Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-21
RELIGION IN BUSINESS.
DR. TALMAoE BELIEVES IN TRADE
AND IN HONEST TRADERS.

Prince Imperial.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 2O.--Any person seeking
the secret Of DR.. Talmage's marvellous pop
Alarity with the millions Of sermon hear
ars and sermon readers may find clew to
u In the sermon he preached Mt the Taber-
naole this morning. 1t has nothing to do
with abstruse doctrines, but gives clear
view Of what may be termed applied Chris
eiapity. His text was Proverbs iii, 6, I'm
VI thy ways acknowledge him and he shall
direct thy paths"
"a promise good enough for many kinds
~ life, but not for my kind of life, says
some business man; 1.-THE law of supply
and demand controls the business world +"
Hut have reason to say that it is a prom
he to all persons in any kind of honest
buainess.
There Ia no war between religion and
business, between ledgers and Bibles, be-
tween churches and counting houses. On
che contrary, religion accelerates business,
MhaFpens mems wits, sweetens acerbity of
disposition, fillips the blood of phlegmat
~ and throws more velocity into the
wheels of hard work. 1t gives better bal
anCing to the judgment, more strength to
throws into enthusiasm more consecrated
IRE. You cannot in all the round of the
world show me a man whose honest bust
Hasa has been despoiled by religion.
Tho industrial classes are divided into
6hres groups-producers manufacturers
tH@ders. Producers, such as farmers and
miners. Manufacturers, such as those
who turn corn into food, and wool and flax
knto apparel. Traders, such as make profit
cut Of the transfer and exchange of all that
which IL produced and manufactured A
Business man may belong to any one or all
Of these classes, and not one is independent
Of any other.
When the prince imperial of France fell
an the Zulu battlefield because the strap
Fastening the stirrup to the saddle broke
~ he chung to 1t, his comrades all escaping,
but no falling under the lances of the
aavages, great many people blamed the
empress for allowing her son to 20 forth
tnto that battlefield, and others blamed the
English government for accepting the
Hacv46ce, and others blamed the Zuus for
their bRrbarism. The one most to blame
was the harness maker who fashioned that
strap OF the stirrup out of shoddy and i'm
perfect material, as 1t 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 independent of a harness maker.
High, low, wise, ignorant, you in one
occupation, | In another, all bound to-
Gether. So that there must be one contin-
nous line OF sympathy with each others
work. But whatever your vocation, if you
have multiplicity of engagements, if into
yOur life there come losses and aunoyances
and perturbations as well as percentages
and dividends, II you are pursued from
Monday morning until Saturday night,
and from January to January by ineXor-
able obligation and duty, then you are a
business man or you are a business wOm-
an, and mr. subject is appropriate to your
case
HIGH ENCoMUM ON BUSINESS MEN.
We are under the impression that the
MOL and tug of business life are prison
ipto which a man is thrust or that it is an
unequal strife where unarmed man goes
forth to contend. | shall show you that
business life was intended of God for grand
and glorious education and discipline, and
IL ! 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
tho burdens from your back. | am not
talking to an abstraction. Though never
having been in business hfe, | know all
shout business men.
In my first parish Mt Belleville, New Jer
sey, ten miles from New York, large por
tion OF my audience was made up of New
York merchants. Then | went to SYRIA
auso, place of intense commercial activi-
Ny, ard then j went to Philadelphia aud
lived long among the merchants of that
city, than whom there are no better men
on earth, and for more than twenty-five
years have stood in this presence, Sab
bath by Sabbath, preaching to audiences,
Nhe majority of whom are business men
and bnsiness women. 1t is not an abstrac.
zion to which speak but reality with
which / am well acquainted,
In the first place, remark that business
Me was intended as school Of energy.
God gives us certain amount of raw ma
oBrial out of which we are to hew our char
acter. Our faculties are to be reset,
rounded and sharpened up. Our young
Folks having graduated from school or col
teRe, need a higher education, that which
the Fasping and collision of everyday life
alone can effect. Energy is wrought out
snly in fire. After a man has been in
business activity ten, twenty, thirty years,
his energy is not to be measured by weights
or plummets or ladders There is no
height it cannot scale, and there is no
depth 1t cannot fa5hom, and there is no
obstacle 1t cannot thrash.
Now. my brother, why did God put you
In that school of energyY Was it merely
that you might be yardstick to measure
cloth or a steelyard to weigh flour? Was
10 merely that you might be better quail
Al IL. 4 |, 40 Ill.
you In that school of energy that you
might be developed for Christian work. If
che undeveloped talents In the Christian
churches of today were brought out and
thoroughly harnessed, | believe the whole
world would be converted to God in "A
short time. There are SO many deep
streams that are turning no mill wheels
and that are harnessed to no factory bands
Now, God demands the best lamb out Of
every flock. lie demands the richest sheaf
OF every harvest lie demands the best
mon OF every generation. A cause in which
Newton and Locke and Mansfield toiled
ysu and can afford to toll in
WORK FOR GOD AS WELL AS FOR SELF
Oh for fewer oilers in the cause of
Christ and for more Christian workers
men who shall take the same energy that
from Monday morning to Saturday night
they put forth for the achievement of a
livelihood or the gathering of fortune,
and on Sabbath days put it forth to thea al
vantage of Christs kingdom and the
bringing of men to the Lord DR., DUFF, in
South Wales, saw a man who had inherit
ed a great fortune. The man said to him:
IT had to be very busy for many years Of
my life getting my livelihood, After awhile
this fortune came to me and there has
been no necessity that | toll since. Who're