The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-24

souls, is n isleading. Every corpora ti0n has as many souls as 1t has mem bers.
 Again, many business men have been tempted to postpone their enjoyments and duties to q future season of entire leisure. What sedative the Christian religion would be to all our business men fl, instead of postponing it's uses to old age or death, they would take it into the store or factory or worldly en- agreements nowi It is folly to go amid the uncertainties of business life with no God to help. merchant in New England village was standing by horse, and the horse lifted his foot to stamp it in pool of water; and the merchant. to escape the splash stepped into the door Of an insurance agent, and the agent said; "I suppose you have come to renew your fire insurance. ' 'Oh,. said the merchant II had forgotten thatn The insurance was renewed, and the next day the house that had been insured was burned. Was it all accidental that the merchant. to escape a splash from a horses foot, stepped into the insurance officer No, 1t was providential. And what mighty solass for business man to feel that things are providential! What peace and equilibrium in such & consideration, and what grand thing if all business men could realize it
 Many, although now comparatively straitened in worldly circumstances have goodly establishment in the future planned out. They have in imagination built about twenty years ahead house in the country not diffi- cult of access from the great town, for they wiif- often have business, or old accounts to settle. and investments to look after. The house Is large enough to accommodate all their friends The halls are wide and covered with pictures of hunting scenes and branch of antlers, and are comfortable with chairs that can bo rolled out on the veranda when the weather is inviting, or set out under some of the oaks that stand sentinel about the house, and rustling in the cool breeze. and songful with the robins. There is just land enough to keep them inter- ested, and it's crops of almost fabulous richness springing up under application of the best theories to be found in tho stocked with cattle and horses, and sheep that know the voice and have a kindly bleat 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 0akwood or Ivy Hill, or Pleasant Retreat, or Eagle Eyrie. May the fut. ure have for every business man here all that and more besidel But are you postpoping your happiness to that time? Are yoa adiourning your joys to that consurAimation?
 Again, business men are often tempt ed to Ist their calling interfere with the interests of the soul. God sends men into tue business world to get educated, just as boys are sent to school and col lege. Purchase and sale, loss and gain, disap pointment and rasping, prosperity, the dishonesty of others, panic and bank suspensions, are but different lessons in the school. The moro business. the moro means of grace. Many have gone through widest panic unhurt. Are you not afraid you will break?" said somo one to a merchant in time of greas commercial excitement. Ho replied: Ave, shall break when the fiftieth Pssim breaks, in the fifteenth verse, call upon me in the day of trouble and l will deliver thee.'"
 The store and the counting house have developed some of the most stall wArt characters. Perhaps originally t5ey had but little sprightliness and force, but two or three hard business Bumps woke them up from their legar- Thy, and there came a thorough deyel- opment in their hearts of all that was good and holy and energetic and tre- mendous and they have become the men in Christs great army, as we'll as in the great world of traffic. But business has been perpetual deple- tion to many man. It first pulled out of him all beneyo1ence, next all amia- bility, next all religious aspiration, next all conscience, and though he entered his vocation with large heart and noble cha racter he goes out of it skeleton, end ugh to scare ghost
 Zden 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 To-mor- row if in your place of worldly engagement you will listen for it, you may hear a sound louder than the rattle of drays and lars stealing into your soul, saying: Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, 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 palpable than any drop game" of the street They make investments in things ever lastingly below par. They put their NdiudDlSo III Sdit nOb Hrt-pTOpl. They give full credit to influences that will not be able to pay one cent on the dollar. They plunge into laby- rinth from which no bankrupt law or ''two-thirds enactmentn will ever extri- cate them. They take into their part nership the world, the flesh, and the devil, and the enemy of all righteous ness 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- tion, and was swindled out of Heaven
 Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New York in 1855 Aged men tell uS that it beggared all description. Some stood on the house-tops of Brooklyn, and looked at the red ruin that swept down the streets, and threatened to obliterate the metropolis. But the com mercial world will yet be startled by greater confiagration, even the last. Bills of exchange, policies of insurance, and bonds and Govern ment securities, will be consumed in one lick of the flame The