Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-24
RELIGION IN BUSINESS.
DR.. TALNlACE BELIEVES IN TRADE
AND IN HONEST TRADERS.

; BROOKLYN, Dec 2O.-Any person seeking
the secret of Dr. Tamage's marvellous pop
ularity with the millions of sermon hear
ers and sermon readers may find a clew to
it in the sermon he preached at the Taber-
nacle this morning. 1t has nothing to do
with abstruse doctrines, but gives n clear
view of W hat may be termed applied Chris
tianity. His text was Proverbs iii, 6, I'm
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 prom
Use to all persons in any kind of honest
business.
There is no war between religion and
business, between ledgers and Bibles, be-
tween churches and counting houses. On
the contrary, religion accclerates business
sharpens mems wits, sweetens accrbity of
disposition, fillips the blood of phleGm&t.
les and throws more velocity into the
wheels of hard work. 1t gives better bal
ancng to the Judgment, more strength to
the will, more muscle to industry and
throws into enthusiasm more consccrated
fire. You cannot in all the round of he
ness has been despoilcd Ivy religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups-producers, manufacturers,
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 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
on he Xulu battlefield because the strap
fastening the slirrup to the saddle broke
as he clung to it, his comrades all escaping,
but he falling under the larccs Of the
savages, Il great many people blamed the
empress for allowing her son TO 20 forth
into that battlefield, and others bl"-ned the
English government for accepting the
sacrifice and others blamed the XuluS for
their barbarism. The one most to blame
was the harnes, maker who fashioned that
strap of the atirrup ont of shuddy and i'm
perfect 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 independent OF harness maker.
High, low, wise, ignorant, you in one
occupation, ! in another, all bound to-
gether. so that there must be one contin-
uous 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 annoyauces
and per'urbatons rs we'll as percentages
and dividends, if you are pursued from
Monday morning until Saturday night,
aud from January to January by inexo-
phlo oi,li0ntion and dirty thrn Won AFRO -
husine.. man or Won are a hu.i,,es. ,vom-
An. and my subiect is aruronriate tn vour
ease
Irrcu FXco,r1I-u OK p1.srvres MY
We are under the immersion that tbo
rroil and tu,t of buejness life orc n nri.on
into which - man i Thrust ar tLat i f.. nm
uneounl strife where unnrmcd n ,,,,u ,,ces
forth 10 contend sh,Il show yuu That
busiue.s | fe was intended of God for ,,ra,,d
and rlurious education and disrinliur and
if shall be helped to say wbat want ia
say. | shall rDb some Of the wrinkles Of
care out of YOUR brow and unstran some of
the burdens from YOUR back. am NOT
talking to an abstraction. Vbouph never
having been in business life. l know all
about business men.
In nv first parish at Belleville. New .Jer-
sew. ten miles from New York. a large nor
tiOu of nv audience WAS made nm of New
York merchants. Then went 10 Syra.
cuse. n Mace of intense commercial ocfivi.
ty. and then | went to pbiladelnhia and
lived long among the merchants of that
city. than whom there are no better men
on earth and for more than t,ventv-two
wears | have stood in this presence, sab
bath by Sabbath. preachiu. to audiences
the majority of whom are business men
and business women. IT, is not an nh.trnc-
tion to which | speak. but reality with
which am we'll acquainted
In the first place / remark that husiness
life was intended as n school of energy
Cod piyes us n certain aroount of raw ma,
terial ont of which we are 10 bew orr char.
acter. Our faculties are TO he reset
rounded and sharnened nm Our vounI
folks having graduated from school or col
lege need a HIGHER education that which
the rasninp and collision of evervd.v Iifa
alone can effect. Energy is wronobt ont
only in a fire. After a man has hean il
business activity ten. twenty thirty vears
bisencrrv is nor to he ueasnred hv yy,i,,bte
or plummets or ladders There il M
baigbt II cannot scala and tbera /. mo