Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-25
Services at the First NJ. f. Church Jester


Like that Of all the other churches of the
city, the attendance at the First M. E. church
on the East side, was not as large as usual,
owing to the rain, which had made the walk
ing somewhat disagreeable.
According to announcement published in
yesterdays GLOBE the pastor. Rev. T. Nc
Clary, preached a sermon to the business
men, drawing lessons from the death of the
much esteemed j. Henry Dean.
Mr.. McClary took for his text, What shall
it profit man if he gain the world and lose
his soul, I" and, f'They that be rich shall fail
into Temptations. and into foolish ways
Without dwelling upon the life of. Mr..
Dean, the pastor proceeded at one to denounce
the common and prevailing custom of the
American people in struggling for riches.
The bible encouraged diligence in business
and denounced slothfulness, and shiftless PEG
pie, and proper amount Of energy and
Thought bestowed upon the getting OF for
tunes, to enable the families to be we'll pro-
vided for was all right, and should be enconr-
aged But on the other hand there was much
danger of too much business. To many men
are wearing themselves out IN this rush and
hurry of gam. Men are selling them
selves and their families to this idol gold,
destroying their principles and their manhood,
until the ideal man that God had made so per-
be unfit to live, and does not live but short
time. s44l.sifl
''Get money!" is the motto. A vigorous
attack upon the millers and railroad compa-
MES for their Sunday work was made, and
had some of our railroad magnates been there
we think they would have felt just little I'M
comfortable. He charged them with robbing
society and families of the social element and
their heads of tables, which are too often va
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to hurry off to their work, not content with
SIX days, but seven is demanded by gain
This greedy demand for gain is dragging
thousands of men down to an early grave, be
cause of excessive devotion to business.
Mr.. McClary tenderly referred to the up
right character of Mr.. Dean, which marked
him as an extraordinary man. He hestatei
not to say that in his opinion Mr.. Dean, in
stead of being cut off before his twenty
fourth year of life, would have lived to an old
age, had he not devoted himself to his bust
ness regardless of physical demands or social
and intellectual recreation. AA
The men of to-day are like ships
passing each other upon the ocean,
and have only time. to say 'sAhoyin
as they sail by He claimed it was all wrong
for men to neglect their families socially, the
mental and social education, and religious life
men need rest and change, they must have
ed. ~
They rush on, chasing the god of money,
and when they perhaps have succeeded in
gaining the long sought for treasure, what
can they do with it, they are worn out.
Health gone, vigor and manhood gone, and
they are buried without their money. Sure
~ what shall it profit man if he gains the
whole world and lose his own soul and body
Business men are the back bone of society,
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money. The rich church member absents
himself from the prayer meeting and meetings
of spiritual education, and consoles himself
with the the thought that he does his part by
paying literally towards the support of the
gospel. He does the paying, and the rest do
the praying.
The lessons derived from the life and death
of Henry Dean were his excellent character
and spotless life, showing the worth of y
noble character, and the one great fault which
cost HIM his life was his folly of excessive
devotion to business