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

1ne only flIS 10 TAKE WIN HOOD SarSaparllla.
cheaper material: then it is taken to Az
eppo, and the merchant there m .xeS it with
a cheaper material; then it comes on to the
wholesale druggist in London or New York
and he mixes il with a cheaper material;
then it comes to the retail druggist and he
mixes IT with a cheaper material, ana by
the time the poor sick man gets it into his
bottle it is ashes and chalk and sand ana
some of what has been called pure scam
mony after analysis has been found to he
no scammony at all.
Now, practical religion will yet rectify
all this viii go to those hypocritcal
professors of religion who got a corner
in corn and wheat in Chicago 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 controlling them un-
til the prices going up and up and up,
they were, after awhile, ready to sell, and
they sold out, making themselves mill
ionaires in one or two years-trying to fix
the matter up with the Lord by building
church or a university or a hospital-de-
luding themselves with the idea that the
Lord would be so pleased with the gift he
would forget the swinde. Now as such
a man may not have any liturgy la which
to say his prayers l will compose for him
one which he practically is making: on,
Lord we, by getting a corner in bread
stuffs, swinded 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 was scaly
Job, but then it was smart. Now, here we
compromise it. Take one per cent. of the
profits, and with that one per cent. you can
build an asylum for these poor miserable
ragmuffins of the street, and ] will take
yacht and go to Europe, forever and ever.
Amen"
Ali my friends, if a man hath cotton 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
corner" In wheat dies, and then satan
gets a corner in him. He goes into
great, long Black Friday. There is a
break" in the market. According to Wall
street paElance, he wiped others out and
now he is himself wiped out. No collat-
erals on which to make a spiritual loan.
Eternal defacation.
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 the swiftness or slowness with which
a hackman drives whether he is 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 horses so as to get around and get
another customer All styles Of work have
to be inspected. Ships inspected, horses
inspected, machinery inspected. Boss to
watch the journeymen. Capitalist coming
down unexpectedly to watch the boss
Conductor of a city car sounding the
punch bell to prove his honesty as pas
senger hands to him clipped nickel. All
things must be watched and Inspected
Imperfections in the wood covered with
putty Garments warranted to last until
YOU put them on the third time. Shoddy
in all kinds Of clothing. Chromos. Pinch
beck Diamonds for dollar and halt
Bookbindery that holds on until you read
the third chapter. Spawned horses, by
skilful dose of jockeys. for several days
made to look spry. Wagon tires poorly
put on. Horses poorly shod. Plastering
that cracks without any provocation and
falls off Plumbing that needs to be
plumbed Imperfect car 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. 1t
will be the all-pervading influence of the
practical religion of Jesus Christ that VIII
make the change for the better.
Yes. this practical religion viii also so
| into agriculture which Is proverbially
| honest, but needs to be rectined, ana IL
! will keep the farmer from sending to
| the city market veal that is too young
| to kill and when the farmer farms on
| shares, il will keep the man who docs
| the work from making his half three
fourths and it will keep the farmer from
| building his post and rail fence on his
neighbours premises. and it will make
| him shelter his cattle i'm the winter storm,
| and IL will keep the old elder from work
| ing on Sunday afternoon in the new
| ground where nobody sees him. And this
practical religion will hover over the
house, and over the barn. and over the
| field, and over the orchard.
| Yes, this practical religion of which !
| speak will come into the learned profess
| sions. The lawyer will feel his RESPONSE
! bility in defending innocence and arraigL-
/ ing evil and eXpoundng the law, and
il will keep him from charging for briefs
| he never wrote, and for pleas he never
made, and for percentages he never earn
| ed and from robbing widow and orphan
| because they are defenseless. Yes, this
practical religion viii come into the pNy-
| scian's life, and he will feel his respoa-
| sbility as the corservator of the public
| health. a professions honored by the fact
that Christ himself was a physician. And
it will make him honest, and when he
| does not understand a case he will saw
So. not trying 10 cover ur lack of diagno-
sis with ponderOus technicalities, or send
1 the patient 20 a reckless drug store be.
cause the apo lecary appens to pay A
| percentage on the prescriptions sent. And
this practical reliSion via come to the
school-teacher making her feel her re-
| sponsibilty in preparing her youth for
usefulness and for happiness and for
honor and will keep her form giving a
sly box to a dun head, chastising him for
what he cannot help, and sending dis.
enlargement all through the after wears
of lifetime. This practical religion will
also come to the newspaper men, and n
will help them In the gathering of Tho
news, and 1t will help them in setting
forth the best interests of society. and Il
will keep them from putting the sins ~
the world in larger type than it's virtues
and its nneiakes than its achievements
and 1t viii keep them from misra present.
ing interviews with public men, and ron
sta ting suspicious that never can be all
layed; and will make them stanch friends
Of the oppressed instead Of the oppressor
Yes, this religion, this practical religion
will come and put its hand on what is call.
ed good society elevated society. success.