St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-22
THE RUSH FOR RICHES,
The Rev. Mr.. Holman Says Good Bust
ness Man May Also Be a
Christian.
But the Great Tendency is to Get Rich at
Any Sacrifice of Duty or
Principle.
Increased Attendance and Interest at
the Red Rock Camp Meet
ing Services.
A st. Paul Sutcide--The Dairymeh's
Meeting at Observation-Disclosures
Street Sayings.
CHRISTIANITY IN BUSINESS.

CHRISTIANITY IN BUSINESS.
Abstracts from the Rev. Mr. Hoi'
MANS Sermon Last Evening"
ga young man recently told me that l
was impossible to sell goods in st. Paui uh
less he were willing to take his customer
into saloons and treat them," said the heV
Mr.. Holman, in opening his sermon at tns
Bates Avenue Methodist church, last even
ing. The subject of the sermon had peer
announced as The Christian in BUSINESS
and the preacher took no text other tnal
This. After the above quoted words Int
sneaker continued: "a business man IL
Chicago told me, not long since, that ne nae
inst discharged a man from his employ De
ranse he had not sufficient character 10 sci
goods. He wanted not only men OF gooe
ability but of good character to sell MI
goods. 1t is for you to judge when OF tls
two hints at the modern business metnods
Is most predominant, and stamps
most strongly the business OF Inc Gay
Every few DAYS we read of bank cashiers
who have found it convenient to take trll
10 Canada, and good men in high places art
constantly falling into disgrace. Business
maxims are numerous, such as the follow
ing: You can't be Christian and be
GOOD dry goods man; religion is all right
but business is business; giving the idea thai
Christianity is something to be assumed fol
Sunday and laid aside for the rest OF The
week."
The speaker said then that he intended
simuly to speak of certain great principles
laid down by Christ, and in effect ever since
on this point; and first, if there are any pro-
fessions or businesses in which 1t Is I'M
nossible to serve God, then that business
should be dropped, for in the end it vii
ruin the mans life, make him dlssatlsheo
and eternally damn his soul. The dlctun
of the Lord Jesus is that is is better to De
less noted and less rich and go to heaven as
a man, than to go into hell as millionaire
THE TENDENCY OF THE TIMES
is To commercial ends; to seek wealth; to
stand on the brink of life and say, / will
wiring wealth out of the world, and the
man who dies poor nowadays is consid-
cred In no way success. If it be true that
it is impossible for young man to go into
business and not be Christian, then the
door to every store and counting room Is
the door of hell. This statement that Chris
tianity and business were at variance, the
speaker said he believed was lie as black
as any that was ever bred in hell. 1t Is
possible to stand with clean hands and
clean hearts in the strife of business, for il
has been done by some of the most success
full business men in the country.
The speaker then defined the Christian
as man who had love for God and human
ity i'll his heart, and then proceeded to lay
down some of the more notable points in
such life. In the first place the Christian
in business is honest. 81 don't mean to
say" said the speaker. s'that all church
members are honest, for could not sub
stantiate that statement, but every Chris
tian man is honest. If man breaks into a
house and robs it, that is stealing; or if he
holds pistol to your head and takes your
purse, that is stealing, but if he,
sQUEEzEs YOU IN A TRADE.
or keeps quiet on some points in a trade
and is talkative on others until you find you
have been cheated out of few hundreds OF
dollars, that is simply business shrewd-
ness"
There is little difference between the
business of Jay Gould, Vanderbilt
and the other harpies of Wall street,
when they manipulate stocks to
fleece the lambs, and the act OF the
man who deliberately forces me into cor
ner and takes all the money have in my
pocket.
Again, the Christian business man will
be generous. He will often see little OPP
portunities to be magnanimous, when, per-
haps, in the strictest sense he would do
otherwise and keep within the strict law.
He will not be continually saying 'sbusi-
ness is business" when urged to do some
magnanimous act. The Christian man will
ho bo7,. f.1I 10 9th o1,d mill ho Kind
1t used to be custom of A. L. Stewart,
the speaker said, whenever a man with less
capital than himself began business in his
line, to deliberately go to work and freeze
him out, and Mr.. Stewards store became
crowded with men whom the rich man had
forced out of competition and
then employed himself. The Christian
business man will not do this.
The preacher then urged every young man
about to go into business not to
get the idea that to be a
business man one must be cut-throat-
that he must squeeze and twist everybody
with whom he comes in contact in order to
be a successful business man. Such men
become millienaires, but they die paupers.
A Christian business man must be honora-
BILE. There are business
MEN IN ST. PAUL
who would no more go into a saloon On a
pretext of business than they would go into
hell because they had business there, Drink
ing, smoking, Sabbath breaking, etc., al
the expense of the firm, will not make a
man a better salesman or better pur-
chaser, and business men know this as well
as anybody else.
Again, Christian business men will be
fair. The Christian business man gives
six square days wages for six square days
work, and six square days work for six
square days wages; it works both ways be-
tween employer and employed. When all
men in business are truly Christian men,
there will be no more strikes. The en-
ployer will not try to get rich by stealing
his profits from the laborer's wages; and
the laborer will recognize the fact that a
man with a large investment of capital is
entitled to more money than himself, with
no interests at stake. These ideas may be
Utopian; so is the millennium, and the
speaker added, he would not limit his
view of the great principles that lay in his
theme to the business transactions of the
next six months. 'sYoung men, said he,
in closing, ''go into business life; you may
be great in it, but so conduct yourselves
that when you die the gates of heaven may
be opened to receive you, not as million
aire, but as man."
SUNDAY AT RED ROCK.