The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-10-23
NUMBER. l6.
Beecher on the Platform.


at Music Hall, Boston, last week, with ;
lecture on The Battle of Business = o
which the following is sketch
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN The battle O
business is always the chief in the interests il
the nations history It is lust now the cngross
ing and almost exclusive theme of thought anC
conversation. One of those great storms which
the past year i unfortunately so well uequaint
od with has just passed over tus, ana all along
the shore we see the wrecks, or stately vessel,
stranded waiting for some rise i'll the tide thai
shall float them again. Everywhere disaster
or fear Of disaster, and hesitation. OmmcrcC
IS to the body polite what the nerve system is
to the human bodv-the sensitive part, When
ii fails INTO convulsions every organ i'll the body
suffers, and commerce is so interviewer with
the life of the nation that when it suffers paral
ySlS everything sympathlzes He that embark>
III it Is like one who sails upon n tropical ocean
magnificent skies are over him but tornadoes
| spring out Of them. If all men We're honest,
truthful, intelligent and generous, how easy
would commercial life become. 1t Is selfish
ness, dullness and the want OF moral force that
makes business dangerous and burdcnsone.
Every avocation has its peculiar trials, and
each one is ~ to think that its own are >ha j.
| cr than any oSherS. SO the pain we feel to-day
II Very apt TO feel more severe than anything
we ever had before. But the cNactions and
anNleucS OF commerce, always severe, ut times
mount up INTO degrees tina are seldom expert
cnced hy any other profession in life. Having
long been obseryant Of the life of the profess
| Slonal man, the mechanical man, the labOrn9
man and OF the commercial man, have come
to think there is no class of llen, take one time
| With another. that suffer 50 much. bear so
heavy burdens, are rasped hy nNieties 50 Sc
we're and. at certain crises, suffer such anguish,
rs commercial men. The int elSitV OF business
il one cause If we could but introduce Il habit
| of sloWncSS it might he Otbe wise: but from
| the very nature of the genius OF our people,
our climate. the sharpness of competition, The
| eNcitability which is nurturcd by all our public
| habits, by all these things business is driven
with an intensity which grind> up every few
Years multitudcs and multtudpS Of men who
| are conducting it. Men know no rest. no mod
Grafton of hours. Early, middle and late they
are driven, scarcely knowing how to consult
| the laws OF health and certainly not how to
consult that moderation which is So necessary
for mental and moral life. They live upon the
edge Of excitement pcrpetually. and diSdain
calm. Home that should be the countcrbalance
of outdoor excitement, loses its benefits and
virtues 1t is place for sleep, for eating; il /,
| rrpalr-Sh0p. Men shoot into it and shoot out
OF it, but do not res there, and rcrtaiulv 10
not recupcratc there. Whilst in other lands
| business flows with the tranquility of Il canal,
| with u> il RACES and roars ncrS~antlV. The
effects of oyer-competitiOn still further aggr;,-
| Naie these troubles. Men enter bttsilr>, seek
ing for fortune, and fortune j. an ideal thing in
| the pursuit of which they never know when
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| some faith in hereafter and moral government,
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! honesty. truth and fidelity are Indispensable,
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lAeH are prone 70 follow 1eehng rather than
| 'aIcuttlHh touhdcd on experience. ana as they
| ." in'@ business carry IN t4lS country, and as
/ lINlN Iounl1iii mas ucNrIoped 'eH-frtlah'e INTO
a'lhp1i AloLod 'oi'lllohN' 80 'nt tileN are CON
,i'il"li1 "'.ihS Aot ;" liu'n iIVil what tnry
/ NioN is from "liai th',I leel' IL Is Just TINS
Mlltit lil'ht9 lh' sahS'Gn' SpectlIAlofs 90
ny ii'1H sl'rGuIatot ~ tht , IhplI oli'nsNe
ttlI,'' ~ = oltl-nol''lulicSs ol Nhlch I'aoS mem
/ l" prov, ne" WINS new processes ana embark
III Un>ar ,'lf'c'ioIN' lheS may ia some sense
nG G.ulGl We pioneers oi sair men. IheN start
Nlh @ @"iu,o.l every sAll rprea'i' ana Wheh y iney
run aground othrf men mark Whete. 1hey
>Plli ui'oh = roch; 'hd ne NEXT man thlt comes
a'oia' II lne disasters ol hopeiul men form
'ile chai9 oi more cautious men. we are ac-
Hu>?omed 10 throw them overheard with little
| Pr'l>e ~" Npeah ol ihem as ilght ana sahgulhe
men, Nho are Always 100 iast' But they are
pGheltetor9 lheE SOW, olhers reap they invent
othtF> maxi money "ul OF thef inventions
th'N push projects Just tir enough to show
Ih'll leaSlbiHty' ana dc IN their tracks When
we come To Write The biographies OF public
peheiactofa prominent place should be gwen
10 the oNtr-SahSulhe VINO sacniee themselves 1ol
f"''5louS men lLanGhtef.I hut TINS sentiment
iead' alSp 10 SahplihS m MS most bar6arou>
loill. his ! 'hc ihcurahe type oi the disease
III