The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-27

answer for cheating and lying and swim
ding and stealing and crime and Intem-
perancc and suicide and despair. These
are its necessary, its inevitable, accom-
panmcnts.
When business success is to be achieved
by chicancry, by lying. it becomes the
business OF the head OF the firm to be
come an expert sWindler, scientific liar,
and to train ali his subOrdinatcs in the
art Of lying This is one OF the first prln
ciples OF instruction practiced in some OF
our great commercial establishments.
| The clerk who is advanced is the man
who can tell the biggest lie with the
Straightest lace and drive the hardest
bargain with q customer. The funda-
mental NOTICES OF such n system are a
mass OF colossal lies. TO declare that
life is measured by dollars and cents Is
TO stUltify the very fundamentals OF real
life. ! thief only believes that life is
measured by dollars and cents, and the
business man who seeks to attain dol
lars and cents Of themselves. for them
selves, and to estimate them as valuable
by the figures on their face, has placed
himself uncOnsciOu-lv Oh the platform
OF the thici
Money, 10 b. OF any real value and to
righteOusIv obtained. The richest and
best things in life are those that do not
pay in dollars and cents. Love and no.
biIity and honor and generosity do not
pay in dollars and cents: therefore they
have no part in the science OF modern
commerce. The life OF a Stanley who cN-
plOrcs the darkness OF the world by this
standard is q failure. The life Ola Wash
ingtOn would suffer in hunger and cold
is necessarily a failure Judged by such
Standards
Such is the contrast between a success
full Christianity and successful business
today. There cannot be q moments
questioning Of the fact that the business
Of to-day is in conflict with eternal truth
and righteousness.
50 much the worse for business.
The stars in their courses fought
against Sisera. The forces Of nature are
in league with the eternal forces OF truth
and right. The business which violates
the fundamentals OF right in the process
OF its Development must have OF necessity
its Black Fridays, and the Black Fri
days are the necessary Developments Of
the clash with righteousness. These days
OF panic are the natural result of long
continued violations OF justice. II they
did not come, law would cease to be law,
and chaos would reign. The fact that
they come is an indication that there is
Il God OF right and truth who is guiding
above all the scenes OF conflict and con-
fusion. The man who violates truth and
justc" has thrown his puny body against
the very stars OF heaven. Hehas thrown
his PROSTATE form before Gods great
wheel OF the universe, and he will be
ground to powder. The nation that
violates fundamental right must suffer
and suffer in the very ways in which it
has, wrought the violation.
The Christian way OF trade may not
| be an easy way; it is certainly not q pop
| uial' way to-day: it never has been. But
| Christianity is the mighticst power On
| earth to-day. 1t is the one power that
! dominates politics, trade, nations. It is
| the power that through the ages has
| rightcd a thousand wrongs that seemed
beyond remedy. Kingdoms, empires,
| sOcitics-apparcntl " inVincible-haye per-
| iShcd at its touch. We stand upon the
| pinnacle OF the nineteenth century and
! lock back with increasing Amusement
| at this procession OF dead societies and
dead peoples and dead nations who have
| died because they FLASHED with the eternal
| forces OF truth ndrighteOusncss.
At times we have an apparent tri-
umph OF wrong 1t is only apparent.
| 1t is but the beginning Of the end. Men
| have declared that it is Impossible to
! exist IN the business world and live on
| Christian principles. Men have declared
! that all men are mars Ill the business
| Worid. \ man Sa'd 20 IN" n short time
/ ago that all business men are chronic
ana iiiclf'sble iiitIS. lie spoke rom the
! point Oh we" o ,h@ money market ana
Tie money hroheI. ne deciafed that
| men WoHli take itdEitAta?e OF one itn-
| 0thuWheneFcl'theyh had the opportunity.
| lie declared that all OF them would tell
Il lie 70 MAKE money t'iat hohor ana
truth are not clements that are consId-
'F,,I III tile iIioueFli BUSINESS World.
Ihi5 assertion Is GntirelE 100 broad
Wh'h our iFlthu "ouIu deciafe mat aii
men are mars. IRON THIS point OF view
II Is true, bot mere Is Suci thing as
nt''dge, y man III 'iie afctic seas looks
OUT over tiie wafer ana sees Il snip APP
pro@ch WIN iier heeI III tiie aif' lie can
sec 'lIc ol:I',i III lie can see 'lt
f'r7ei Us 1t 'dch7 i'll us course. Every
tilhg Is beyond question: q living reality
Delofe nili' AND YET, as Il matter o
1act, II IS 5. o"lhs 10 a conultion OF ath0s
PIelc. II - lioi d lc'',itI oh WHICH III
is EazlnS; II IS an inverted picture OF the
rear snip mat Is beloW the norlzon IN the
ulStallce. 30 the VISION OF the modern
business man as 20 llSht ana truth Is
oI1'li o"Scureu' because lie draws MS
conclusion from what he sees IN daily
NE ABOUT MN: rom what he touches.
he way ol NnrlS ti'litE Is not the
ed7!'9I way "l'i'afGhtiN' Out ~ Is Ille
easiest way III Ihe !ohG run. We Suf1eI
III pah1cS. we suffer Ill black poverty
ana despair ana Wretchedness and crime
ana misery ana lntemperance, because
IN our coinmcrclal world we violate the
Iuhdahehtal laws OF truth and right
eonSneaS.
10 get back to the right is to remedy
til" evil. TO bring the commercial Worl(
INTO harmony with the principles O
christianity Is at once the cure for the
| present disease ana the guarantee th n