Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

DR., Talmage's sermon to-day was Ro-
mans xii, v. H.:
'Not slothful In business: fervent In spirit
serving the Lord"
Industry, devotedness, Christian SER
vice are all recommended in this one
short text. What! is it possible to
c~onjoin themp o, yes! There is no
war between religion and business, be-
tween Bibles and ledgers, between
churches and contingencies. On
the contrary, religion accelerates bust
ness, sharpens mems wits, sweetens
acerbity of disposition, fllips the blood
of phlegmatics, and throws more veloc-
ity 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 enthusi-
asm a more concentrated fire. You
cannot show me a man whose business
prospects have in any wise been de-
spoiled by his religion.
The industrial classes are divided
into three groups
Producers, such as farmers and min
ers. Manufacturers, such as take corn
and change it into food, or the wool
and flax and change them into APP
parel. Traders, who make Il profit
out of the transfer and exchange
of that which IS produced
or manufactured. Now, a bust
ness man may belong to n of
these classes, or he may belong to all
of them. Whatever be your voca-
ton, if you plan, calculate, bargain;
if into your life there come annoyances,
vexations, and disappointments rs well
as gains, dividends and percentages; if
you are harrassed with Il multiplicity
of engagements; in a word, if you are
driven from Monday morning to Satur-
day night. and from January to Jan
uary. with relentless obligation and
duty, then you are a business man, or
a business woman, and my subject is
appropriate to your case. We are apt
to speak of the moil and tug Of bust
ness life as though it were an %inquisi-
ton or a prison into which a man is
thrown, or In unequal strife where,
half armed, he goes TO contend. Hear
me this morning, while | try to show
you that God intended business life to
be a glorious education and discipline;
and if | shall be successful in what |
want to say, | shall rub the 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 the world, giving us
n certain amount of raw material out
of which we were to hew our own
character. Every faculty needs to be
reset, rounded, sharpened up. After
ur young people have graduated from
the schools, and colleges, and u%niver-
sites, they need a higher education,
that which the collision and rasping of
everyday life alone can effect. Energy
of soul is wrought out only in the fire.
And when a man for ten, or fifteen, or
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.
1t can crush any obstacle. Now do you
suppose that God has spent all this edu-
cation on you for the purpose of max
ing you 4 more successful wording,
of enabling you to more rapidly accu-
mulate dollars, making you sharp in
a trade. Did God make you merely
to be a yard-stlck to measure cloths,
or a steel-yard to weigh tlour2 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 develope 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. o, how
much idleness amid strong muscles
and stout hearts! How many deep
streams that turn no mill-wheels, and
haul on the bands of no factory! God
demands that he 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 Newtons and the Lockes,
and the Mansfields of the earth were
proud to enlist, you and / need not
be ashamed to toll. q, for fewer
idlers and for more consecrated Chris
tian workers!
Again. God intended business life to
DE to you
SCHOOL OF PATIENCE.
How many little things there are in
one days engagements to perturb,
and annoy, and disquiet you. Bar
gains will rub, and men will break