Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-07-20
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
COMFORT FOR BUSINESS MEN
DISCUSSED BY TALMAGE.
The Recent Disturbances in the Bust
ness World the subject OF an Eloquent
and Appropriate sermon--Tho Church
OF God.

| ness, viz C omfort for Business Men, - the
| text being Isaiah 20: ,: Speak ye com
fortably to Jerusalem
What an awful six weeks in com
mCrclal circles. The crashing of banks
| from San Francisco to New York, and
| from ocean to ocean. The complete
uncertainty that has halted all styles
| of business 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 are enlisted in every
| good work, and whose hands have
| blessed every good cha ity. The
church of Gol can afford TO extend
| to them her sympathics, and plead be-
| fore heaven with all availing prayer.
| The schools such men have established,
| the churches they have built the
! aSylumS and benehcent institutions
| they have fOStcrcd, will he their
! eulogy long after their banking insti.
| buttons are forgotten. Such men can
never tail. III ey have their treasures
| in banks that never break, and will be
mllionalreS forever. The stringenCy
| of the money market. | am glad to
say, begins to relax. MAY the Wis
! dom of Almighty God come down
upon our national legi- lature at
| their converting next month in Wash
| ington. and su IN results be reached as
| shall restore confidence. aud revive
trade. and multiply prosperities, Yet.
not only now IN the time of fin3ncial
disaster. but all through life our
active business people have struggle.
and think il will be appropriate and
f,,l l.
and try 10 offer some curative pre-
scriptionS
In the first place have to remark
that great many of our business men
! feel ruinous trials and temptations
coming to them from small and linn
! tied capital in business 1t is every
where understood that it takes now
/ three o.. fnur times as much to do bust
ness we IL once it did. Once. a few
: hundred dollars were turned into
! goods-thc merchant would be his
| own store sweeper, ri, own salesman.
| his own boollkceper: he would manage
/ all the affairs himself. and everything
would be neturoft Wonderful changes
! have come: costly apparatus. extensive
! advertising, cxOrbitunt store rents,
! heavy taxation. extensive agencies.
/ are only parts of the demand made
| upon our commercial men: and when
| they have found themselves in such
/ circumstances with small capiiaI. they
! have sometimes been tcmpted to run
/ against the rocks of moral and financial
+ destruction. This temptation of limited
| capital has ruined men in two WAYS
/ Sometimes they have shrunk down
yielded the battle before the first shot
was fired. At the first hard gun they
+ surrendered. Their knees knocked to.
| gethcr at the fall of the auctioneer'
| hammer. They blancbed at the tinan-
cial peril. They did not understand
that there is such a thing as herOism
, 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 yard
stick Their souls melted in them he
cause sugars were up wren they
wanted TO buy. and down when they
wanted to sell. and unsaleablc goods
were on the shelf and bad debts in
their ledger. The gloom of their
countenanceS overShadOwed even their
dry 90 ds and groceries. ne.pOndency
coming from limited capital blasted
them Others haze felt il in different
WAYS. They have said: "Ierc | have
been trudpiur aiOnm. have benn
irving To be honest all these wears
find IL i of no usr. Now is mako IN.
break" The. small craft that could
have stood the stream. is mt ant he
yond the lighthouse. ON the GREAT sea
of speculation. Stocks are the die
with which he pambles. He bought
fora few dollars vast tracts of western
land. Some man Mt the cast livinron
a fat homestead. meets His camille.
Of fortune. and is persuaded To trade
off his estate here, for lots ina ,ves+.
crn city with large avenues and cost
" palaces. and lake steamers smol,inr
at the vybaryes. and rail trains coning
down with lightning sneed from nvcr7,
direction. There IL i ali nn manor. m.
CITY has never bo.p bniIt nor Tho .aiI.
roads constructed. bnt nyervtbinp
| noints that way and tho ,hino ;y;Ii he
! done a. sure aS Won 1.-Two AMI Tho, -
/ fine proress by which MANY have hoor
+ tptnnted ,hrourh limita+;on 90 oar;t,i
| ;ntn Ia bvrintbs from vybidl, tI,o,, io,,I,i
not ne rytricotad would no, 1,,a,,t
! % chain honest antarnri.a ,roI,IJ
! NOT want 10 Ilorl, m, INV of ,ba o,.,,
uurs fnr. borast accrnn,,Ia,;nn ~
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ond 70 oico rbom Ira ra,aL IN, I,i,ii, o'i
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tinrS 80 ,wh.I nI,T"s !, ml"lg NO
to,.L,;, :. ~ Ia" ~, op''eles VI en-
W u. !" ene Ivy VI t"c MINISTERS
S 800 'on' "Iu the I'!ei's Oh al
!"ie " 80 an 'ih Piia ttt'
Va Nv o'cat' lhcSe are 'he
II !ii"'I lnat ulo" II men III ueStrnc-
'''i an 'I"'1 1.
gym. si,dl many Oh our business
ihen are ,enlPle' 10 oVer-anAlety ana
'"'c' -" mo" 'iiaI nearly al com
.iici Ca si'esseS are oEer-Gohe III
lhtH ""A' HhiitIeh win the love oil
pu!Th S"'n' our SitleH are crowded
WIN men 'Seu 10 nc fich at All
haHalus' iHel 40 hot care now money
c : our pest merchants are thrown
luto o"ulPe'l1.oh WIN ineh OF more
means ana less conscience, ana II al
ppPos 'uhl'y Vi acchihulatloh ID: neg
''c'eo one hour' some one else DICKS Il