Connecticut western news., 1891-12-24
THETABERNACLEPU PULPIT
BUSINESS LIFE A SCHOOL FOR GOOD
 TO THOSE WHO so WILL IT.

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 One Man May Destroy Others-HoW2st
 Business Men May Be Improved.
 BROOKLYN. Dec. 20. - Any person keeking the secret of Dr. Talmage's marvellous popularity with the millions of sermon hearers and sermon readers may find clew to it in the sermon he preached at the Tabernacle this morn ing It has nothing to do with ab- struse doctrines, but gives clear view of what may be termed applied Chris tianity. His 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" says some business man: ''the law of supply and demand controls 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, slarpens mens wits, sweetens acerbity of disposition. fllips the blood l of pIllegmatics and throws more veloc- ity into the wheels of hard work It gives better balancing to the judgment. more strength to the will, more muscle to industry and throws into enthusiasm a more concentrated fire. You cannot in all the round of the world show me l a man whose honest business has been despoIed by religion.
 The industrial classes are divided into three groups producers. manufactur | CTS. traders Producers, such as farmers and miners Manufacturers, such as l those who turn corn into food. and wool and flax 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.
 When the prince imperial of France l fell on the Zulu battlefield because l the strap fastening the stirrup to the saddle broke as he clung to it, 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 fish government for accepting the sacri ice, and others blamed the Zulus for their barbarisln The one most to | h,r p,nl,nr <ul,r, 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 today. But the strap broke. No prince inde pendent of d harness maker!
 l High. low, wise, ignorant. you i1 one occupation. in another, all bound to | yether. So that there must be one con tinuous line of sympathy with each 1 others work But whatever your vo- cation. if you have a multiplicity of en- agreements. if into your life there come losses and ;lnnoyances and perturba- l tions as well as percentages and divi- 1 lends. if you are pursued from Monday morning until Saturday night, and | from January to January by inexora- ble obligation and duty. then you are l business man or you are business woman. and my subject is appropriate oyour case. .. We are under the impression that the moi and tug of business life are a prison
 into which a man is thrust or that it is an unequal strife where unarmed a man goes forth to contend l shall show you that business life was intended of tod for grand and glorious education and discipline. and if shall be helped 10 say what l want to say. shall rub some of. the wrinkles of care out of your brow and nnstrap some of the burdens from your back. l an not ,aking to an abstraction. Though never having been in business life, l know all about business men.
 In my first parish at Bellville, New Jersey ten miles from New York, @ large portion of my audience was made up of New York merchants. Then l went to Syracuse. a place of intense commercial activity. and then l went to 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 l have stood in this presence, Sabbath by Sab bath. preaching to audiences, the ma iority of whom are business men and business women. It is not an abstrac- tion to which speak. but a reality with which am well acquainted.
 THE CULTIVATION OF ENERGY.
 In the first place, 1 remark that busi- ness life was intended as a school of en- ergy God gives us a certain amount of raw material out of which we are to hew our character. Our faculties are to 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 everyday life alone can effect Energy is wrought out only in fire After a man has been in busi ness activity ten. twenty. thirty years, his energy is not to be measured by weights or pluumets or ladders There is no height it cannot scale. and there
 is no depth it cannot fathoin. and there is no obstacle it cannot thrash.
 Now, my brother, why did God put you in that school of energy Was it
 merely tl.t you might bea yardstck tc
 measure cloth or a steelyard to. weigh
 tiourl Was it merely that you might
 be better qualified to chaffer and big
 gle Nc tiod placed you in tha, school of energy that you might be de veioped for Christian work. If the un- developed talents in the Christian