Daily Republican., 1882-09-28
WKEYh" PULPIT.
A TEXT WITH MUCH OF TRUTH TO THE
SQUARE INCH.

| oQUARE lNCH.
"Sees' thou man diligent In his buslnessP
He shall stand bet re kings; he shall not
stand before mean men "-frOVorbg xii, 20
Dearly beloved, yol will not lis ten
to any scripture in other pulpits this
morning that carries more truth to the
| square inch than this. And the espe-
Clal attention of the young men in the
congregation Is cal led to the text.
The reason why, or at least one rea-
son why the psalmist, after he had
been young, and was old, could not re-
member ever to have seen the righteous
forsaken or his seed begging bread, was
because q lazy man can't be very
righteous Not righteous enough to
hurt him. The spectacle of lazy
Christian would be as great rarity as
a tat Skel eton.
Ifyour Bible teaches you anything it
teaches you that there Is NJ room in
this alive for drone "The hand of
the diligent shall bear rule; but the
slothful shall be under tribute" "The
way of the slothfui man is hedge of
thorns; but the way of the righteous is
made plain.
"The desire of the slothful killeth
him, for his hands refuse to labor"
"rhe sluggard will not plow by reason
of the cold therefore shall he beg in
harvest and have nothing" "The soul
Of the sluggard desiretb and hath moth.
ing but the soul OF the diligent shall
be made fat" mot slothful in busi-
ness ferven5 in spirit, serving the
Lord" San idle soul shall suffer hun.
ger" A. lazy Christian, brethren,
would find but cold comfort if he
should exert himself to read his Bible.
The diligent soul always possessed
the land. Not the man who steps into
dead mans shoes and fortune, but
the boy and girl who learn in their
teens what a dollar is worth, and how
to gain and use q power that money
cahnot buy, are the people who move
the world. Clifford, the first editor of
the Quarterly Reviow, was only COM
mon sailor; Ben johnson was q brick
layer; John Bunyan was tinker;
Hugh Miller was a quarry-man; Shak-
speare's father was 30 illiterate that he
didn't know how to spell his sons name;
AOL bhhu hul A(OH w. JhO nuUAOA Va
"RobinsOn Crusoe," was almost wholly
selt-taught; Edgar A. Poe was the son
of strolllng players; Ben Franklin, the
printer, was the son of tallow chand-
Ter; Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of
the cotton spinning machine, was
barber; Tom More was the son Of a gro.
Ger; Gerald Massey began life as an er-
rand boy; and Caxton, who set up the
first printing press in England, was
weaver's apprentice; John Adams
was the son of farmer; President
Lincoln was farm hand and fatboat--
man; Andrew jackson was a tailor,
Grant was tanner; Garfield was Ca
nal bOy-none of these men were re-
nowned for their great wealth perhaps,
but they were diligentin their business
and they stood before kings; long, long
ways before most Kings. There is no
particular merit in being king. Any
man who happens to be born at the
right time into the right family, can't
help being king, But all the king
craft in the world couldn't make De-
Foe, a Hugh Miller, aBurns or aBunyan,
if the boy didn't make himself.
Dearly beloved, 1t may Da that this
is not made up exclusive
ly of future presidents and of people
whose names shall be written foremost
of all in their time. But there is little
doubt that it is largely made up of
men and women who are not doing all
the world has right to expect OF them.
Ask yourselves how many of you
deserve to stand before kings for your t
Possibly my young brother t
may not wish to stand before kings. f
Very well, then, he doesn't have to. t
But if he does there Is only one way for ]
him to get there; he must be diligent '
in business, whatever his business il; a
active; persistent and devO- c
ed in his application. He wants to '
Keep his elbows, not his feet on the f
lesk. He must work harder IN the b
morning Of his life, just when he wants g
TO play, than he will in the afternoon. 8
1t won't be at all easy for you, dearly a
beloved, to be "diligent In business" v
A man is often very busy who isn't at b
III diligent in business. The most act t.
We man ever saw was man who did
ess than you would suppose ten mon
;ould do. He lived on the street. He
alked politics ten hours a day. He
vas always going to run for some office, =
tut nobody ever nominated him. Z
He would drag you away from your y
Iesk or book to talk to you by the hour
bout something you didn't care a cent = =
or; he knew little about every living =
mans business save his own; he spent .
he most of his time in caucus and the o
est of 1t in convention and procession,
md J ct when you went into that mans y .,
flee there was a great legend staring :.
It you from the wall right over his desk ~ ~
Time is money" "
Be diligent in your business, deary y !, y
eloved, and you will have no time to u, u
manage your neighbor's affIirs, and d.
his will keep you out of lots of trouble
nd mischief. And just as 5000 as
our neighbor finds that your time is too
aluable to be wasted upon him for tt
othing, he will want 1t and pay for it. v
len always want what is hard for I
hem to get. Be diligent and your fe
thoughts will tend to plenty" Be "
iligent, and God shall give of the th
ew of heaven, and the fatness of the al
arth, and plenty of corn and wine," la
nd whole chapter of amendments th
ant keep it from You. Be diligent, ca
nd your fullest manhood will be de- to
eloped the world will be glad that of
ou have lived in it, and society will pt
Hiss you when you are called up ga
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