The Globe-republican., 1892-01-07

%, III oil my ways achnOWleOSe dlH
and He shall direct thy paths
"a promise good enough for many
kinds of life, but not for my kind of life, ;
says some busy man; 1.-THE law of supply
and demand controls the bushes:
world" But have reason to say tha,
it is promise to all persons in any kinG
OF honest business.
There is no war between religion anG
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 velocity
into the wheels Of hard work. 1t gives
better balancing to the judgment, more
strength to the will, more muscle to in
dustry and throws into enthusiasm a
more concentrated fire. You cannot
in all the round Of the world show me a
man whose honest business has been de-
spoiled by religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups-producers manufacturers,
traders. Producers. such as farmers
and miners. Manufacturers, such as
those who turn corn into food, and wool
T. and fax into apparel. Traders, such as
make profit out of the transfer and ex-
change Of all that which is produced and
manufactured. A business man may be-
long to any one or all of these classes,
and not one is independent of the other
When the Prince Imperial of France
fell on the Zulu battlefield because the
strap fastening the stirrup to the saddle
broke as he clung 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 9TH
ers blamed the English Government for
accepting the sacrifice, and others
blamed the Zulus for their barbarsm
The one most to blame was the harness
maker who fashioned that strap of the
stirrup out of shoddy and imperfect ma
terial, as it was found to have been after
ward. If the strap had held, the Prince
Imperial would probably have been alive
to-day. But the strap broke. No prince
independent of harness maker!
High, low, wise, ignorant, you in one
occupation, l in another, all bound to-
gether. So that there must be one con-
tinuous line of sympathy with each
others work. But whatever your vOca-
tiOn, il you have multiplicity of en-
gagements, if into your life there comes
losses and annOyances and perturbations
as we'll as percentages and dividends, if
you are pursued from Monday morning
until Saturday night, and from January
to January by inexorable obligation and
duty, then you are business man or
you are a business woman, and my sub
ject is appropriate to yOIr case
We are under the impression that the
moil and tug of business life are prison
into which a man is thrust or that it is
an unequal strife where unarmed a man
goes forth to contend. shall show you
that business life was intended of God
for grand and glorious education and
discipline, and il 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 alb
straction. Though never having been
in business life, | know all about busi-
ness men.
In the first place. l remark that busi-
ness life was intended as a school of en-
ergv. God gives us q certain amount of
raw material out of. which we are to hew
our character. Our faculties are to be
reset, rounded and sharpcned up. Our
young folks having graduated from
tschOOi or college need a higher educa-
Zion, that which the rasping and collision
of everyday life alone can effect. Energy
IS wrought out only in fire. After
jman has been in business activity ten,
twenty, thirty years, his energy is not to
be measured by weights or plummets or
ladders. There is no height it cannot
scale, and there is no depth it cannot
fathOm. and there is no obstacle it can
not thrash.
Now, my brother. why did God put yon
in thatsschool of energy? Was it merely
that you might be ayardstick to measure
cloth or steelyard to weigh flour? Was
it merely that you might be better quail
ned to chatter and higgle? No. God
placed you in that school of energy that |
you might be developed for Christian |
work. II the undeveloped talents in the |
Christian chUches of to-day were |
brought out and thoroughly harnessed, |
believe the whole world would be con-
verted to God in q short time. There |
are so many deep streams that are turn
ing no mill wheels and that are har-
messed to no factory bands. Now, God |
the best lamb out of ever flock.
He demands the richest men of every
generation. A cause in which Newton
and Locke and Mansfield toiled you ana
/ can afford to toll in.
Oh, 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 achievement of
livelihood or the gathering of fortune,
and on Sabbath days put it fourth to the
advantage of Christ's kingdom and the
bringing of men to the Lord.
DR.. Duff. in South Wales, saw a man
who had inherited great fortune The
man said to him: Il 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
that 1 toll since. There came
, time when I said to myself, Shall l
now retire from business, or shall go
3n and serve the Lord in my worldly oc-
:upati0n?" He said: 81 resolved on the
asteR> and have been more industrious
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