Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-01-06

Now, here we compromise 1t. Take one pei
| cent. OF the profits, and with that one pei
cent. You can build an asylum for these poor
m serab!e rag imuffins of the street, and ]
viii take a yacht and go to Europe, forever
and ever. Amen"
! All, my fr en- is, if a man hath gotten hi
state wrong uly and he build line OF
hospitals and universities from here to
! Alaska. ne cannot atone for it. After awhile
/ Ih's al who has been getting corner in
wheat dies. and then satan gets corner"
| in him. He goes into great, long B acS
! Fri lav. There is "break" in the market.
! According TO Wall street parlance, he wiped
others OUT. and now he is himself wiped out
! No co laterals on which to make a spiritual
| 'oan. Eternal de'a cation.
But this practical religion will not only
rectiiy all merchandise, it will also rectify
! all mechanism and all toll. A time W II come
/ when man will work faithfully by the
! JOB as he does by the day. You say W zen
| thing is slghtngiy done, "Oh. that was
one by the iobl' You can tell by the swift
| ness or sloTness with which q huckman
irives whether he is hired by the hour or by
/ re excursion. If he is hired by the hour, he
! .r,ves very slowly, 80 as to make as many
nours as pussiDl'. Il he is hired by the ex-
rursiOn, he whips up the horses so as TO get
arOunI and get another customer. All
STYLES of work have 10 be inspected ships
Inspected. hor-es inspected, machinery IN
-,,cteI, boss to watch the journeyman; capi-
.tlist coming down Unexpectedly to watch
! G boss, con 'uctor OF a city car SCUM ling
the punch bell TO prove his honesty as pas
-enSer nan 5 tc him a clipped nickel All
! Things must De watched ard inspected. I'm
| usriections in the wood covered with putty,
/ garments WARRANTED to last until you put
/ them ON The third time, shotdy in all kinds
| Of ciOthiu%. chronos. pinchbeck. diamonds
| or $50. bOokbindery that holds on until
YOU read the third chapter; spawned horses,
~ skilfut dose of jockeys, for several days
| uad, 70 loOE spry; wagon tires poorly put
/ on. horses poorly shod, piastering that
cracks without any provocation and falls off,
| plumbing that needs to be plumbed, imper-
feet car wheel that halts the whole train with
| a hot boX--sO little practical religion in the
| mechanism of the world. 1 tell you, my
riends. the law of man will never rectify
! these things. II will be the all pervading in
fluence of the practical religion of Jesus
! Christ that will make the change for the bet.
ter.
Yes. this practical religion will also go in
to agriculture. which is proverbially honest,
but n eds to be rsctitied, and il will keep the
/ farmer from sending to the city market veal
/ hat is too young to kill, and when the
farmer farms shares it will keep the man
| who does the work from making his half
/ ibree-'ourths. anl it will keep the farmer
from building his post and rail fence on his
| neighbor'S premises. and 1t will make him
! shelter his cattle N the winter storm, and il
" Il keep the Old el Ter from working on
nobody sees him. And this practical relig-
ion will hover over the house. and over the
barn. ant over the field, and over the or
char.
Yes, this practical religion of which
! speak will come into the learned professions.
rne lawyer will feel his responsibility in de-
| Tending innocence aud arraigning evil and
| expoun ling the law, and 1t will keep him
from charging for briefs he never wrote. and
for pleas he never made, and for percent
| ages ne never earned and from robbing
( widow and orphan because they de-
feusel'ss. Yes, this practical relig on will
come into the physicians HE, and he will
fee! his responsibility as the conservator OF
the public nea tn. a profession hOnOred by
. the Tact tnat Christ himself was physician.
AMI it will maze him honest, an / when he
does not understand a case he will say so,
no: tryin 70 cover up lack of diagnosis with
poni-rous technicalitie5, or send the patient
TO a reckless drag store because the apothe-
cary happens to pay percentage on the
prescriptions sent. And this practical re-
iigion viii come to the schooiteacher, max
lug her feel her responsibility in preparing
our youth Tor Us -fu ness and for happiness
aud for homer and will keep her from CIV
Ing 4.sli Be,s 10 anti nstid, chasTising MN
for wall he cannot hello and sending dis
souragee6en all through the after years of a
lifetime.
This practical religion will also come to
the newspaper men, and it I'll help then in
; them in setting forth the oest interests of So
ciey, and it will keep them from putting
The sins of the world in larger type than its
virtues. and its mistakes than its achieve
menIs, and it will keep them from misrepre-
senting interviews with public men, and
rom starring suspicious that never can be
al ayej, AMI viii 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
"A tod aFtrlc
ciety. so that people will have their expendi-
lures within their income. and they W II ex-
chnnge the hypocritical ''not at home" for
for the honest explanation 100 tired" or
100 busy 10 see you" and will keep innocent
reception from becoming intoxicated con-
ylviaiity.
Yea. there is great opportunity for mis-
sonary work in what are called the sue
cass ul classes of society. In some Of the
cities is is no rare thing now 10 see a fashion
able woman intoxicated in the street. or the
rail ear, or the restaurant. The number of
line .adies who drink too much is increas-
in,. Perhaps you may find her at the recep-
tion in most eSaitei company, but she has
made too many visits to the winaroom, and
now her eye is CLASSY, AMI after awhile her
cheek is unnatur,lly flushed, and then she
fails into fits of excruciatiny laughter about
nothing, aud then she offers sickening
batteries, telling come homely man how we'll
he looks, and then she is helped into the
I
10 her nome it takes the husband and the
coachman to get her up the stairs. The re-
port is she was taken suddenly ill at GER
man. All, pJi She took too much champagne
AMI mixed liquors and got drunk. That
Mas 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 manv hus-
bands. Society noeis 10 be expur.ated and
4 nod fnn nafsyat Tod rts ri urliz za1
We want this practical religion not only to
take hold of what are called the lower C asses,
hllt to take hot. - 100 "li-a 49, ht"hnr
classes. The trouble is that people have ar
iiea they eau d. all their religion on Sun
day with bymn-1ook and prayer book anC
liturgy, and some of them sit in church roll
; ing up their eyes as though they were rea iN
for translation, when their Sabbath i
bounced on all sides by an inconsistent life
and while you are expecting to come ou
from under their arms the wings of an ange
there come out from their forehead the horn
of n beast.
, There has got to be a new departure in re
| iigion. do not say new religion. Oh
/ no, but the old religion brought to new ap
piauces. In our time We have had tn
! iaguerreotype and the ambrotype and ths
, photograph, but it is the same old sun, an,
these arts are only new appliances of the oil
sunlight. So this glorious gospel is jus
! what We want to photograph the image o
! God on one soul and daguerreotypei it on an
other scui. Not new gospel, but the oil
I gospel put to new work. In our time W
, ave hal the telegraphic Invention, and tn
telephonc invention, and the electric ligh
A invention, but they are all children of oil
/ Electricity. an element that the philosopher
I awe long white known much about. $
q his ectric gospel needs TO fash its light o
. he eyes an ! ears and sou of men aud {
: 'scoue u telephonic medium to make tn
leaf hea-, 4 teiegraphic medium to dart il
vita ion aud warning to all Nations, an ell,
), i'-ht to illum ne the eastern an wester
u oem'spheres. Not a new gospel, but the oil
> gospel doing new work.
Now you say, "That is a very heautifu
!, theory. but is 1t possible to take ones relic
= ion intJ all the avocations and businesses {
e ! life?" Yes, and will give you some spec
i mems. Medical doctors who took their relie