The Penn's Grove record., 1891-12-25

Pm and lie shall direct thy path."~
Proverbs lii, o.
"A promise good enough for many kinds
of life, hut not for my kind Of life" says
some business man; the law of supply and
demand controls the business world.h But
l have reason to say that it fs Q promise to
all persons in any kind Of honest business.
There is no war between religion and busi-
less, between ledgers and Bibles, between
churches and counting houses. On the con-
trary religion accelerates business. sharpens
mems wits, swoetens acerbity Of disposition.
fiips the blood Of phlsgmatics and throws
more velocity into the wheels Of hard work.
IL gives better balancing to the Judgment,
more strength to the will, more muscle to
industry and throws into enthusiasm a more
consecrated fire. You cannot In all the round
OF the worli show me a man whose honest
business has been despoiled by religion.
Tn industrial classes are divided into
three groups-producers, manufacturerst
traders. Producers, such as farmers o
miners. Manufacturers, such as those vAo
turn corn into food, and wool n 1ax~ nto
apparel. Traders, such as make profit out
OF the transfer and exchange Of all that
which Is produced and manufactured. A
business mar msy belong to any q or all
of these classes, and not one Is independent
Of any other.
When the prince imperial Of France fell on,
the Zulu battlefield because the strap fasteni,,
Ing bn0 StiTTuD W Tue Eouul6 UIoko u n9
chung to it, his comrades all escaping. but he
falling under the lances Of tho savages. .
great many people blamed the empress for
allowing her son to go forth into that battle
field, and others blamed the English Govern
ment for accepting the sacrifice, aud tS1ers
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, ~ Il WA
found to have been afterward. II the strap
had held, the prince impsxial would probably
nave been alive to-day. But the strap broke}
No prince independent Of q harness maker.
High, low, wise, ignorant, Q In ono
occupation, L in another, all bound together
| So that there must be one continuous lin %
sympathy with zach others work. But
whatever your vocation, II you have q
multiplicity Of engagements II Into your
life there come losses and ~annoyances and
pertufbations as well as percentages and
morning until Saturday night, n from
January to January by memorable obliga-
ton and duty, then you are . business man
or you are a business woman, and my sub
ject is appropriate to your case.
We are under the impression that the moi
and tug OF business life are . prison Into
which a man is thrust, or that It Is an IN.
equal strife where unarn,ed a man goes forth
to contend. Ishsi show you that business
life was INTENDED Of tod for grand and glorf-
Gus education ind discipline, and IL ] shall By
helped to say what 1 d 10 sag, l shall rub
some Of the wrinkles ee es7S out o. YOU
brow and unstrap some Of the burdens from
ton. Though never a been In business
life, / know all about business men.
In my first parish at Bellsville, New Jer-
sey, ten miles from New York, . large por-
ton Of my audience was made up OF New
York merchants. Then | went 70 syracusa,
= -IoN~ - tnfanca ooxxpaarntal aofiuft1 ard
then I went to Philadelphis and lived long
among the merchants Of that city, than
III there are no better men on earth, and
for more than twenty-five years l have
stood In this presence, Sabbath by Sabbath,
preaching to audiences tho majority Of
It Is not an abstraction to which 1 speak, but
a reality with which / am well acquainted.
In the first place, I remark that business
life was intended as a school Of energy.
God gives us a certain amount OF raw ma
terial out of which we are to hew our char
and sharpened up. Our young folks having
graduated from school or college, need q
higher education, that which the rasping
and collision of everyday life alone can ef-
feet. Energy is wrought out only 10 a fire.
After a man has been in business activity
twenty, thirty years his energy is not
~ measured by weights or plummets or
sissss There is no height IL cannot scale,
and shsr. = X 18th 1t cannot fathom, and
there Is M obstscls Il -, % snrasn.
Now. NV brother. WIN did a. S,t vow ~
that school of enerov, W.s n nae-aM
Won MIGHT he I vasIst;,h - y Sn1S
or a steeIvard to weiOh aour, We n ,ns.Ni.
that YOU miebt Be- better m,aliaad ~ chs9ay
and hippleS M Cod nisced vo,, - thet
school 81 energy that va, mioht r. dsnas'
oDed for Christian work n ths nnda.sio.eS
talents in the Christian churches ~ ~ H.
were brongbt ont and tboron ghiu ha.ao.eu
i believe the whole world von1d X cnnrssts1
to God In 4 short time. Tvhera ara % rsna
deem Streams that ara -turning no nil rh.nis
and that are harnessed to mo- factor hands
Now Goa dsmsnds tbs bsst Ismp IN psnns.
flock. He demands the richest sheaf Of every
harvest. He demands the best man Of every
generation. A cause in which Newton and
Locke and Mansfield toiled you and / can
afford to toll In.
Oh, for fewer idlers In the cause of Christ
| and for mora Christian workars-rar ~