The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-14

out on the veranda when the weather is in
viting, or set out under some of the oaks
that stand sentinel abod. the house, and
rustling in the cool breeze, and songful
enough 10 keep them interested,
and its crops, Of almost fabu-
lous richness springing up under appli-
! cation Of the best theories to be found in
the agricultural journals. The farm is well
stocked with cattle and horses. and sheep
that know the voic5 and have kindly bleat
| when one goes forth to look at them. In
this blissful abode their children will be in
structed in art and science and religion.
| This shall be the old homestead to which the
boys at college shall direct their letters. and
the hill on which the house stands will be
called Oakwoo1 or Ivy Hill or Pleasant Re
treat or Eagle Eyrie. May the future have
for every business man here all that and
| more besidel But are you postponing your
happiness to that time. Are you adjourn
ing your love to that consummationl
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 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 ma
| ture to the excitements of business! Will
| focks and herds with their bleat and moan
be able TO silence the Unsuitable spirit of
acquisitlveness which has for years had full
swing in the soul? Win the hum of the
| breeze soothe the man who now can find
his only enjoyment in the stock market?
! Will leaf and cloud and fountain charm the
| eve that has for three-fourLhs of lifetime
| found its chief beauty in hogsheads
and bills of sales VIII parents
| he competent 10 rear their
children for high and holy purpose, if
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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 b1syl | have known men as
busy as you are who HAD a place in the
| store loft where they went to pray. Some
| one asked christian sailor where he found
any place to pray in. He said, 81 can al
ways fad quiet place at mast head" And
in the busiest day of the season if your
heart is right you can find place to pray.
| Broadway and Fulton street are good places
to pray in as you go to meet your vari-
Gus engagements. Go home 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 recreation. Show yourself
| greater than your business. Act not as
though after death you would enter upon
an eternity of railroad stocks and coffees
| and ribbons Roast not your manhood be-
| fore the perpetual fires of anxiety. With
every yard Of cloth you sell throw not in
| your soul 70 boot. Use firkin and 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 men are often tempted to
let their calling interfere with the interests
of the soul. God sends men into the bust
ness world to get educated, 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 suspension, are but different
| lessons in the school. The more business,
the more means of grace. Many have gone
i through widest panic unhurt. "Are you
| not afraid you will breaks" said some one
to merchant in time of great commercial
excitement. He replied: "Aye, 1 shall
break when the fiftieth Psalm breaks, in the
fifteenth verse, Call upon me in the day of
| trouble and will deliver thee.'"
| The store and the counting house have
| developed some of the most stalwart char
| acters. 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 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 we'll
| as lighthouses in the great world of traffic
But business has been perpetual depletion
to many man. 1t 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
good business stand, store on the right
side of the street, or the right block. Now,
every place of business is a 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 en-
gagement you will listen for it. you may
| hear a sound louder than the rattle of draws
and the shuttle of feet and the chink of dol
! lars stealing into your soul, saying: Seek
| ye first the kingdom of GOD and his right
eousness, and all other things shall be
| added unto you.n Yet some of those
sharpest at a bargain are cheated out of
their immortal blessedness by strata
gems more palpable than any "drop-game"
of the street. They make Investments in
things everlastingly below par. They put
| their valuables In a safe not fire-proof
| They give full credit to Influences that will
not be able to pay one cent on dollar
| They plunge into labyrinth from which
no bankrupt law or two-thirds enact
ment" will ever extricate them. They take
| into their partnership the world, the flesh
| and the devil, and the enemy of all right
eousness 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
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 commercial world will yet be startled by
a greater confagration, even the last Bills
| OF exchange, policies of insurance, mort
cages aud bonds, and government securi-
| ties 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. Ex-
changes and granite blocks of merchandise
| will fall with a crash that will make the
earth tremble. The tiashing-up of the great
| light will show the righteous the way to
their thrones. Their best treasures in
heaven, they viii go up and take possession
| of them. The tolls of business life, which