The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-17
RELIGION IN BUSINESS.
Rev. /. w. Bars S Third Sermon
on Business Success
PREACHED LAST EVENING.

How Religion anil Character Con
tribute to Mans Success in
Temporal Anairs.-successiul
MEMS Expressions.
"What have Religion and the Church
to do with Success 2' was the title Rev
L. W. Barr chose for his third sermon
on Success in Life" which was
preached last night at the Third presby-
terian church. His text was John xxi.6
He said:
No response to my letters Of inquiry
have given me more satisfaction than
those parts relating to character and the
inner life. l believe the honored and
successful men Of our city aud commun-
ity, when they hand in their replies
among the helps 10 success such prih-
ciples US love to God aud man." "lm.
plicittrust in an overrIling Providence" "
"Obedience to Gods commands"
A prominent man in one OF our man
ufacturing establishments said: "My
early connection with the church did
moro for me than anything else"
Almostevery answer makes prominent
the idea OF honesty, which is the dress
OF holiness in the business marts OF the
world, us absolutely essential to true
success.
Religion is an aid to success, for the
word OF God is full of helpful hints to
the man Of business. The first man,
Adam, failed because he followed moi
his Creators advice. The secret OF
AbraAam's success US an honest cmii-
grnnt is seen to be his rigid integrity and
avoidance OF bad company, Jacob made
money by limitations, ialsO prctGnses,
corners" in pOttage, tricks in stock
raising, but he found little or no salts
faction in his ill.gotten gains. Like
some OF his successors in trickery and
"corners" and trusts" he was con.
tinually afraid of those whom he had
wronged.
Joseph's brethren made bad ex.
change when they sold their brother to
foreign traders and thenselve to future
remorsc for
TWENTY PIi:cEs or SILVER.
No transaction is good that is not
pleasant TO remember. "As long us he
sought the Lord, God made him TO pros.
per-" may he written Gs the key to the
history o. Israel. Fifty rulers ui Gods
people illustrate this truth, which is
recorded in the books OF the Bible from
Joshua to Job. The proverbs OF Solo
mon are lnaxims Of business life, and
no young man from merely u worldly
view Of success can find better maXims
as rules of direction.
The siuggard, the idler, the spend.
thrift find no sequrstering place among
its pages. Ecclesiastcs shows how to
prevent secular success from producing
moral failure. Chrisl's parallels are
often about business life. His woes
were pronounced against hypocrisy, but
the only ones lie drove from the temple
were those who made ellis Fathers
house den OF thieves" Solomon, who
enjoyed all forms OF worldly success and
found them unsatisfactory in furnishing
the hearts yearning for God, gave all
men the secret OF Il successful life. Fear
God and keep His commandments, for
this is
TIE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN.
Religion helps to success BY fortiiying
There is positive and com
mcrcial value to integrity, and the
business man who is built upon
that rock will stand all opposition.
A few years ago one OF the larg.
est cities OF our country was ruined by
Il conflagration. Men lost all their
property. Many were left penniless,
but in short time some OF them were
actively engaged in trade on u large
scale. Where did those penniless men
find capital with which to begin2 They
found it in their integrity. Their record
was their resources. Their biography
in the mercantile reports was creditable.
They dealt hOnorably; worked indus
triously. Their character was capital
men trusted them. The under
current OF business tide may bear
heavily and disastrously along the
shores OF commercial life, testing, trying
a mans strength; there II is that men
are found who only "can be tied to."
That class Of men are sometimes known
as non-religious men, and yet frequently
they have had godly parents, or else
grown among the trees OF righteousness
along the river of life. What the world
OF business wants is men,
MEN OF NOBLE INTEGRITY.
Men who will condemn wrong in
friend or foeand in themSeivesas quick as
others; men who have courage to do
right; men who know their mission and
do it, men in whom the current OF oieternal
life runs still, deep and strong. These
are the men who move the world, for
God and humanity.
Religion aids by the direct blessings
from God.
! an not of those who believe that
adversely is the outward badge OF sin,
and prosperity OF goodness. Ii all that
a good man did was successiul-his
mines always yielding their gold-his
mills producing the best fabrics, his
farms always waving with their golden
harvest while the wicked mans works
were bIighted, then the church would
be full OF insincGre, unprincipled men
who stand by the party that carries oil
the spoils.
But sometimes the honest toiler works
unremunerated. The disciples were out
fishing all night and caught nothing.
Some true principles areinconvenient
in business life. they do not turn all
to gold to which they are applied-hence
the insincere turn away seeing that the
path ofthe just leadeth to success.
WELL DIRECTED ExERTIoNs
have a tendency to success, and are
generally successful for the Scripture,
saith "The hand OF the diligent maltcth
rich" Yet this success does not always
accompany diligence. The race is not al.
ways TO the swift nor the battle to the
strong, "nor riches to those OF under.
Standing"
promotion comcth neither from the
East nor the West, nor from the South,
but God to judge. He putteth down
one and setteth up another"
This should inspire every one to be
diligent, and vet realize n sense OF de-
pendence on God, who establishes the
works Of our hands.
Religion is based upon principles to
which every young man who would sue.