The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-03-11
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STREET TALK.
BY Don.
RELIGION IN BUSINESS.

/ went to hear brother Cruzan last Sun
day, and got my ideas rather set up by
listening to his views upon religion be-
tween man and man, so that 1 felt like ex-
changing thoughts 18th some one who had
been aroused as well as myself. And in
his mood 1 dropped in on Blotter, of the
business firm of Waste, Blotter & Co, who
is a light, a pillar, and an edifying instru-
mentality in the Fold.
1 waited in the office till Blotter had eX-
planned to a customer the superlative mer-
its of a notion, which he assured the enquir-
ing party was not to be found of equal
quality in any other establishment in
town. After a while he turned to me say
ing patronizingly
"Ah Don, saw you out on Sunday at
church L was glad to see it. L hope to see
more Of you young men out on the Lords
day. You must loose a little your hold on
the world, and put yourselves in the way
of higher and better things. We are al
ways glad to welcome any of you to a seat.
And we, who are engaged in the Lords
work will be glad to help you along.
Thank you, Mr.. Blotter; glad to have
your kind assurances. L just wanted to
have a word with you on brother Cruzan's
idea of putting your religion into your
business"
well Don, his views are excellent, but
only applicable to those who are well built
upand established by saving grace. All Don,
you must accept this truth, or your human
ity is in vain. Your relation to man is only
an experience of disappointments. Your
relation to the Lord is salvation. 1 live in
the Lord, and He is always with me-"
Inst then n small maDnfacfura apfara1
and enquired about some stock. Blottel
dropped me like a hot potatOe and waited
upon the customer. He offered a certain
line at what he asserted to be only a five
per cent. advance; but as the customer wa:
retiring, Blotter agreed to wipe out hi:
margin and let him have it at cost.
Perhaps so, 1 thought but as a careful
merchant, he must have figured up exactly
what he can do and what he cannot do, anC
a man whose only purpose is to conform t
the will of a righteous God would nevei
have two prices, any more than tive
weights.
As sauntered away | sighted old Fris
bic loafing under a shed-the poor fellow
is a wreck, he knows it, and makes no pre-
tense, and 1 always feel like having
kindly word with him whenever L NEE
him.
Friend Frisbie," [ said, "Why dom
you go around to meetings and listen t
Cruzan? That's a man that does not Sc
up to be a bit more or less than one of us.
Lord! Don, how could the likes of me ge
in there. L hav'nt been to meetings il
twenty years. No, Don, 1 would only b
taking the place of a better man."
"Why, bless you, Frisbie, It's the wOrs
men that Cruzan wants to see. Such &
you and me, that have no claims to pos
, ton or anything else"
2 "Well, Don, I've got so low down, that
couldn't clean up for meeting if 1 shou,
: try. And YOU know folks over there wouI
: hold up tht ir skirts, and give a wide bert
7 to the likes of me. If l could drop in son
where in my dirt to listen to your ma
perhaps he might show me some way o
of the mire."
= 1t struck me tina FrIsbie and MAJ
others like him, had lost all p~resentabili
for a nice church, and that a place of VIC
ship was needed for broken and soil,
garments. as well as for broken and soil
souls.
In this mood, 1 ran across Uncle Jimm
who usually helps me with a point or tv
I told him about the sermon, and what h
passed between me and BlOtter and Frisl
well, my boy" said the old man, af
I ALVEY cough and expectoration. "Cruzai
. doctrine of religion between man and IN;
rs and said to be best illustrated in the wo
shop and the store, is hardly orthod,
Orthodoxy is altogether absorbed with
relations to God. This was the Jew
spirit of old. David was only grieved alb,
his sin against God, and says nought alb
his atrocious wrong to Uriah and his fami