Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-01-05
Carry Religion into Business.

Let no calculation of advantage or profit no
keenness of competition, induce the merchant,
the manufac urer, or the tradesman to neglect
the indication Of right and wrong furnished by
the ready application of ''The Royal Law" by
conscience You are not mere money -getters,
or rmoney-worshippers. If gain is to be gotten,
it must come with Gods blessing and consis-
lently with the obligations and professions Of
a disciple of Christ. For the religion of Jesus
Christ is not for holy days and holy places only
"A few times and seasons and relations and
circumstances. A religion based, indeed, upon
the most stupendous facts of divine wisdom,
power and love a religion involving sublimest
truths and propounding lofliest motives, but
dest ending to and embracing-aye, and ennob-
ling and onsecrating-life's humbest duties,
its most trivial occurrences and occupations.
A religion not to be dOnned and DOTTED at pleas
ure; not to be reserved for out-of-t -theway and
exceptional cases, or too sublime, too subtle,
too transcendental for daily wear and tear but
a egion to regulate our most secular engage
ments, and among them the commerce of the
merchant prince and the sales OF the retail
storekeeper.
| The religion of Christ is a religion for ledg
ers and counters, no less than for churches and
death-beds. And because professors of Christ's
religion forget this, ,TtEey are stumbling blocks
to weak brethren and TO sneering world. The
men who brand religion as "cant," and its
professors as "purtans' and "saints," are tri-
umphant at the exposure of some petty fraud
or wholesale trickery of some loud professor
whose religion is too high and transcendental
10 take cogniZance OF, or to enter into his COM
mercia dealings.
A good church-goer this-a strong Sabbath
rian, staunch to his professionalism, may be a
communicate well versed in creeds and articles
and confessions of faith, texts at his fingers
ends-quite "made up" on the Calyinstic and
Armenian conroversy-knows the pros and
cons of the establishment question--gives his
judgment of sermon. like theological ora
Gle, as regularly as he hears one. But we have
bargain to strike with him. We stand at his
counter to lay out few shilngs. We must
keep our eyes open and have our wits about us.
The 'royal law' has no place here. He has
no place here. He has family prayer up stairs.
He was demure and sanctimonious even to
grimace as we looked upon him in his pew but
yesterday. But he seems TO have possessed
! himself of a dispensation from God, or priest
or minister, as to this "royul law" He has, Il
should appear a Dlenary indulgence exempting
him from the Golden Rule, allowing him in
"white living" over his counter. And he will
put us off with packet of .adulterated goods
with an unruffled conscience and complacent
courtesy; and stamp on an inferior article pro-
duced perhaps within his own four walls, the
name of an eminent manufacturer. Such un'
sound professors have need TO be reminded thai
neither Calvinism nor any ether ism in the head
or on the tongue will pass muster. Church
membership. household forms, will not prove
them Christ's. "a false balance is abomnatior
r to The Lord, and they that deal truly are hi'
delight" "Shall count them pure with th'
, unjust balances, and clean with the deceitfu
weights ?"-Sunddy Magazine.