Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-26
RBE. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's sun
day Sermon.
Subject; Religion and Business.

a Poii 50 Boo1 enough Tor many kinds
OF hte, but not for my kind OF life. I. saws
some business man; 1.-THE law Of suDnly AMI
demand controls the business world . But
nave reason to say that it is a promise to
all persons in any kind OF honest business.
There IS no war between religion and bust
ness, between ledgerS AM Bibles. between
churches and counting houses. On the con-
trary religion accelerates business. sharpens
mems wits, sweetens acerbity OF disposition.
fillips the blood of phiegmatics AMI throws
more velocity into the wheels of hard wo-l,
Ii gives better balancing TO the III iyrnsat.
more strength to the viii, more muscle ID
/ industry and throws into enthusiasm q NOR.
eonsecrated IRE fou cannot in all the round
OF the worlt show me q man whose honest
business has been desooiled by religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups-produeers, manufacturers
traders. Producers such as farmers ami
miners. Manufacturers, suca as taose who
turn corn into food. and wool ani fax into
apparel Traders, such as make profit out
Oh me transfer aud exchange OF ali that
which Is produced AMI manufactured
business man may belong 70 any oae or all
OF these Classes, and not one is independent
VI any other
When the prince imperial OF France fell on
| the Zulu battlefield because the strao fasten-
ins the stirrup to the saddle broke as he
| chung 10 it. his comrades a Ii ESCAPING tuk he
| falling under the lances OF the savages a
great many people hiamei the empress for
| allowing her son to so forth into that battle
field, and Others blamed the English Govern
Dlent for accepting the sacrifice. and Others
blamed the Zuiusfor their barbarism. Ths
one niost to blame was the harness maker
VINO fashioned that strap OF the stirrup ont
OF sloddy and imperfect material as il was
found to have bern afteFwarI Ii tne stran
! ha-i held. the prince imperial would probably
nave been alive to-day But the strap broke
No prince independent of a harness maker
High, low, wise, ignorant yea in one
I occupation, in another, all bound together.
GO mat there must be one continuous line OF
! sympathy with each Others work But
Whatever Your vocation, ii YOU have
multiplicity of engagements, if into your
lie there come losses aud aunnyances and
i parturbations as well as percentages and
I dividends, il You are pursued from Monday
1 morning until Saturday night and from
January to January bv inexorab!e obliga-
/ ton and duty, then you are business man
or you are business woman, and my sub
| Ject is appropriate to your case.
w are under the impression that the moil
and tug OF business life ara a prison int5
whlch man is thrust, Or that it is an IN.
\ equal strife where uHai.niei a man goes forth
1 10 contend l shall show YOU that business
/ life was intended Of God for grand and glori-
! Gus education and disc pine and if shall be
I helped to say what want to say, | shall rub
! some OF tbs wrinkles of care out OF your
brow aud unStrap some OF the burdens from
/ your back. am not talking to an abstrac-
ton. Though never have been in business
/ life, know all about business men.
4 In my first parish at Belleville New Jer-
I sey, ten miles from New York, "a large por-
/ ton OF my audience was made up of New
/ York merchants I'll IN wens to Syracuse
I aplaee of intense com nercial activity AMI
! then went to Philadelphia and lived long
among this merchants of that city. than
/ whom there are no better men on earth, AMI
/ for more than twenty-five years have
stood in this presence, Sabbath By Sabbath,
! preaching to audiences, the majority of
! whom are business men and business wonea
: 1t IS not an abstraction TO which SD AK but
I reality with which am well acquainted.
( In ;he first pace, ! ranlr.1 that busin sss
/ life was intended as school OF energy.
/ taoi gives Us Il certain amouat of raw ma
/ terial out OF which we are TO hew our char
acter. Our faculties are to he reset, rounded
/ and sharpened Gp. Our young folks having
+ graduated from school OF college, need a
! higher education, that which the rasoinr
( and collision Of everyday life alone can eff
/ iect. Energy is wrought ou7 only 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 it cannot fathoal, aud
there is no obstacle it cannot thrash
! Now, my brother, why did God put You in
| that school of energy Was it merely that
! you might he a yarosticK to measure cloth
1 or a steelyard to weigh -four? Was it merely
that You might be better qualified to chatter
! and higgle? No. God p.ace1 you in that
school of energy that you might be devei-
/ oped for Christian work. Ii the undet eioped
| talents III the Christian churches of to-day
/ were brought out ami thoroughly harnassad,
/ believe tine whole world would be converted
/ 10 Goi III short time. There are 50 many
/ deep streams tiat are turninyn no mill Wheels
1 and that are harnessed to no factory bands.
I Now God demands the best lamb out of every
| flock. Hedemands the richest sheat of every
/ harvest He demands the best man OF every
I generation. A cause in which Newton and
| Locke and Mansfield toiled you AMI cap
/ afford to toll IN.
Oh, for fewer idlers in the cause OF Christ
! and for more Christian workers-rnen who
! shall take the same energy that from Mon
/ day morning TO Saturday night tnay put
/ forth fer the achievement OF livelihood or
the gathering of fortune, and on Sabbath
days put it forth to the advantage OF Chrlst's
kingdom and the bringing of men to the
| Lor'. Dr. Duff, in South Wales. saw a man
who had inherited great fortuna The man
said to hlm; Il had to be very busy for
many years ofmy life getting my livelihood
/ Alter awhile my fortune came to me, and
/ there has been no necessity that toll since
! There came time when | said to myself
| Shall now retire from business, or shall
20 on and serve the ord in my worldly oecu.
nationa" He said. II resolved on fha latter
and have been more industrious in com
nercial circles than ever was before and
since that hour have never kept farthi1g
for myself nave thought it to be a great
shame il couldn't toll as hard for tho Lori
as l had toiied for myself, and all the pro-
= -.
establishments TO the last farthing have cone
for The fgli,diny of Christian institutions and
! mo oiti-,e tha Ghurc', Of GoIn m II the
same energy nut forth for The world could
he mt forth for Coll on if Thousand
men in these great cities waa have achieved
fortune could see il their duty to do alt
buineSS for Chr;st and the alienation Of the
world's suffering.
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a. ,,uretass cyerturning ,-,.snf stocSs nj
gy>ods and insisting that Won. break tho l1oz.,
More bad debts on the leieer More connter.
1elt bills in the drawer More debts 10 nav
for other people. More meannesses on tha
part of partners i'm hnsinass Ar,, "a ene
after ANNOYANCE. yexation afttar ra1a ~
AMI loss after loss. '''9-'
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down or brighten Won nm II is a schaoI IS os
patience. You have known men n Iri,D9t M Va
process to become petllant and choler;c al ia
angry and puznacious ana cross and ea,r
an queer. ami they loss thair c,,sto,,ars
and tneir name hac,,I,a a Iot,-.a+;, ~
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