The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-24

its chief beauty III hogshoads and
bills of sale! Will parents be com
petent to rear their children for high
and holy purpose, if their infancy and
boyhood and girlhood were neglected,
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 q Christian. Are you too busy!
! L have known mcn AZ busy as you arc
"no had place in the store-loft
whc.', hoy went !" pray. Some one
asked 1t Christian slilor where he
found place to pray in. He said:
Il can always find uIirt place at
masthead" And in the busiest day
i'll the season, fyour heart il right,
you can find II place to pray. Broad,
way and Fulton street arc good places
to pray III In wa 50 to moet your
various euGaIcments. Go home Il
little carlicv and gel introduced to
your rhll,iicn. Drnut gallery slave
! by day i:.l night, lasiled fast to the
oar O; :..-in'.:S. i,r: every day have
It's hour of worship and intellectual
culture and recrcation. Show your
self greater than your business. Act
not rs though after death you would
| enter upon an eternity of railroad
stocks hnd coffee and ribbon. Roast not
your manhood before the perpetual
fires Of anxiety. With every yard of
cloth YOU sell, throw not in your soul
to boot. Use tirkin, counting room,
ITO Il. n1,I hor,1 ,1,t.orn tn fhn ,,fn
to glorious usefulness and Christian
character. Decide once aud forever
who shall be master in your store, you
or your business.
Men appreciate the Importance OF
having Il good business stand, store
on the right side Of the street or III
the right block. Now every place OF
business is Il 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 engagement you will listen
for it, you will hear sound louder
than the rattle OF drays and the
shuttle of feet and the rhink OF dol
lars, stealing into your soul, saying:
Seek We first the kingdom OF God
and His righteousness, and al1 other
things shall be added unto you Yet
some of those sharpest at a bargain
are cheated out of their immortal
blcssedness by stratagems more pal
pable than any "drop game" OF the
street. They make investments in
things cverlastingly below par. They
put their valuables in safe not fire
proof. They give full credit to in
tluCmccs that will not be able to pay
one cent on dollar. They plunge
into labyrinth from Which no bank
rupt law OF ''two-thids enactment"
will ever extricato them. They take
into their partnership the world, the
flesh and the devil, and the enemy of
righteousness will boast through cter-
nal ages that the man who in all his
business life could not be outwittcd
or ovcr-rcachcd, at last tumbling into
spiritual dcfalcation, and was swim
died out of heaven.
Perhaps some OF you saw the fire
in New York in 1885. Aged men tell
us that it beggarcd all description.
Some stood Oh the house tops of
Brooklyn, and looked at the red ruin
that swept down the streets, and
threatened to ohlitcratc the mctrop-
Oils. But the commercial world
will yet be startled by q greater con-
flagration, oven the last. Bills of ex-
change, policies Of insurance, mort
cages and bonds and government
securities, will be consumed in one
lick of the flame. The bourse and
United States mint will turn to ashes
Gold will run molten into tho dust of
the street. Exchanges and granite
blocks of merchandise will fall with a
crash that will make the earth trem
bic. The tlnshing-up OF the great
light will show the righteous the way
to their thrones. Their best treas
urcs in heaven, they will go up and
take possession of them. The tolls Of
business life, which rackcd their brain
and raspcd their nerves for 80 many
years, will have forever ceased. There
the wicked cease from troubling, and
the weary are at rest.