News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-20
News and Citizen.
MORRISVILLE and HYDE PARK,
Thursday, July 20, 1898.
RICHES HAVE WINGS.
DR.. TALMAGE ON THE CURRENT FL
NANClAL DISTURBANCE.

Right and Wrong Uses of Money-How
Men Often Make Shipwreck of Character
In Making Haste to Be Rich-Consola-
tion to the Unfortunate.
BROOKLYN. July 16.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage has selected as his subject for to-
day topic of the greatest interest and
timeliness-viz, Comfort For Business
Men," the text being Isaiah Il, 2, ''Speak
ye comfortably to jerusalem
What an awful six weeks in CONNER
cial circles! 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 bust
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 faltered-men whose hearts
ERE 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-
tablished, the churches they have built,
the asylums and beneficent 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 thatnever 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
converting next month in Washington
and such results be reached as shall re-
store confidence and revive trade and
multiply properties! Yet not only
now in the time of financial disaster,
but all Though life, our active business
people have struggle, and l think it
will be appropriate and useful for me to
talk about their trials and try to offer
some curative prescriptions.
OvERBURDENED BUSINESS MEN.
In the first place, l have to remark that |
a great many OF our business men feel |
ruinous trials and temptations coming to |
them from small and limited capital in
business. 1t is everywhere understood |
that it takes now three or four times as
much to do business well as once it 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, exorbitant store rents, heavy
taxtation, expensive agencies, are only
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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
they have shrunk down under the temp
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 a thing as hero
ism in merchandise, and that there are
Waterloos of the counter, and that a
man can fight no drawer 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 CAPT L
tai, blasted them. Others have felt it in
a different way. They have said: s'Here
I have been trudging along. have been =
trying to be honest all these years. find q q
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 gambler of fortune and is persuaded
to trade off his estate here for lots in
western city with large avenues and
costly palaces and lake steamers smok-
ing at the Nharves and rail trains COM
ing down with lightning speed from
every direction. There it is all on pa
per! The city has never been built nor
the railroads constructed, but everything
LIliG way anu UIl0 ILluS Will DC
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-
ferprise. would not want to block up /
Eny of the avenues for honest accumula- I.
ton that open before young men. On /.
the contrary, 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
tions of what are lawful spheres of en-
terprise it is the duty of ministers of re- I
ligion and the friends of all young men
to utter plain, emphatic, unmistakable '
protest. These are the influences that J
drown men in destruction and perdition I
MAKING HASTE TO BE RICH. I
Again, great many of our business
men are tempted to overanxiety and Il
care. You know that nearly all COM &
mercial businesses are overdone in this }
day. Smitten with the love of quick Z
gain, our cities are crowded with men Q
resolved to be rich at all hazards. They I
do not care how money comes. Our best d
merchants are thrown into competition
with men of more means and less con- v
science, and if an opportunity of accu- Il
mutation be neglected one hour some IL
one else picks it up. From January to p
December the struggle goes on. Night
gives no quiet to limbs tossing in rest v
lessness, nor to brain that will not stop
thinking. The dreams are narrowed by L
imaginary loss and flashed with imagi- =
nary gains. Even the Sabbath cannot o
dam back the tide of anxiety, for this d
wave of worldliness dashes clear over the u
churches and leaves its foam on Bibles Is
and prayer books. IL
Men who are living ON salaries or by e. 81
the culture of the soil cannot under u
stand the wear and tear of body and =,
mind to which our merchants are sub =,
Jected when they do not know but that q,
their livelihood and their business honor =,
are dependent upon the uncertainties of Il
the next hour. This excitement of the o.
brain, this corroding care of the heart, h
this strain of effort that exhausts the IN
spirit, sends a great many of our best ",
men in midlife to the grave They find
that Wall street does not end at the East ~,
river. 1t ends at Greenwood! Their life ~
dashed out against money safes. They II
go with their store on their backs. They N,
trudge like camels, sweating from p
Aleppo to Damascus. They make their y.