The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-11-14

Tabernacle the opening hymn this morn
ing was:
solet lips and lives express
The holy gospel we profess;
SO let our works and virtues shine
10 prove the doctrine all divine
DR.. Talmage preached on Business
Life taking his text from Romans XII,
IL: Not slOthful in business; fervent in
spirit; serving the Lord"
Industry, devOutness, Christian ser
vice. said DR.. Talmage, are all recon-
mended in this one short text. What
is il possible to cOnjOin themp Oh, yes,
there is no war between religion and
business, between Bibles and ledgers,
between churches and counting houses.
On the contrary, religion accelerates
business, Sharpens mems wits, SweetenS
acerbity and disposition, fillips the
blood of phlegniatics and throws more
velocity into all wheels of hard work.
TO the judgment it gives more skillful
balancing; to the will more strength; to
industry more muscle; to enthusiasm a
more concentrated fire. You can not
show me a man whose business prospects
have in any way been despOiled by his
religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three grOups-prOducerS, manufacturers,
traders. Producers such as farmers;
manufacturers such as take the corn
and change it into food, or the wool and
flax and change them into apparel;
traders who make profit out of the
transfer and exchange of that which Is
produced or manufactured. Now, a
- business man may belong to one of these
classes or he may belong to all of them.
Whatever be your avOcatiOn-if you
plan, calculate, bargain; If into your
life there come annOyances, VeXatiOns
and disappOintments, as we'll as gains,
dividends and percentages; If you are
harTasSed with multiplicity of engage
ments; ill word, if you are driven from
Monday morning to Saturday night, and
from January to January, with relent-
less obligation and duty, then you are
business man or business woman, and
my subject is appropriate to your case.
We are apt to speak of the mOil and tug
of business life ais though 1t were an
inYuisitiOn or prison into whicha man
is thrown, or an unequeal strife where
half armed, he goes to contend. Hear
me this morning while L try to snow
you that God intended business life to
be a glorious education and discipline,
Lnd if shall be successful in what l
want to say | shall rub the wrinkles out
OF your brow and unstrap some of the
burdens from your back.
l have first to remark that God intend
ed business life to be to you school Of
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. After our young people have grad
uated from the schools and colleges and
universities they need a higher educa-
tiOn, that which the collision and rasp-
ing of everyday life can effect. Energy
of soul is wrought out only in the fire.
mh a Hftnnn
twenty or thirty years has been going
through business activities, his energy
can no longer be measured by weights,
or plummets. or ladders, 1t can scale
any height. 1t can plummet any depth.
l can thrash any obstacle. Now do you
oppose that God has spent all his educa-
tiOn on you for the purpose of making
you more successful wOrldling, of en-
abling you to more rapidly accumulate
dollars, making you sharp in trader
Did God make you merely to be a yard
stick to measure clothes, or a steel yard
to weigh -four? And did He intend you
to spend your life in doing nothing but
to chatter and higgle? My friend, He has
put you in this school to develop your
energy for His cause and kingdom.
There is enough unemployed talent in
the churches and in the world to-day to
reform all empires and all kingdoms
and people in three weeks. Oh how
much idleness amid strong muscles and
stout heaTtsl How many deep streams
that turn no mill-wheels and haullOn the
bands of no factory. God demands that
He have the best lamb out of every flock,
the richest sheaf in every harvest, the
best men of every generation, and in a
cause where the NewtOn9 and the LOckeS
and the Mansfelds of the earth we're
proud to enlist, you and l need not be
ashamed to toll. Oh. for fewer idlers
and for more cOnsecrated Christian
workers!
Again, God intended business life to
be to you a school of patience. How
many little things there are in one days
engagements to perturb and annoy and
disquiet you'll Bargains will rub, and
men will break their engagements
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 quarrel.
Goods ordered for an especial emergency
falling to come. or, If coming, damaged
in the transportation. People who in
tend no harm going about shopping,
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 ridiculous
panic. Under all Of 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 press
Ire; and have become petulant and
chOierie and Grabbed and sour and pug
nacious, until customers fOrsOOk their
stores, and these merchants have become
insOlVent and their names were pro-
nounced with detestatiOnl But other
men have found in this school for
patience. They toughened under the
exposure. They were like rocks, more
serviceabIe for the blasting. There
was a time when they had to choke
down their wrath, There was time
when they had to bite their lip. There
was time when they thought Of a
singing retOrt they would like to utter
But now they have conquered their i'm
patience. They have kind words for sar'
castle filings; they have polite behavior
for discOurteous customers; they have
fOrbearance for unfortunate debtors