Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-24
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BUSINESS LIFE A SCHOOL FOR GOOD
TO THOSE WHO so WILL IT.

One Man May Destroy Others--How
Bnsiness Mon May Be Improved.
BRooKLYN, Dec 2O.-Any person
seeking the secret Of DR. Talmnge's
marvellous popularity with the millions
of sermon hearers and sermon readers
may find a clew TO it in the sermon he
preached at the Tabernacle this morn
ing. 1t has nothing to do with ab-
struse doctrines, but gives clear view
of What may be termed applied Chris
tianity Ills text was Proverbs iii, 6,
"ln all thy ways acknowledge him and
he shall direct thy paths
"A promise good enough for many
kinds OF life but not for my kind OF
life,r says some business man: 'tlle law
of supply and demand cor '1ls the
business world" But have reason to
say that it is a promise to all persons IN
any kind of honest business.
There is no war between religion and
business. between ledgers and Bibles.
between churches and counting houses.
On the contrary, religion accelerates
business sliarpens mems wits, sweetens
acerbty Of disposition, iillips the blood
OF phlegrnatics and throws more veloc-
ity into the wheels Of hard work. II
gives better balarcing to the judgment
more strength to the will. more muscle
to industry and throws into enthusiasm
more concentrated fire. You cannot
in all the round of the world show ine
a man whose honest business has been
despoied by religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups producers, manufactnr-
ers, traders Producers, such as farmers
and miners Manufacturers, such as
those who turn corn into food, and
wool and fax into apparel. Traders
such as make profit out of the transfer
and exchange of all that which is pro
duced and manufactured A business
man may belong to any one or all OF
these classes, and not one Is independ-
ent of any other. q
When the prince imperial of France
fell on the Zulu battlefield because
the strap fastening the stirrup to the
saddle broke as he clung to 1t, his
comrades all escaping, but he falling
under the lances of the savages, great
many people blamed the empress for
allowing her son to go forth into that
battlefield, and others blamed the Eng
lish government for accepting the sacri
fee, 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 II
was found to have been afterward. If
the strap had held, the prince imperial
would probably have been alive today,
But the strap broke. No prince inde-
pendent of u harness maker
High, low, wise, ignorant, you in one
occupation, In another, all bound to-
gether. So that there must be one con
tinuous line OF sympathy with each
others work But whatever your vo-
cation, If you have multiplicity OF en-
gagements If into your life there como
losses and annoyances and perturba-
tions as well as percentages and divl-
dends, II you are pursued from Monday
morning until Saturday night, and
from January TO January by inexora-
BILE obligation and duty, then you are
business man or you are a business
woman, and my subject is appropriate
to your case.
We are under the Impression that the
moil and tug OF business life are prison
into which man is thrust or that il is
an unequal strife where unarmed n man
goes forth to contend | shall show
you that business life was intended OF
God for grand and glorious education
and discipline and II | 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 10 an abstraction. Though
never having been in business life, !
know all about business men.
In my first parish at Bellvllle, New
Jersey, ten miles from New York, a
largo portion of my audience was made
up of New York merchants. Then
went 10 Syracuse a place OF intense
commercial activity, and then ! went
20 Philadelphia and lived long among
the merchants Of that city, than whom
there are no better men on earth, and
for more than twenty two years ! have
stood In this presence, Sabbath by Sab
bath, preaching TO audiences, the ma
sorlty OF whom are business men and
business women 1t is not an abstrac-
tlon 10 which | speak, but a reality
with which am well acquainted.
THR CULTIVATION or ENERGY.
In the iirst place, remark that busl-
ness life was intended as a school of en-
ergy. God gives us certain amount
Of raw material out of which We are 70
hew our character Our faculties are
10 be reset. rounded and sharpened up.
Our young folks having graduated
from school or college need higher
education. that which the rasping and
collision OF everyday life alone can
effect Energy Is wrought out only Ia
fire. After man has been In hnsl
ness activity ten, twenty, thirty years,
his energy Is not 10 be measured by
weights or pluninets or ladders There
Is no height il cannot scale, and there
Is no depth Il cannot fathom. and there
h no obstacle Il cannot thrash
Now, my brother, why ala God put
you Ia that school Of enorgyi Was 4