Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-21
CHRISTIANITY
OF gHg POPULAR SORT DISCUSSED BY DR..
TALMAGE YESTERDAY.
Religious Training IN the Counting House in the
Factory in the Workshop ByeTywhare-h
Does Net Conflict With Any Mans
Work, But Helps Il On.


Taimage'S marvellous popularity WIN
the millions Of SermOn-hearerS aud ser
mon-readers may fnd a clue TO il In the
sermon he preached at the Tabernacle
this morning. It has nothing To do with
abstruse doctrines but gives clear view
of what may be termed applied Chris
tianity. His text was, Proverbs $50,
'In all thy ways acknowledge him ana
he shall direct thy paths"
"A promise good enough Tor many
kinds of life, but not for my kind OF
life" says some business man, 1.-THE law
OF supply and demand controls the bust
ness 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 contingencies.
On the contrary, religion accelerates
business, sharpens mems wits, sweetenS
acerbity Of disposition, tillips the blood
of phlegmatics, and throws more veloci-
" into the wheels Of hard work. 1t gives
better balancing 10 the Judgment, more
strength 10 the viii. more muscle 10 IN
dustry, and throws into enthusiasm a
more consecrated 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: produc-
ers. manufacturers, traders. PrOduc-
ers. such as farmers and miners. Man
ufacturers, such as those who turn corn
into food, and wool and fax into APP
parel. Traders, such as make profit
out Of the transfer and exchange OF all
that which is produced and manutac-
tured. A business man may belong 10
any one or all Of these classes, and not
one is Independent OF each other. When
the Prince Imperial Of France fell on
the Zulu battlefield because the strap
fastening the Stirrup 70 the saddle broke
as he cluug 10 10, his comrades all eS-
gaping, but he falling under the lanceS
OF the Savages, q great many people
blamed the Empress for allowing her
son TO 20 forth into that battlefield,
and others blamed the English govern
ment FOR accepting the sacrifice,
and others blamed the ZuluS for
their barbariSm. The one most TO
blame was the harneSS-maker who fash
toned that strap OF the stirrup oct Of
ShOddy and imperfect material as IL was
found 10 have been afterward. II the
strap had held, the Prince Imperial
would probably have been alive to-day.
But the strap broke. No prince indie
pendent Of a harneSS-maker, High,
low, wise or ignorant, you ia one occu-
patton, / in another, all bound together.
So that there must be one continuous
line Of sympathy with each others
work. But whatever your vocation, if
You have a multiplicity of engagements,
81 into your life there come losses and
annoyanceS and perturbatiOnS as well as
percentages and dividends, II you are
pursued from Monday morning until
Saturday night, and from January to
January by inexorable obligation and
duty, then you are business man, or
you are q business woman, and my sub
ject is appropriate 70 your case.
IL THE FIRST PLACE
I remark that business life was intend
cd as a school of energy. God gives US
a certain amount OF raw material out of
which We are 20 hew our character.
Our faculties are 20 be reset, rounded
and Sharpened no. Our young folks
having graduated from school or college
need a higher education, that which
the raSping and collision of everyday
life alone can effect. Energy Is wrought
out only in FIRE. After man has
been in business activity ten, twenty,
thirty years his energy is no. TO be
measured by weights or pluTmets or
e. H.. Ia q v4.e
scale, and there is no depth 10 cannot
fatbOm, and there is no obstacle IL can
not thrash.
Again, remark, that business life Is
q SCI DOL OF patience. In your everyday
life how many things TO annoy and 10
diSquiet. Bargains will rub. CONNER
Cial men will sometimes fail 10 meet
their engagements. Cash book and
money drawer will sometimes quarrel.
Goods ordered for a special emergency
will come too late, or be damaged in
the transportation. People intending
no harm will so shopping without any
intention of purchase, oyerturning
great stocks Of goods, and insisting
that you break the dozen. More bad
debts on the ledger. More counterfeit
bills in the drawer. More debts to pay
for other people More WEAKNESSES
Oh the part of partners in business.
Annoyance after annoyance, veXa-
zion after vexation, aud loss after
loss. All that process will either
break you down or brighten you
up. II IS school OF patience. You
have known men under the process TO
become petUlent, and choleric, aud
angry, and pugnGciOUS, and cross, and
sour, and queer, and they lost their Gus
toners, and their name became deteS-
tatiOn. Other men have been bright
ened up under the process. They were
toughened by the exposure. They
were ike rocks, all the more valuable
for being blasted. At first they had TO
choke down their wrath, az first they
had % bite their lip. at first they
thought OF some singing retOrt they
would like 70 make; but they conquered
their impatience. They have kind
words now for sthe sarcastic filings.
They have gentle behavior now for IN
manneriy customers.
THEY ARE PATIENT
now with unfortunate debtors. They
have Christian reflections now for sud
den reverSes. Where did they get that
patience? Where did they get that pa
tience9 by hearing minister preach
concerning it on Sabbath? Oh, no.
They got it just where you will get it
II you ever get il at all-Selling hats,
diScounting notes, turning oaniSters,
ploughing corn, timing roofs, pleading
causes. Oh. that amid the turmoil and
anxiety and evaporation of everyday
life you might hear the voice of God
saying: "In patience possess your soul.
Let patience have her perfect work"