The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-12-30

drawer. More debts to pay for other
people. More meannesses on the part
Of partners in business. Annoyance at
ter annoyance, veXation after vexatlon
and loss after loss. AL that process
will either break you down or brighten
YOU up Ii is a school of patience. Oh.
that amid the turmoil and anxiety and
exasperation of everyday life you might
hear the voice of God saying I'm patti
ence possess your soul. Let patience
have her perfect work "a
remark again that business life is
school Of useful knowledge. Merchants
do not read many books and do not
study lexicons. They do not dive into
proiounds Of learning, and yet nearly all
through their occupations come to IN.
de7stand questions of finance and poll
tics and geography and jurisprudence
and ethics. Business is a severe school
mistress. Ii pupils will not learn. she
strikes them over the head and the heart
with severe losses. You put $4,000
into an enterprise. 1t is all gone. You
say, That is a dead loss" Oh, no.
You are paying the schooling. That
was only tuition, very large tuition-I
told you it was a severe schoolmistress
-bu, it was worth it. You learned
things under that process yeu would not
have learned in any other way.
Traders in gram come to know some.
thing about foreign harvests; traders IN
fruit come to know something about the
prospects O: tropical production; manu-.
facturers Of American goods come to
understand the tariff on imported arti.
cles; publishers OF books must come to
understand the new law of copyright;
owners of ships must come to know
winds and shoals and navigation; and
every bale of cotton, and every raisln
cask, and every tea box, and every clus.
ter of bananas is 50 much literature for
a business man. Now, my brother,
what are you going to do with the IN.
telliyence? Do you suppose God put
ysu In this school of information merely
that you might be sharper in q trade,
that you might be more successful as
wording? Oh, no; it was that you
might take that useful information and
use it for Jesus Christ.
remark, also, that business life is a
school ior integrity. No man knows
what he will do when he is tempted.
There are thousands of men who have
kept their integrity merely because they
never have been tested. a man was
elected treasurer of the state Of Name
scme years ago. He was distinguished
fol his honesty, usefulness and upright
ness, but before one year had passed he
had taken OF the public funds tor his
own private use, and was hurled out OF
Office in disgrace. Distinguished for Vlr-
tue before. Distinguished for crime al
ter. You can call over the names OF
men Just like that, in whose honesty you
had complete confidence, but placed in
certain crises Of temptation they went
overheard.
Never so many temptations to scoun.
drehsm as now. Net a law on the stat
ute book but has some back door through
which a mlscreant can escape. An!
how many decept,ons in the fabric of
goods; so much plundering in CONNER
clal life, that If man talk about living
life Of complete commercial accuracy
there are those who ascrlbe it to green.
ness and lack of tact. More need of
honesty now than ever before-tried
honesty, complete honesty, more than
IN those times when business was 8
plain affair, aud woolens were woolens
and silks were silks and men were men.
How many men do you suppose there
are in commercial life who could say
truthfullY, I'm all the sales I have ever
made have never overstated the value
OF goods; in all the sales / have ever
made l have never covered up an inn
perfection in the fabric; Of all the thous-
ands OF dollars I have ever made I have
not taken one dishonest farthing?"
There are men, however, who can say
Hundreds who can say it, thousands
who can say it. They are more honest
than when they sold their first t!erce Of
rice, or their irst frkin Of but. r, be-
cause t.sir honesty and integrity have
been tested, tried and carried out trium'
phant. But they remember time when
they could have robbed a partner, or
have absconded with the funds Of a bank,
or sprung snap judgment, or made a
false assign nent, or borrowed illimitap-
ly without any effort at payment, or got
man into a sharp corner and feeced
him. But they never took one step on
that pathway of hell fire. They can say
their prayers without hearing the chink
of dishonest dollars. They can read
their Bible without thinking Of the time
when, VITA lie en- their soul, in the
custom house they kissed the Book.
They ca, think OF death and the judgg-
ment tina: comes after it without any
finching-that day when all charlatans
and cheats and jockeys and frauds shall
be doubly damned. It does not make
their knees knock together and it does
not make their teeth chatter to read ''as
the partridge sltteth on eggs and hatch.
eth them not, 80 he that getteth riches,
and not BY right, shall leave them in the
midst OF his days and at bis end shall be
a fool"
Oh, what school OF integrity busl-
ness life is! II yeu have ever been
tempted to let your integrity criage be-
fore present advantage; if you have ever
wakened up in some embarrassment and
said: Now III step little aside from
the right path and no one will know it,
and III como all right again. It's only
opCe.' Oh. that only once has ruined
tens OF thousands ofmen for this life and
blasted their souls for eternity. Il is a
tremendous schsol, business liie-a
school Of integrity. : merchant in
Liverpool got q FIVE pound Bank Of Eng
land note, and holding it up toward the
light be saw some inteSllneations IN
what seemed red ink.
He finally deciphered the letters, and
found cut that the wristrg had been
made by a slave in Algiers, saying in
substance, Whoever gels this banknote
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