The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-30

meet your various engagements. uo
home a little earlier and get intro"
duced to your children. Be not galley
slave by day and night, lashed fast to the oar
Of business. Let every day have its hour for
worship and intellectual culture and rec'ea-
ton. Show yourself greater than your busl-
ness. Act not as though after death you
would enter upon an eternity OF railroad
stocks and coffees and bonbons. Roast not
your manhoods before the perpetual fires OF
anxiety. With every yard of cloth you sell
throw not in your soul to boot. Use f1rSln
and counting room desk and hardware crate
as the step to glorious usefulness and highest
Christian character. Decide once and for
ever who shall be master in your store, yoT
or your business.
Again, business men are oeten tempted TO
.et their calling interfere with the interests
of the soul. God sends men into the business
world to get educated, just as boys are sent
to school and college. Purchase and SALE loss
and gain, disappointment and rasping, pros.
perity, the dishonesty Of Others, panic ana
bank 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. be
replied: AVE, I shall bresk when the fifteth
Psalm breaks in the fifteenth versa: Can
upon me in the day Of trouble and will de-
liver thee"
The store and the counting house have de-
yeloped some Of the most stalwart charac-
ters' 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 thorough de-
yelopment in their hearts Of all that was good
and holy and energetic and tremendous, and
they have become the front men in Chrlsts
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 thoug gh he entered his vo-
cation with large heart and noble character
he goes out Of it skeleton, enough to scare
ghost.
Men appreciate the Importance Of having
O 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. 10
morrow, if in your place Of worldly engag-
ment you will listen for it, you may hear
| sound louder than the rattle of drays and the
shuttle Of feet and the clink OF dollars steal
ing 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 sharpast at the bargain
are cheated out of their immortal blesSeduess
by stratagems moe palpable than any drop
game of the street. They make invest
ments in things everlastingly below par.
Phey 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 a labyrinth from
which no bankrupt law or Ntwo-thirds enact
mentn will ever extricate taem. 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 bs out.
witted or oyerreached at last tumbled into
| spiritual defalcation and was swindled out OF
heaven.
Perhaps some of you saw the fra in New
York in 1885. Aged men tell US that it beg
CARED all description. Soms stood on the
housetops of Brooklyn, and looked at the red
ruin that swept down the streets and threat-
ened to obliterate the metropolis. But the
commercial world will yet bs startled by a
greater conaagration, even the last. Bills OF
exchange, policies of insurance, mortgages
of bonds and government securities 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. Exchanges and granite blocks
of merchandise will fall with q 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 troubling, and the weary ara al
rest,n