New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-16

MATES to harness the mind to all intricacy
and elaboration, better than logic to marshal
the intellectual forces for onset and victory
1t will go with Hugh Miller and show him
the footprints of the Creator in the red sand
stone. 1t will go with the botanisJ and show
him celestial glories encamped under the
curtain Of a water lily. It will go with the
astronomer on the great heights where God
shepherds the great flock of worlds, that
wander on the hills of heaven answering his
voice as He calls them all by their names
Again remark that Goodness is profitable
for ones disposition: Lord Ashley, before
he went into great battle, was heard to Of
fer this prayer: o Lord, shall be very
busy to-day; if forget Thee, forgetme not. e
With such q Christian disposition as that,
man is independent of oil circumstances
Our pity will have tinge of our natural
temperament. If man be cross and sour
and fretfu1 naturally, after he becomes a
Christian he will always have to be armed
against the rebellion of those evil inclinations
but religion has tanned the widest nature
it has turned fretfulness into gratitude, de-
spondency into good cheer, and those who
were hard and ungovernable and uncom-
promising have been made pliable and con-
clllatory. Good resolution, reformatory
effort, will not effect the change. 1t takes a
mightier arm and o mightier hand to bend
evil habits than the hand that bent the bow
OF Ulysses, and 1T takes a stronger 'lasso than
ever held the buffalo on the prairie. man
cannot go forth with any human weapons
and contend successfully against these Ii
tans armed with uptorn mountains But
you have known men into whose spirit the
influence Of the gospel of Christ came, until
their disposition was entirely changed So
it was with two merchants in New y ork
they were very antagonistic. They had
done all they could to injure each other
'EcHyy I,oo - L
OF the merchants was converted to God
Having been converted, he asked the Lord
to teach him how to bear himself to ward
that business antagonist. and he was i'm
pressed with the fact that it was his duty
when customer asked TOR certain kinds of
goods which he had not, but which his oppo-
nent had, to recommend him to go to that
store Isuppose that is about the hardest
thing q man can do; but being thoroughly
converted to God, he resolved to do that
very thing, and being asked for a certain
kind OF goods which he had not he said:
"1ou go to such and such store
andiyou will get it." After while merchant
NO. found these customers coming SO SENT
and he found, also, that merchant No
had been brought to God and he sought the
same religion. Now they are good friends
and good neighbors, the grace of God entire
ly changing their disposition.
"Oh, says some one, 81 have rough,
do anything for me-" Do you know that
Martin Luther and Robert Newton and Rich
ard Baxter were impetuous, allconsuming
natures, yet the grace of God turned them
into the mightiest usefulness? A manufact-
urer cares but very little for stream that
slowly runs through the meadow, but a
strong torrent that leaps from rock to rock,
and PUSHES with mad energy through the
valley and out toward the sea- Along the
river you will find futtering shuttles and
grinding mill and flashing water-wheel And
q nature, the swittest, the most rugged and
the most tremendous, that is the nature
God turns into greatest usefulness. Oh, how
many who have been pugnacious, and hard
TO please and lrascible, and more bothered
about the mote in their neighbour eye, than
about the beam-like ship tim Der in their own
eye, who have been entirely changed by the
grace OF God, and have found out that Good
illness is profitable for the life that now is as
well as for the life which is to come
Again remark, that religion is good for q
man g worldly business. know the gene raj
theory is the more business the less religion,
the more religion the less business. Not so
thought DR.. Hans in his Biography of a
Christian Merchant" when he says: He
grew in grace the first six years of his life
more than OF any other time In other
words, the more worldly business man has,
the more opportunity to serve God. Does
religion exhilarate orretard worldly business?
is the practical question for you to discuss
Does it hang like d mortgage over the farm?
Is it bad debt on the ledger? Is it a lien
against the estate? Does it crowd the door
through which customers come for broad
cloths and silks? Now religion will hinder
your business if it be q bad business, or it
be good business wrongly conducted. If
you tell lies behind the counter, if you use
false weights and measures, if you put sand
in sugar and beet-juice in vinegar, and lard
in butter, and sell for one thing that which is
another thing, then religion will interfere
with that business; but lawful business,
lawfully conducted will find religion of the
Lord Jesus Christ it's mightiest auxiliary.
Religion Will give an equipoise of spirit, it
illkeep you from ebullitions of temper
and you know q great many fine businesses
have been blown to atoms by bad temper-it
will keep you from Worriment about frequent
loss, it will keep you industrious and prompt,
it will keep you back from squandering and
from dissipation, it will give you q kindness
OF spirit which will be easily distinguished
from that mere store of courtesy which
shakes hands violently with you, asking
about the health of your family when there
is no anxiety to know whether your child is
well or sick, but the anxiety is to know how
many dozen cambria pocket handkerchiefs
you will take and pay cash down. It will
prepare you for the practical duties of every
day life. l do not mean to say that religion
will make US financially rich, but do say
that it will give us, it will assure us of
comfortable sustenance at the start, COM
Portable subsistence all the way through,
and it will help US to direct the bank, to
manage the traffic, to conduct all our bust
ness matters, and to make the most insig-
nificant af our life q matter of vast import
ance glorifed by Christian principle
In New York City there was merchant
hard in his dealings with his fellows, who
had written over his banking house, or his
counting house room. No compromise
Then when some merchant got in crisis
and went down-no fault of his, but con-
junction of evil circunstances-and all the
other merchants were willing to compromise
they would take Is cents on the dollar, or
SO cents, or 10 cents-coming to this man last
OF all, he said: No compromise; I'll take
100 cents on the dollar, and can afford to
wait" WE'LL the wheel turned, and after a
while that man was in a crisis of business,
and he sent out his agents to compromise,
and the agents said to the merchants: .Wili
you take SO cents on the dollar?n emo.
"Will you take anything?p "Well take 100
cents on the dollar. No compromise" And
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