Connecticut western news., 1896-12-24

busy to see you" md 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, or 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 wineroom, and now her eye is glassy, 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 flatteries, 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 i was taken suddenly ill at german. An, 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- migsted 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 new departure in religion Ido not say 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 a new gospel, but the old gospel put to new work. In our time we have had the telegraphio in- vention, and the telephonic invention,
 and the electric light invention, but they are all 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 and ears and souls of men and to become a telephonic medium to make the deaf hear, telegraphio me- dium to dart invitation and warning to all nations, an electric light to illu- mine the eastern and western hemi- spheres. Not new gospel, but the old gospel doing new work.
 Now you say, That is very beau tiful theory, but is it possible to take one's religion into all the avocations and businesses of life?" Yes, and will give you some specimens. Medical doc- tors who took their religion into every day life: Dr. John Abercrombie of Ab- erdeen, the greatest Scottish physician of his day, his book on Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord" no more won
 derful than his book on ''The Philoso- phy of the Moral Feelings" and often kneeling at the bedside of his patients to commend them to God in prayer; Dr. John Brown of Edinburgh, immortal as an author, dying under the benediction of the sick of Edinburgh, myself re- membering him as he sat in his study in Edinburgh talking to me about Christ and his hope of heaven, and score of Christian family physicians in Washington just as good as they were.
 Lawyers who carried their religion into their profession: Lord Cairns, the queens adviser for many years, the highest legal authority in Great Brit ain-Lord Cairns, every summer in his vacation preaching as an evangelist among the poor of his country; John
 Mclean, judge of the supreme court of the United States and president of the American Sunday School union, feeling more satisfaction in the latter office than in the former, and scores of Chris tian lawyers as eminent in the church
 of God as they are eminent at the bar.
 A Case In Point.
 Merchants who took their religion
 into everyday life: Arthur Tappan, de-
 rided in his day because he established that system by which we come to find
 out the commercial standing of business
 men, starting that entire system, de- rided for it then, himself, as I knew him we'll, in moral character Al. Mon- lay mornings inviting to a room in the top of his stsrehouse the clerks of his establishment, asking them about their worldly interests and their spiritual in- terests, then giving out hymn, leading in prayer, giving them few words of good advice, asking them what church they attended on the Sabbath, what the
 text was, whether they had any espe- cial troubles of their own. Arthur Tap pan. I never heard his eulogy pro-
 nounced. I pronounce it now. And oth- CT merchants just as good. William E. Dodge in the iron business, Moses H. Grinnell in the shipping business, Pe- ter Cooper in the glue business. Scores
 of men just as good as they were.
 Farmers who take their religion into
 their occupation: Why, this minute their horses and wagons stand around
 all the meeting houses in America
 They began this day by prayer to God,
 and when they get home at noon, after they have put their horses up, will offer prayer to God at the table, seeking a blessing, and next summer there will
 be in their fields not one dishonest head
 of rye. not one dishonest ear of corn,
 not one dishonest apple. Worshiping
 God today away up among the Berk- shire hills. or away down amid the la