Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-14

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richness springing up under application Of
the best theories to be found in the agricul-
tural journals. The farm is well stocked with
cattle and horses, and sheep that know the
voice and have kindly beat when one goes
forth to look at them. In this blissful abode
their children will be instructed in art and
science and religion. This shall be the old
homestead to which the boys at college will
direct their letters, and the hill on which the
house stands will be called lakewood or Ivy
Hill or Pleasant Retreat or Eagle Eyrie May
the future have for every business man here
all that and more besdel But are you post
poning your happiness to that timer Are
you adjourning your joys to that consumma-
ton?
Suppose that you achieve all you expect
and the vision / mention is not up to the
reality, because the fountains will be brighter,
the house grander and the scenery more pic
turesque--the mistake is none the less fatal.
What charm will there be in rural quiet for
man who has thirty or forty years been
conforming his entire nature to the excite
ments Of business9 win hocks and herds
with their bleat and moan be able to silence
the Unsuitable spirit of acquistiveness which
has for years had full swing in the soul9 Win
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now can find his only enjoyment in the stock
market9 viii leaf and cloud and fountain
charm the eye that has for three-fourths of
lifetime found it's chief beauty in hogsheads
and bills of sale9 Will parents be competent
to rear their children for high and holy pur-
pose, if their infancy and boyhood and girl
hood were neglected, when they are almost
ready to enter upon the world and have all
their habits fixed and their principles stereo-
| typed9 No, no; now is the time to be happy.
Now is the time to serve your Creator. Now
is the time to be Christian. Are you too
busy9 l have known men as busy as You
are who had place in the store loft where
they went to pray. Some one asked Chris,
/ tan sailor where he found any place to
pray in He said: II can always find a
quiet place at masthead" And in the bust
est day of the season, if your heart is
right, you can find place to pray. Broad
way and Fulton street are good places to
pray in as you go to meet your various en-
gagements Go home a little earlier and get
introduced to your children. Be not galley
slave by day and night, dashed fast to the oar
of business. Let every day have its hour for
worship and intellectual culture and recrea-
ton. Show yourself greater than your bust
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 hardware crate
as the step to glorious usefulness and highest
Christian character. Decide once and for
ever who shall be master in your store, you
or your business.
Again, business men 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 college. Purchase and sale, loss
and gain, disappointment and rasping, pros
perity, 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 breakg' said some one to a merchant
in time of great commercial excitement He
replied "Aye, | shall break when the fiftieth
Psalm breaks, in the fifteenth verse, Call
upon me in the day of trouble and | will de
liver thee
The store and the counting house have de-
veloped some of the most stalwart characters.
Perhaps originally they had but little spright-
illness and force, but two or three hard bust
ness thumps woke them up from their leth-
argy, and there came a thorough development
in their hearts of all that was good and holy
and energetic and tremendous, and they have
become the front men in Christs great army,
as well as lighthouses in the great world of
traffic But business has been perpetual de-
petion to many man. 1t first pulled out of
him all benevolence, next all amiablity, next
all religious aspiration, next all conscience,
and though he entered his vocation with large
heart and noble character he goes out of it
skeleton, enough to scare ghost.
Men appreciate the Importance of having
good business stand, store on the right
side of the street or the right block Now,
every place of business is good stand for
spiritual culture. Gods angels hover over
Tie world of traffic to sustain and build up
those who are trying to do their duty. To
morrow, if in your place of worldly engage
ment you will listen for it, you may hear
sound louder than the rattle of drays and the
shuttle of feet and the chinlS of dollars steal
ing into your soul, saying, Seek ye first the
kingdom u God and his righteousness, and
all other things shall be added unto YOU"
Yet some of those sharpest at a bargain are
stratagems more palpable than any drop
game" of the street They make investments
in things everlastlngly below par. They put
there valuables in a safe not fire proof. They
give full credit to influences that will not be
able to pay once cent on dollar. They plunge
into a labyrinth from when no bankrupt law
or "two-thirds enactment will ever extricate
them. They take into their partnership the
world, the flesh and the devil, and the enemy
of all righteousness will boast through eternal
ages that the man who in all his business life
could not be outwitted or overreached at last
tumbled into spiritual defalcation and was
swindled out of heaven.
Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New
York in 1885 Aged men tell Us that it beg
CARED all description. Some stood on the
FSusetops of Brooklyn, and looked at the red
ruin that swept down the streets and threat
ened to obliterate the metropolis But the
commercial world will yet be startled 10y a
greater conhagration, even the last. Bills of
exchange, policies of insurance, mortgages
and bonds and government securities will be
consumed in one lick Of the flame The
Bourse and the United States mint will turn
to ashes Gold will run molten into the dust
of the street. Exchanges and granite blocks
will make the earth tremble.
The flashing up of the great light will show
the righteous the way to their thrones
Their best treasures in heaven, they viii 90
up and take possession Of them The tolls Of
business life, which racked their brain and
rasped their nerves for so many years, will
have forever ceased. "There the wicked
cease from troubling, and the weary are at
rest
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