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


j Ifow many little things there are in
| one days engagementsa To perturb and
annoy and disquiet yol.. Bargains will
rub and men will break their engage
ments: collecting agents will come back
empty handed; tricksters in business
will play upon what they call the "hard
times" when in any times, they never
pay: goods placed on the wrong shelf
cash-books and money-drawer in quar-
rel: goods ordered for an especial emer-
gency falling to come, or, if coming,
damaged In the transportation; people
who intend no harm going about shop
ping, unrolling goods they do not mean
to buy, and trying to break the dozen
men obliged to take up other peoples
notes; more counterfeit bills in the
| drawer; more bad debts; another ridic-
ulous panic Under all this friction
men break down, or they are secured up
into additional brightness. How many
you and have known who, in the past
few years, have gone down under the
pressure and have become petulant, and
eholeric, and Grabbed, and sour, and uIl-
gracious, until customers forsook their
stores and those merchants have become
llnsolYent and their names were pre-
nounced with destestation. But other
men have found in this a school for
patience. They toughened under the
exposure. They were like rocks, more
serviceable for the blasting. There was
time when they had to choke down
their wrath. There was q time when
they thought of stinging retort they
would like to utter But now they
have conquered their impatience. They
/ have kind words for sarcastic hings.
They have a polite behavior for dis
courteous Customers They have for
bearance for unfortunate debtors. They
have moral reflections for the sudden
rererses of fortune. How are you going
to get that grace of patience7 Not
| through hearing ministers preach about
it. Oh, no. If you get it at all yon will
get it in the world where you sell hats
and plead causes and tin roofs and make
shoes and turn banisters and plow corn.
pray God that through the turmoil
and sweat and exasperasion of your
Ievery-day life you may hear the voice
/ of Christ saving to you: In patiene,
/ possess your soul, let patience have heI
perfect work.
Again, God intended business life to
be 70 you school for
TIE ATTAINING or KNOWLEDGE.
Merchants do not read many books
nor study maay lexicons, nor dive into
great profounds, yet through the force
of circumstances they get intelligent on
questions of politics and finance and
geography and infisprude denee and ethics.
! Business IS 4 hard schoolmistres IL
/ her uaf5iEs viii not learn Iii .anv other
way. with nnnlexciful hand she smitez
/ them On the liesfd aid Oh the heart with
:, inexorable loss ION sent into some
business ente prise and 5000 rot ont of
Y0ur grasp. 1on say the 5000 were
wasted. Oh. nos that sas only kaiiion.
Expensive schooling but i was worth it.
/ Misfortune with hard hand comes upon
8 man and Nakes him np. and 81 the
very Force Of circumstances business
men get to he intelligent Iraders in
erain must kla1n about foreign harvests.
/ leaders ID fruits must know about the
I prospscts of trqpical productions Nan
1 afaefnnpr at Anlerican goods must
knew about the tarilf or imported arii-
Ecles Publishers of books must know
/ the rev laW Of eopyrighk. Owners of
ships come ~ undefs land winds and
shoals and "a ion. and 50 every
bale of cotton and eTefT kaisin- cask and
tereE4 ita4hox. and eFarE cluster Of
bananas becomes literature to our
I bus ness men NoN what S the nss oI
Z al This intel genes unless ron n5Fe e
b f0 Christ Do ron suppose God give
goa these opporluuilies oI brig lenioe
Is 5osk IA ct 1ls1 ol inets ing 4nilI
i knaN Re merely 70 gek larger tEsaaige<
and krsh|Isl b1siAel OF 40 CSn i
/ Sc that xoa have been <6znie zho1I
] foreign Snls ard pe6pls I' dwell
nn.le ef olfex skies sna yef have - nis.
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