The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-04-16

lott where they vent to pray Shine
one asked a Christian sailor where he
found any place to pray in. He said; ~
can always find q quiet place at mast
head" And in the busiest day Of the
season II your heart is right you can find
q place to pray. Broadway and Fulton
street are good places to pray in as you
go to meet your various engagements.
Go home little earlier and get intro
duced TO your children. Be not galley
slave by day and night, Iashed fast to
the oar OF business. Let every day have
its hour for worship and intellectual
culture and recreation. Show yourself
greater than your business. Act not as
though after death you would enter
upon an eternity Of railroad stocks and
coffees and ribbons. Roast not your
manhood before the perpetual fires Of
anxiety. With every yard Of cloth you
sell throw not in your soul to boot. Use
firkin and counting-room desk and hard
ware crate as the step to glorious use
fulness and highest Christian character.
Decide once and forever who shall be
master in your store, you or your busi-
ness. 4a
Again, business mon are often tempted
to let their calling Interfere with the
interests Of the soul. God sends men
into the business world to get educated,
just as boys are sent to school and col
lege. Purchase and sale, loss and gain,
disappointment and rasping, prosperity,
the dishonesty OF others, panic and bank
suspension, are but different lessons In
the. school. The more business, the
more means Of grace. Many have gone
through widest panic unhurt. "Are
you not afraid you will break?" said
some one TO a merchant in time Of great
commercial excitement. He replied,
"Aye, shall break when the Hftieth
Psalm breaks, in the fifteenth verse,
Call upon me in the day of trouble and
/ / will deliver thee"
The store and the counting-houso
have developed some Of the most stall
wart characters. Perhaps originally
they had but little 'sprightliness and
force, but two or three hard business
thumps woke them up from their leth-
argy, and there came thorough devel-
opment in their hearts Of all that was
good and holy and energetic and tre-
mendous, and they have become the
front men in Christ's army, as well as
lighthouses in the great world OF traf-
fc. But business has been perpetual
depletion to many man. 1t first pulled
out OF him all benevolence, next all
amiability, next all religious aspiration,
next all conscience, and though he en-,
tered his vocation with large heart and
noble character he goes out Of 1t
skeleton, enough TO scare ghost
Men appreciate the importance o.
having good business stand, store OF
the right side OF the street, or the righ
block. Now every place Of business \
a good stand for spiritual culture. God
angels hover over the world OF traffic h
sustain and build up those who ar
trying to do their duty. Tomorrow II II
your place OF worldly engagement yo'
will listen for II, you may hear SCUM
louder than the rattle OF drays and tn
clink OF dollars stealing into your soul
saying: "Seek ye first the kingdor
OF God and His Righteousness. an
all other things shall be added unit
you." Yet some OF those sharpes
at bargain are cheated out of thei
immortal blessedness by stratagem
more palpable than any 'drop-game"
the street They make investments 1
things everlastingly below par. The
, put their valuables in safe not fit
proof. They give full credit to inn'
ences that will not be able to pay on
cent on dollar. They plunge into
, labyrinth from which no bankrupt la
or "two-thirds enactment" will ever o.
, tricate them. They take into the
partnership the world, the flesh, an
q the devil, and the enemy Of all righ
eousness will boast through eternal ag'
that the man who in all his business III
: could not be outwitted or over-reache'
: at last tumbled into spiritual defalc
: ton, and was swindled out OF heaven.
q Perhaps some Of you saw the fire
Z New York in 1885. Aged mon tell I
that it beggared all description. Son
/ stood on the housetops OF Brooklyn. al
A looked at the red ruin that swept dow
1 the streets, and threatened to oblitera
I the metropolis, But the commerce
4 world will yet be startled by great
/ coniagration, even the last Bills
4 exchange, policies of insurance, mol
8 cages and bonds and government secui
: ties will be consumed in one lick OF Il
4 fame. Tho Bourse and the Unit
/ States Mint will turn TO ashes. Go
a will run molten into the dust Of Il
4 street. Exchanges and granite bloc
4 OF merchandise will fall with era
|. that will make the earth tremble. T
il flashing up Of the great light,will she
a the righteous the way to their throne
y Their best treasures In heaven, tn
il will 90 up and take possession Of the
n The tolls Of business life, which rack
d their brain and rasped their nerves
Il so many years, WIN have forever cease
IT "There the wicked cease from troublir
d and the weary are at rest"
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