The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-21
BUSINESS LIFE.
4 Sermon to business Hen. By Dr.
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Industry, devoutness, Christian ser
I vice, said DR.. Talmage, are all recon
mended in this one short text. What
: Is it possible to eoniOin them? Oh, yes
: there Is no war between religious busi
ness, between Bibles and ledgers, be
= tween churches and cOnnting-h houses.
} On the cor trarY, religion aeeelerateG
business. sharpens mems wits, sweetens
aeerbity of disposition, fiilips the blood
of phleguatics and throws more vel0ci-
. u into all the wheels of hard work To
/ the Judgment it gives more skillful
balancing; to the will more strength. to
industry more muscle, to enthusiasm q
more censeerated FIRE You cannot
show me 4 man whose business prospects
have in anYwise been despoiled by this
religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups producers. manufacturers.
traders. Producers, such as farmers.
s Manufacturers, such as take the corn
and change it into food, or the wool and
aax and change them into apparel.
Traders, who make a profit out Of the
transfer and exchange of that which is
Z HA04AtE& UA @SONs a
I business man may belong to one of these
classes or lie may belong to all Of them.
Whatever be your ayocation, If you
plan, calculate, bargain; if into your
life tasre comes annoyanceA, vexations,
and disappeintmeBts as we'll as gains
dividends. and percentages; if Won are
harassed with multiplicity of en-
gagements; in a word, if you are
driven from Monday morning to Sat
urday night and from January to
January with relentless obligation
and duty, then you are a business man
or a business woman and my subject is
appropriate to your case. We are apt
to speak OF the mol and tug of business
life as though it were an inquisition or
u prison into which man Is thrown, or t
an unequal strife where, half-armed, he I
goes to contend. Hear me this morning t
while / try to show you that God in I
tended business life to be a glorious I
education and discipline, and if [ shall I
be successful in what | want to say l +
shall rub the wrinkles out of your brow
aud unstrap some of the burdens from
your back.
| have first to remark that God in
tended business life 10 be to you
4 SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN ENERGY.
God started us in the world, giving
us certain amount of raw material
out of which we were to hew our own
character. Every faculty needs to be
reset, rounded and sharpened up. AT
ter our young people have graduated
from the schools, colleges and universi-
ties, they need higher education-
that which the collision and rasping of
everyday life alone can effect. Energy
Of soul is wrought out only in the fire,
and when man for ten, or fifteen, or
twenty or thirty years has been going
through business activities his energy
can no longer be measured by weights,
)r plumme.s, or ladders 1t can scale
any height. 1t can plummet any depth.
It can thrash any obstacle. Now, do
you suppose that God has spent all this
sdueation on you for the purpose of
making YOU Il more successful worldling, ,
# enabling you to more rapidly aceumu- :
ate dollars, making you sharp in a :
trade; did God make you merely to be .
l yard stick, to measure cloths, or steel !
yard t. weigh -four? And did He intend
Tou to spend Your life in doing nothing
put to chatter and higgle? Ny friends,
de has put you in thisschool to develop !,
ronr energy for His cause and kingdom
There is enough unemployed talent in
he churches and in the world to-day to
'eform all empires, and all Kingdoms /.
md people, in three weeks. Oh! how /.
much idlcne.s amid strong muscles and !.
tout hearts. How many deep streams J
hat turn no miH,wheels and haul on : :
he bapds Of no factory God demands :
hat he have the best lamb out of every : :
lock, the richest sheaf in every harvest, !
he best men of every generation; and : :
II cause where the Newtons, and the
4ockes, and the Mansfelds of the earth
we're prone to enlist, you and need not
,e ashamed to toll. Oh! for fewer !:
dlers and for more consecrated Chris l !
ian workers.
Again, God intended business life to r
,e to YOU