The Forrest City times., 1890-04-19

nature to the settlements of businessl Will nocks and herds with their bleat and moan be able to silence the insatlaols spirit of ncquisitivencss which has for years had full swing iu the souli Win tho hum of find his only enjoyment in the stock markett Win leaf and cloud and fountain charm the eye that has for three fourths Of a lifetime found it's chief beauty in hogs heads and bills of sale. Will parents bc competent to rear their children for high and holy purpose. if thcir 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 stereotypedi No no; now is tho time to be happy. Now is the time to serve your Creator. Now is tho time to be a Christian. Are you too busy, l have known men as busy as you are who had place in the store-loft where they went to pray. Some one asked a Christian sailor where he found any place to pray in. He said, 'T can always find quiet place at mast. head" And in the busiest day of the season If your heart is right you eau ind place 10 pray. Broadway and Fulton Street arc good places to pray in as you go to m1et your various engagements. Go home Ht- tic earlier and got introduced to your child ren. Bc not galley slave by day and night, lashed fast to the oar of business. Let every day have it's hour for worship aud 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 coffces and ribbons. Roast not your manhood before the perpetual firos of anx- iety. With every yard of cloth you sell, throw not in your soul to boot Use firkin aud counting room desk and hardware ! crate as the step to glorious usefulness and highest Christian character. Decide once and forever who shall bo master in your store, yuu or your business.
 Again, business men arc often tempted
 to let their calling interfere with tho inter ests 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, prosperity, the dishonesty of others, panic and bank suspension, are but q fferent lessons in the school. The mora business, the more means of grace. Many havo gone through widest panic unEurt.
 "Areyo not afraid you will breakp' said some one to a merchant in time of great commercial excitement He replied, Aye, l shall break when the fifteenth Psalm breaks, in the fifteenth verse call upon mo 1 in the day of trouble and l will deliver thec.'"
 The store and tho counting house havo developed some of the most stal wart characters. Perhaps originally they had i but little sprightliness and force, but two or three hard business thumps woke them
 up from their lethargy, and there camo a thorough development in their hearts of all 1 that was good and holy and energetic and tremendous, and they have become tho 1 front men In Christs great army, as well
 as light houses in the great world of traffic.
 But business has been perpetual depletion to many man. It first pulled out Of him all bencvolenco, next all amability, next all religious aspiration, next all con l ceuce. and though he enterod d his vocation 1 with large heart and noble character he l goes out of 1t a skeleton, enough to scarce
 ghost
 l Men appreciate tho importance Of having good business stand, tore on the right i sid0 of the street. or the right block. Now l every place of business is a good stand for spiritual culture Gods angels hover over
 the world of traffic to sustain and build up I 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
 sound louder than the rattle of
  | the chinlx of dollars stealine into your soul, | saying, "Soek ye first tho kingdom of Got and His righteousness, and ali other things f shall ba added unto you.h Yet sonic Of | those sharpost at a bargain arc cheated out 1 of their immortal blossadness by strata ] gems moro palpable than any drop game' ! ol tho stroat They m ake investments in i things eyerlas,ingly below par. They put 1 their valuahles in safe uot hrc-proof. i They give full credit 10 influences 1 that will not po ahlc to pay one cent on Il | dollar. They plunge Into labyrinth from | which TO bankrupt law or 1.-two thirds en- 1 actmcna will ever extricate them. They f taAe into their partnership the world, tho ! flesh, and tho devil, and the enemy of all ! rlghteousness will boast through eternal
 ages that the man who in all his business | life could not be outwitted or over reached, i at last tumbled into spiritual delaleation, l and was swindled out of heaven.
 ! Perhaps some of you saw tho fro in Now ! York in ls,io Aged men telt us that t 1 beggarcd ali description Somo stood on
 the house tops of Brooklyn, and looked at
 the rcd ruin that swept down Inc streets.
 and threatenei to ohliterata the metropolis.
 But tha commercial world will yet be
 startled by greater coniiagraiion. 1 even tho last Bills Of exchange, | policies ot insurance, mortgages anu oonus and government securities, will be consum- ] ed in oae lick Of tho flame Tho Bourse
 and the United States Mint will turn to
 ashes Gold will run molten into the dust ' of tho street. Exchanges and granite
 blocks of merchandise VIII fall with a ! crash that will make che earth tremble. ! The nashing-up of tho grcat light ] will show the righteous the way to their | thrones 1hoir best treasures in heaven.
 they will go up and take possession of
 them. Tho tolls of business life, which
 racgod their brain and rasped their nerves
 for so many years, wilt have forever
 ceased .'ihere tho wicked cease ,rom | troubling and the weary arc it rest"