Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-12-26

And this practical religion viii come
to the schoolteacher, making her fee
her responsibility in preparing oul
youth for usefulness and for happiness
and for honor, and will keep her from
giving sly box to dull head, chastis
ing him for what he cannot help ant
sending encouragement all through the
after years of lifetime.
This practical religion will also come
to the newspaper men, and it will hell
them in the gathering of the news, ant
it will help them in setting forth thu
best interests Of society, and twill KEEP
them from putting the sins of the world
in larger type than its virtues, and it!
mistakes than its achievements, and il
will keep them from misrepresentine
interviews with public men, and from
starting suspicious that never can bt
allayed, and will make them stancE
friends of the oppressed instead of the
oppressor.
Yes, this religion, this practical re-
ligion, will come and put its hand Oh
what is called good society, elevated so
ciety, successful society, so that people
will have their expenditures within
their income, and they will exchange
the hypocritical mot at home" for the
honest explanation "too tired" or "tot
busy to soc you" and will keep innocent
reception from becoming intoxicated
conviviality.
Yea, there is great opportunity fol
missionary work in what arc called the
successful classes Of society. In some Of
the cities it is 10 rare thing now to see
a fashionable woman intoxicated i'll the
street, OF the rail car, or the restaurant.
The number of fine ladies who drink toe
much is increasing. Perhaps you may
find her at the reception in most exalted
company, but she has made too many
visits to the wineroom, and now hen
eye is CLASSY, and after awhile her cheek
is unnaturally flushed, and then she
falls into fits of excruciating laughter
about nothing, and then she offers sick
oning batteries, 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 homo il
takes the husband and the coachman tc
get her up the stairs. The report is she
was taken suddenly i'll at q german.
All, mol Sho took too much champagne
and mixed liquors and got drunk. That
was all.
In Marriage Relations.
Yea, this practical religion will have
to como in and fix up the marriage re.
lation in America. There are members
of churches who have too many wives
and too many husbands. Society needs
to be expurgated aud washed and fu-
migated and Ohristianized. We want
this practical religion not only to take
hold of what are called the lower class
es, 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 aid liturgy, and
scmo of them sit in church rolling up
their eyes as though they were ready
for translation, when their Sabbath is
bounded OH all sides by an inconsistent
life, and while you are expecting to
como out from under their arms the
wings of an angel there come out from
their forehead the horns of beast.
There has got TO be a new departure
in religion Idonot 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 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 daguerreotype it on an
other soul. Not a new gospel, but the
old gospel put to new work. In our
time we have had the telegraphic in
vention, and the telephone invention,
and the electric light invention, but
they are all children of old electricity,
an element that the philosophers have q
long while known much about. So this
electric gospel needs to flash its light
OH the eyes and ears and souls OF men
and to become a telephone medium to
make the deaf hear, a Geographic me-
dunn to dart invitation and warning to
ali nations, al electric light to lllu-
mine the eastern and western hemi-
spheres Not new gospel, but the old
gospel doing a new work.
Now you say, "That is very beau
tiful theory, but is it possible to take
ones religion into all the avocations
and businesses of life?" Yes, and l will
give you some specimens. Medical doc
tors who took their religion into every
day life: Dr. John Abercrombie Of Alb
crdeen, the greatest Scottish physician
of his day, his book on Diseases of the
Brain and Spinal Cord" no more Won
derful than his book OH 1.-The Philoso-
ply Of the Moral Feelings, and often