The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-04

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Tho industrial classes are divided into three
groups-producers, manufacturers, traders.
Producers, such as farmers and miners
Manufacturers, such as take the corn and
change it into food, or the wool and flax ana
change them into apparel. Traders, who
make q profit out of the transfer and x
change Of that which is produced or manufac
turea. Now, business man may belong ts
one Of these classes or be 1fiay belong to allzot
them Whatever be your avocation, if you
plan, calculate, bargain; if into your lifs
there come annoyances, vexations and disap-
pointments, well gains, dividends and
percentages; if you harasssd with null
tiplicity of engagements; in word, il you
are driven from Monday morning to Satur-
day night and from January to January with
relentless obligations and duty, then you are
a business man business woman, and my
subject is appropriate to your ease. We are
apt te speak Of the mod and tug Of business
Life as slough i were an inquisition or
prison into which q man Is thrown. or an I'M
equal strife where, half armed, he goes to
contend Hear mo, this morning while Try
TO show you that God intended business life
to be a glorious education and discipline, and
Il shall be successful In what say shall
rub the wrinkles oat Of your brow and I'm
strap some Of the burdens from your back
I have FIRST 30 remark that God intended
uan energy. God started US in the world,
giving Us 8 certain amount Of raw material
out OF which We swers to hew our own char
actor. Every faculty needs to be reset
rounded, sharponed up After our young
people have graduated from the schools and
colleges and universities they need a higher
education, that which the collision and rasp-
Tag Of everyday life alone can effect En-
ergy OF soul il wrought out only in the fire.
ty, thirty years has boon going through
business activities, his energy can no longer
be measured by weights, or plummsts, or lad
doris. It can scale any height. It can plum
met any depth. 1t can thrash any obstacle
Now, do you suppose that God has spent all
this education on you for the purpose Of
making you 6 more successful wording,
of enabling you to moro rapidly &C
cumulats dollars, making you sharp in
q trade! Did God make you merely to be
O yardstick to measure cloths, or a steelyard
to weigh foura 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 10 develop your energy for His
cause and kingdom There is enough unern-
ployed 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 and strong muscles and stout
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 genera
ton; and in cause where the Newtons and
the L1ockes and the Mansfelds Of the earth
were proud to enlist, you and need not be
ashamed to toll. o, for fewer idIers and
for more consecrated Christian workers.
Again: God intended business life TO be to
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things there are in one days engagements TO
perturb and annoy, and disputes you Bar
gains will rub, and men will break their en-
gagementa Collecting agents will come
back empty handed Tricksters liz business
will plsy upon what they call the hard
times" when in any times they never pay
Goods placed on tho wrong shelf Cash
| books and money drawer In quarrel Goods
| ordered for an especial emergency failing TO
| come or, il coming, damaged in tie trans
! portation People who intend NO harm go
| ing about shopping, unrolling goods they DO
| not mean to buy, and trying 70 break shs
dozen. Men obliged to take UP Ssksr people 5
notes More counterfeit bills III the drawer
More bad debts, Another ridiculous panic
| Under all this friction lasn broak down, or
! they are secured up into additional bright
ness. How many you and I have known
| who, In the past few years, have gone down
under the pressure, and have become J,eta-
LIANT, and cholcric, and Grabbed, and sour, ana
pugnacious, until customers forseok their
| stores and these merchants have become iilsol
won't, and their names were proasancod with
I detestationl But other men have found IN
this school for patience. They touYhsHed
under the exposure. They were hss rscAs,
| more sorviceable for the blasting. xAs9e
was time when they had - chehs down
their wrath. Therew was q time whsn they
had 10 bite skstr hip Fhsre was . tnss when
they Thought q = singing 1ssort thsy
wszA Khs - uoteA But NV they Aavs