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

knowledge Him and He shall direct thy
paths"
"A promise good enough for many
kinds of life, but not for my kind OF
life," says some business man; "the
law of supply and demand controls the
business world" But have reason to
say that it is promise to all persons in
any kind of honest business
There is no war between religion
and business, between ledgers and Ri.
bles between churches and counting
houses. On the contrary, religion ac-
CELEBRATES 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 industry, and throws
into enthusiasm a more consecrated
FIRE. You can not in all the round of
the world show me a man whose hon
est business has been despoiled by re-
ligion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups-producers, manufactur-
ers, traders. Producers, such as far
/, mers and miners; manufacturers, such
rs those who turn corn into food, and
wool and fax into apparel traders,
such as make profit out of the trans
fer and exchange of all that which is
produced and manufactured. A BUSH
ness man may belong to one or all of
these classes, and not one is independ-
Of oil hn ,N,.ir inn
perial OF France fell on the Zulu battle
field, because the strap fasten-
ing 1.-The stirrup to the saddle broke
as he chung to it, his comrades
all escaping, but he falling under the
lances Of the savages great many
people blamed the empress for allowing
her son to go forth into that battle
field, and others blamed the English
government for accepting the sacrifice,
and others blamed the Zulus for their
barbarism. The one most to blame was
the harncss-maker who fashioned that
strap of the stirrup out of shoddy and
imperfect material, as it was found to
have been afterward. If the strap had
beld the prince imperial would prob
billy have been alive to-day. But the
strap broke. No prince indepen-
dent of a harness maker! High, low,
wise, ignorant. you in one occupation,
l in another, all bound together So
that there must be one continuous line
of sympathy with each others work.
But whatever your vocation, II you
have a multiplicity of engagements, if
into your life there come losses and an
noyances and pcrturbations as we'll as
percentages and dividends, if you are
pursued from Monday morning until
Saturday night, and from January to
January by memorable obligation and
duty, then you are n business man, or
you are a business woman and my sub
ject is appropriate to your case
We are under the impression that the
MOL and tug of business life are pris-
on into which man is thrust, or that
it is an unequal strife where unarmed
man goes forth to contend. l shall
show you that business life was intend
ed of God for grand and glorious edu'
cation 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 been in business
life, know all about business life In
my first parish at Belleville, n. D., ten
miles from New York, large portion
of my audience was made up OF New
York merchants Then went to SYRIA
cuse. a place of intense commercial ac-
tivity, and then went to Philadelphia,
and lived long among the merchants OF
that city, than whom there are no bet
ter men on earth, and for more than
twenty-five years have stood in this
presence, Sabbath by Sabbath, preach
ing TO audiences, the ajority OF whom
are business men and business women.
1t is not an abstraction to which l
speak, but a reality with which am
we'll acquainted.
In the first place / remark that ousi-
ness life was intended as a school OF
energy. God gives us a certain amount
OF raw material, out of which we are 10
hew our character. Our faculties are
to be reset rounded and sharpened up
Our young folks having graduated from
school or college need higher educa'
ton, that which the rasping and col
hsion of everyday life alone can affect
Energy is wrought out only in ire
After q man has been in business ac'
tivity ten, twenty, thirty years ms
energy is not TO be measured by
weights or plummets or ladders There
Is no height it can not scale, and there
Is no depth it can not fathom, and there
is no obstacle it can not thrash.
Now, my brother, why did God put
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