The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-12-25
RELIGION In BUSINESS.
Dr. Tamage DIscoursss to the
Worlds Workers & 45r
Business LIE Only sehocI-FaEnInE the
Opportunity to the Cause or the
Lord-Ths Lesson OF E8usi-
ness RevsrseB.


Proverbs iii o; ''Iu all thy ways ac-
knowledge Him and He shall direct thy
paths" The discourse was to business
men. He said;
"a promise good enough for many
kinds of life. but not for my kind Of
life" says some business men, '.the law
OF supply and demand controls the busi-
ness world" But have reason to say
that 1t is a promise 70 all persons in any
kind of honest business.
There is no war between religion and
business, between ledgers and Bib'es
between churches and counting houses
On the contrary, religion accelerates
business, sharpens mems wits, sweet
ems acerbity Of disposition, fllips the
blood of phlegmaties and throws more
velocity into the wheels of hard work.
1t gives better balancing TO the judg-
ment, more strength to the will, more
muscle to industry and throws into en-
thusiasm n more consecrated fire. You
cannot in all the round of the world
show me man whose honest business
has been detrOyed by religion.
When the prince imperial OF France
fell on the Zulu battlefield because the
strap fastening the stirruP to the sad
die broke as he clung to it, mis- com
rades all escaping, but he falling under
the lances of the savages. a great many
people blamed the empress for allow
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field, and others blamed the English
government for accepting the sacrifice,
ard others blamed the Zulus for their
barbarian The one most to blame
was the harness maker who fashioned
that strap of the stirrup out of shoddy
and imperfect material, as it was found
to have been afterward. If the strap
had held the prince imperial would
probably have been alive to-day. But
the E,r,ITn
ent Of a harness maizerl High, low,
wise. ignorant, you in one occupation,
in another, all bound together. So
that there must be one continuous line
OF sympathy with each others work.
We are under the impression that the
turmoil and tug of business life are
prison, into which a man is thrust, or
that it Is an unequal strife where un-
armed a man goes forth to contend
shall show you that business life was
intended of God for glorious education
and discipline, and il shall be helped
to say what want to say, 1 shall rub
some of the wrinkles of care out of your
brow, and unstrap some of the burdens
from your back. I an not talking to
an abstraction. Though never having
been in business life, 1 know all about
business men.
In the first place I remark that bust
ness life was intended as a school of
energy. God gives us certain amount
of raw material out of which we are to
hew our character. Our faculties are
TO be reset. rounded aud Eharpened up.
Our young folks having graduated
from school or college need higher
education, that which the rasPiBg and
collision OF every day life alone can ef-
feet. Energy is wrought out only in q
fire After man has been in business
activity ten. twenty, thirty years his
Es,f
or plummits or ladders
Now, my brother, why did God put
you Ia that school of energy? Vas it
merely that you might be a yaFdsticlk
TO measure cloth, or a steelyard to
weigh -four? Was it merely that you
might be better qualified to chatter and
hiRgIe2 No. God placed you in that
school of energy that you might be de
veloped for Christian work. If the uu-
developed talents in the Christian
churches of to-day were brought out
and thoroughly harnessed, / believe
the whole world would be converted to
God in short time.
Now God demands the best lamb out
of every flock. He demands the richest
sheaf of every harvest He demands
the best men of every generation A
cause in which Newton and Locke and
Mansfield tOiled you and can afford
to toll in
o. for fewer idlers in the cause of
Christ and for more Christian workers.
men who shall take the same energy
that from Monday morning to Satur-
day night they put forth for the
achievement of a livelihood or the
gathering of a fortune, and on Sabbath
days put it forth to the advantage of
Christ's kingdom and the bringing of
EaeB to the Lord. o, il the same energy
put forth for the world could be put
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these great cities who have achieved a
fortune could see it their duty to do all
business for Christ and the alieviation
of the worlds sufferingk
Again, remark. that business life is
q school of patience In your every
day life how many things to annoy and
TO disquietl Bargains will rub Com
mercial men will sometimes fail to
meat their engagement Cash book
and money drawer Will sonnet times
quarreL Goods ordered for a special
emergency will come too late, or be
damaged in the transportation People
intending no harm will 60 shopping
gyithoutan any intontion OF purchase, over
turning great stocks of goods and in
sistinE that you break the dozen More
bad debts on the ledger. More cOun- |
terfsit bills in the drawer. More debts |
to pay for other people More mean /
hsssess on the part of partners in busi- /
ness. Annoyance aIHer annoy ance. VeZ- i
alton after vexation and loss after loss.
All that process viii either break you
down or brighten you up 1t is a school
of patience. You have known men IN
der the process to become petulant. and
eholeric, aud angry, and pUgnacious,
and cross, and sour, and queer, and
they lost their customers and their
naraa became a detestation- Other
men have been frightened up
under Ehs process They were tough
sned BY the exposure. Thsy were like
rocks. all the more valuable for being
blasted At frat they had TO choke
covvn their wrath. at FIRST they had to
bite their lip. at 6rst they thought OF
some singing retort they would like to
make, but they conquered their i'm
patience. They have kind words now
tor ssreastic aings They have gentle
Vzordz nevx Tor 1snzasnpe<iy customsrs-
They sr4 patient now with unfortanats
debtors They have Christisn reHec-
tions now for sudden reverses- Where
did they get that patience? by hearing
a Eafnister preach concerning II oa