National Republican., 1886-11-01
Woodward g. Lothrop,
Boston Dry Goods House,
921 Pennsylvania Ave. 0l2 d Street

money drawer in quarrel. Goods ordered
ior AN especial emergency failing to come, or
People who intend no harm going about shop.
ping, unrolling goods they do not mean TO
buy, and trying 10 break the dozen. Men
More counterfeit bills in the drawer. More
bad debts. Another ridiculous panic
Under all this friction men break
down, or they are scared up into additional
brightness, How many you and have known
WHO, in the past few years, have gone down
under the pressure and have become peulant,
ana cholerlc, and grabbed, ana sour. aud pug
nGCious, until customers iOrsoOk their stores,
and these merchants have become insolvent,
and their names were pronounced with detes'
tation, But other men have lound IN this q
the exposure They We're like rocks, more
seTvicelble for the blasting. There was time
when they had 10 choke down their wrath.
lip. There was time when they thought OF
singing retort they would like 10 utter.
But now they have CONQUERED their I'm.
patience. They have kind words for sarcastic
iDgs. They have u polite behavior for dis.
courteous customers. They have forbearancc
for unfortunate debtors. They have moral re.
fectOns for tho sudden revcrses of fortune
How areyou going toget that grace ofpatience?
Not through hearing ministers preach about It,
Oh. 70! ltyou get 1t at allyou VIII get II in the
world, where you sell hats, and plead causes
and tin roofs and make shoes, and turn bann's'
tiers, ana plow corn pray God that through
the turmoil, and sweat and eXasperation OF
your everyday life, you may. hear the voice of
soul, let patience have peiect work"
Again: God intended business life To be to
you school tor the attaining of knowledge
Merchants do not rend many books, nor stu "
many lexicons, nor dive into great profounds,
yet through the force Of circumstances they
get intelligent on questions OF politics, and
ilnance aud geography, and jurisprudence, aud
ethics. business Is a hard schoolmistresS. If
her pupils Will not learn in any other way,
with unmerciml hand she smltes them on the
head and on the heart with ineXorable loss
You went into some business enterprise, and
$1,000 got out OF your grasp You say the Is, 900
were wasted. Oh, no that was only tuition
Expensive schooling, but IT. was worth 1t. Mis-
fortune, with hard hand, comes upon q
man and wakes him up, aud by the very force
Of circumstances business men get 10 be intel
ligent. Traders in grains must know about
foreign harvests. Traders in fruit must know
about the prospects OF tropical production
| Manufacturers OF American goods must know
about the tariff on imported articles. Publish.
| ers of books must know the new law of copy.
winds, and shoals, and navigation, and so
Islsih Ssi, casE ask and every tea box ooS ana
literature to our business men Now, what
| Is the use of ali this intelligence unless you
give 4 TO Christ? % you suppose God gives
you these opportunities Of Frightening np your
| intellect and of increasing your knowledge
| merely TO get larger treasures and grauder
| business? on, no Can II bo that You have
been learning about riiSn LANDS and people
missionary spirit? Can II be that You have
| been learning the iollies ana ttickeres, and
| hollowness Of the business wntld, and yet you
| are not trying to bring TO bear upon them
| this gospel which Is TO correct Hll abuses, aud
| abolish all ignorance, anl correct all mistakes,
| and arrest all crime, and irradiIto al dark
| ness, and lift up all wTetChedncss? Can IL be
| that, wilhslanding your acquaintance with
the intTlcacles Of business, YOU are ignorant OF
| those things which viii last the soul long after
| bills OF exchange, and commissions, aSd in
| voices, and consignment', and rent rolls have
ergmrled up and consumed In the fires OF a
| judgment day.
Again: God intended business life to be IN
| you school of Christian integrity. No age OF
| The world ever offered so many Inducements
| for tCOundIellsm as are offered now, There is
| hardly stAtnte on the law books that has not
some backdoor through which miscreants can
escape. How many deceptions in the fabric OF
goods Commercial life plies the land with
trickeTiCs innnmerable,, and there are so many
life Of plunder that when mn
| proposes straightforward, honest business, II
is almost charged TO greenness aud want OF
tact, All, my brethren, this ought not to be-
But have to tell you that IL requires more
| grace TO be honest now than 1t did In the days
! OF our fathers, when business was plain, and
| there were no stock gamblers, and wooden WAS
woOlen and silk was silk aud men were men
| How rare II Is that you find a man who Cau,
| from his heart say II never cheated In trade
| never overestimated the value of goods when
feet in fabric, never played upon the ig-
noraneo of customer and In all my
estate estate there Is nqf 4So. one dishones!
It, They never let their integrity bow or crlngl
TO present advantage. They are, rs pure aud
| Christian to-day as on the day when they sold
their first terGe of rice or their first firkln o
butter. There were times when they could
| have robbed partner when they could have
absconded with the funds ofa bank, when they
they could have borrowed illlmitably when
| they could have made false assignment
| when they could have ruined a nelghbOr fll