| Show PRACTICAL we have llave no doubt that a rigorous landlord having sharked it all the week would be better pleased oil on sunday to doze through an able gospel sermon oil on divine mysteries than lo 10 be kept awake by a practical sermon berman that among other oilier things set forth the duties of a christian landlord A broker who lias has gambled on a magnificent s scale cale all the week does not go to catt chulch ch to have his practical swindling anale analyzed zed by the new testament spirit A merchant whose last bale of smuggled goods was safely stored on katurd saturday ay night nig lit and his brother merchant ahoi who on that same sume day swore a false falso invoice through the customhouse custom house they go to church to hear a sermon on faith on angels on the resurrection they have nothing invested in these subjects they expect the minister to be behold bold and orthodox but if jie lie wants respectable merchants to pay ample pew rents let him not vulgarize the pulpit by introducing commercial questions i A rich christi christl in ui brother owns largely in a d distillery is and is chin orous against letting down the pul pulpit it to the tiie vulgarity of temperance sermons another ma man i buys tax titles and noses about all the week to see who cabbe slipped ott of a neglected lot A merchant that plies his craft with unscrupulous appliance of every means that win he too wants doctrine on the Sabbi sabbati ith tl not trosel secular questions men lien wish two departments in ili life the secular and tile the religious between them a high wall and opaque is lo 10 be built they wish to do what they plea e for six long days then stepping the other side of the tile wall they tiley wish the minister to assuage their fears to comfort their consciences and fur furnish niall them a clear ticket and assurance for heaven by such a shrewd mati mali og ement our modern financiers are determined to show that a christian can serve two masters both hoth god and mammon at dt the tilo same time il W beecher |
