The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-12-24
TlG Tabernacle Pulpit
BUSINESS LIFE 4 SCHOOL
EOR GOOD TO THOSE
WHO SO WILL. 1T.
and Minute Ramiti-
cations OF Trade.--How the
Dishonesty of One Man
May Destroy Others.
HOW BUSINESS MEN MAY BE
IMPROVED.

BROOKLYN. Dec. 20--Any person
seeking the secret of DR.. Talmage's
marvellous popularity with the millions
of sermon hearers and sermon readers
may find clew 10 it in the sermon he
preached at the Tabernacle this morn
ing. 1t has nothing to do with alb
struse doctrines, but gives a clear view
of what may be termed applied Chris
tianity His text was Proverbs lii, 6,
'In 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; 1.-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, sharpers mems wits, sweetens
acerbity of disposition, filIips the blood
of phlegmatics and throws more veloc-
ity into the wheels of hard work. 1t
gives better balancing to the Judgment,
more strength to the will, more muscle
to industry and throws into enthusiasm
q more concentrated fire. You cannot
| in all the round of the world show me
man whose honest business has been
despoiled by religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups-producers, manufactur,
ers, traders Producers, such as farmers
and miners Manufacturers, such a:
those who turn corn into food, anC
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 o
these classes, and not one is independ
ent of any. other.
When the prince imperial of Francs
fell on the Zulu battlefield becaus
the strap fastening the stirrup to tn
saddle broke as he clung to it, hi
comrades ali escaping, but he ta!lin
under the lances of the savages, grea
many people blamed the empress fo
allowing her son to go forth into tha
battlefield, and others blamed the Eng
2 lish government for accepting the sacr
t fee. and others blamed the Zulus fo
: their barbaris1n The one most t
. blame was the harness maker VIII
fashioned that strap of the stirrup ou
| of shoddy and imperfect material, as
: was found to have been afterward.
= the strap had held, the prince iInperl;
would probably have been alive today
But the strap broke. No prince ind
. pendent of harness maker!
9 High, low, wise, ignorant, you i'll or
. occupation, in another, all bound t.
c gether. So that there must be one col
a tinuous line of sympathy with eac
f Others work. But whatever your "
d cation, if you have a multiplicity OF e
II gagements, if into your life there con
losses and annoyances and perturb
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dends, if you are pursued from Mond'
morning until Saturday night, AZ
y from January TO January by inexor
e BILE obligation and duty, then you
s. a business man or you are Eusine
&c e woman, and my subject is appropri'
a to your case
- We are under the impression that
- mol and tug of business life are pris'
into which a man is thrust or that Il
- an unequal strife where unarIned a M
,e goes forth to cos1tend- / shall sht
os you that business life was intended
p God for grand and glorious educatl
Is and discipline, and if | shall be help
n to say what / want to say, | shall r
pr some of the wrinkles OF care out
your brow and unstrap some OF
burdens from your back | am r
I'd talking to an abstraction Thou
be never having been in business Tile
ne know all about business men
at In my first parish at Bellville. \
as Jersey. ten miles from New York,
ne large portion of my audience was INA
oi I'D of New York merchants Thei
- went to Syracuse, place OF lntei
-. ' commercial activity, and then | vi
no TO Philadelphia and lived long aTnc
Il the merchants of that city, than VII
there are no better men on earth, g
for more than twenty-five years l h;
nd stood in this presence, Sabbath By ,
IF bath, preaching to audiences, the
nd iority of whom are business men
his business women Ii IS not All aos''
to- ton to which l speak, but a rc;t
ng with which am well acquainted
lc- THE CULTIVATION OF ENERGY
ick In the first place, remark that b
nd ness Life was intended as school OF
ric ergy. God gives us certain alno
-ou of raw material out of which we ar
ed. hew our character. Our faculties
II. to be reset, rounded and sharpened
n Our young folks having gra.dra
VT. from school or college need his
education. that which the rasping
collision of everyday life alone
ent effect. Energy is wrought out oni
90 a fire. After man has been in b
the ness activity ten, twenty, thirty ye
.25. his energy is not to be measured
of weights CT plummets or ladders. u
N. is no height it cannot scale, and {
is no depth it cannot fathom, and {
c., 10 M obstacle it cannot thrash
b. Now, my brother, why did GOD
ears vou in that school of energya w
leg, merely that you might be yardsti'
ent. measure cloth or a steelyard to "
the fiour2 Was it merely that you III
3 - be better qualified to chatter and
ele7 No. God placed you In