Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-12-25

nrmser was a physician. And twill
make him honest, and when he does
not understand a case he will say so,
not trying TO cover up lack Of diagnosis
with ponderous teohnicalities, or send
the patient to q reckless drug store be-
cause the apotbecary happens to pay
percentage on the prescriptions sent.
And this practical religion will come
to the schoolteacher, making her feel
her responsibility in preparing our
youth for usefulness and for happiness
and for honor, and will keep her from
giving a sly box to a dull head, chastis-
ing him for what he cannot help and
sending discOuragement all through the
after years Of lifetime.
This practical religion will also come
to the newspaper men, and 1t Will help
them In the gathering Of the news, and
it will help them in setting forth the
best interests Of society, and 1t will keep
them from putting the sins Of the world
in larger type than its virtues, and It's
mistakes than its achievements, and 1t
will keep them from misrepresenting
interviews with public men, and from
starting suspicious that never can be
allayed, and will make them stanch
friends Of the oppressed instead Of the
oppressor.
Yes, this religion, this practical re-
ligion, will come and put its hand on
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 too
busy to see you" and will keep innocent
reception from becoming intoxicated
conyiviality.
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
q fashionable woman intoxicated IN the
street, or the rail car, or the restaurant.
The number of fine ladies who drink too
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 her
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
ening batteries, telling some homely
man how we'll he looks, and then she IS
helped into the carriage, aud by the
time the carriage gets TO her home IL
takes the husband and the coachman TO
get her up the stairs. The report Is she
was taken suddenly i'll at german.
Ah, mol She took too much champagne
and mixed liquors and got drunk. That
was all.
In Marriage Relations.
Yea, this practical religion Will nave
10 come 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
10 be expurgated and washed and fu-
micated and Christianized. We want
this practical religion not only to take
/ hold Of what are called the lower class
| es, bat 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 10
come 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 lido not say new religion.
Oh. no, but the old religion brought 10
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 II 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
yention, and the telephone INVENTION
and the electric light invention, but
they are all children Of old electricity
an element that the philosophers have
long while known much about so this
electric gospel needs TO fash its llghs
on the eyes and ears and souls OF men
and 10 become a telephone medium TO
make the deaf hear, a telegraphic me-
dium 10 dart invitation and warning TO
all nations, an electric light to lllu-
mine the eastern and western hemi-
spheres. Not new gospel, but the ola
IRospel doing new work.
Now you say, THAT is very beau
tiful theory. but is it possible to take
ones religion into all the avocatlons
| and businesses of life?" Yes, and | Will
give you some specimens. Medical doo-
tors who took their religion into every
day life: DR.. John Abercrombie OF Ao-
erdeen. the greatest Scottish physician
~ his day, his book on Diseases OF the
Brain and Spinal Cord" no more won
derful than his book on 'The Philoso-
phy of the Moral Feelings, and often
kneeling at the bedside Of his patients
20 commend them to God in prayer; Dr.
John Brown Of Edinburgh, immortal as
An author, dying under the benedlcuon
Of the sick Of Edinburgh, myself re-
mombering him as he sat in his study
in Edinburgh talking TO me about
Christ and his hope Of heaven, ana a
score Of Christian family physicians III
Washington Just as good as they were
Lawyers who carried their religion
into their profession: Lord Cairns th'
Queens adviser for many years, th'
; highest legal authority in Great Brit
ain-Lord Cairns, every summer in ni'
J vacation preaching as an evangelis
} among the poor Of his country; JONI
! Mclean, judge of the supreme court 0
/ .he United States and president OF tn
. American Sunday School union, feeling
! more satisfaction in the latter ono
. thsn IN the former, and scores OF Chris
: tien lawyers as eminent in the churci
D Of God as they are eminent at the par