Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-26
eternity. It Is tremendous school,
business life school OF integrity.

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business life school OF integrity.
AS go ON In this subject l am inn
pressed with the Importance OF our hav-
ing moro sympathy with business men.
Is 1t not shame that we in our pulpits
do not oftener preach about their strug-
giles, their trials and their temptations?
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 Aris-
totle were so opposed to merchan-
disc that they declared commerce
to be the curse of the nations,
and they advised that cities be built ut
least ten miles from the seacoast. But
you and / 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 eX-
posed to sharper things than the east
wind, and climb mountains higher than
the Alps or Himslayas, and if they are
faithful Christ will ut last say to them:
swell 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
Piedmont valley, and the martyrs
among the Scotch highlands, and the
martyrs at Oxford There are just rs
certainly martyrs of Wall street and
State street, martyrs of Fulton street
and Broadway, martyrs of Atlantic
and Chestnut street, going through hot
ter fires or having their necks under
sharper axes. Then it behooves us to
| Danish all fretfulness from our lives, II
this subject be true. We look back to
the time when we were at school, and
we remember the rod. and we remem-
Der the hard tasks, and we complained
grievously; but now we see it was for
the best. Business life is school, and
the tasks are hard, and the chastise-
ments sometimes are very grivous; bat
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 every thing but
their coffin. They were sued. they were
imprisoned fer debt, they were throt-
tied by constables with whole pack
of writs, they were sold out by the
sheriffs, they had no compromise with
creditors, they had to make assign
ments. Their dying hours were an
noyed by the sharp ringing of the door
bell by some impetuous creditor, who
thought it was outrageous and impudent
that man should dare to die before he
paid the last three shillings and six
pence. had friend who had
many misfortunes. Everything 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
everything seems to go wrong. His
life became to him plague When l
heard he was dead, said: Good, got
rid of the sheriffs" Who are those
lustrous souls before the throne? When
the question is asked: 'Who are
thcy?" the angels standing on the sea
of glass respond: "Thcse are they
who came out OF great business trouble
and had their robes washed and made
white 10 the blood of the Lamb"
0, you want business grace. Com
mercial ethics, business honors. laws
of trade, are all very good in their
place, but there are times when you
want something 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
maltrreat their friends and to curse
their enemies, and their names have
been bullctined among scoundrels, and
they have been ground to powder.
while other men you have known have
gone through the very same stress OF
circumstances triumphant There are
men here to-day who fought the
battle and gained the victory.
People come out of that mans
store and they say: swell, II
| there ever was chTlSbIAdh douS'' '"oo
is one." Integrity kept the books and
waited on 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
streets notice that the shutters of the
windows are not down The bar of
that store door has not been removed.
People say: "What is the matter?"
You go up q little closer and you see
written on the card of that window:
"Closed on account Of the death of one
of the firm" That dav all through the
circles of business there is talk about
how a good man has gone. Boards OF
trade pass resolutions Of sympathy and
churches Of Christ pray: "Help. Lord,
for the cody man ceaseth." He has