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
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 Suicide--The Dairyineh
Meeting at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Street Sayings.
CHRISTIANITY In BUSINESS.
Abstracts from the Rev. Mr' 1hoi
MANS sermon Last Evening.

CHRISTIANITY IN BUSINESS.
ahstractS from the Rev. MIR. HOl'
MANS sermon Last Evening
ga Young man recently told me that 1
was impossible to sell goods IN 81. faul uii
less he were willing to take his customer
into saloons and treat Them" said the Rev
Mr.. Holman, in opening his sermon at the
Rates Avenue Methodist church, last even
ing. The subject of the sermon had peel
announced as The Christian IN BUSINESS
and the preacher took no text other tn Id
this. After the above quoted WoroS 1iis
speaker continued: "a business man II
Chicago told me, not long since, tnat ne lia'
lust discharged man from ms employ pe
cause he had not sufficient character " SCI
goods. He wanted not only men oI goo.
ability but of good character 10 sen IN
goods. 1t is for you to Judge Whlch ot u,s
two hints at the modern business metlouS
is most predominant, ana slalllps
most strongly the business OF ule uay
Every few days we read OF pahk caSnielE
who have found it convenient 10 take ull
so Canada- and good men in high places are
constantly falling into disgrace. beslhes'
mavimS are numerous. such as the follow
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
simply 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 1t VII
ruin the mans life, make him dlSSatlshed
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 consld-
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 he'll. 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 Ill 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. II 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
tan man is honest. If man breaks into a
house and robs it, that is stealing; or if he
holds a pistol to your head and takes your
purse, that is stealing, but if he,
soUEEzEs YOU IN A TRADE,
or keeps quiet on some points in trade
and is talkative on others until you find yor
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
portun1ties 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
be helpful to others, and will be kind.
It used to be custom of A. T. Stewart,
the speaker said, whenever 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 millionaires, but they die paupers.
A Christian business man must be honora-
BILE. There are business
MEN IN ST. PAUL
VINO WOulQ no Ul0T0 SO lHGO d SdlOOn Oh
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 9
man 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 laborers wages; and
the laborer will recognize the fact that a
man with 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."
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