The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-01
RELIGION In BUSINESS.
DR.. Talmage Discourses to the
Worlds Workers.
Business Life Only = school-Turning the
Opportunity to the Cause of the
Lord-The Lesson of Busl-
ness Reverses.

Proverbs iii. 6: I'm all thy ways &C.
knowledge Him and He shall direct thy
paths" The discourse was to business
men. He said:
"a promise good enough for many
kinds of life. but not for my kind of
life" says some business men, 1.-The law
of supply and demand controls the bust
ness world" But have reason TO say
/ that it is promise TO all persons in any
kind of honest business.
There is no war betwee9 religion and
business. between ledgers and Bib es
! between churches and counting houses.
! On the contrary, religion accelerates
/ business. sharpens mems wits, sweet
ems acerbity Of disposition, fillips the
| blood of phlegmatics and throws more
! velocity into the wheels of hard work
! II gives better balancing TO the judg-
ment, more strength to the will. more
muscle to industry and throws into en-
thusiasm a more consecrated fire. NOu
cannot in al the round Of the world
show me a man whose honest business
has been detroyed BY religion.
When the prince imperial of France
fell on the Zulu battlefield because the
strap fastening the stirrup to the sad
die broke as he chung To it, his com
rades all escaping, but he falling under
the lances of the savages, a great many
people blamed the empress for allow
ing her son to go forth intO that battle
field. and others blamed the English
government for accepting the sacrifice.
ard others blamed the Zdlus 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 il was found
TO have been afterward. If the strap
had held the prince imperial would
probably have been alive to-day. But
the strap broke. No prince indcpend-
ent of a haruess maker, High. low.
wise. ignorant you in one occupation,
in another, all bound together. So
that there must be one continuous line
of sympathy with each others work.
We are under the impression that the
turmoil and tug Of business life are a
prison. into which a man is thrust, or
that it is an unequal strife where uu-
armed man goes forth to contend.
shall show you that business lie was
intended of God for glori 'us education
and discipline, and If | shall be helped
TO say what want to say, | shall rub
some of the wrinkles of care out of your
brow. and unstrap some of the burdens
from your back. l am not talking to
an abstraction. Though never having
-, I ,T1 l.,
business men.
In the first place remark that bust
ness life was intended a q school OF
energy. God gives us certain amount
of raw material out of which we are TO
hew our character. Our faculties are
10 be reset, rounded and sharpcned up.
Our young folks having graduated
from school or college need higher
education, that which the raspjng and
collision OF every day life alone can eff
feet. Energy is wrought out only in
fire. After man has been in business
activity ten, twenty, thirty years his
energy is not to be measured by weights
or plummits or ladders
Now, my brother, why did God put
you in tina. school Of energy? Was it
merely that Won might be a yardstjcll
to measure cloth, or steelyard to
weigh flour? Was it merely that you
might be better qualified 20 chatter and
higgle? No God placed you in that
school of energy that you might be de-
veIoped for Christian WORK. If the IN
developed talents in the Christian
churches of to-day were brought out
and thoroughly haruesSai. I believe
the whole world would be converted to
God in a short time.
Now God demands the best lamb out
of every flock. He dc randS the richest
sheaf of every harvest. He demands
the best men of every generation. \
cause in which Newton and Locke and
Mansfield toiled you and | can afford
to toll in.
o. for fewer idIers ia the cause of
Christ and for more Christian workers,
men who shall take the same energy
that from Monday morning TO Satur-
day night they put forth for the
achievement of a livelihood or the
gathering of fortune, and on Sabbath
DAYS put it forth to the advantage of
Christ's kingdom and the bringing of
men to the Lord o. if the same energy
pat forth for the world could be put
forth for God, o. if a thousand men in
these great cities who have achieved a
fortune could see it their duty TO do all
business for Christ and the alienation
of the worlds sufferingS
Again, I remark, that business life is
a school of patience. In your every
day life how many things to annoy and
20 disduiet! Bargains will rub Com
mercial men will sometimes fail to
meet their engagements. Cash book
and money drawer will sometimes
quarrel Goods ordered for a special
emergency Will come too late. or be
damaged in the transportation. People
intending no harm will go shopping
without any intention OF purchase, over
turning great stocks of goods and in
sisting that you break the dozen. More
bad debts on the ledger. More cOun-
terfeit bills in the drawer. More debts
to paw for other people More mean
nessess on the part Of partners in bust
ness. Annoyance after annoyance, vex-
alton after vexation and loss after loss
All that process will either break you
down or brighten you up 1t is aschool
Of patience. You have known men I'M
der the process to become petulant, and
choleric. and angry, and pugnacious,
and cross, and sour, and queer, and
thew lost their customers and their
name became 4 detestation- Other
men have been frightened up
under the process. They were tough
ened 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