Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-21

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half three-fourths, and it will keep the
farmer from building his post and rail
fence on his neigh boris premises, and it
will make him shelter his cattle in the
winter storm, and il will keep the old
elder from working on Sunday after
noon in the new ground where nobody
sees him. AEl 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
I speak will come into the learned pro-
fessions The lawyer will feel his re-
sponsibility in defending innocence and
arraigning evil and expounding the
law. and it will keep him from charg
ing for briefs he never wrote, and for
pleas he never made. and for percent
ages he never earned. and from robbing
widow and orphan because they are de-
fenseless. Yes, this practical religion
will come into the physicians life, and
he will feel his responsibility as the
CONSERVATION of the public health, pro-
fession honored by the fact that Christ
himself was a physician. And it will
| make him honest, and when he does
not understand case he will say so,
not trying to cover up lack of diagnosis
with ponderous technicalities, or send
the patient to a reckless drug store be-
cause the apothecary 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 sly box to a dull head, chastis-
ing him for what he cannot help and
sending encouragement all through the
after years of a lifetime.
This practical religion will also come
to the newspaper men, and it will help
them in the gathering of the news, and
it will help them in setting forth the
best interests Of society, and it will keep
them from putting the sins of the world
in larger type than its virtues, and it's
mistakes than its achievements, and it
will keep them from misrepresenting
interviews w~5h 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 'ftoo tired" or ''too
busy to see you" and will keep innocent
reception from becoming intoxicated
conviviality.
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
a fashionable woman intoxicated in the
street, OF 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 wlnerOOm, 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, and by the
time the carriage gets to her home it
takes the husband and the coachman to
get her up the stairs The report is she
was taken suddeley i'll at a german.
All, mol She took too much champagne
and mixed liquors and got drunk. That
was all.
In Marriage Relations.
Yea, this practical religion will have
to 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
to be expurgated and washed and fu-
migated and Christianized. 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 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 forehead the horns of 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 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 new gospel, but the
old gospel put to new work. In our
time we have had the Geographic in
vention, and the telephone invention,