Connecticut western news., 1891-12-24

Oh. for fewer idlers in the cause of men who shall take the same energy that from Monday morning to Satur day night they put forth for the achieve .ment 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 men to the Lord
 who had inherited a great fortune. The man said to him: II had to be very busy for many years of my life getting my livelihood. After awhile this fortune came to me, and there has been no necessity that l toll since There came a time when said to my self, Shall now retire from business, or shall go on and serve the Lord in my worldly occupationt He said Il resolved on the latter, and l have been more industrious in commercial circles than ever was before. and since that hour l have never kept a farth- ing for myself 1 have thought it to be a great shame if I couldn't toll as hard for the Lord as had toiled for myself, and all the products of my factories and my commercial establishments to the last farthing have gone for the building of Christian institutions and supporting the church of God" Oh. if the same energy put forth for the world could be put forth for God Oh, if a thousand men in these great cities who have achieved fortune could see it their duty to do all business for Christ and the alleviation of the worlds suffering.
 HOW PATIENCE IS CULTIVATED.
 Again, remark that business life isa , school of patience In your everyday life how many things to annoy and to dlsquiet! Bargains will rub. Com mercial men will sometimes fail to meet their engagements. Cash book and money drawer will sometimes quarrel Goods ordered for a special emergency will come too late or be damaged in the transportation. People intending no harm will go shopping without any intention of purchase, overturning great stocks of goods and insisting that you break the dozen. More bad debts on the ledger. More counterfeit bills in the drawer. More debts to pay for other people. More meannesses on the part of partners in business. Annoy ance after annoyance, vexation after vexation, and loss after loss.
 All that process will either break you down or brighten you up. It is school of patience. You have known men un der the process to become petulant and choleric and angry and pugna. cious and cross and sour and queer. and they lost their customers and their name became a detestation. Other men have been frightened up under the process. They were tougllened by the exposure. They were like rocks, all the more valuable for being blasted. At first they had to choke down their wrath at first they had to bite their lips; at first they thought of some stinging re tort they would like to make; but they conquered their ilnpatience. They have kind words now for sarcastic filings. They have gentle behavior now for un mannerly customers. They are patient now with unfortunate debtors. They have Christian reflections now for sud den reverses. Where did they get that patience2 By hearing minister preacE concerning it on the Sabbathl Oh, no. They got it just where you will get it. if you ever get it at all-selling hats, discountilg notes. turning banisters, blowing corn, timing roofs. pleading causes Oh, that amid the turmoil and anxiety and exasperation of everyday life you might hear the voice of God saying: "ln patience possess your soul. Let patience have her perfect work"
 l remark again that business life is a school of useful knowledge. Merchants do not read many books and do net study lexicons They do not dive into profounds of learning. and yet nearly all through their occupations come to understand questions of finance and politics and geography and jurispru dence and ethics. Business. is a severe scloollnistress. If pupils will not learn, she strikes them over the head and the heart with severe losses. You. put $5.O00 into all enterprise. It is all gone. You say, That is a dead loss. :" Oh. mo- You are paying the school
 ing That was only tuition-l told you it was a schoohnistress--but it was that process you would not bave learned 1 in any other way. Traders in grain come to know some
 thing about foreign harvests; traders ill fruit come to know something about the prospects of tropical production manufacturers of American goods come to understand the tariff on imported articles: publishers of books must come to understand the new law of copy
 right; owners of ships must come to know winds and shoals and navigation i; and every bale of cotton. and every raisin cask, and every tea box, and every cluster of bananas is so much lit
 erature for business man. Now, my brother. what are you going to do with the intelligence? Do you suppose God 1 put you in this school of information merely that you might be sharper in a trade. that you might be more success 'ful as a worldling2 Oh. no; it was that you might take that useful in- formation and use it for Jesus Christ.
 Gan it be that you have been dealing with foreign lands and never had the missionary spirit, wishing the salvation of foreign people? Can it be that you have become acquainted with all the outrages inflicted in business life and that you have never tried to bring to bear that Gospel which is to extirpate all evil and correct all wrongs and illumine all darkness and lift up all