Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-01
HARD KNOCK SCHOOL.
DR.. TALNAGB breaches en- THE USES OF
ADVERSELY.
We are the Founders Of Oar Own Dssunies The
Makers Of Our Own Charlottesville Education
Which Comes After School and OOllsge-
The Uses Of Business Life.
Special telegram to the Register.

'iSSS az TIC DiOOhlyu 1aDclhdClS aiS az
tended by large numbers of merchants and
business neh from all parts of this coun-
try, and from foreign lands, and the
following sermon, preached by the Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage, DID,, 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 go free?''
The text was Romans xii, v. ii: Not
slOthful in business; fervent in spirit; Serv-
ing the Lord"
INDUSTRY, DEvoTEDNEss, CHRISTIAN
SERVICE
are all recommended in this one short
text. What! is it possible to conjOin
them? ., yes! There is no war between
religion and business, between Bibles and
ledgers, between churches and counting
houses. On the contrary, religion accele-
rates business, sharpen mems wits,
sweetens acerbity of disposition, Gillips the
blood of phlegmatics, and throws more We
lOcity into all the wheels of hard work.
To the judgment it gives more skillful
| balancing; to the will more strength; to
| iddustry more muscle; to enthusiasm a
more concentrated fire, You cannot show
me 4 man whose business prospects have
in any wise been despoiled by his religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups-prOducers, manufacturers,
| traders. Producers, such rs farmers and
miners. Manufacturers, such as take the
corn and change it into food, or the wool
and AJAX and change them into apparel
Traders, who make a profit out OF the
transfer and exchange of that which is pro-
duced or manufactured. Now, business
man may belong TO one of these classes,
or he may belong to all of them. What
ever be your avOcatiOn, if you plan, calcu-
late, bargain; if into your life there come
annOyances, veXatiOnS, and disappoint-
ments rs well as gains, dividends and
percentages; if you are harrasSed with a
multiplicity of engagements; in word, il
your are driven from Monday morning to
Saturday night, and from January to jan
uary, with relentless obligations and duty,
-
woman, and my subject is appropriate to
your case. We are apt to speak of the
toll and tug of business life us though il
were an inquiSitiOn or prison into which
| a man is thrown, or an
unequal strife, where, halt-armed, he
goes to contend. Hear me this morning,
while try to show you that God intended
business life to be glorious education and
discipline, and if shall be successful in
what | want to say, shall rub the wrin-
kleS out of your brow and unstrap some of
| the burdens from your back.
have first to remark that God intended
BUSINESS LIFE
| to be to you u school of Christian energy
God started us in the world, giving us Il
certain amount of raw material out OF
which to hew our character Every fac
ulty needs to be reset, rounded, sharpened
up. After our young people have gradu-
ated from the schools ahd colleges and
universities. they need 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,
business activities, his energy can no
longer be measured by weights. or plum
NETS, or ladders. 1t can scale any height
IL can plummet any depth 1t can thrash
any obstacle. Now do you suppose that
God has spent all this education on
yOu for the purpose of max
ing YOU more successful wOrldling, of
enabling yOu to more rapidly accumulate
dollars, making you sharp in trade? Did
God make you merely to be yard-stick
to measure cloths, or steelyard to weigh
flour? And did he intend you to spend
Your life in doing nothing but chatter and
higgle? My friend, He has put you in
this school to develop your energy for His
cause and kingdom. There is enough un-
employed talent in the churches, and in
the world to-day, to reform all empires,
and all kingdoms, and people in three
weeks. ., 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 have the best lamb out
of every flock. the richest sheaf in every
harvest, the best men of every generation;
and in q cause where the Newtons, and
the LOckeS, and the Mans6elds of the
earth, were proud to enlist, you and |
need not be ashamed to toll. D, for few
er idlerS and for more cOnsecrated Chris
tian workers!
Again: God intended business life to be
to you
\ SCHOOL OF PATIENCE.
How many little things there are in one
days engagements to perturb, and annoy,
and disquiet you. Bargains will rub, aud
men will break their engagements. Col
lecting agents will come back empty
handed. Tricksters in business will play
upon what they call the hard times,
when in any times they never pay. Goods
placed on the wrong shelf. Cash books
and money drawer in quarrel. Goods
ordered for an especial emergency failing
to come, or, if coming, damaged in the
transportation. People who intend no
harm going about shopping, unrolling
goods they do not mean to buy, and try
ing to break the dozen. Men obliged to
take up other peoples notes. More
counterfeit bills in the drawer. More
bad debts. Another ridiculous panic.
Under all this friction men break
downlor they are secured up into addi-
tional brightness. How many you and |
have known who, in the past few years,
have gone down under the pressure, and
have become pstulant, and chole ric, and
Grabbed, and sour, and pugnaciouS, until
customers tOrsook their stores, and these
merchants have become inSolvent, and
their names were pronounced with detes-
tation! But other men have found in this
school for patience. They toughened un-
der the exposure. They we're like rocks,
more servicable for the blasting. There
was time when they had to choke down
their wrath. There was time when they
had to bite their lip. There was time
when they thought of stingiug retOrt
they would like to utter. But now they
have conquered their impatience. They
have kind words for sarcastic feeling.
They have polite behavior
for discourteous customers. They
have forbearanee for unfortu-
nate debaters. They have moral re-
Elections for the sudden reverses of for
tune. How are yOu going to get that
grace of patience? Not through hearing
ministers preach about it. Oh, no! II
you get it at all, you will get it in the