The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-05
DILIGENCE IN BUSINESS.

Dearly beloved, you will not listen to
any scripture in other pulpits this morn
| ing that carries more truth to the square
inch than this. And the especial attcn-
ton OF the young men in the congrcga.
tion is called TO the text.
| The reason why, or at least one reason
why, the Psalmist, alter he had been
| young, and was old, could not remem-
Der ever to have seen the righteous for
saken or his seed begging bread, was
because lazy man can t be very right
eous. Not righteous enough 10 hurt
him. The spectacle of lazy Christian
would be as great p rarity as fat skel-
eton.
| If your Bible teaches you ANYTHING it
| teaches you that there is no room in
this hive for drone. "The hand of the
diligent shall bear rule; but the sloth ul
| shall be under tribute" 1.-The way
OF the slothtul man is as a hedge of
! thorns; but the way of the righteous is
made plain" "The desire OF the sloth-
tul killeth him, for his hands refuse to
labor The sluggard will not plow
by reason of the cold therefore shall he
beg in harvest and have nothing"
"Ihe soul of the sluggard dcsircth, and
hath nothing; but the soul OF the dill
SShU Suttll UC IlduS laG. IN OF Slot htuI
IN business; fervent in spirit serving the
! Lord IAN idle soul shall suffer hun
/ ger Alazy Christian, brethren, would
find but cold comfort if he should cxnrt
himself to read his Bible.
The diligent soul always possessed
tne land. Not the man or woman who
steps into dead mans shoes and Il fort
une, but the boy and girl who learn in
,h,,H IL
and how to gam and use power that
money cannot buy, are the people who
move the world. Clifford, the first edi-
tor OF the quarterly RcUjeoO was only a
common sailor; Ben. johnson was q
brlcklaycr; John Bunyan was tinker;
hugh Miller was quarryman; Shakes
peare'S father was SO illitcrate he didn't
Know how to spell his sons name;
neither did his son, and no more do
you, for that matter; De Foe, the au-
thor Of Robinson Crusoe, was almost
wholly elf-taught; Edgar A. Poe was
the son of strolling players; Ben.
! rankin, the printer, was the son Of q
tallow chandler; Sir Richard Arkwright,
inventor of the cotton spinning ma
chine, was barber; Tom Moore was
the son of grocer; Gerald Massey be-
gan life as an errand boy; and CaXton,
VINO set up the first printing press in
england, was weavcr's apprentice;
John Adams was the son OF n farmer;
PRESIDENT Lincoln was farm hand and
nat boatman; Andrew johnson was n
TAILOR; Grant was q tanner; Garfield
was q canal boy-none of these men
were renowned for their great wealth,
perhaps, but they were diIigcnt in their
business, and they stood before Kings;
long, long ways before most KINGS
Ihere Is no particular merit in being q
hlng' ANY man who happens to be
born at the right time into the rjpbt
family, can't help being King. But
all the kingcraft in the world couldn't
make De Foe. Hugh Miller Burns,
or Bunyan, If the boy didn't make
himself.
nearly beloved, it may be that this
congregation is not made up exclusive
ly of future Presidents, and of peoi lc
whose names shall be written the fore
most OF all IN their time. But there is
little doubt that it is largely made up of
men ana women who are not doing all
the world has right to expect of them.
Ask yourselves how many of YOU de-
serve to stand before Kings for your
diligenceP Possibly, my young brother
may not wish to stand before Kings
Very well, then he doesn't have TO-
But if he does. there is only one way for
him to get there; he must be diligcnt in
business, whatever his business is; G H.
stantly active; persistent and devoted in
his application. He wants to keep his
elbows, not his feet, on his desk. He
must work harder III the morning Of his
life, Just when he wants to play, than
he will in the afternoon
1t won't be at all easy for you, dearly
beloved, to be "diiigent in busincss.h
A man is often very busy who isn't
all diligcnt in business The most act
i've man | ever saw was q man who did
less than you would suppose ten men
could do. He lived on the street. He
talked politics ten hours day He was
always going to run for some office, but
nobody ever nominate ed him. He would
dag you away from your desk or book,
to talk TO you by the hour about some
thing you didn't care n cent for; he
knew little about every living mans
bus ness save his own; he spent the
most OF his time in caucus and the rest
of il in convention and procession, and
yet, when you went into that mans
Office, there was great legend staring
at 20" from the wall, right over his
dcsk-"Time is money"
~ Ill Jul DuSluCoS1 ucdIly
beloved, and you will have no time to
manage your neighbor's affairs, and
this will keep you out Of trouble and
mischief And just as soon as your
ncighbor finds that your time is too val
liable to be wasted upon him for moth
ing, he will want it, and pay for it. Men
always want what is hard for them to
get. BE diligcnt, and your "thoughts
will tend to plenty" Be dligent, and
"out of Asher your bread shall be fat"
BE diligent, and "GOd shall give thee
Of the dew of heaven, and the fatness
of the earth. and plenty of corn and
wne," and whole chapter of amend
ments can't keep it from you. BE dill
gent, and your fullest manhood will be
aeveloped the world will be glad that
miss you when you are called up higher. !
BE diligcnt in your business, and the
thousand and one temptations that be-
set tho lazy man cannot be heard by
you, absorbed in your own honest
affairs. Be diligent and "rejoicH in
your labor; this is the gift of God" and
cit is good and comely for one L. enjoy
the good Of all his labor that he taketh
undor the sun all The daVs of his life.