The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-01-22

.h0 riCnest smear OF every harvest He
demands the best men of every gener-
alton. A cause in which Newton and
Locke and Mansfield toiled you and |
can afford to toll IN
On, for fewer idlers in the cause of
Christ, and for more Christian workers,
men who shall take the same energy
that from Monday morning TO Saturday
night they put forth for the achieve.
ment OF n livelihood or the gathering
of fortune, and on Sabbath days put
1t forth to the advantage Of Christ's
Kingdom and the bringing Of men 10
the Lord. DIR. Duff, of South Wales,
saw man who had inherited a great
fortune. The man said to him: II had
to be very busy for many years Of my
life getting my livelihood. After
awhile this fortune came TO me, and
there has been no necessity that toll
since. There came time when / said
to myself, Shall l now retire from
business, or shall go on and serve the
Lord in my worldly occupation?'"
He said: III resolved on the latter,
| and ! have been more industrious in
commercial circles than ever was be-
fore, and Stree that hour have never
kept farthing for myself. l have
| thought it to be greater shame If |
| couldn't toll as hard for the Lord as
had for myself, and all the products of
my factories and my commercial estab-
ishments to the last farthing have gone
for the building of Christian institutions
and supporting the Church of God"
Oh, if the same energy put forth for the
world could be put forth for God! Oh,
if a thousand men lin these great cities
who have achieved fortune could see
it their duty to do all business for Christ
and the alienation of the worlds suf-
tering
Again, remark, that business life is
school of patience. in your every
day life how many things to annoy and
disquiet. Bargains will rub. CONNER
cial men will sometimes fail to meet
their engagements. Cash book and
money drawer will sometimes quarrel.
Goods ordered for n special emergency
will come too late, or be damaged in
the transportation People intending
no harm will go shopping without any
Intention of purchase, overturning
great stocks of goods, and insisting
that you break the dozen. More coun-
terfcit bills in the drawer. More
debts to pay for other peo-
pie. Ilorc meanness on the part
of partners in business. Annoyance
after annoyance, vexatlon after veXa-
ton, and loss after loss. All that pro-
cess will either break you down or
brighten you up 1t is school of pa
thence. You have known men under
the process to become petulant and
cholcric, and angry, and pugnacious,
and cross, and sour, and queer, and
they lost their customers, and their
name became a dctestation. ether
men have been frightened up under
the process They were toughened by
the exposure. They were like rocks,
all the more valuable for being blasted.
At first they had to choke down their
wrath, at first they had to bite their
lip at first they thought of some singing
retort they would like to make; but they
conquered their impatience.
They have kind words now for sarcas-
tic filings. They have gentle behavior
now for unmannerly customers. They
are patient now with unfortunate debt
ors. They have Christian reflections
now for sudden reverses. Where did
they get that patience? BY hearing
minister preach concerning it on Sab
bath? Oh, no. They got it just where
you will get tiff you ever get it at all
selling hats, discounting notes, turn
ing banisters, blowing corn, thinning
roofs, pleading causes. Oh, that amid
the turmoil and anxiety and exaspera'
ton Of everyday life you might hear
the voice of God saying: "In patience
possess your soul Let patience have
her perfect work."
Iremark again that business life is a
school of useful knowledge. Merchants
do not read many books and do not
study lexicons. They do not dive into
profounds of learning, and yet nearly
all through their occupations come TO
understand questions OF finance, and
politics, and geography, and juris-
prudence, and ethics. Business is Sc
we're schoolmistress. II pupils will not
learn, she strikes them over the head
and the heart with severe losses. You
put SIS, 600 into an enterprise. 1t is all
gone. "You say, THAT is a dead loss"
Oh, no. You are paying the schooling
That was only tuition, very large tut
toni told you it was a severe school
mistress-but it was worth it You
learned things under that process you
would not have learned in any other
way.
Traders in grain come to know some
thing about foreign harvests; traders
in fruit come to know something about
the prospect of tropical production
.an,,fn ntnrers of American goods come