Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-22
Personal Relation il Relation to Bust
ness Life.


The ambition of many father, to save
their children the ten thousand cares and
difficulties Of the business world by endow-
ing them at one-and-twenty with a COM
potency, is affectionately cruel and inyari-
ably result, in decentralization and idle
ness The old Jewish custom of giving
every man a trade Of some kind or other
is in every way wiser and better
hold it that every man has a calling
to some work or other-a Divine calling
which Is the voice Of power partly con-
,ciou, and partly latent. BY obeying
this call man is to minister to the body
polite in matters physical, social, or III
tellectual and by this ministry his own
physical, social and intellectual needs are
to lie met. Every Christian man has two
cailings, which are, however really one.
He has the lower calling to which we
have referred. and he has a high calling
of God ia Christ Jesus, in virtue of which
he i, to take part in the ministry of good
ness. But these twain are one The high
calling does not alter the form of the low
er, it only gives it anew spirit. fla man
is called to make boots, when he becomes
a Christian Christianity does not say 10
him, You must give up boot making. No,
it simply says you must now make the
very best boots possible. and it is at your
peril to make bad boots. This calling of
yours is capable of great elevation. If
you bring to your work spirit consecra-
ted to the right, you will not simply min
ister to the bodily comfort of your custom
ers but you will touch them morally and
spiritually. The supernatural light in
you, which is the power that fits you for
your high calling will find a thousand
chinks in your every day life and toll
through which to illume and bless men.
There is no difference.n form between the
man who breaks stones on the high road
and the geologist who also breaks stones
but really the two men are as wide apar
as the poles. What makes the difference
Simply the higher spirit and nobler pur
pose that the geologist brings to his work
Now the spirit of Christ within a man il
to exalt the work and business of life int,
worship, Whatsoever ye do, whether y,
eat or drink, do all to the glory of God. "
All the wrong and confusion Of the bus
mess world arises from the cruel divorc
between religion and business. World,
men say "BuSaeSS IS business" Tha
formula is supposed to be a kind of suffi
cient reason for any cruel pressure or I'm
scrupulous dealing that circumstances ma
seem to require. Not few professedl
: good men have given in their assent an
! consent to that formula. There is kin
= of unwritten business code which differ
e from that which should regulate the pr
a vate life. Many justify themselves
: adopting this code when they pass to Ii
n shop and the warehouse by saying rattle
t loudly to themselves that it is utterly in
= possible to embody the high morality tn;
5 is preached to US in our every day life,
|, we are to succeed 1t is just here tn;
c the mistake is made Men suppose tn;
0 their first duty is to succeed, and TIL
: their second duty is to do right if the
n can. The first duty of the disciple
e Christ is to do right, and he is to take f
e granted that he will succeed What
i the world calls it failure; it may be nc
: .withstanding sublime success. o.
Lord failed as the world would say, al
/ yet His is the sublimest success. The
t, are many who do not fully believe in Go
II nor do they fully believe in Mammon, al
n yet because they expect something fro
e both, they try to serve both. 1t is ;
L impossible task. And if it were possibl
y it would not be profitable, The Spirit