Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — The Religion We Want. [ARTICLE]

The Religion We Want.

We want a religion that softens the step, and tunes the voice to melody, and fills the eye with sanshine, and cheeks the impatient exclamation and harsh rebuke— a religion that is polite, deferential to superiors, courteous to inferiors, and considerate to friends, a religion that goes into the family, and keeps the husband from being cross when dinner is late, and keeps the wife from fretting when he tracks the newlywashed floor with his muddy boots, and makeshim mindful of the scraper and the door mat; keeps the mother patient when the baby is cross, and amuses the children as well as instructs them; cares for the servants beside paying* them promptly; projects the honeymoon into the harvest-moon, and makes the happy home like the Easter fig-tree, bearing in its bosom at oncethe beauty of the tender blossom and the glory of the ripened fruit We want a religion that shall interpose between the ruts and the gullies and rocks of the highways of life, and the sensitive souls that are traveling over them.