Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-11-11
LESSONS TAUGHT BY TOLL.
LESSONS TAUGHT BY TOLL.
THE REV. DR.. TALMAGE AD-
DRESSES THE WORLDS BUSY
MEN.
The Three Great Industrial
Glasses All in the Great School
Of the Lord.
energy Of Soul and Patience Es-
sential to Success.
Integrity Only Too Small at the Present
Day-Ruin Caused by One Dishonest
Dollar.
No MisfOrtunes in Heaven, but Ample Re-
wards for the Upright.
Special to The Kansas City Times.

Warus lor tIe UPRIGHT
Special to The Kansas City Times.
BROOKLYN, N Y, Oct 31.-The services at
the Brooklyn tabernacle are attended by large
numbers of merchants and business men from
all parts of this country and from foreign
lands, and the following sermon, preached by
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage, ID. D., this morning,
was timely He selected for the opening
hymn and service that beginning:
"Must Jesus bear the cross alone
And all the world go frce9'
The text was Romans, Kill, II! mot sloth.
full in business fervent In spirit; serving the
Lord" and DR.. Talmage spoke as follows:
Industry, devotedness, Christian services are
all recommended in this one short text
What is 1t possible TO conjoin them. Oh, yes
There is no war between religion and bust
ness, between Bibles and ledgers, between
churches and counting houses. On the con-
tray, religion accelerates business, sharpens
mems wits, sweetens acerbity of disposition,
fillpis the blood of phlegmatics and throws
more velocity into all the wheels Of hard work.
To the judgment it gives more skillful balanc-
ing; to the will more strength; to industry
more muscle; to enthusiasm a more concen-
trated fire. You cannot show me man whose
business prospects have in any wise been de-
spoiled by his religion
THREE INDUSTRIAL CLASSES.
The industrial classes are divided into three
groups-producers, manufacturers, traders
Producers, such as farmers and miners. Man
ufacturers, such as take the corn and change
it into food, or the wool and flax and change
them Into apparel. Traders, WHO make profit
out OF the transfer and exchange of that which
is produced or manufactured. Now a business
man may belong to one Of these classes, or he
may belong to all Of them. Whatever be your
ayocation, if you plan, calculate, bargain; If
into your life there come annoyances, vexa-
lions and disappointments ms well as gains,
dividends and percentages; if you are harassed
with multiplicity OF engagements; in a word,
IL you are driven from Monday morning to
Saturday night, and from January to January,
with relentless obligation and duty, then you
are business man or a business woman, and
my subject Is appropriate to your case. We
arc apt to speak of the moil and toll of bust
ness life as though 1t were an inquisltion or a
prison into which n man il throwD, or an UNI
equal strife where, half armed, lie goes to
contend. Hear me this morning while / try
to show YOU that God intended business life
to be glorious education and discipline; and
II shall be successful in what want to saw
l shall rub the wrinkles out of your brow and
unstrap some of the burdens from your back
LEARNING ENERGY OF SOUL
l have first to remark that God intended
business life to be to yOtt a school of Christian
energy. God started us in the world, giving
US a certain amount of raw material out OF
which we were to new our own character
Every faculty needs to be reset, rounded
sharrpened up. After ,our, young people have
graduated from the schools, and colleges, and
universities, they need a higher education,
that which the collision and grasping of every
day life alone can effect. Energy III sotil 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 activ-
tiles, 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 thrash any obstacle. Now do you sup.
pose that God has spent all this education on
you for the purpose of making you more sue
cessful worldling, of enabling you to more
rapidly accumulate dollars, making you sharp
in trade! Did God make you merely 10 be a
yard-stick TO measure cloths, or a steel yard to
weigh iouri 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 develop your energy for His cause
and kingdom.
TOO MUCH UNEMPLOYED TALENT
There is enough unemployed talent in the
churches, and in the world to day, to reform
II
three weeks o, how much idenesc amid
strong muscles and stout hearts! How many
deep streams that turn no mill wheels, and
haul on the bands of no factory! God de-
mands that He have the best lamb out Of
every flock, the richest sheaf in every harvest,
the best men OF every generations; and in a
:ause where the NewtOns, and the Lockes,
and the Mansiields of the earth were proud to
.nist, YOU and need not be ashamed to toll
o, for fewer idlers and for more consecrated
Christian workers!
Again: God intended business life to be to
you a 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 their en-.
gagements. Collection 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 a quarrel. Goods ordered
| for an especial emergency falling to come, or,
| IL coming, damaged in the transportation
| shopping, unrolling goods they do not mean
| to buy, and trying 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
this friction men break down, or they are
secured up into additional brightness.
| GREAT SCHOOL OF PATIENCE.
| How many you and have known who, in
| the past few years, have gone down under the
| pressure and have become petulant, and choler-
| c, and grabbed and sour, and pugnacious,
| until customers forsook their stores, and these
merchants have become insolvent and their
| names were pronounced with detestation! But
,ther men have found in this a school for pa
iience. They toughened under the exposure.
| They were like rocks, more serviceable for the
blasting. There was time when they had to
| choke down their wrath There was a time
when they had to bite their lip. Their was a
time when they thought of a singing retort
they would like to utter But now they have
conquered their Impotence. They have kind
words for sarcastic filings. They have polite
behavior for discourteous customers. They
have forbeance for unfortunate debtors.
They have moral reflections for the sudden re-
verses of fortune. How are you going to get
that grace of patiencel Not through hearing
| ministers preach about it. o, no! If you get
it at all you will get 1t in the world where you
sell hats, and plead causes, and tin roofs
and make shoes, and turn bannisters, and
plough corn. / pray God that through the
turmoil, and sweat and evaporation of your
everyday life you may hear the voice of Christ
saying to you: IF patience possess your soul
let patience have perfect work"
| BUSINESS HARD sCHooLMIsTREss.
Again: God intended business life to be tc
you school for the attaining Of knowledge
Merchants do not read many books nor study
MANY lexicons nor dive into great pro
POUNDS, vet through the force Of circum
stances they get intelligent on questions o.
politics, and finance, and geography, and jur
isprudence, and ethics. Business is a hare
schoolmistress. If her pupils will not learI
in any other way with unmerciful hand sh'
smites them on the head and on the hear
with memorable loss. You went into som,
business enterprise and 5000 got out of you
grasp You say the 5000 was wasted. o
mol that was only tuition, expensive schooling
but 1t was worth it. Misfortune, with hart
hand, comes upon a man and wakes him up
and by the very force Of circumstances bust
ness men get to be intelligent Traders il
grains must know about foreign harvests
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