Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-01
RELIGION AND BUSINESS.
TALMAGE DECL LsRES THERE Is
NO WAR BETWEEN THEM.

| of Christian Energy, Patience and Iu-
tegrity--Businsss Men who Stand Tri-
umphsnt in Beaveu,
! BROOKLYN, n. Y, Oct. 31.-The ser
| vices at the Brooklyn Tabernacle are at
| tended by large numbers of merchants
and business men from all parts OF this
! country, and from foreign lands, and the
| following sermon, preached by the Rev.
I. Dewitt Tslmage, ID. D., this morning,
was timely he selected for the opening
hymn OF the service that beginning:
"Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world 20 free?"
The text was Romans xii, Il: "Not
slohful in business; feryent in spirit;
serving the Lord"
| Industry. devotedpess, Christian SER
| vice are all recommended in this one
| short text. Whatl Is il possible to con-
| join them? o, yesi There Is no war be-
tween religion and business, between BIZ
| bles and ledgers, between churches and
| counting houses. On the contrary, re-
| liglon acceleTates business, sharpens
mems wits, sweetens acerbity OF disposi-
ton, 6liips the blood of phlegmatics. and
| throws more velocity into all the wheels
of hard work. To the judgment it gives
more skillful balancing, to the will more
strength, TO industry more muscle, to en-
| thusiasm more concentrated fre. You
cannot show me a man whose business
prospects Gave in any wise been despoiled
| by his religion,
| The industrial classes are divided into
three grOups-prOducers, manufacturer,
traders. Producers such as farmers and
| m ners. Manufacturers such as take the
corn and change il into food, or the wool
| ana max ana change them into apparel.
| Traders, who make profit out OF the
transfer and exchange OF that which Is
! produced or manufactured. Nov, a busi-
ness man may belong to one of these
| classes, or be may belong to all of them.
| Whatever be your avOcauon, if you plan,
| calculate, bargain; il into your lite there
| come annoyances, veXations and disap-
| po ntments, as well as gains, dividends
and percentages; If you are harassed
| WIN multiplicity of en-
gagements; In word, if
| you are driven from Monday morning to
aturday night, and from January to
January, with relentle Obligation and
| duty, then you are business man or a
business woman, aud my subject is ap-
uropriate to your case. We are apt TO
speak of the MOL ana tug of business life
as though 10 were All inqustion or q
prison into which man is thrown, or an
unequal strife where. half~armed, be goes
to cOutend. Hear me this morning, while
| try to show you that God intended busi-
ness life to be glorious education and
discipline; and if | shall be successful IN
what / want to say, shall rub tue
wrinkles out OF your brow and unstrap
some OF the burdens from your back
! have first to remark, that God in
tended business life to be to YOU a school
of Christian energy. God started us in
tue world, giving US certain amount OF
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our own character. Every faculty needs
10 be reset, rounded, sharpened up. After
our young people have graduated from
the schools and colleges and universities
they need higher education, that which
the COLLISION and rasplng Of everyday lie
alone can effect. Energy of soul il
wrought out only in tie fire. And when
man for Ten, or fifteen, or twenty or
thirty wears has been going through bus
mess activities, his erergy can no longer
be measured by weights, or plummets or
ladders. 1t can scale any height. 1t can
pummet any depth. It can thrash any
obstacle. Now 90 you suppose that
God has spent all this education
on you for the purpose Of
making you a more successful wording
Of enabling you to more rapidly accumu-
late dollars, making you sharpin a trade?
Did God make you merely to be yard
SUCK LO LD6dSuTb CIOJutS, OF h eteelyAf0
10 weigh flOurI And did He intend YOU
to spend your life in doing nothing nut 10
chatter and higglef My friend lie has
put You in this school TO develop your en-
ergy for His cause and kingdom. There
Is enough unemployed talent in the
churches and in the world to-day to re-
form all empires and all Kingdoms and
people III three weeks. o how much idle.
ness amid strong muscles and stout
l,.Na L.,
turn no mill wheels, and haul on the
bands of no factory! GOD demands th at He
have the best Iamb out of every flock, the
richest sneai in every harvest, the best
men OF every generation; and in cause
where the NewtOns and The Lockes, and
the Mansdelds Of tDe eart1 were proud to
enlist, you and need not be ashamed To
toll. . for fewer idlers and for more con-
secrHted Christian workers!
Again: God intended business life to be
to you school OF patience. How many
little things there are in one days en-
gagements 10 perturb, and annoy, and
disqulet you'll Bargains will rub, and
men will break their engagements. Col.
lccting agents will come back empty
banded. TricksteTs in business will play
upon what they call 'bard times," wnrn
in any times they never pay. Goods
placed on the wrong shelf. Cash books
ana money drawer IN a quarrel. Goods
ordered for an especial emergency failing
TO come, or, il coming, damaged in the
transportation. People who intend no
narm going about shopping, unrOliing
goods ibeN do not mean TO Duv, and try ing
TO break the dozen. Men obliged 10 take
up other peoples notes. More counter
ieIt bills IN the drawer. More bad
deDts. Another ridiculous pauic, Un. |
der all this friction men break |
down, or they are secured up into ad-
diliUnal brightness. How many you aud
| have known VINO, in the past lew years,
have gone down under the pressure, and |
have become petulant, AID chOl nc, and |
Grabbed, and sour, and pugnacious, until |
customers forsOok their stores, and thesp
merchants have become ins sOlyent, and !
their names were pronounced with detes- |
tatiOnl But other men nave found IN this !
school Tor patience. They tougnened
under the exposure. They were like
rocks, more serviceable fOr the blasting.
There WAS time wnen they had 10 choke
down their wrath. There was time
when they had 10 bite their lip. fhere
was time wnen they thought Oi a sung.
lux retOrt they would Ike to utter. But
now they have conquered their impa- !
tieBce. Jhey have kind words Tor sarcastic |
ilings. They nave polite bet ayior Tor |
dlecOurteOus customers. They nave for |
beArance for unfortunate debtors. They |
have mOrAl reflections for the sudden /
reYerses OF fortune. How are you gong |
70 get that grace OF pauencei Not
through hearing ministers breRGh about /
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