THE RIGHT SORT OF RELIGION.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 46, 15 May 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE RIGHT SORT OF RELIGION.

We want a religion that goes into (he family, and keeps the husband from being spiteful when the dinner is late, and keeps the dinner from being late—keeps the wife from fretting when the husband's tracks the newly washed floor with his muddy boots, and makes the husband mindful of the scraper and the doormat—keeps the mother patient when the baby is cross, and keeps the baby pleasant—amuses the children as well instructs them—wins as well as governs—project the honeymoon into the harvest moon, and makes the happy hours like the eastern fig-tree, bearing in its bosom at once the beauty of the tender blossom, and the glory of the ripened fruit. We want a religion that bears heavily, not on the “exceeding sinfulness of sin,” but on the exceeding rascaliity of lying and stealing—a religion that banishes small measures from the counters, small baskets

from the stalls, pebbles from the cotton bags, clay from paper, sand from sugar, chicory from coffee otter from butter, beet juice from vinegar, alum from bread, strychnine from wine, water from milkeans, and buttons from the contribution box The religion that is to save the world will llot ' put all the big strawberries at the top and all the bad ones at the bottom. It will not offer more baskets of foreign wine than the vineyards ever produced bottles, and more barrels of Genesee flour than all the wheat fields of New York grow and all her mills grind. It will not make one half a pair of shoes of good leather and the other of poor leather, so that the first shall redound to the maker’s credit, and the second to his cash It will not put Jouvin’s stamp on Jenkin’s kid gloves nor make Paris bonnets in the back room of a Boston milliner’s shop, nor let a piece of velvet that professes to measure twelve yards, come to an untimely end in the tenth, or a spool of sewing silk that vouches for twenty yards be nipped in the bud at fourteen and a-half, nor the cotton thread spool break to the yard-stick fifty of the two hundred yards of promise that was given to the eye, nor yard wide cloth measure less than thirty-six inches from selvedge to selvedge, nor all-wool delaines and all-linen handkerchiefs be amalgamised with clandestine cotton, nor coats made of woollen rags pressed together, be sold to the unsuspecting public for legal broadcloth. It does not put bricks at five dollars per thousand into chimneys it contracted to build of seven dollar materials, nor smuggle white pine floors that have paid for hard pine, nor leave yawning cracks in closets where boards ought to join, nor dub ceilings that ought to be smoothly plastered, nor make window blinds of slats that cannot stand the wind, and paint that cannot stand the sun, and fastenings that may be touched. The religion that is to sanctify the world pays its debts. It does not consider that forty cents returned for one hundred cents given is according to gospel, though it may bo according to law. 11 looks upon a man that has failed in ti’ade, and who continues to live in luxury, as a thief. It looks upon a man w/io promises to pay fifty dollars on demand with interest, and who neglects to pay it on demand, with or without interest, ns a liar.— Congregaiionalist.