Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-12-31
RELIGION In BUSINESS
nR. TALMAeE BELIEVES IN TRADE
AND IN HONEST TRADERS.

Mutually Dependent on Each Others
HoBssty-Aneoting Case Of the French
Prince Imperial.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 20-Any person seeking
Abe secret Of DR.. Talmsge's marvellous pop
uiarity with the millions Of sermon hear
ems and sermon readers may ind clew to
It in the sermon he preached at the Taber-
nacle this morning It has nothing to do
with abstruse doctrines, but gives q clear
view Of what may be termed applied Chris
tianity. His text was Proverbs i'll, 9, "In
all thy ways acknowledge him and heshall
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
ise 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 accelerates business,
sharpens mems WITS sweetens acerbity of
disposition, fillips the blood of phlegmat
les and throws more velocity into the
wheels Of hard work. 1t gives better bal
ancing to the Judgment, more strength to
the will, more muscle to industry and
throws into enthusiasm more consecrated
fire. You cannot in all the round of the
world show me a man whose honest bust.
ness has been despoied by religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
nfa aatt
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 the Zulu battlefield because the strap
fastening the stirrup 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 battlefield, and others blamed the
English government for accepting the
sacrifice, and others blamed the Zulus for
their barbarism. The one most to blame
was the harness maker who fashioned that
strap OF the stirrup out of shoddy 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.
Aous line Of sympathy with each others
work. But whatever your vocation, IL you
have a multiplicity of engagements, II into
your life there come losses and annoyances
and perturbations as well as percentages
and dividends, If you are pursued from
Monday morning until Saturday night
and from January to January by inexor
able obligation and duty, then you are 8
business man or you are business won
an, and my subject is appropriate to your
case.
HIGH ENCoMIUM ON BUSINESS MEN.
We are under the impression that thu
moil and tug of business life are prison
into which man is thrust, or that it is al
unequal strife where unarmed man goe.
forth to contend. shall show you tha
business life was intended of God for granl
and glorious education and discipline, ant
II l shall be helped to say what want t,
say, shall rub some of the wrinkles o
care out of your brow and unstrap some o
the burdens from your back am no
talking to an abstraction. Though neve
having been in business Efe, ] know al
about business men.
In my first parish at Belleville, New Je1
sey, ten miles from New York. a large POI
tion of my audience was made up of New
York merchants. Then / went to Syra
cuse, a place of intense commercial activi
&y, and then | went to Philadelphia an
lived long among the merchants of tina
city, than whom there are no better me-
en- earth, and for more than twenty-tw
years have stood in this presence. SAT
bath by Sabbath, preaching to audiences
the majority of whom are business me
and business women. 1t is not an abstraG
tion to which speak, but reality wit
which am well acquainted.
In the first place, remark that bushes
Mfe was intended as a school of energy
God gives us a certain amount of raw mas
,terial out of which we are to hew our chal
acter Our faculties are to be reset
rounded and sharpened up. Our youn
folks having graduated from school or CO
aege, need a higher education, that whic
the rasping and collision of everyday LID
alone can effect Energy is wrought ou
emily in fire. After a man has been
business activity ten, twenty, thirty year
his energy Is not to be measured by weight
or plummets or ladders There is n
height it cannot scale, and there is n
depth it cannot fathom. and there is u
obstacle it cannot thrash.
Now. my brother, why did God put 20
In that school of energyf Was it merel
shat you might be yardstick to measur
cloth or a steelyard to weigh fourf Ws
1t merely that you might be better quail
fed to chatter and higgleS No. God place
you in that school of energy that 20
might be developed for Christian work
the undeveloped talents in the Christia
churches of today were brought out an
thoroughly harnessed, believe the whol
world would be converted to God in
abort time. There are SO many dee
streams that are turning no mill wheel
and that are harnassed to no factory bandi
Now, God demands the best lamb out {
svery flock. He demands the richest shes
of every harvest. He demands the be-
men of every generation. A cause in whic
Newton and Locke and Mansfield toile
you and can afford to toll in.
WORK FOR GOD AS WELL AS FOR SELF.
Oh. for fewer idlers in the cause {
Christ and for more Christian workers
men who shall take the same energy ths
from Monday morning to Saturday nigl
hhey put forth for the achievement of
livelihood or the gathering of fortun
and on Sabbath days put it forth to the az
vantage of Christ's kingdom and tt
bringing of men to the Lord. DR.. Duff, i
South Wales, saw a man who had inheri
ed great fortune. The man said to hin
81 had to be very busy for many years
my life getting my livelihood. After awhi
&his fortune came to me, and there hs