The Newtown bee., 1896-07-31

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 m.ec stumbled into doing -o. rhc cause tar oAe-hard times, now ao prevalent. now ~" generally bvWailcd, i- this: a lack
 Of fafJh Lack of faitl! That has done
 f aIL That las given tue mgntiest na-
 'lou on earth, that WAS rimbic in it's run-
 oIag, that was a giant in it's strength. a
 shock If par4Iy is which will scarcely
 lct ie move.
 LACK OF FAITH
 That has stopped zaw-miLi, from buzzing.
 factory wheels from hu3uGliEg. the w00d- choppers axe from feling, the farmers hand from pIoughing, aud leaves us all %s if we were sphyXiatcd and benumbed.
 Now let me go back to ray first point: the pros pefity of things. commercial and spiritual, depends upon fauh; that is: religion and business have 8 common bond and tie. There is 8 c0um0nUj,,cp saying that we all know, Business is business. This is as much as to say: Business is business and must be kcpt by itself; business is business and has ita own peculiar ways of doing th1pgq. business is busIness and ia transacted in d sphere all it's own; it has it's own De- cuiiar principles and methods and prac- ticcs and aims. Now, business does not have its own peculiar principles and methods and practices and aims. Rusi- ness depends upon faith, IS based upon faith, cannot get along without faith such Is the teaching of these hard times: and religion depends upon faith, is based upon faith, cannot get along without faith-such is the teaching of the Bible, Gods Word. Busincss is called intense y practical, religion is thought to be in- i. .en selY impractical. Bui1ess is thought -o have to do with six days If the week, religion by many people is regarded as good hing on the seventh d4y of the week. Business is looked upon as walking upon he earth, religion is known to have its nome in the skies. Business is consider. d to be the part of the man who wants .o make good living here, religion is counted fair investment for the one who is concerted with how it is to be with him over there. Don't you see how he teaching of these hard times is all to he contrary? It says, Religion is the most practical thing in the world. It ays Take faith away, and you knock he props out from under the pillars of he nation's prosperity; take faith away, md you open the throttle-valve and start he train carrying the nations wealth at earlul speed on the dowuhiu grade to uin.
 Religion is something natural. To how that is the only reason why I have reached this sermon to day; and if men would only learn that, these hard times would not have been in vain. How few usiness men we find in our churches low few ''captains of industry" are also aptains of the Lords host! How gen. raj is the notion that religion Is a piece f sentimentalism, good enough for ,omen and small children! If we could nly make religion dismount from it's 5Ilts If we@couId only have 1t for a tile while put off it's pious look and air If only for a short me it would dress in everyday clothes, nd shake hands as plain people do, and I ot st once assume a dismal tone as soon l s it begins to talk Jesus, the founder of the Christian re- glon, was not day-dreamer or a vis- ,nary or theorist or builder of cas- es in Spain.
 E WAS AN INTENSELY PRACTICAL MAN. :, e told Martha how to keep house. He { imself knew how to shove the plane and [