The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-21


all crime and irradiase all darkness 4
a. lift mp all wretchedness Can 1t be 4
notwithstanding your aeqnaintanee II
= the intricacies Of buSiness gou ara u
2. rant Of those things Nhieh VIII Last
I soul long after bills ol exchange 4
: commissions and siHvoices and t0nsi
81 ments and rent rolls have crampled ]
e and consumed in the fissAof 3 judgme
;. day.
e Again, God intended business life
= be 70 you
3 SCHOOL or cHEisTrAs rSrEoRIT
= = No age of the world ever offered
: many inducements for sc9undrelisn
Z are offered now There Is lfardly
!. statute on the law bsoks that has n.
$. some back-doOF through which mi
4 creants can escape. Hos many decel
: tions in the fabric Of goods. Comme
cial life plies the land with trieketis
innumerab!e, and there are 80 man
, people in Brooklyn and New York Hh
: live life Of PlnndeT, that when ma
! proposes straightforward. honest bus
ness, 1t is almost charged 10 greenne.
!. and want of tact. Al, my brethrei
this ought not to be. Bat | have to te
YOU that it requires more grace TO b
honest now than it did In the days Of Oh
fathers, when business was plain, an
: there were no stock gamblers, and W0ole
/. was wooIen and silk was SILK and me
were men. How rare il Il thar you fin'
) q man who can from his heart say: 9
, never cheated in trade; never oYeres
tima.ed the value of goods when | wa
selling them; / never covered up
defect in fabric; | never played upeI
the ignorance Of customer, and In al
my estate there is not one dishones
farthing." There are those who car
say it. They never let their integrit.
bow or eringe to present advantage
They are as pure a Christian to-day q
on the day when they sold their frs
tierce of rice or their first. firkin of bu:
ter. There were times when they cSatiFt
have robbed partner, when they eDuk
have absconded with the funds of {
bank, when they could have sprung 1
snap Judgment, when they could havt
borrowed illimitably, when they coalC
| have made a false assignment, wher
they could have ruined aneighbor for the
purpose of picking up some of the frag
ments; but they never took one step Oh
| that pathway of hell-tire, Now they
can pray without being haunted by the
chink of dishonest gold. Now they can
read the Bible without thinking of the
day when, with
LIE on THEIR SOIL,
they kissed the book in a custom, house.
| Now they look into the laughing faces
of their children without thinking OF
orphans left by them penniless and
houseless. Now they can think Of death
without having their knees knock to-
gether and their hearts sink and their
teeth chatter, because there is a iudg-
ment where all defrauders and Jockeys
and tricksters and charlatans shall be
doubly damned. Now they can read in
the Bible without flinching: GAS the
partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth
them not, SO he that getteth riches and
not by right shall leave them in the
midst of his days, and at his end shall
be fool" Alasl if any of you, for
the purpose of getting out Of temporary
embarrassment, dare to sell your soul or
any portion of it, you may wake up in
the midst OF embarrassment and say:
mo one is looking This transaction
may be little out of the way, but it is
only once, only once" On that one
occasion you not only wreck your spirit
ual nature, but you despofl yoglr business
prospects. N8a
In the review of this subject there are
two or three things want to say, and
the first is, let us have larger sympa-
thy for business men. ! think it is a
shame that in our pulpits we~ do not
oftener preach on this subjectGRnd show
that We appreciate the sorrows and
struggles and temptations aud trials. of
everyday life. Men who toll with the
hand are very apt to be suspicious OF
those who move in
THE WORLD OF TRAFFIC,
and think that they get their money
idly and that they give no equivalent.
Men why raise the corn and wheat and
rye and oats are very apt to think that
grain merchants get easy profits If1e
fist is very apt to be jealous of the brain.
Plato and Aristotle were 50 opposed to
all kinds of merchandise that they said
commerce was the curse of the earth,
and they recommended that cities should
never be built nearer the seacoast than
ten miles. But we have become wiser
than that, and you know that there are
no harder workers than those who plan
and calculate in stores and banks and
counting houses. What though their ap-
parel be neat. what though their man
ners be refined, do not put them down as
idlers They carry loads heavier than
a hod of bricks, they go into exposures
keener than the cutting Of the east
wind, they scale mountains higher than
the Alps and Himalayas, aud maintain
ing their Christian integrity, Christ viii !
at last accoet them, saying: We'll done,
thou good and faithful servant Z thou
hast been faithful oyera few things, /.
will make thee ruler over many things;
enter thou into the JOY Of thy Lord.
also enjoin you to quit all fretfuE
ness about business matters. 1slthere
not something in your own household
that you would not give up for the
worldly success other men have2 Be-
sides that, if these lifted you up,I
you ought to saA4
BLESS GOD ron THE WHIP
of discipline. The larger the note you
have to pay, the greater the uncertainty
of business life, the better for your soul
if Jesus Christ leads You trinmphantly
through. How do knowit? know it
by this principle--that the hotter the
furnace the better the refining. There
have been thousands of men who have
gone through the same path You are now
going through with an aching heart
There are mnltitudes before the throne
of God who were lashed with. cares and
anxieties innumerable, and were cheated
out of everything but their coffin. They
were sued, they were elected, they were
imprisoned for debt, they were mall
treated, they were throttled By const9
bles with whole packs of writs,. they
we're sold out by .sherifs, they had to
confess judgments, they had 10 COM
promise with creditors, and their last
hour on earth was disturbed By the fact
that their door bell was rung loudly and
angrily, By the hand Of some impetu-
Gus creditor who was surprised that thas
sick man should be 50 impertinenf and
outrageous as TO die before he had paid
him the last three shillings and sixpence.
Oh, how men are tossed and driven I
had friend who went from one anxiety
to another. 4 good and great heart be
had, but everything he put his hand to
seemed to fail. Miafortunes clustered
around, and after awhile heard he vas
dead, and the first word said was,
: Good he has rot rid of the sherifTs. =
There Is q great multitude Of business
men who On earth had Il hard, but l5Y
the Rrace az God they stand triumphant
il Heaven: and when the question s
asked Of them, Who are thew the
angela of God standing On seas 81 aIasa.
win cry ont. These are they who cane
ont 81 great tFfbulaiion and had fl.eiF
robes washed and made white "a the
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