Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-01-07

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ms prayers, 1 will compose for him one
which he practically is making: sob. Lord.
we, by getting corner in breadstufTs,
swindled the people of tie United States OUT
! OF $40, 600, COG and made suffering all IN and
| down the land, and we would like to COM
promise this matter with Thee! Thou know
est 1t was sealy job, but then it was smart.
Now, here we compromise ii. Take one per
cent. OF the profits, and with that one per
| cent. you can build an asylum for these Door
miserable ragamufflns OF the street. aud |
Will take yacht and go to Europe, forever
and ever. Amen"
All, my friends, il man hath gotten his
estate wrongfully and he build line of
hospitals and universities from here to
| Alaska, he cannot atone for it, After awhile
this RAN who has been getting ''corner' in
wheat dies. and then satan gets 'icorner''
in him. He goes into a great. long Black
Friday. There is u ''break' in the market
According 10 Wall street parlance, he wiped
others out and now he is himself wiped out
| No collaterals on which to make spiritual
| loan. Eternal defalcation.
But this practical religion will not only
| rectify all merchandise, IL will also rectify
all mechanism and all toll. A time will come
when man will work as faithfully by the
job as he does by the day. You say when a
thing is slightingly done, sob, that was
done by the job" You can tell by the swift
|
drives whether he is hired by the hour or by
the excursion. 1.-The is hired by the hour. he
| drives very slowly, so as to make as many
hours as possible. 1.-The is hired by the ex-
cursion, he whips up the horses so as TO get
around and get another customer. All
| styles of work have TO be inspected ships
| inspected, horses inspected. machinery in
/ spected, boss TO watch the journeyman; capi-
talist coming down Unexpectedly to watch
/ the boss, conductor of city car sounding
the punch bell TO prove his honesty as pas
senger hands to him a clipped nickel. All
| things must be watched and inspected. I'm
| projections in the wood covered with putty.
garments warranted to last until you put
them on the third time, shoddy in ali kinds
Of clothing. chromos. pinchbeck. diamonds
for $3.50, bookbindery that holds on until
you read the third chapter; spawned horses,
by skillful dose Of jockeys, for several days
made to look spry; wagon tires poorly put
on, horses poorly shod plastering that
cracks without any provocation and falls OF,
plumbing that needs to be plumbed, imper-
feet ear wheel that halts the whole train with
a hot box-so little practical religion in the
mechanism of the world. / tell you, my
| friends the law of man will never rectify
these things. 1t will be the all pervading in
| fluence of the practical religion of Jesus
Christ that will make the change for the bet
| ter.
It's lulS pEdctlCdi ItilSlOn Will dinO ~ III
| to agriculture. which is proverbially honest,
but needs to be rectiaed, and it will keep the
farmer from sending to the city market veal
that is too young to kill, and when the
farmer farms on shares il will keep the man
who does the work from making his half
three-fourths, and it will keep the farmer
from building his post and rail fence on his
neighbors premises. and it will make him
shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and 1t
will keep the old elder from working Oh
Sunday afternoon in the new ground where
nobody sees him. And this practical relig-
ion will hover over the house, and over the
barn, and over the field, and over the or
chard.
Yes. this practical religion Of which l
speak will come into the learned professions.
The lawyer will feel his responsibility in de-
Tending innocence and arraigning evil and
expounding the law, aud ii will keep him
from charging for briefs he never wrote. and
for pleas he never made, and for percent
ages he never earned, and from robbing
widow and orphan because they are de-
fenseless. Yes, this practical religion will
come into the physicians life. and he will
feel his responsibility as the conservator OF
the public health, "A profession honored by
the fact that Christ himself was physician.
And 1t will make him honest, and when he
does not understand n case he will say So
not trying to cover up lack of diagnosis with
ponderous technicalities, or send the patient
to reckless drug store because the apothe-
cary happens to pay percentage ON the
prescriptions sent. And this practical re-
ligion will come to the schooteacher, max
ing her feel her responsibility in preparing
our youth for usefulness and for happiness
and for honor, and will keep her from CIV
ing sly box to dull head, chastising him
for what he cannot help and sending dis
couragement all through the after years OF a
lifetime.
This practical religion will also come to
the newspaper men, and 1t will help them in
the gathering ofthe news, and it will help
them in setting forth the best interests OF So
ciety, and it will keep them from putting
the sins Of the world in larger type than Its
virtues. and its mistakes than its achieves
ments and it will keep them from misrepre-
senting interviews with public men, and
from starting suspicious that never can be
allayed, and will make them stanch friends
OF the oppressed instead of the oppressor.
Yes this religion. this practical religion,
will come and put its hand on what is called
good society. elevated society. successful So
ciety so that people will have their expendi-
lures within their income. and they will ex-
change the hypocritical mot at home" for
for the honest explanation TOO tired or
s'foo busy to see you" and will keep innocent
reception from becoming intoxicated con-
VITALITY.
Yea. there Is great opportunity ioT hts
sonary work in what are called the sue
cessful classes OF society. In some OF the
cities is is no rare thing now to see fashion
able woman intoxicated in the street, or the
rail car, or the restaurant. The number OF
fine ladies who drink too much Is inereas-
ing Perhaps you may find her at the recep-
ton in most exalted company, but she has
made too many visits to the wineroom. 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
batteries, telling some homely man how well
he looks, and then she is helped into the
carriage, aud by the time the carriage gets
TO her home it takes the husband and the
coachman to get her up the stairs. The re-
port is she was taken suddenly i'll at ger
man. Alb, mol She took too much champagne
aud mixed liquors and got drunk. That
was ALL
Yes. this practical religion will have to
come in and fix up the marriage relation IN
America. There are members OF churches
who have too many wives and too many hus-
bands. Society needs to be expurgated ana
washed and fumigated and Christianlzed.
We want this practical religion not only 10
take of what are called the lower classes,
hut to take hold of what are called the higher
Ia fc that rpOUlA have An