WANTED, A RELIGION.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 50, 24 August 1872, Page 3

WANTED, A RELIGION.

"We want a religion (says a late issue of the British Mesenger) that goes into the family an<l keeps the husband from being angry when the dinner id late, and keeps the dinner from being late—keeps the wife from fretting when the husband tracks the newly washed lioor with his muddy bouts, and i makes the husband mindful of the scraper and door- j mat — keqn the mother patient when the baby is j cross, and keeps the baby pleasant, amuses the. children as well ;is instructs them—wins as well'as governs—projects the honeymoon into a harvest! moon bearing in its bosom at once the beauty of-j the tender blossym the glory of the ripened 1 fruit. We want a religion that Wars heavily, not j only on the "exceeding sinfulness of sin." but 0:1 , the exceeding r.iscality of lying and stealing. A religion that banishes small measures from the : counters, small lnskets from the stall, pebbles from , the cotton bags, clay from the paper, sand from the , sugar, chicory from colFce, otter from butter, beet '< j,uioe from yiuegar, alum from bread; strychnine from beer, and water from milk cans. The religion that is to s'i've the world will not put all the big : strawberries'at the top, and all the little ones at the bottom, it will not make one-half-pair of boots : of good leather and the other, half of poor leather, j so th.it the lirst should re lound to the maker's credit, and the second to his cash. Lt will not put Jouvin's stamp on Jenkins' kid gloves;.nor make . l'aris bonnets in the backroom of a Boston milliner's j shot* ; liur-let a piece of velvet that professes to measure twenty yards, be. nipped in the Ihul at ' fourteen and a half; imu.the cotton thread spool ; break to the yard-stick fifty of the two hundred of ; promise that is given to the eye ; nor yard-wide cloth measure less than thirty-six inches from selvege to selvege ; nor all-wojl delaines, and all-linen ; liandkerchiefs be amalgamated with clandestine ; cotton ; nor coats made of old rags pressed together i to lie sold'to the unsuspecting public for legal broad- i cloth. Lt does not put bricks at five dollars per ; thousand into chimneys it contracts to build, of.l material ; nor smuggle white pine into j iloors that have paid for hard pine ; nor le i,ve yawn- : ing cracks in closets whcje boards ought to join ; i nor daub the ceiling that ought to be snwothly i plastered ; and make window blinds with slats that i cannot stand the wind, and paint that cannot stand j the sun, and fastenings tint one may look at, bulf ! ou no account are they to be touched. The religion I that is going to sanctify the world pays its debts. J It docs not consider that forty cents given, is ; according to the (Jospel, though it may be according j to law. Itlooks on a ruan who has failed in trade, and who co ntinues to live on in luxury, as a thief, j