The Globe-republican., 1892-01-07

does not make their knees knock to
getner, and it does not make their teeth
chatter to read ''as the partridge sittett
on eggs and hatcheth them not, SO he
that getteth riches and not by right
shall leave them in the midst of his days
and at his end shall be q FOOL
''Oh, what school of integrity busi-
ness life is! If you have eyer been
tempted to let your integrity cringe be-
fore present advantage, If you have ever
weakened up in some embarrassment anG
said. ''Now, I'll step a little aside from
the right path and no one will know it.
and I'll come all right again: it is only
once" Oh, that only once has ruined
tens of thousands of Elen for this life
and blasted their souls for eternity. II
is tremendous school, business life, a
school of integrity. A merchant in Liver.
pool got five pound Bank of England
note and holding it up toward the light
he saw some interlineations in wha:
seemed red ink.
He finally deciphered the letters, and
found out that the writing had been
made by slave in AlgierS, saying in
substance, ''Whoever gets this banknote
will please to inform my brother, John
Dean, living near Carlisle. that l am a
slave of the bey of Algiers.'' The mer-
chant sent word, employed government
officers and found who this man was
spoken OF in this bank bill. After awhile
the man was rescued, who for eleven
years had been slave of the bey of
Algiers. He was Immediately emanci-
pated, but was so worn out by hardship
and exposure he soon after died. Oh, If
some of the bank bills that come through
your hands could tell all the scenes
through which they have passed, it would
be tragedy ecllpsing any drama of
Shakespeare, mightier than King Lear
or Macbeth. 80
AS 60 on in this subject l am i'm
pressed with the Importance of our hav-
ing more sympathy with business men.
Is it not a shame that we in our pulpits
do not Oftener preach about their strug-
giles, their trials and their temptations?
Men who toll with the hand are not apt
to be very sympathetic with those who
toll with the brain. The farmers who
wheat sometimes are tempted to think
that grain merchants have an easy time
and get their profits without giving any
equivalent.
Plato and Aristotle were so opposed to
merchandise that they declared COM
merce to be the curse of the nations, and
they advised that cities be built at least
ten miles from the seacoast. But you
and know that there are no more in
dustriOus or high-minded men than those
who move in the world of traffic. Some
of them carry burdens heavier than hods
of brick, and are exposed to sharper
things than the east wind, and climb
higher than the Alps or
Himalayas, and if they are faithful
Christ will at last say to them: "Weil
done, good and faithful! servant; thou
hast been faithful over a few things,
will make thee ruler over many things.
Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord"
We talk about the martyrs of the
Piedmont Valley, and the martyrs among
the Scotch highlands, and the martyrs at
Oxford. There are just as certainly
martyrs of Wall street and State street,
martyrs of Fulton street and Broadway,
martyrs of Atlantic street and Chestnut
street. going through hotter fires, or
having their necks under sharper axes.
Then it behOOves US to Danish all fret
true. We look back to the time when
We were at school. and we remember the
rod and we remember the hard tasks and
we complained grievously, but now we
see it was for the best.
Business life IS school, and the tasks
are hard, and the chastisements. some
times are very grievOus; but do not COM
plain. The hotter the fire the better the
refining. There are men before the
throne of God this day in triumph who
on earth were cheated out OF everything
but their coffin. They were sued, they
were imprisoned for debt, they were
throttled by constables with a whole
pack OF writs, they were sold out by the
sheriffs, they bad no compromise with
their creditors, they had to make as
signments. Their dying hours were an
nOyed by the sharp ringing of the door
bell by some impetuOus creditor who
thought it was outrageous and impudent
that a man should dare to die before
he paid the last three shillings and six
pence.
Commercial ethics, business honOrs,
laws Of trade, are all very good in their
place, but there are times when you
want something more than this world
will give you. You want God. For the
ack of Him some that you have known
nave consented to forge, and to maltreat
heir friends, and to curse their enemies.
Ind their names have been bulletined
among scoundrels, and they have been
ground to powder, while other men you
nave known have gone through the very
'ame stress Of circumstances triumphant.
There are men here to-day who fought |
he battle and gained the victory. People |
,ome out of that mans store, and they
ay, ''Weil, if there ever was Christian |
raider that is one" Integrity kept the |
,ooks and waited On the customers.
Light from the eternal world flashed |
through the show windows. Love to |
iod and love to man presided in that |
torehouse.
Some day people going through the |
treet notice that the shutters of the |
window are not down. The bar of that |
tore door has not been removed. Peo-
lie say, ''What is the matter?' You
o up little closer, and you see writ
en- on the card of that window, CLOSED
n account of the death of one CT the