Connecticut western news., 1890-04-16

petual 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. De- eide once and forever who shall be master in your store, you or your busi- ness.
 DON'T BE SLAVE TO BUSINESS.
 Again, business men are often tempt ed to let their calling interfere with the interests of the soul. God sends men into the business world to get ed ucated, just as boys are sent to school and college. Purchase and sale, loss and gain, disappointment and rasping, prosperity, the dishonesty of others, panic and bank suspensions are but different lessons in the school The more business, the more means of grace. Many have gone through wild est panic unhurt. Are you not afraid you will break2' said some one to a merchant ill 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 dthecountinghouseh have developed some of the most stalwart characters. Perhaps originally they had but little sprightliness and force. but two or three hard business thumps woke them up from their lethargy, and there came a thorough develop. ment 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 great army, as well as lighthouses in the great world of traffic. But business has been per petual depletion to many a man. It first pulled out of him all benevolence, next all amiability, 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 a 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 the world of traffic to sustain and build up those who are 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 rat tie of drays and the shuttle of feet and the chink of dollars stealing into your soul, saying, Seek ye first the king dom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you"
 Yet some of those sharpest at bar gain are cheated out of their immortal blessedness by stratagems more palpa- ble than any ''drop game" of the street They make investments in things everlastingly below par. They put their valuables in safe not fire proof. They give full credit to influences that will not be able to pay one cent on g dollar. They plunge into labyrinth from which no bankrupt law or two thirds enactment" will ever extricate them. They take into their partner l ship 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 defalca- ton and was swindled out of heaven. Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New York in 1885. Aged men tell us that it beggared all description. Some stood on the housetops of Brooklyn, and looked at the red ruin that swept down the streets and threatened to obliterate the metropolis. But the commercial world will yet be startled by greater confiagration, even the last. Bills of exchange, policies of in surance, mortgages and bonds and 1 government securities will be con stunned 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 fall 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 go up and take pos session of them. The tolls of business life, which racked their brain and rasped their nerves for so many yeara will have forever ceased. There tho wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.