| Show TIlE REV DE WITT TAISIAGE is I not always cranky but now and then is sane in his ideas and suggestions sug-gestions however far off he may be I ordinarily For instaucahe preached the other Sunday that the great desideratum des-ideratum is practical religIona religion that will correctly label goods that will prevent a man from telling you a watch was made in Geneva when it was made in Massachusetts that will keep the ground glass and the sand out of sugar that will sift the Prussian biue from the tea leaves that will seperate the one quart of water from the one honest drop of cows milk He says practical religion will remedy those evils cast out the hypocrisy upset shoddy and make decency honesty and truth dominant domin-ant and he is certain it will fall with a heavy hand on fashionable society and correct the iniquities that now exist in it The thing for Mr Talmage to do now is to preach and practice this practical religion |
