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and are comfortable with chairs that can
be rolled out on the veranda when the
weather is inviting, or set out under some
of the oaks that stand sentinel abb It the
house, and rustling in the cool breeza and
songful with the robins There is lust land
enough TO keep them interested, and its crops
der application of the best theories to be
found in the agricultural journals The
farm is well stocked with cattle and hors
es, and sheep that know the voice and
have kindly bleat when one goes forth 10
look at them. In this blissful abode their
children will be instructed in art and sci.
ence 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 he called Oak
wood or Ivy Hill or Pleasant Retreat or
Eagle Eyrie. May the future have for ev.
cry business man here all that and more
beside But are you postponing your hap
piness 10 that timei Are you adjoining
your Joys to that consummation!
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 seen
cry more picturesque-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 excitements of businessl
y ill focks and herds with their Oleat and
moan be able to silence the Unsuitable spirit
of acquisitiveness which has for years had
full swing in the soull Viii the hum of
the breeze soothe the man who now can
find his only enjoyment in the stock
market! viii leaf and cloud and fountain
charm the eye that has for three fourths
OF lifetime found its chief beauty in hogs.
heads and bills of sale. Will parents be
competent to rear their children for high
and holy purpose. if their infancy and boy
hood and girlhood were neglected, when
they are almost ready to enter upon the
world and have all their habits fixed and
their principles stereotyped! 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 busy! | have
known men as busy as you are who had
place in the store-loft where they went to
pray. Some one asked Christian sailor
where he found any place to pray in. He
sid, II can always find quiet place at
mast head" And in the busiest day of the
season if your heart is right you can find u
place to pray. Broadway and Fulton Street
are good places to pray in as you go to meet
your various engagements. Go home lit
tic earlier and get introduced to your child
rem. Be not galley slave b. day and
night, lashed fast to the oar of business
Let every day have its hour for worship
and intellectual culture and recreation.
hn, al ofa, thn, hl,ci
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 anx-
iety. With every yard Of cloth you sell,
throw not in your soul to boot. Use tirkn
aud counting room desk and hardware
crate as the step to glorious usefulness and
highest Christian character. Decide once
and forever who shall be master in your
store, you or your business.
Again, business mon are often tempted
to let their calling interfere with the inter
ests of the soul God sends men into the
business world toget educated, Just US boys
are sent 10 school and college. 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 breakF said
some one to merchant in time of great
commercial excitement. He replied, AYE
shall break when the fifteenth Psalm
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 stal wart
characters. Perhaps originally they had
but little sprightliness and force, but two
or three hard business thumps woke them
up from their letharey, and there came a
thorough development In their hearts of all
tremendous and they have become the
front men in Christs great army, as we'll
as light houses In the great world Of traffic
But business has been perpetual depletion
to many man. 1t first pulled out Of him
oil benevolence, next all amiability, next
all religious aspiration, next all con-
cience, and though he entered his vocation
with large heart and noble character he
goes out Of 1t skeleton. enough to scarce
o 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
the 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
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 tho kingdom OF Go1
and His Righteousness, and all other things
shall be added unto you." Yet some Of
those sharpest at a bargain are cheated ou'
OF their immortal blessedness by strata
gems more palpabIe than any ''drop- game''
of the street. They m axe investments in
things everlastingly below par. They pu,
their valuables in safe not hre-proof
They give full credit to influences
that will not be able to pay one cent on a
dollar. They plunge into a labyrinth from
which no bankrupt law or "two.thirds en-
actment" will ever extrlcate them. They
take into their partnership the world, the
flesh, and the devil. and the enemy Of all
righteousness will boast through eternal
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life could not be outwitted or over-reachedu
at last tumbled into spiritual defalcation,
and was swndled out Of heaven.
Perhaps some Of you saw the fire in New
York in 1875. Aged men tell US that l,
bcggared all des ,riptioa. Some stood on
the house-tops Of Brooklyn, and looked a,
the red ruin that swept down the streets
and threatened to obliterate the metropolis
But the commercial world will yet bt
startled BY greater condagration
even the last. Bills of exchange
policies Of insurance, mortgages and bonds
and government securities, will be consum
ed In one lick of the fame The Bourse
and the United States Mint will turn te
ashes. Gold will run molt,n into the dust
OF the street. Exchanges and granite
blocks Of merchandise will fall with q
crash that will make che earth tremble
The fashing.up Of the great ligh
will show the righteous the way to thell
thrones. Their best treasures In heaven
they will go up and take possession o.
them. The tolls Of business life, which
racked their brain and rasped their nerve:
for 50 many years, will have forever
ceased. "There the wicked cease tron