Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-17

suspension, are but different lessons in
the school. The more business the more
means of grace. Many have gone
through widest panic unhurt. care
you not afraid you will break?'' said
some one to merchant in time of great
commercial excitement. He replie4E
"Aye, shall break when the fiftiHa
psalm breaks, in the fifteenth yeRse,
Call upon me in the day of trouble and
l will deliver thee. -
The store and counting-hou have de-
veloped some eff the most stalwart char
acters. Perhaps originally they had but
little sprightliness and force, but two OF
three hard business thumps woke them
up from their lethargy, and there came
thorough development in their hearts
OF all that was good and holy and ener-
getic and tremendous, and they have be-
come the
FRONT MEN IN CHRIST g GREAT ARMY,
as well as light houses IN the great world
of traffic. But business has been per-
petual depletion to many man. 1t first
pulled out of him all benevolence, next
all amiability, next all religious as
piration, next all conscience, and
though he entered his vocation with
large heart and noble character he
goes out of it a skeleton, enough to scare
ghost.
Men appreciate the Importance of hav-
ing a good business stand, a store on the
right side of the street, or the right
block. Now every place of business is a
good stand for spiritual culture. God IS
angels hover over the world of traffic to
sustain and build up those who are try
tn 61fu in
your place Of worldly engagement you
will listen for it you may
hear q 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 and his righteousness, and all other
things shall be added unto you. - Yet
some of those sharpest at a bargain
are cheated out of their immortal
blessedness by stratagems more pal
pable than any "drop-game OF the
street. They make investments i'll
things averlastingEy below par. They
put their Yaluables 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 a labyrinth
from which no bankrupt law or 1.-TWO
thirds enactment will ever extrioate
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 out
witted or over-reaehed, at last tumbled
into spiritual defaloation, 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 rum that swept
down the streets, and threatened to
obliterate the metropolis. But the COM
merclal world will yet be startled by a
greater confiagration, even the last.
Bills of exchange, policies of insurance,
mortgages and bonds and government
securities, will be consumed in one lick
of the fame. 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 a
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 possession of them.
The tolls of business life, which racked
their brain and rasped their nerves for
so many years, will have forever ceased.
''There the wicked cease from troub-
ling and the weary are at rest. -