Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-12-25

- Aeai tAls Ffdcticai religion will have to
\ come IN and fix up the marriage relation
IN America There are members of church.
es who have too many wives and too many
= husbands. Suciety needs to be expurgated
!, and washed and fumigated and Chris
y tianized We want this practical religion
y not only to take hold Of what are called
= the lower classes, but 60 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 hymnbook
= aud prayer book and liturgy, and some Of
l them sit in church rolling up their ewes as
though they were ready for translation
' when their Sabbath is bounded on ali sides
? by an Inconsistent life, and whilo YOU are
expecting 10 come out from under their
arms tic wings Of an angel there come
: out from their forehead the horns of a
beast
New Work For the Old Gospel.
There has got to be a new departure in
: religion. do not say new religion. Oh. T
no, but the old religion brought to new
appliances In our rime we have had the
daguerreotype and the ambrotype and the
photogl aph, but it is the Same old sun.
and these arts are only new appliances OF
the old sunlight. So this glorious gosrel is
! just what we want TO photograph ths i'm,
/ age Of God on one soul and daguepreutype
/ lt pm anQtheT soul. Not new gospel but
/ the old gospel pnb 10 new work, In our
( time we llaso had the Geographic invep-
4 ton, and tho telophonic invention, and tho
electric light invention, but they are an
children Of old electricity an element that
the philosophers have a long while known
much about. So this electric gospel needs
to flash Its light on the eyes ana ears and
souls of men and to become telephone
nunnh HIM
graphic medium to dart invitation and =
warning to al nations, an electric light TO
illumine the eastern and western hemi
spheres Not now gospel, but the old
gospel doing a new work,
Now you say, "ThHt is n very beautiful
theory, but Is IL possible to take ones reli- !
gion into all the ayocations and business
es Of lifug' Yes, ard l VIII give you somo =
specimens. Medical dCcturs who took their \
religion into everyday lie: Dr. John Abb \
ercrombie Of Aberdeen, the greatest Scot. Z
fish physician Of his day, his book on obs, y
eases OF the Brain ard Spinal Cord, no 3
more wonderful than his book on "The
Philosophy Of the Moral Feelings" and d
often kneeling at the bedside of his pa y
tients to commend them to God IN prayer 9
Or. John Brown IF Edinburgh, immortal y
aa an author, dying under the benodictjon ~
= Ne
pering Linn as he sat i'll his study in Edln- y
burgh talking to me about Christ ard his 3
hope Of heaven, and a score Of Christian a.
family physicians in Washington just as =
good as they were 81
Lawyers who carried their religion into -
their profession; Lord Cairns, the queens n'
adviser for many years, the highest legal ~
in Great Britain-Lord Cairns cl
every summer in his vacation preaching r.
IS an evangelist among the poor OF his "a
country; john Mclean, judge Of the su. p
1reme court Of tho United States and pres y
dent Of the American Sunday School
lnioD, feeling more satisfaction in the lat gu
er office than in the former, ard scores Of ~ ~
christian lawyers as eminent in the church 4''
# God as they are eminent at the bar
Religious Merchants.
Merchants who took their religion into til;
veryday life; Arthur Tappan, derided in foJ
lis day because he established that system fro
y which we come 10 find out the CONNER sui
ial standing Of business llen, starting sal
hat entire system, dorided for it then sui
imself, as l knew him we'll, in moral f0u
hamctcr al. Monday mornings inviting for
D room in the top ef Ills stOrehouse the LAX
Jerks Of his establishment asking them she
bout their worldly interests and their the
9tFitual interests, then giving out of
ymn, leading IN prayer giving them fuu
w words OF good advice, asking them kHC
hat church they Atteaded on the Sab ter
18th, what the text was, whether they had yer
ny especial troubles Of their own. Arthur mo
appan. ! never heard his eulogy pro a 81
ounced. ] pronounce it Row And other tina
erchants just as good. William l.. Dodge ter
tho iron business, Moses H. Grinnell In at
&c shipping business, Peter Cooper in tho sue
ne business. Scores Of 4nen just as good can
they Wera. wat
Farmers who take their religion into eve
cir occupation; Why, this minute their A
rises aUd wagons stand around all the it !
Getting houses in America. They began thei
is day by prayer to God and whes tho
ey get home at noon, after tiiuy have put W.
cir horses up, VIII offor prayer to God stru
the table, seeking blessing and next old
MINOR there will be in their fields not sam
G dishonest heJd Of rye, not one dishOn- pur,
car Of corn, not one dishonest apple viii
Sod today away up among Sui
. BERKSHIRE hills, or away down amid soap
: lagoons Of Blarida, or away out amid give
2 mines Of Colorado, or along the banks can
the Potomac and the Raritan, wheSo 1 "
ew them better because went to scScol used
til them. title
Mechanics who took their religion into ficia
iir occupations james Brindley, the chlo
nous nii!lwright; Nathaniel Bowditch, chen
famous ship chandler; Elihu Burritt. to Sc
famous blacksmith, AID hundreds and foun
usands OF strong arms which have obyii
de the hammer. aud the saw, and the salt
&c, and the drill, and the tx sound IN q CHI
grand march Of our national indus DO Fl
IS. -Sa
A Life Of Good Works.
I've your Leart to God, cld then Gil
r life Will good works. Couseer.,te 10 Is
your store. YOUR shop. YOUR bankine is dc
So your T.. stsry ana yonr home. Thoy madl
no one viii hoar 81. Gnd viii hear il. in p
1t Is enough. You hardly know Of aSy genel
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