The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-01

her responsibility in preparing oui
youth for usefulness and for happiness
ard for honor, and will keep her from
giving q sly box to a dull head,
chastising hirn for what he can moi
help, and sending encouragement al
through the after years of a life
time. This practical religion will also
come to t. newspaper men, and it w ill
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 its mistakes than its
achievements, and it will Keep them
from misrepresenting interviews with
public men, and from starting suspi-
cions that never can be allayed; and
will make them staunch friends of the
oppressed instead of the opprcssor.
Yes. this religion, this practical re-
ligion, will come and put its hand on
what is called good society, elevated
society, successful society. SO that
people will have their expenditures
within their income, and they will ex-
| change the hypocritical mot at home
for the honest explanation too tired, u
or ''too busy to see you," and viii keep
innocent reception from becoming in
toxicated conviviality.
Yes, 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 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 recep-
tion in most exalted company.
but she has umade 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 offers sickening fatter-
| les, telling some homely man how well
he looks, and then she is helped into
the carriage, and by the time the car
riage gets to her home it takes the
husband and the coachm]n to get her
up the stairs. The report is, she was
taken suddenly i'll at a german. All!
no. She took too much champagne,
That was all.
Yes, this practical religion will have
to come in and fix up the marriage re-
lation in America. There are mem.
bers of churches who have too many
wives and others who have too many
husbands. Society needs to be expur-
gated, and washed, and fumigated,
and Christianized. We want this prac-
teal 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 re-
ligion 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 a beast.
There has got to be new departure
in religion. | do not say a new re-
ligion. Oh, no; but the old religion
to new appliances. In our time we
ambrotype and the photographs; but it
is the same old sun, and these arts are
only new appliances of the old sun
light So this glorious Gospel is just
what we want to photograph the
image of God on one soul and daguer-
reotype it on another soul. Not a
new Gospel, but the old Gospel put
to new work. In our time we have
had the Geographic invention and
the telephone invention and the cleo
trio light inventions; but they are all
children of the old electricity, an ele-
ment that the philosophers have 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 telephoneic medium
to dart invitation and warning to all
nations; an electric light to illum nj
nate the eastern and western hemi-
spheres. Not new Gospel, but the old
Gospel doing a new work.
Now You say, THAT is very beau
tiful theory, but is it possible to take
ones religion into all the avocations
and businesses of life?" Yes, and 1
will give you some specimen. Medical
doctors who took their religion into
everyday life: Dr. John Abercrom-
Scotch physician of his day, his
book on Diseases of the Brain
and Spinal Cord" no more wonderful
than his book on 1.-The Philoso-
ply of the Moral Feelings" and often
kneeling at the bedside of his patients
to commend them to Sod in prayer.
DIR. John Brown, of Edinburgh, inn
mortal as an author, dying under the
benediction of the sick of Edinburgh;
myself remem boring him as he sat in
his study in Edinburgh talking to me
about Christ, and his hope of Heaven.
And score o. Christian family ply
sicians in Washington just as good as
they were.
In the latter part of the last century
girl in England became kitchen
maid in a farm house. She had many
styles of work and much hard work.
Time rolled on, and she married the
son of weaver of Halifax. They were
industrious, they saved money enough
after awhile to build them
home. On the morning of the
day they were to enter that
hOAiC ZIG young WIG dIOSc DIT iOuE
o'clock, entered the front dooryard,
knelt down, colsecrated the place to
God, and there made this solemn vow:
30 Lord, if Thou wilt bless me in this
place, the poor shall have share of
it." Time rolled on and fortune rolled
in. Children grew up around them,
and they all became affluent; one,
member of parliament, in public
place declared that his success came
from that prayer of his mother in the
door-yard. All of them were affuent.
Four thousand hands in the factories.
They built dwelling houses for la bor-