The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-05-01

meet your various engagements. Go
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 tof
Worship and intellectual culture and recreaI;
ton. Show yourself greater than your ousi'
ness. Act not as though after death you
would enter upon an eternity OF rauroad
stocks and coffeeS and bonbons. Roast not
yo,lr mauhoods before the perpetual fires of
anxiety. With every yard Of cloth you sell
throw not in your soul to boot. Us, flrXln
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, you
or your business.
Again. business men are often tenn pied to
let their calling interfere with the interests
of the soul God sends men into the business
world to get educltei, just as boys ara sent
to school and college. Purchase AMI sale, loss
and gain. Disappointment and rasping, pros
peritv, the dishonesty of Others, panic an
bank suspension are but different lessons Ill
the school. The moro 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 com nercial excitement. He
replied: "Aye,I shall break when the fftieth
Psalm breaks, in the fifteenth verse: Call
upon ms ii the day of trouble and will de-
liver thea.''
The store and the counting house have de-
veloped soma of til, most stalwarG charac
ters. Perhaps originally they had but little
sprightliness ami force, bat two or three
hard business thumpS woke them up from
their lethargv, and there came thorough de-
velopment i'll their hearts OF all that was good
and holy and energetic and tremendous, and
they have become the front men i'll Christs
great army, as we'll as lighthouses in the
rreat world OF traffic. But business has been
perpetual depletion to many man. 1t first
pulled out of him all benevolenca, next all
amiabiity next all religious aspiration, next
all conscience, and though he entered his vo-
cation with large heart and noble character
he goes cut 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 tn do their duty. To
morrow, if in your place Of worldly enSag.
ment you will listen for it, you may hear
sound louder than the rattle of drays and the
shuffia OF feet and the clink Of dollars steal
ing into your soul, saying, seek yefirst the
kingdom os God and His Righteousness, and
all other things shall be added unto YOU"
Yet some OF those sharpest at the bargain
are cheated out of their immortal blesseduess
By stratagems more palpable than any, drop
game of the street. They make invest
ments in things everlastinrgly below par.
They put t'ieir vaiuables in a safe not fire
proof. Thoy give full credit to influences
that will not be able to pay one cant on
dollar. They plunge into labyrinth from
which no bankrupt law or "two-thirdS enact.
ment' will ever extricate 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.
wiIted or overreached at last tumbled into
spiritual defalcation and was swindled out of
heaven.
Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New
York in 1885. Aged men tell us that i beg
garel all description. Some 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 be startled by
greater contlagration, 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 aud 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 60
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