Connecticut western news., 1893-07-20
RICHES HAVE WINGS.
pR. TALMAGE ON THE CURRENT Fl- Iss. NANClAL DISTURBANCE.

U " pR. TALMAGE ON THE CURRENT Fl- T-s. NANClAL DISTURBANCE. 1asht and Wrong Uses of Money-How
 Man oftsn Mako shipwreok of Character
 In Making Heste to Be Rich-Consola-
 ton to the Unfortul ste.
 BROOKLYN. July 16.-Rev. Dr. Tal- mage has selected as his subject for to- day topic of the greatest interest and hmeIiness-vix, Comfort For Business Men," the text being Isaiah xl, 9, Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem
 What an awful six weeks in commer cial circlesi The crashing of banks from San Francisco to New York and from ocean to ocean. The complete uncer- tainty that has halted all styles of busi- ness for three months and the pressure of the money market for the last year have put all bargain makers at their wits end. Some of the best men in the land have fa1tered-men whose hearts are enlisted in every good work and whose hands have blessed every great charity. The church of God can afford to extend to them her sympathies and plead before heaven with all availing prayer. The schools such men have es- tabhshed, the churches they have built, the asylums and benefcent institutions they have fostered, will be their eulogy long after their banking institutions are forgotten.
 Such men can never fail. They have their treasures in banks thatnev break and will be millionaires forever. The stringency of the money market, am glad to say, begins to relax. May the wisdom of Almighty God come down upon our national legislature at their convening next month in Washington and such results be reached as shall re- store confidence and revive trade and multiply prosperities! Yet not only now in the time of financial disaster, but all through life, our active business people have struggle, and I think it will be appropriate and useful for me to talk about their trials and try to offer some curative prescriptions.
 OvKRBURDENED BUSINESS MEN.
 In the first place, I have to remark that . great many of our business men feel ruinous trials and temptations coming to them from small and limited capital in buaness. 1t is everywhere understood that 1t takes now three or four times as much to do business well as once 1t did. Once few hundred dollars were turned into goods-the merchant would be his own store sweeper, his own salesman, his own bookkeeper. He would manage all the affairs himself, and everything would be net profit. Wonderful changes have come. Costly apparatus, extensive advertising, sxorbitant store rents, heavy taxtatton, expensive agencies, are only parts of the demand made upon our con- mercial men, and when they have found themselves in such circumstances with small capital they have sometimes been tempted to run against the rocks of nor al and financial destruction.
 This temptation of limited capital has ruined men in two ways. Sometimes tation. They have yielded the battle before the first shot was fired. At the first hard gun they surrendered. Their knees knocked together at the fall of the auctioneer's hammer. They blanched at the financial peril. They did not under stand that there is such thing as hero im in merchandise, and that there are Waterloos of the counter, and that 8 man can fight no braver battle with the sword than he can with the yardstick.
 Their souls melted in them because sugars were up when they wanted to buy and down when they wanted to sell and unstable goods were on the shelf and bad debts in their ledger. The gloom of their countenances overshad- owed even their dry goods and groceries. Dependency, coming from limited capi- tai, blasted them. Others have felt 1t in 8 different way. They have said: "Here have been trudging along. have been trying to be honest all these years. I find it Is of no use. Now it is make or break. :"
 The small craft that could have stood the stream is put out beyond the light house on the great sea of speculation. Stocks are the dice with which he gam bles. He bought for few dollars vast tracts of western land. Some man at the east living on fat homestead meets this gamber of fortune and is persuaded to trade of his estate here for lots in a western city with large avenues and costly palaces and lake steamers smok- ing at the wharves and rail trains con- ing down with lightning speed from every direction. There it is all on pa- peri The city has never been built nor the railroads constructed. but everything points that way, and the thing will be done as sure as you live. And that is the process by which many have been tempted through limitation of capital into labyrinths from which they could not be extricated.
 would not want to chain honest en- terpriss would not want to block up any of the avenues for honest accumula- ton that open before young men. On the contrary, I would like to cheer them on and rejoice when they reach the goal, but when there are such multitudes of men going to ruin for this life and the life that is to come through wrong no tons of what are lawful spheres of en- terprise 1t Is the duty of ministers of re- hgion and the friends of all young men to utter a plain, emphatic, unmistakable protest. These are the influences that drown men in destruction and perdition.
 MAKING HASTE TO BE RICH.
 Again, @ great many of our business men are tempted to overandety and care. You know that nearly all com mercial businesses are overdone in this day. Smitten with the love of quick gain, our cities are crowded with men resolved to be rich at all hazards. They do not care how money comes. Our best merchants are thrown into competition with men of more means and less con- science, and if an opportunity of acou- mutation be neglected one hour some vns else picks it up. From January to December the struggle goes on. Night gives no quiet to limbs tossing in rest lessness, nor to 6 brain that will not stoI thinking. The dreams are narrowed by imaginary loss and flashed with imagi nary gains. Even the Sabbath cannot 1,o Aa of to<x {, Il