Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-14

10 get educated, just as boys are sent to school
anu anu college. Purchase and sale, loss and gam.
disappointment and rasping, prosperity, tne
alshonesty of others, panic and bank suspen-
sion, are but different lessons in the school.
Inc more business, the more means of grace.
MANY have gone through widest panic Inhurt
are you not afraid you will breakf" said some
one TO merchant In time of great commercial
excitement. He replied aye l shall break
when the iftieth Psalm breaks, in the fifteenth
verse, call upon me in the day Of trouble anu
Will deliver thee.'"
The store and the counting house have de-
veloped some of the most stalwart characters
ferhaps originally they had but little sprlgnt-
illness and force. but two or three hard business
thumps woke them up from their lethargy, and
tnere came thorough development in their
hearts OF all that was good and holy and ener-
gesle ta & and tremendous, and they have become Q
lighthouses in the great world of traffic. But
business has been perpetual depletion 10 many
man. 1t first pulled out of him all benevo.
ience, next all religious aspiration, next all
conscience, and though he entered his voca-
tion with large heart and noble character he
goes out of it skeleton, enough to scare a
ghost.
RICHES THAT ENDURE.
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 cul-
ture. Gods angels hover over the world of
trying to do their duty. Tomorrow if in your
place of worldly engagement you will listen for
it, you may hear a sound louder than the rattle
Of drays and the shuttle of feet and the chink
Of dollars stealing into your soul saying, Seek
ye first the kingdom of God ana His righteous
ness, and all other things shall be added unto
you" Yet some of those sharpest
at bargain are cheated out of their
immortal blessedness by stratagems more
papable than any ''drop-game" of the
street. They make investments in things ever
lastingly below par They put their valuables
in safe not tire-proof. They give full credit to
influences that will not be able to pay one cent
which no bankrupt law or "two-tDirds enact
ment' 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 over-reached, at last tumbled into spiritual
defalcatlon, and was swindled out of heaven.
Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New
CARED all description. Some stood on the
house tops of Brooklyn, and looked at the red
ruin that swept down the streets, and threat
ened to obliterate the metropolis But the COM
mercial world will yet be startled by greater
coniagration, 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 of merchandise
will tall with crash that 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 will 60 up
and take possession of them. The tolls of bus
iness life, which racked their brain and rasped
their nerves for so many years. will have for
ever ceased. There the wicked cease from
troubling and the weary are at rest"