The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-21
TALMAGE TALKS ON LIFE
HUMAN EXPERIENCE ONLY A
SCHOOL.

The Three Groups Into Which tae
Industrial Glasses Are Divided ana
the Lessons to Be Learned From
Them.
BROOKLYN. N. T., Dec. 20.-Any person
seeking the eecret OF DR.. Talmages marvel-
Gus popularity with the millions Of sermons
hearers and sermon-readers may find clew
TO It In the sermon he preached at the
Tabernacle this morning. It has nothing
to do with abstruss doctrines, but gives o
clear view Of what may be termed applied
Christianity. His text was Prov. iii, o:
"ln all thy ways acknowledge him and be
shall direct thy paths.n
"A promise good enough for many kinds
OF life. but not for my kind Of life." says
some business man. "the law OF supply aid
demand controls the business world" But
have reason 60 say that it is a promise to
all persons Ia 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 accelerates business.
sharpens mems wits. sweetens aoerbity OF
disposition, hllips the blood Of phlegmatics,
| and throws more velocity into the wheels OF
| hard work. II gives better balancing to
tho Judgment, more strength to the will.
more muscle to industry, and throws into
| enthusiasm more consecFated fire. You
cannot In all the round OF the world show
me man whose honest business has been
despoiled by religion.
Tho industrial classes are divided into
three groups: producers, manufacturers,
traders. Producers, such ns farmers and
miners. Manufacturers, such as those who
turn corn into food. and wool and fax into
| apparel. Traders, such as make profit
Of hVsara ffsv-a aK.A
which is produced and manufactured. A
business man may belong to any one or all
of these classes, aud not one Is independent
OF any other. When the prince imperial
Of France fell on the Zulu battlefield
because the strap fastening the stIrruu
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 battle field, and
others blamed the English government for
accepting the sacrifice and others blamed
the Hulus for their barharism. The ono
most to blame was the harnessmaker who
fashioned that strap Of the stirrup out Of
shoddy and imperfect material as 10 was
found to have been afterward. Ii the strap
had held tho prinoe imperial would
probably have been alive to-day. But the
strap broke. No prince independent of q
hsrnessmakeri High, low, wise, ignorant.
you IN one occupation, / In another, all
bound together. So that there must be one
continuous line OF sympathy with each
| others work. But whatever your vocation,
| II You have multiplicity Of engagements,
II into your life there come losses and an
noyancos and perturbations as well as per
centages and dividends, II you are pursued
from Monday morning until Saturday
night, and from January to January by in.
exorable obligation and duty, then you are
n Isaai aiv.aa
my subject Is appropriate to your case
We are under the impression that the
moil and tug OF business life are a prison
into which man is thrust, or that 1t is au
unequal strife where unarmed a man goes
forth 20 contend. l shall show you thai
business life was intended of God for grand
and glorious education and discipline, and
IL shall be helped TO say what want "a
say shall rub some Of the wrinkles of care
out OF your brow and unstrap some of the
burdens from your back. / am not talk.
ing TO an abstraction. Though never
having been Ia business life
l know all about business men.
In my first parish at Beleville
New Jersey ten miles from New York,
large portion of my audience was made IN
of New York merchants. Then / went te
Syracuse. place Of intense commercial
activity, and then went Co Philadelphia.
and lived long among the merchants of thai
city, than whom there are no better men on
earth, and for more than twenty-five years
l have stood in this presence. sabbath by
Sabbath, preaching to audiences, the
majority OF whom are business men and
business women. Il Is not an abstraction
TO which speak, bus reality with which
am well acquainted.
In the first place, l remark that business
life was intended as a school OF energy
God gives us a certain amount Of raw
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character. Our faculties are to be reset
round aud sharpened up. Our young folks
having graduated from school or college
need higher education, that which tbs
rasping and collision of everyday life
alone can effect. Energy is wrought out
only in fire. After n man has besn in
business activity ten, twenty, thirty year.
or plummets or ladders. There is no hight
1t cannot scale, and there is no depth 1t can.
not fathom, and there Is no obstacle it cam
not thrash.
Now, my brother. why did God put you
In that school OF energya Was it merely
that you might be a yardstick to measure
cloth. or steelyard to weigh fourl Was
1t merely that you might be better qualified
to chatter and higglei No. God placed you
in that school of energy that you might be
developed for Christian work. II the unde.
veloped talents in the Christian churches OF
to-day were brought out and thoroughly
hnrnessed, 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 hands. Now. God do.
mands the best lamb out of every
flock. He demands the richest sheaf Of
every harvest He demands the best men
OF every generation. A cause in which
Newton and Locke and Mansfield toiled
you and I can afford TO toll in.
o. for fOwer iders in the cause or Christ
and for more Christian workers, men who
shall take the same energy that from Mon
day morning TO Saturday night they put
forth for the achievement Of a livelihood or
the gathering of a fortune, and on Sabbath
days put il forth to the advantage
Of Christ's kingdom and the bring.
ing Of men to the Lord. DIR. Duff,
in south Wales, saw a man who
had inherited great fortune. The man
said to him. al had to be very busy for
many years of my life getting my liyeli-
hood. After awhile this fortune came to
me, aud there has been no necessity that ]
toll since There came time when said
to myself, shall ] now retire from business,
or shall 90 on and serve the Lord In my
worldly occupationp" He said; II re.
solved on the latter and have been more
industrious IN commercial circles than !
ever was before, and since that
hour I have never kept farthing
for myself. 1 have thought IL to be
great shame If couldn'b toll as hard fof
a., ,>r,i ne I had toflad for ff,vaalf and ali