Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21

the man was rescued, who for IL years had
been a slave of the Bey of Algiers. He was
Immediately emancipated, but was so worn
out by hardship and exposure he soon aftel
died.
Oh, if some of the bank bills that come
through your hands could tell all the
scenes through which they have passed, it
would be tragedy eclipsing any drama OF
Shakespeare, mightier than liking Lear
or Macbeth
As I 60 on in this subject, am i'm.
pressed with the importance of our having
more sympathy with business men. Is 1t
not shame that we in our pulpits do not
oftener preach about their struggles, their
trials and their temptations
Toilers With Hands, Toilers With Brain.
Men who toll with the hand are not apt
to be very sympathetic with those'who toll
with the brain. The farmers who raise the
corn and the oats and the wheat sometimes
are tempted to think that grain merchants
have an easy time, and get their profits
without giving any equivalent.
Plato and Aristotle we're so opposed to
merchandise that they declared COM
merce to be the curse of the nations, and
they advised that cities be built at least ten
miles from the seacoast.i But you and L
know that there are no more industrious or
high-minded men than those who move in
the world of traffic. Some of them carry
burdens heavier than hods of brick, and are
exposed to sharper things than the east
wind, and climb mountains higher than the
Alps or Himalayas, and if they are faithful
Christ will at last say to them: well
done, good and faithful servant; thou hast
been faithful over few things, will make
thee ruler over many things. Enter thou
into the Joy of thy Lord"
We talk about the martyrs of the Pied
mont valley, and the martyrs among the
Scotch highlands, and the martyrs at Ok
ford. There are Just as certainly martyrs
of Wall street and State street, martyrs of
Fulton street and Broadway, martyrs Of At
lantic street and Chestnut street, going
through hotter fires, or having their necks
under sharper axes.
Business Hardships Are Blessings.
Then it behooves us to Danish all fretful-
ness from our lives, if this subject be true.
We look back to the time when we were at
school, and we remember the rod, and we
remember the hard tasks, and we complained
erievously; but now We see it was for the
best.
Business life is school and the tasks are
hard, and the chastisements sometimes are
very grievous; but do not complain. The
hotter the fire the better the refining. There
are men before the throne of God this day
in triumph who on earth were cheated out
of everything but their coffin. They were
sued, they were imprisoned for debt, they
were throttled by constables with whole
pack Of writs, they we're sold out by the
sheriffs, they had no compromise with their
creditors, they had to make assignments.
Their diving hours were annoyed by the
sharp ringing of the door-bel by some i'm
petuous creditor who thought it was out
and impudent that man should
dare to die before he paid the last 8 shill-
ings and 6-pence.
1 mad friend who had many misfortunes.
went against him. He had
good business quality and was of the best of
morals, but he was one of those men such as
you have sometimes seen, for whom every
thing seems to 60 wrong. His life became
to him plague.
A Place of Refuge From Misfortune.
When 1 heard he was dead, 1 said:
''Good, got rid of the Sheritfsv' Who are
those lustrous souls before the throne?
When the question is asked, "Who are
they?" the angels standing on the sea Of
glass beyond: ''These are they who came
out of great business trouble and had their
robes washed and made white in the blood
Of the Lamb"
A man rose in Fulton street prayer meet
ing, and said: ST wish publicly to acknowl-
edge the goodness of God. 1 was in bust
ness trouble. I had money to pay, and
had no means TO pay it, and was in utter
despair of all human help, and laid this
matter before the Lord, and this morning 1
went down among some old business friends
r 1,l -
a call, and one said to me. why, am so
glad to see you, walk in. We have some
money or our books due you a good while,
but we didn't know where you were, and
therefore not having your address we could
not send it. We are very glad you have
conn.,
And the man standing in Fulton street
PRAYER meeting said: 'sThe amount they
paid me was six times what I owed" You
say it only happened? You are an infdel.
God answered that mans prayer. Oh, you
want business grace.
Siore Than Commercial Ethics Needed.
Commercial ethics, business honors, laws
of trade, are all very good in their place,
but there are times when you want some
thing more than this world will give you.
You want God. For the lack of Him some
that you have known have consented to
forge, and to maltreat their friends, and to
curse their enemies, and their names have
been bulletined among scoundrels, and they
have been ground to powder; while other
men you have known have gone through the
very same stress Of circumstances triumph
ant.
There are men here to-day who fought the
battle and gained the victory. People come
out of that mans store, and they say:
'fWell, if there ever was Christian trader,
that is one" Integrity kent the books and
waited on the customers Light from the
eternal world flashed through the show
windows. Love to God and love to man
presided in that storehouse.
Some day people going through the street
notice that tine shutters of the window are
not down. The bar of that store door has
not been removed. People say, ''What is
the matter?" You go up little closer,
and yon see written on the card of that
window: ''Closed on account of the death of
one of the firm
a Business Mans Death.
That day all through the circles of bust
ness there is talk about how good man has
gone. Boards of trade pass resolutions of
and churches of Christ pray,
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceasesth"
He has made his last bargain, he has suf-
tered his last loss, he has ached with the
last fatigue. His children will get the
result of his industry, or, if through mis-
fortune these be no dollars left, they will
nave an estate of prayer and Christian
which will be everlasting. Heav-
enly rewards for earthly discipline There
the wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at rest"
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