The Monmouth inquirer., 1890-04-17
NoNNoUTH INQUIRER FREEHOLD. n j. APRIL II. 1890

loft where they went to pray. Some
one asked Christian sailor where he
found any place to pray in. He said: 81
can always find quiet place at mast
mead" 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 various engagements.
Go home little earlier and get intro
duced to your children. Be not a 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 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 before the perpetual fires OF
anxiety With every yard of cloth you
sell throw not in your soul to boot. Use
frkin and counting-room desk and hard
ware crate as the step to glorious USE
fulness and highest Christian character.
Decide once and forever who shall be
master in your store, you or your busl-
ness.
Again, business men are often tempted
to let 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 col
lege. Purchase and sale, loss and gain,
disappointment and rasping, prosperity,
the dishonesty of others, panic and bank
suspension, are but different lessons III
the school, The more business, the
more means of grace. Many have gone
through widest panic unhurt. "Are
you not afraid you will break?" said
some one to merchant in time OF great
commercial excitement He replied
''Aye, shall break when the iftieth
Psalm breaks, in the fifteenth verse,
Call upon me in the day of trouble and
I will deliver thee"
The store and the counting-house
have developed some of the most stall
wart characters. Perhaps originally
they had but little sprightliness and
force, but two or three hard business
thumps woke them up from their leth-
argy, and there came a thorough devel-
opment in their hearts of all that was
good and holy and energetic and tre-
mendous, and they have become the
front men in Christ's army, as well as
lighthouses in the great world of traf-
fic. 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 en-
tered his vocation with large heart and
noble character he goes out of it a
skeleton, enough to scare ghost
Men appreciate the Importance of
having a 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 engagement you
will listen for it, you may hear a sound
louder than the rattle of drays and the
clink 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 bargain are cheated out of their
immortal blessedness by stratagems
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 infiu-
ences that will not be able to pay one
cent on a dollar. They plunge into a
labyrinth from which no bankrupt law
or ''two-thirds enactment will ever ex-
tricate 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 over-reached
at last tumbled into spiritual defalca-
ton, 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 housetops 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 greater
conflagration, even the last. Bills of
exchange, policies OF insurance, mort
cages and 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. Exchanges and granite blocks
of merchandise will fall with 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 are at rest"
Debt, the Demoralizer.
Debt-there is no worse demoralizer