The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

shoe store and rip off the fictitious
soles OF many a fine looking pair of
shoes, and show that 1t is pasteboard
sandwiched between the sound leather.
And this practical religion will go right
into a grocery store and it will pull out
the plug OF all the adulterated syrups,
and it will dump into the ash barrel
in front of the store the cassia bark
that is sold for cinnamon and the brick
dust that is sold for cayenne pepper;
and It will shake out the Prussian blue
from the tea leaves. and 1t will sift
from the flour plaster OF paris and
bone dust and soapstone, and it will by
chemical analysis separate the one
quart of water from the few honest
drops of cows milk, and 1t will throw
out the live animalcules from the
brown sugar.
There has been so much adulteration
of articles of food that it is an amaze
ment to me that there is healthy man
or woman in America. Heaven only
knows what they put into the spices
and into the sugars and into the butter
and into the apothecary drug. But
have made wonderful revelations. The
board OF health in Massachusetts ana
lyzed a great amount OF what was
called pure coffee and found in 1t not
one particle of coffee. In England
there is law that fCrbids the putting
of alum in bread. Tie public author
titles examined fifty-one packages or
bread and found them all guilty. The
honest physician, writing a prescrlp-
ton. does not know but that 1t may
bring death instead of health to his
patient. because there may be ore OF
the drugs weakened by a cheaper ar
t.cle, and another drug may be in fun
force, and so the prescription may have
just the opposite effect intended. OlI
of wormwood warranted pure from
Boston was found to have Al per cent
of resin and alcohol and chloroform.
Scammcny is one Of the most valuable
medical drugs. 1t is very rare, very
precious 1t is the sap or gum or
tree or a bush in Syria. The root OF
the tree is exposed, an incision is made
into the root and then shells are placed
at this incision to catch the sap or
the gum as it exudes. 1t is very pre-
cious, this scammony. But the peas
ant mixes IL with a cheaper material;
then it is taken to Aleppo, and the
merchant there mixes it with u cheaper
material; then 1t comes on TO the
Wholesale druggist in London or New
York, and he mixes II with a cheaper
material; then 1t comes to the retail
druggist and ne mixes il with a cheaper
material, and by the time the poor SICK
man gets il into his bottle II is ashes
and chalk and sand, and some of what
has been called pure scammony after
analysis has been found TO be no scam
mony at all.
/ Now, practical religion will yet rec
tify all this. 1t will go to those hypo-
critical professors Of religion who got
a corner" in corn and wheat in Chi
cago and New York, sending prices up
and up until they were beyond the
reach of the poor. keeping these bread
stuffs in their own hands, or control
ling them until the prices going up and
up and up, they were, after awhile,
ready TO sell, and they sold out, MAX
ing themselves m.llionaires in one or
two years-trylng to fix the matter up
with the Lord by building a church or
a university or a hospital-deluding
themselves with the idea that the Lord
would be SC pleased with the gift he
would forget the swihdle. Now. as
such a man may not have any liturgy
in which to say his prayers, l will
compose for him one which he prac-
tically is making: "Oh, Lord. We, by
getting a 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 1t
was a scaly job, but then it was smart.
Now, here we compromise it. Take
/ per cent of the profits and with that
l per cent you can build an asylum for
these poor, miserable ragmuffins OF the
street, and l will take yacht and go
to Europe, forever and ever. Amen"
All, my friends. II a man hath gotten
his estate wrongfully and he build
line of hospitals and universities from
here to Alaska, he cannot atone for il.
After awhile, this man who has been
getting corner" in wheat, dies, and
then Satan gets corner" in him. He
goes into a great, long Black Friday.
There is a break" in the market. Ac-
cording to Wall street parlance, he
wiped others out, and now he is him
self wiped oct. No collaterals on
which to make a spiritual loan. Eter-
nal defalcat.on.
But this practical religion will not
only rectify all merchandise; it will
also rectify all mechanism, and all
toll. A time will come when a man
will work as faithfully by the job as
he does by the day. You say when a
thing is slightingly done, "Oh, that was
done by the job" You can tell by tie
swiftness or slowness with which a
hackman drives whether he is hired by
the hour or by the excursion. II he is
hired by the hour he drives very
slowly, so as to make as many hours
"a noseihle IL he Is hired nv tho ex