Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-26
RELIGION IN BUSINESS.
DIR. Talmage Discourses to the
Worlds Workers.
asaslresa Life Only u schooi-Turning the
Opportunity to tho Cause OF the
Lord-The Lesson OF Busi-
ness Reverses.

PuJUb. Inc OlScOuTSe WIS W UuSiueSS
meD. He said:
"a promise good enough for many
kinds of life. but not for my kind OF
tife." says some business men, ''thc law
OF supply and demand controls the BUSH
ssess world" But have reason to say
that it is a promise to all persons in any
kind of honest business.
There In no war between religion and
business, between ledgers and Bibles,
between churches and counting houses.
On the contrary, religion accelerates
business, sharpens mems wits sweet
Gus acerbity Of disposition, tillips the
blood of phlegmatics and throws more
velocity into the wheels OF hard work.
II gives better balancing to the judg-
nent, more strength to the will, more
muscle to industry and throws into en-
thusiasm q more consccrated fire. You
cannot in all the round of the world
show me u 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 chung to 1t, his COM
rades all escaping, but he falling under
the lanccs OF the savages, a great many
people blamed the empress for allow
ing her son to go forth into that battle
field, and others blamed the English
government for accepting the sacrifice,
and others blamed the Zulus for their
barbarism. 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 strap broke. No prince indepcnd-
.ent of a harness maker! High. low,
wise, ignorant you in one occupation,
7 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 q man is thrust, or
that it is IN unequal strife where un-
armed man goes forth to contend. l
shall show you that business life was
intended of God for glorious education
aud discipline, and il l shall be helped
to say what want to say, shall rub
some of the wrinkles of care out of your
brow, and unstrap some OF the burdens
from your back. / am not talking to
.au abstraction. Though never having
been in business life, know all about
business men.
In the first place 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
.hc,V our character. Our faculties arc
90 be reset, rounded and sharpened up.
Our young folks having graduated
from school or college need a higher
education, that which the rasping and
collision of every day life alone can ef.
feet Energy is wrought out only in
ire After man has been in business
activity ten. twenty, thirty years his
energy is not to be measured by weights
or plummits or ladders,
Now, my brother, why did God put
YOU in that school of energy? Was it
alnereiy that you might be ayardstick
to measure cloth, or a steelyard to
weigh -four? Was it merely that you
might be better qualified to chatter and
7nrCEle? No. God placed you in that
school of energy that you might be de-
sNeloped for Christian work. If the un-
developed talents in the Christian
churches OF to-day were brought out
and thoroughly harnessed, l believe
the whole world would be converted to
God in q 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-
.dav night they put forth for the
achievement of q livelihood or the
gathering Of fortune, and on Sabbath
davs put Il forth to the advantage of
tClRrists kingdom and the bringing OF
men to the Lord o, If the same energy
nut forth for the world could be put
forth for Godl o, If thousand men in
these great cities who have achieved a
fortune could see it their duty to do all
business for Christ aud the alienation
of the worlds sufferingS
Again, remark, that business life Is
a school of patience. In your every
.day life how many things to annoy and
to disquiet! Bargains will rub Com
mercial men viii 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 60 shopping
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