The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-12-25
THETABERNACLEPULPIT
BUSINESS LIFE A SCHOOL FOR GOOD
TO THOSE WHO so Will IT.

lions of Trade-How the Dishonesty of
One Man May Destroy others-How
business Men May He Improved.
BROOKLYN, Dec, 20.-Any person
seeking the secret of DR.. Talmage's
marvellous popularity with the millions
bf sermon hearers and sermon readers
may find clew to it in the sermon he
preached at the Tabernacle this morn
ing. 1t has nothing TO do with alb
struse doctrines, but gives clear view
of what may be termed applied Chris
tianity. His text was Proverbs iii, G,
''In 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 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 counting houses
On the contrary, religion accelerates
business, sharpens mems wits, sweetens
acerbity of disposition, fillips the blood
of phlegmatics and throws more veloc-
ity into the wheels of hard work. 1t
gives better balancing to the judgment,
more strength to the will, more muscle
to industry and throws into enthusiasm
q more concentrated fire. You cannot
in all the round of the world show me
a man whose honest business has been
despoiled by religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups-producers, manufactur-
ers, 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 pro-
duced and manufactured. A business
man may belong to any one or all OF
these classes, and not one is independ-
ent 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 chung to it, his
comrades all escaping, but he falling
under the lances of the savages, a great
many people blamed the empress for
allowing her son to go forth into that
battlefield, and others blamed the Eng
lsh government for accepting the sacri-
flee, 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 imperfect material, as it
was found to have been afterward. Ii
the strap had held, the prince imperial
would probably have been alive today.
But the strap broke. No prince indie
pendent of harness makerl
High, low, wise, ignorant, you in one
occupation, in another, all bound to-
gether. So that there must be one con-
tinuous line of sympathy with each
others work But whatever your vo-
cation, if you have multiplicity of en-
gagements, if into your life there come
losses and annoyances and perturba-
lions as well as percentages and divi-
dends, if you are pursued from Monday
morning until Saturday night, and
from January to January by inexora
Bile obligation and duty, then you are
business man or you are business
woman, and my subject is appropriate
to your case.
Weare under the impression that the
MOL and tug of business life are prison
into which man is thrust or that it il
an unequal strife where unarlned mar
goes forth to contend | shall show
you that business life was intended o
God for grand and glorious education
and discipline, and if shall be helped
to say what / want to say, l shall rul
some of the wrinkles of care out o
your brow and unstrap some of thu
burdens from your back. | am no
talking to an abstraction. Though
never having been in business life,
know all about business men.
In my first parish at Bellyille, New
Jersey, ten miles from New York,
large portion of my audience was mad
up of New York merchants. Then
went to Syracuse, place of intens
commercial activity, and then wen
to Philadelphia and lived long anon
the merchants of that city, than WHOM
! there are no better men on earth, an
for more than twenty-five years hav
stood in this presence, Sabbath by SAX
bath, preaching to audiences, the ma
iority of whom are business men an
business women 1t is not an abstrat
ton to which | speak, but a realit
with which am well acquainted.
THE CULTIVATION OF ENERGY.
In the first place, 1 remark that bus
ness life was intended as a school of Ell
ergy. God gives us certain amour
of raw material out of which we are
hew our character Our faculties al
to be reset, rounded and sharpened VI
Our young folks having graduate
from school or college need a high'
education, that which the rasping an
collision of everyday life alone ca
EFFECT. Energy is wrought out only
a fire. After man has been in bus
ness activity ten, twenty, thirty year
his energy is not to be measured /
7 weights or plummets or ladders. The
4 is no height it cannot scale, and the
is no depth it cannot fathom, and the
!. is no obstacle it cannot thrash.
3 Now, my brother, why did God p
lyou in. that school of energy2 Was
merely that you might be a yardstick
measure cloth or a steelyard to wei
II |hour2 Was it merely that you mig
i lbe better qualified to chatter and hi
gle2 No. God placed You in tn
school Of energy tnat you might be d.
{ veloped for Christian work If the ur
developed talents in the Christia
churches of today were brought OF
i and thoroughly harnessed, believe til
whole world would be converted
Cd IL, ehart ti,na rTbara G