The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-21

awhile her cheek is unnaturally flushed
and then she falls into fits of excruciating
laughter about nothing, and then she Of
fers slckening batteries, telling some home
~ man now well he looks, and then she is
( helped into the carriage, and by the time
the carriage gets to her home ii takes the
husband and the coachman TO get her up
the stairs. The report is, she was taken
suddenly i'll at german. Ali no. She took
too much champagne, and mixed liquors,
and got drunk That was all.
Yea, this practical religion will have to
come in and fix up the marriage relation
in America. There are members of
churches who have too many wives and
too many husbands. Society needs to be
expurgated, and washed, and fumigated,
and Christianized We want this pract-
cal 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 their arms the wings of
an angel there come out from their fore
head the horns of a beast.
There has got to be a 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
daguerretoype, and the ambrotype, and
the photograph; but it is the same old
sun, and these arts are only new appii-
ances of the old sunlight. So this glor-
ious gospel is just what we want to pho,
tograph the image of God on one soul,
and daguerreotype it on another soul. Not
a new gospel, but the old gospel put to
new work. In our time we have had the
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inventions, and the electric light invention;
but they are all children of old electricity,
an element that the philosophers have a
long while known much about So this
electric gospel needs to fash it's light on
the eyes, and ears, and souls of men, and
70 become telephone medium to make
the deaf hear; a Geographic medium 10
dart invitation and warning to all nations;
an electric light to illumine the eastern
and western hemispheres. Not a nee
gospel, but the old gospel doing a new
work.
Now you say, THAT is a very beauti-
tul theory, but is it possible to takes ones
religion into all the avocations and BUSH
nesses of life?' Yes, and 1 will give you
some specimens. Medical doctors who
took their religion into everyday life: DR..
John Abercrombie of Aberdeen, the great
est Scottish physician of his day, his book
on Diseases of the Brain and SPINAL
CSAN' Az AhOiC WOnQeTIul imam MS DOCK
on The Philosophy of the Moral Fec
lngs," and often kneeling at the bedside of
ms patients to commend them to God in
prayer DIR. John Brown of Edinburgh, i'm
mortal as an author, dying under the BEN
ediction of the sick of Edinburgh; myself
remembering him as he sat in his study
In Edinburgh talking to me about Christ
and his hope of heaven. And a score of
christian family physicians in Washing
ton Just as good as they were.
Lawyers who carried their religion into
their profession: Lord Cairns, the queen S
adviser for many years, the highest legal
authority in Great Britain-Lord Cairns,
every summer in his vacation preaching
as an evangelist among the poor of his
country John Mclean, judge of the SUI
preme court of the United States and pres
ident of the American Sunday School
Union, feeling more satisfaction in the lat
ter Office than in the former. And scores
of Christian lawyers as eminent in the
church of God as they are eminent at the
bar.
Merchants who took their religion into
everyday life; Arthur Tappan, derided in
his day because he established that svs-
tenn by which we come to find out the
commercial standing of business men.
starting that entire system, derided for it
then, himself, as l knew him well, in
moral character A /. Monday mornings
invited to room in the top of his store
house the clerks of his establishment ask
ing them about their worldly interest and
their spiritual interests, then giving out a
hymn, leading in prayer, giving them a
few words of good advice, asking them
what church they attended on the Sab
bath, what the text was, whether they had
any especial troubles of their own. Arthur
Tappan. l never heard his eulogy pro-
nounced. / pronounce it now. And other
merchants just as good. William E.
Dodge in the iron business, Moses H.
Grinnel in the shipping business, Peter
Cooper in the glue business. Scores of
men, just as good as they were.
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 a prayer to
| God at the table, seeking a blessing, and
| next summer there will be in their fields
not one dishonest head of rye, not one dis
| honest ear of corn, not one dishonest ap-
| pie. Worshipping God to-day 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 Potomac. and the Raritan,
| where / knew them better because l went
| to school with them.
Mechanics who took their religion into
! their occupations; James Brindey, the ia
nous millwright, Nathaniel Bowditch, the
| famous snip-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 aud the ak sound in the
4 grand march of our national industries.
Give your heart to God and then fill your
/ life with good works. Consecrate to him
your store, your shop, your banking house.
| your factory, and your home. They say
no one will hear it. God will hear it. That
| is enough. You hardly know of anyone 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
regiment and Kemps infantry 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
| girlin England became a kitchen maid in
a farmhouse. She had many styles of
work and much hard work. Time rolled on,
Keep up hope. There are