Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-07-09
A BUSINESS SERMON.

"Sccst thou man diigcnt in his busincssy
BE- shall stand before kings; he shall not stand
before mean mcn."-I'rOrcil,S .rrii: -.
My hearers, If any young man in this
congregation thinketh that by taking
thought and getting up early in the
morning and going TO bed with the
fowls of the henncry and working hard
all day, he has dead sure thing on the
Presidency, he is counting without the
Chicago Convention. The text does
not mean that. The young man, by
giving diligcnt heed unto his WAYS and
keeping his hands clean, by always
cayning his breakfast before he eats il,
and wearing old clothes until he can
pay for new ones, and loving his neigh
Dor rs his neighbor loves himself, and
never running for n train or jumping
for ferryboat, may indeed never be
President. Better than that, he may
never want 10 be President. He may
never be worth n million dollars, but
he may DO rich in the measurcless
wealth of contentmcnt with thousand
year. He may not reach the soaring
fight of the eagle that fans the sun
with its broad and sweeping wing, but
he may keep his ward stirred up TO q
state of thrilling activity on the plane
of the tuneful hornet. He may not go
TO Congress, he may not even attain
unto the glory of the Legislature, but
if he be diligcnt in his business he may
sometimes sit ut the table with kings
ny, in the happier moments, with aces.
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
"Diligent in his business!n 1t is the
man who is diligcnt in his own business
70 whom this exalted position is prom
scd. There arc people, dearly be-
5ycd, who are diligcnt in everybody &
% business, and have therefore nc
'lmc TO attend to their own. They dc
lot stand before Kings; they more fire.
guertly stand before tho police judge
Their diligence is not commendable
i workman is known by his chips; so
alaa. is the faro Banker. DO you be dill
rent ~ your own business and be con
ier With its rewards. You may no
walk 20 many miles in six days as Fitz
gorald, but you can sleep q great dca
mo.9 in that time; and if you do no
Uel 20 much money for it, neither Il,
you get so many blisters. On your LITTLE
.alaly at the suspendcr counter, yo,
Cc not clean up $500, 900 on Wall Stree
lis week. But, then, neither can yo,
PC cleaned out of $4,000 next week
You may not be able To set the fashion
in male attire, but YOU can fill you
soul with nameless JOY and ON cxalt
alton of celestial birth, and climb {,
the top Of high Olympus, and lean bacl
and pile your feet on the sofa and max
yourself easy with the immortal gods
by paying your landlady every Satul
lay and Keeping even with your tailor
You may never be the Washington COZ
'espondcnt of society paper, but the
our hair won't turn white in the age
1izcd effort TO explain what il is about
senator's wife, who has red hail
.rechles, no upper teeth, hair wart o
her nose, and twang in her shri
rClee, that ''makes her so b,
Wiohingly beautiful and univel
ally admired just be diligent
rour own business, and wait In paticnc
ior the reward Of your diligence.
may DC n little slow In coming. III
mills Of the gods grind slowly, so do,
i.nd-organ on the Last Rose ,
sumner stop, but il always gets Their
and don't pay more for the reward tina
inc reward Is worth. a man who liv,
on twcnty-nine cents q day will be al
TO die wealthy, but he won't die vel
fat. II is the liberal soul that shall
made fat.
AND HAVE ONE TO MIND.
) Again, my hearers, you will obser'
that the cyoltation Is promised the ms