The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-17
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ito understand .thati Iahia iittIeAiGfel
up in this store, / am beside yon i'm
I Christian sympathy" Go back thirty
years To Arthur Tappan's store in New
| 1Ork-a man whose worst enemies never
questioned his honesty. Every morning
he brought all the clerks and the
accountants and the weigheTs into a
room for devotion. They sang, they
prayed, they eXhOTted. On Monday
morning the clerks We're asked where
they had attended church the previous
day, and what the sermons were about.
1t must have sounded strangely that
voice of praise along the streets
| where the devOteeS of MammOn
were counting their golden beads! You
say, Arthur Tappan failed. Yes, he was
unfortunate, like a great many good
| men; but l understand he met all his
obligations before he left this world,
and know that he died i'll the peace of
The Gospel, and that he is before the
throne of God tO-day-fOTever blessed.
Ihere are great many young men in
tlIs city-yea, in this housewife want
a word OF encouragement, Christian en-
couragement. One smile Of good cheer
would be worth more to them tO-mOr-
row morning in their places of business
Than present of $1,000 ten years
nence. On, | remember the apprenen-
sion and the tremOr of entering a pro-
fesslOn. | remember very well the man
who greeted me in the Ecclesiastical
Court with the tip-ends of the long fin
gers of the left hand; and | remember
the other man who took my hand in both
OF his and said God bless you! my
brother. you have entered a glorious
professions; be faithful to God and He
will see you through" Why, | feel this
minute the thrill of that hand shaking,
though the man who gave me the
christian grip has been in heaven
eighteen years. There are old men here
tonight who can look back to forty
years ago, when some one said a kind
word TO them. Now, old man, pay back
what you got then. 1t is a great art for
old men to be able to encourage the
young. There are many young people
In our cities who have come from inland
counties of our own State-frOm the
granite hills of the North, from the sa-
Yannas of the South, from the prairies
OF the West. They are here to get their
fortune. Their are in bOarding-hOuses,
where everybody seems to be thinking of
himself. They want cOmpaniOnship and
they want Christian encouragement.
Give it to them.
My word is to all cleaks in this house:
Be mightier than your temptations. A
Sandwich Islander used to think when
he slew an enemy all the strength of
that enemy came into his own right
arm. And | have to tell you that every
misfortune you conquer is so much add
ed 20 your own moral power. With Om-
nlpOtiece for lever and the throne of
God for fulcrum you can move earth
and heaven. While there are other
young men putting the cup of sin to
their lips, stOOp down and drink out
of the fountains of God, and you will
rise up strong to thresh the mountains.
The ancients used to think that pearls
were fallen rain-dTOps, which, touching
the surface of the sea, hardened into
gems, then dropped to the bottom. |
have to tell you tonight that storms of
trial have shOwered imperishable pearls
into many young mans lap. o young
man, while you have goods to sell, re-
member you have a soul to save. In a
hospital a Christian captain, wounded
few days before, got deliriOus and in
the midnight hour he sprang out on the
floor of the hospital, thinking he was in
the battle, crying, Come on, boys! For
ward! Charger All, he was only bat
tling the spectres of his own brain. But
it is no imaginary conflict into which |
call you, young man, tonight. There
are ten thousand spiritual foes that
would capture you. In the name of God,
up and at theml After the last store has
been closed, after the last bank has
gone down, after the shuttle of the quick
feet on the CustOm-hOuse steps has
stopped, after long line of merchantmen
on the sea have taken sail of flame after
Brooklyn and New York and London and
Vienna have gone down into the grave
where Thebes and Babylon and Tyre lay
buried, after the great fTe-bells of the
judgment-day have tOlled at the burn
ing of wOrld-On that day all the af-
fairs of banking-hOuses and stores will
come up for inspection. Oh, what an
opening of accOunt-bOOks! Side by side
the clerks and the men who employed
them-the people who owned thread and
needle-stOres on the same footing with
the Stewarts and the DelanOs and the
AbbOtts and the Barings. Every in
voice made Out-all the labels of goods
all certificates of stOck-all lists of
prices-all private marks of the firm.
now explained so that everybody can
understand them. All the maps of cities
that were never built, but in which lots
were sold. All bargains. ALI gOugings.
All snap judgments. All false entries.
All adulteratiOn of liquors with cop
peras and strychnine. All mixing of
teas and sugars and cOffees and syrups
with cheaper material. All embeZZle-
ments of trust funds. All swindles in
coal and iron and oil and silver and
stocks. All SWartOutS and Hunting
tons and Ketchums. On that day,
when the cities of this world are smOk-
ing in the last cOnflagratiOn, the trial
will go on; and down in an avalanche
of destruction will go those who
wrOnged man or woman, insulted God
and defied judgment. Oh, that will be
great day for you, honest Christian
clerk. No getting up early; no retiring
late; no walking around with weary
and ream of light and love and joy
over which to hold everlasting dOmin-
ion. Hoist him up from glory to glory
and from song to song and from throne
to throne; for while others go down into
the sea with their gold like milestone
come up the heights of amethyst and
alabaster, holding in his right hand the
pearl of great price in sparkling, gilt
tering, flaming casket.