Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-01-01

harper things than the east wind, and climf
| mountains higher than the Alps or Hima,
| layaS aud If they are faithful Christ viii
| a; last say to them: "Well done, good and
faithful servant; thou hast been faithful
over few things, l will make thee rules
over many things. Enter thou into the joJ
| Of thy Lord"
We talk about the martyrs of the Pied
mont valley, and the martyrs among the
scotch highlands, and the martyrs at Ok
ford. There was Just as certainly martyr1
OF Wall street aud State street, martyrs Of
Fulton street and Broadway, martyrs Of
Atlantic street and Chestnut street. going
through hotter fires, or having their necsf
under sharper axes. Then 1t behooves US to
bauish all fretfulness from our lives il this
subject be 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 grievousIy, but now We
see 1t was for the best. Business life In q
school, and the tasks are hard, and the chas
tlsements sometimes are very grievous but
do not complain. Tbs 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 we're throttled by whole pack
of constables with writs, they were sold Out
ny tLt SlAtII lubY udu no compromise WlUn
their creditors they had to make assign
ments. Their dying hours were annoyed by
the sharp ringing OF the door-bell by some
impetuous creditor who thought 1t was out
rageous and impulent that man should
dare to die before he paid the last three
shllhngs aud sixpence.
l had friend who had many misfortunes
Everything went against him. He had good
business quality and was of the best morals,
hiIt ln of thnaa
have sometimes seen for whom everything
seems to go wrong. His life became to him
plague. When | heard he was dead said,
Good, got rid of tire sheriffsm Who are
those lustrous souls before the thronef When
the question is asked, "Who are theyfn the
angels standing on the sea of glass respond,
THESE are they who came out of great busi-
ness trouble and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb"
y man arose in Fulton street prayer meet
ing and said: 81 wish publicly to acknowi-
edge the goodness of God / was in business
trouble. hal money to pay, and / had no
means to pay it and was in utter despair
OF all human help, and laid this matter be-
fore the Lord, and this morning went down
among some old business friends l had not
seen in many years-just to make a call
and one said to me: why, am SO glad to
see you; walk in. We have some money on
our books due you q good while, but We
didn't know where you were, and therefore
not having your address we could not
send it. We are very glad you have come.'"
And the man standing in Fulton street
prayer meeting said, "Ihe amount they paid
me was six tunes what | owed" You say 1t
only happened so. You are an infdel. God
answered that mans prayer. Oh, you want
business grace.
Commercial ethics, business honors laws
of trade, are all very good In their place,
but there are times when you want some
thing more than this world will give you.
You want God. For the lack Of Him some
that you have known have consented to
forge, and to maltreat their friends, and to
curse their enemies, and their names have
been bulletined among scoundrels and they
have been ground to powder, while other
men you have known have gone through the
very same stress OF circumstances triumph
ant There are men here today who fought
the battle and gained the victory. People
come out of that mans store, and they say,
"Well, if there ever was a Christian trader,
that is one" Integrity kept the books and
waited on customers. Light from the eternal
world flashed through the show windows.
Love to God aud love to man presided In
that storehouse.
Some daY people going through the street
notice that the shutters Of the window are
not down The bar of that store door has
matIerY You 60 up little closer, and you
see written on the card of that window,
CLOSED on account of the death of one Of the
firm That day all through the circles Of
busina IS there is talk about how good man
has gone. Boards of Trade pass resolutions
of sympathy, and churches OF Christ pray,
Help, Lord, for the godly man csased."
He has made his last bargain, he has suf-
fered his last loss, he has ached with the last
fatiu1ta His phildpan will frat the rncnlt of
his industry, or, If through misfortune there
be no dollars left they will have an estateof
prayer and Christian example which will be
everlasting Heavenly rewards for earthly
discipline. There 'the wicked cease from
troubling and the weary are at rest"