Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-24

called good society, elevated society, sue
cessful society, SO that people will have
their expenditures within their income,
and they will exchange the hypocritical
'not at home" for the honest explanation
"too tired or "too busy to see, you" and
will keep innocent reception from becom-
ing intoxicated conyiviality.
Yoa, there Is great opportunity for mis-
Eonary work In what are called tho sue
cessful classes Of society. In some of the
cities it is no rare thing now to see fash
ionable woman intoxicated In the street or
the rail car or the restaurant. The number
of fine ladies who drink too much Is in
creasing. Perhaps you may find her at the
reception in most exalted company, but |
she has made too many visits to the wine
room, 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 Of
fers sickening batteries, telling some
homely man how well he looks, and then
she is helped into the carriage, and by the
time the carriage gets to her home 1t takes
the husband and the coachman to get her
up the stairs The report is she was taken
suddenly i'll at german. All, mol She
took too much champagne and mixed
liquors and got drunk. That was all.
Yea, this practical 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. Society needs to be expurgated
and washed and fumigated and Chris
tianized. We want this practical religion
not only to take hold of what are called
the lower classes, 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 hymnbooh
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 q
beast
New Work For the Old Gospel.
There has got to be new departure in
religion. do not say new religion. oh,
no, but the old religion brought to new
, appliances. In our time we have had the
, daguerreotype and tho ambrotype and the
r photogl aph, but it is the same old sun
, and these arts are only new appliances oi
, the old sunlight So this glorious gospel II
a Just what we want to photograph tho i'm
, age of God on one soul and daguerreotyp'
| it on another soul. Not new gospel, bu
/ the old gospel put to new work. In oul
: time we have had tho telegraphio inven
tion, and the telephone invention, and th
electric light invention, but they are oil
children of old electricity, an element tha
the philosophers have long while know
= much about. So this electric gospel need
!, to flash its light ON the Dyes and ears ant
u souls of men and to become telephoni
y medium to make the deaf hear, q tele
y graphic medium to dart invitation an
~ warming to all nations, an electric light t
10 illumine the eastern and western hem
spheres. Not new gospel, but the Oh
y gospel doing new work.
y Now you say, "That Is q very beautifu
y theory, but is 1T possible 10 take ones rel
70 gion into all the avocations and business
70 es of lifep" Yes, and / will give you som
u specimens Medical doctors who took thei
- religion into everyday life: DR.. John Al
: ercrombie of Aberdeen, the greatest Sco
~ tish physician of his day, his book on "Di
= eases of the Brain and Spinal Cord, )" n
" y, more wonderful than his book on TT
- Philosophy Of the Moral Feelings," an
70 often kneeling at the bedside of his p'
~ tients to commend them to God in praye
~ DR.. John Brown OF Edinburgh, immort'
70 as an author dying under the benedictio
~ of the sick Of Edinburgh, myself remen
= bering him as he sat in his study In Edil
10 burgh talking to me about Christ and h
J, n hope of heaven, and score of Christia
a.. tne tom IVIct
" " good as they were.
% Lawyers who carried their religion in
70 their profession: Lord Cairns, the queen
a. q adviser for many years, the highest leg
W authority in Great Britain-Lord Carr
ao every summer in his vacation preachiI
~ as an evangelist among the poor of b
~ ~ country; John Mclean, judge of the s
ne preme court of the United States and prt
%, ident of the American Sunday Scho
y. y. union, feeling more satisfaction In the ls
"o ter office than In the former, and scores
Christian lawyers as eminent In the chur
Of God as they are eminent at the bar.
go Religious Merchants.
ny Merchants who took their religion In
~ everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided
~ ne his day because he established that syste
"a, by which we come to find out the comni
~ cial standing of business men, starti
'ii ,i, that entire system, derided for 1t the
~ himself, as knew him we'll, In mo-
os' character AL. Monday mornings inviti
es, to room in the top of his storehouse
in 1orl-, oe bis ,,+,hi;shmant oatino fb,
'iu about their worldly interests and tn
oh spiritual interests, then giving out
III. hymn, leading in prayer, giving them
YER so,r, r,or7s oe r,oo5 odrice askino th,
the ,r,bn+ oh,,r,h +So,, a++ondod on tbs 6,
, bath, what the text was, whether they b
any especial troubles of their own. Artt
es Tappan. / never heard his eulogy p
lsi nounced. pronounce it now. And otl
81. merchants just as good. William f. Doc
! i,i ~ in the iron business, Moses H. Grinnell
he the shipping business, Peter Cooper In
ue, glue business. Scores of men just as 81
lnu as they WERE
use Farmers who take their religion Il
oal their occupation: Why, this minute th
horses and wagons stand around all
meeting houses in America. They beg
IT, ~. this day by a prayer to God, and wi
risv ~, they get home at noon, after they have
VIII their horses up, will offer a prayer to c
no' at the table, seeking blessing, and n
NY summer there will be in their fields
on- : one dishonest head OF rye, not one dish
. 70 est ear of corn, not one dishonest apl
ne Worshiping God today away up ame
.ne the Berkshire hills, or away down al
70 the lagoons Of Florida, or away out al
'er' the mines of Colorado, or along the bal
pre- of the Potomac and the karitan, whel
ior knew them better because I went to sch
her with them.
nas Mechanics who took their religion !
anu their occupations: James Brindley,
sne famous millwright; Nathaniel Bowdit
To- the famous ship chandler; Elihu Burr
.per the famous blacksmith, and hundreds
her thousands Of strong arms which b
a made the hammer, and the saw, and
esy, adze, and the drill, and the ak SOUND
the the grand march of our national Ind