St. Landry democrat., 1886-11-13

recommended that cities should ncT." nc
built any nearer the sca-coast than zen
miles. But we have become wiser than
that, and you know that there are no harder
workers than those who plan and calculate
in stores and banks and counting houses.
What though their apparel be neat, what
though their manners be refined, do not put
them down as oilers. They carry loads
heavier than hod of bricks, they go into
exposures keener than the cutting of the
east wind they scale mountains higher
than the Alps and Himalayas, and main.
tanning their Christian integrity, Christ
will at last accost them, saying: ''WeD
done, thou good and faithful servant: thou
hast been faithful over few things will
make thee ruler over many things; enter
thou into the joy of thy Lord"
I also enjoin you to quit all fretfulness
about business matters. Is there not some
thing in your own household that you would
not give up for the worldly success other
men haves Besides that, if these trials
lifted you up, you ought to bless God for
the whip Of discipline. The larger the note
you have to pay, the greater the uncer-
tainty of business life, the better for your
soul if Jesus Christ leads you triumphantly
through. How do / knows know it by
this princple-the hotter the furnace the
better the refining. There have been thou
sands of men who have gone through the
same path YOU are now going through with
tudes before the throne of God
who were dashed with cares and
anxicties innumerable, and were cheat
ed out of every thing but their coffin.
They were sued; they were elected; they
were imprisoned for debt; they were NAL
treated; they were throttled by constables
with whole packs Of writs; they were sold
out by sheriffs; they had to confess ludg-
ments; they had to compromise with cred
itors, and their last hour on earth was dis
turbed by the fact that their door-bell was
rung loudly and angrily by the hand Of
some impetuous creditor, who was sur
prised that the sick man should be SO i'm
pertinent and outrageous as to die before
he had paid him the last three shillinGs and
sixpence.
o, how men are tossed and driven!
had friend who went from one anxiety to
another; a good and great heart he had,
but every thing he put his hand to seemed
to fail. Misfortunes clustered around, and
after awhile heard he was dead, ard the
first word / said was ''Good, he has got
rid of the sheriffs" There is q great null
titude OF business men who on earth had it
hard, but by the Grace Of God they stand
triumphant in Heaven; and when the ques-
ton is asked of them: "Who are they!"
the angels of God, standing on seas OF
glass; wild cry out: ''These are they which
came out ct great tribulation, and have
waskh their robes, and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb"
OHse more: want you to seek business
graAk Commercial ethics, business honor,
lawSSf trade, may do very well for awhile;
but ta1re will come time when the ground
will slip from under your feet, and the
world. will frown, and the devils will set
after -FOUR soul, and you will want more
then than this world can give you; you
will want the Eternal Rock to stand on. For
the Task Of that grace you have known men
to forge, and to maltreat their friends, and
to curse their enemies, and you have seen
their names bulletined among scoundrels,
and spit upon, and blistered by scorn, and
ground to powder. They not only lost their
property, but their souls were mauled, and
purified, and blasted for eternity. You
could count up scores of such persons;
while there are others who, tossed on the
same saR, sustained by the grace Of God,
have al the time kept their eye on the
lighthouse.
Men coming out Of that mans store say:
eff there ever was Christian trader, that is |
one.n Stern integrity kept the books and
waited on the customers. Light from the |
future world flashed through the show
windows. Wrath never stamped that
floor, nor did sly dishonor cover up imper
fections in goods. Love to God and love to |
men were the principles that ruled in the
store of that Christian trader. Some day |
the shutters are not let down from the !
store window and the bars are not taken
from the door; men pass along, and stop, |
and stare, and go up to read card on the
door which announces: 'Closed on account
of the death Of one of the firm" That death
it is talked in commercial circles that
q good man has gone. Boards of trade
pass resolutions of sympathy, and churches
Of Christ pray: "Help, Lord, for the Cody
man ceaseth." He has made his last bar
gain; he has suffered his last loss; he has
ached with his last fatigue; the result OF
his Christian industry will bless his chill
dren after he is dead, and requests to the
Kingdom of God will gather many sons
into glory Everlasting rewards in place
Of business disciplined There "the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary are at
rest"
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Freaks of the Sense of Smell.