The Portland daily press., 1874-11-09
SUNDAY SERVICES.
INDIA STREET CHURCH.

1 i4ast evening, tue pastor, 1NeF. 0Oo. W. DiSn
nell, gave the second lecture in the course upon
Clean Hands, applying his subject specially tt
business. Our very conditions in life demand
commerce and interch ange of goods. One
section of country supplies another with its
special products, necessitating trade. All Of
the various nstrumentalities employed to gain
livelihoods, may be grouped under the head Of
business. To greater or less extent, all adj
| vancements depend upon active business.
| Properly conducted it is powerful lever fol
| good in the world. Custom, as well as right,
has established certain laws and principles for
| its government Honorable in itself, it should
have clean hands everywhere. Men rely in
the integrity of others, and as long as it is I'M
| shaken, men feel strong. If man acts up to
the laws of business, he is honored, and be-
comes benefit to society.
The speaker referred to the tendency among
some to decry business, because it diverted the
mind from higher things. He did not believe
in wholesale denuncation. There lis ten
dency to overdo, and which meets it's rewards
in stagnations and panics. Keeping business
in healthy condition would not only prevent
some of the financial disasters which come
upOE> us, DuG WOuIu give 1uCA opportunity IOT
proper intellectual and spiritual culture 1t Is
not the fault of business that men do not de-
vote more time to higher improvements, but it
is the fault of overstraining, doing everything
upon high pressure principle, and consequent
ly the mind is fevered, men and feel that every
moment must be given to the world Business
must be done, because few could live in New
England on faith, or be clothed with the thin
garments which theologes present. He de-
sired attention to religious things, but he dis
liked the foolish idea, that, to be religious one
must divorce all business from his life, or give
it up, to become a true Christian. There is not
q temple of mammon which, by unfolding
therein integrity, honor, truth telling, develop
ing energy and manhood may not be a temple
of God. 1t is unclean hands which defile it.
God decreed that man should earn his bread by
the sweat of his brow; To obey the decree,
Enot say all should dig, or plant, or hoe, but be
active; and if our work is honorable, we are
honorably fulfilling Infinite command.
So business is to be done. Let it be done
with clean hands. But while many carefully
observe the great laws of trade and CONNER
cial relations, where the world cannot see,
there is tendency, growing out of the desire
to get rich, to soil the hands by deceits and
their kindred. 1t is not necessary for q mau
to be Fisk, Jr, Tweed, or salary grabber
act or spirit in business, soils and furnishes
The speaker here specified speculation as one of
the condition in the business world,
where there was greatdanger. 1t
is inspired by the hope Of gaining
nary and healthy transactions. This spirit that
produces corners, waters stocks, which stores
large amount of goods to await rise founded
upon public necessity, which takes advantage
OF misfortunes and buys at a great discount
bpraucQ OnQ y,uS coll which .rIo -,
own advancement, passed under the speake rs
severe criticism. He had no regard for that
speculation or management, which ma de
money out of the toll of employees ground down
to the last cent, and believed unclean hands
stamped upon every yard Of cloth, or article
sold, unless fair compensation was rendered for
labor especially in times and seasons when it
could be. 5A
The speaker, in illustration of the point that
often speculation is carried are based, upon the
hope OF the misfOrtunes of others, paid his re-
spects to the 'sTontine' principle of Life In
surance, which he believed to be wrong from
the stand point of moral principle if from none
other .rs-
Business was made to suffer from the un-
clean hands of adulteration, while it is fore
gone conclusion that when we buy almost any
article, we buy in part something else. Yet the
blame was not all with the adulterant. People
desire to obtain articles for less than the market
price-will beat down-and the consequence is.
price. People must not be so eager to get
more than they pay for, if they do not desire to
be deceived. Let people have cleaner hands in
this relation, and reform might be more cas-.
ily effected. Men will not buy goods for one
dollar and sell for nnety-fve cents. If you
pay ninety.fye cents yon will be likely to get
articles worth no more than that.
He urged professional men to set good ex.
ample. He did not think moral principle
would sustain lawyer who undertook wrong
the doctor who took he
cure patient where one week would do il, or
a minister who did not boldly speak out the
truth but who preached to catch the popular
ear,and made people think that he adored their
sins as well as their virtues.
A third point was business misrepresenta-
ton. Unclean hands are often seen here, and
unclean spirits revealed. They are shown in
the pretention to sell below cost-when, be
sure, if man sells an article below or at cost,
he makes it up on something else, in making
agreements, verbally though they may be, and
then breaking them-in affixing beautiful la
bells to articles printed in foreign languages, to
give the impression that an article is imported
ware for solid metal, affirming it to be the lat
TERN placing two or three nice layers of an
Piles at the top, giving you to understand that
the whole barrel is the same,-in lavish ex-
pendlture OF paint, putty and varnish to give
appearance of strength, and in sundry other
ways well known to man. The preacher re-.
ferred to the tendency of many workmen to
misrepresent their actual labor, and henc 9
soiled their hands by sighting their work
easy as possible. In all of these relations, be
pleaded for reform and for clean hands, out
wardly and inwardly, moved by true and
pure spirits. Uncleanliness will crush Purity
will exalt. With the latter, though man
possibly may not make SO many dollars. yet in
the fashioning of a noble character, which an
obedience to true principles will DO, he will be
laying up treasures in heaven, and which, in
another life. will contribute to his joy, as he
realizes that on earth his hands were kept clean
from dishonor in his relations with his brother
man, and hence better prepared for the activi-
ties of Immortality.
The speakers next lecture will be upon the
same subject, considering its relation to society,"
FIRST PARISH CHURCH.
A meeting in the interest of the American
Peace Association, whose object is the abo.i
ton of wars, was held at the First Parish
church last evening. Judge Goddard pre-
sided. The Scriptures were read and prayer
offered by the Rev. Asa Dalton, rector of st
Stephens church. In opening the meeting
Judge Goddard said that the object of the
American Peace Association was the abolition
of wars between nations. 1t did not deal
with the abstract question of self-defence, nor
did it attempt to deny the right of nations
| to protect themselves from internal disruption
by force of arms. Its object was simply to pro
vide some satisfactory settlements Of disputes be
| tween nations. That such an idea was moi
| simply theoretical had been demonstrated by
| the successful settlement of the Alabama
claims at Geneva. The design of the inter
national peace associations was to establish a
congress, to which nations could refer thei
quarrels. He then introduced Rev. DR.. Miles
| of Boston, Secretary of the American Peace
Association and of the International Peace
Code Congress.
| DR.. Miles referred to the immense drail
which the standing armies of the world, which
were rendered necessary by the war system
made upon the industries of nations and tn
| enormous burdens of taxation resulting from
| this cause The standing armies of the eartl
now numbered upwards Of 100000 of men
and the number was increasing each year, an,
must necessarily increase as long as war wa
resorted to for the settlement of lnternationa
disputes. He referred to the fact that tn
founder of the American Peace Association
was Maine man,-Capt. Ladd of Minot-and
some of the most earnest advocates of its de
signs had been natives of Maine, among then
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