Conductor of a city car
sounding the punch bell to prove his
! honesty as a passenger hands him a
i clipped nickel. All things must be
watched and Inspected. Ilnperfections
/ in the wood covered with putty. Car.
| nlents warranted until you put them
on the third time. Shoddy in all kinds
! of clothing. Cln'omos. Pinchbeck.
Diamonds for a dollar and half.
Tread the third chapter Spawned
] horses, by skillful dose Of Jockeys.
for several days made to look spry.
i Wagon tires poorly put on Plaster
ing that cracks without any provoca-
ti0n and falls off. Plumbing that
] needs to be plumbed. Imperfect ear
wheel that halts the whole train with
a hot box. So little practical religion
/ in the mechanism of the world. / tell
! you, my friends, the law of man will
never rectify these things. Tt will be
the all-pervading influence of the prac-|
/ teal religion of Jesus Christ that will
make the change for the better.
Yes. this practical religion will also
4 go into agriculture, which is proverb-
tally honest but needs to be rectifed,
and it will keep the farmer from send
ing to the city market, veal that is
too young to 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 keen the
/ farmer frcn, l,llildia,e his most md rail
! fence on his Deignber's premises, and
Z 1T will make him shelter his cattle in
{ the winter storm, and it will keep the
odd elder from working on Sunday af-.
,terneon. And this practical religion
will hover over the house. and over
the barn, and over the field and over
the orchard 22ls.
Yes, this practical religion of which I
speak will come into the learned pro-