Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-07-20
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
: "a 1'6tsoOKLYN DIvINE,s SUN
DAY SERMON.
subject; ''comfortfor Business Men (,

TEXT. 'iSpeak We oonsfortabb, 10 n.,.,
se"t Isaiah XII. 3. 's y 'e''"sa-
What an awful six weaks IN
CIRCLES The crashing Of bar,,,s s. ~;
Sr.nclsco to New York and from ooaa,s 'a -
p.ean; The complete uncertaintv that ny
- y, an styles OF business for three months
the pressure Of the money ma Ri Of f., 49,
shsI year have put all bargain matsrs ~. ~
ou wis end. Some of the best men IN
nre 'an1 ,, nave taltered--men whose hearts
(whos ni h Ia every coed work and
~. muoso nands have blessed every great
cnarity The church OF .Iod can atyosd 90 20
v ,A.elu 20 them her sympathies and plead he
nvie heaven with all availinp praver The
1envois such men have estabIished INA
snulcnes they have built, the asvlilms and
III suoncenl institutions they have fostered
WILD, VIII pc their eulogy long after their banking
Anst nqtions are forgotten.
such men can never fail rrbav 49, a,
treasures in banks that never breal ana r ,rii,
~. ~ nliihonaires forever The strineencv Of
Sne' money market, am glad to saw heo;na
~ reiax. May the wisdom OF Almighty God
come down upon our National Legislature Of
eneir convening next month in WASHINGTON
nnu such results be reached as shall restore
, ssniuehoe and revive trade and multiply
e. 1en ,p let not only now in the time
- financial disaster, but all through life orr
Active business people have struggle and I
snlnK it VIII be appropriate and useful for
ine 10 talk about their trials and try 10 offer
some curative prescriptions.
Ia the first place, have to remark that n
great many OF our,business men feel rujnoua
'.ss ana temptations coming to them from
slian ana united capital in business. 1t is
everywhere understood that it takes now
three or four times as much to do business
Wei as once 1T did. Once a few hundred dol
lars We're turned into goods--the merchant
would De MS own store sweeper, his own
salesman, his own bookkeeper He wonld
manage oil the affairs himself, and every
tnlng would be net profit. Wonderful
cnanges nave come. Costly apparatus, ex-
Z ensiye advertising, exorbitant store rents
neavy Taxation, expensive agencies. are
only parts OF the demand made upon our
commercial men, and when they have found
themselves in such circumstances with small
capital they have sometimes been tempted 10
run against the rocks Of moral and financial
destruction.
This temptation OF limited capital has
ruined men in two ways. Sometimes thew
nave shrunk down under the Temptation
Einey nave yielded the battle before the first
snot was fired. At the first hard pun the.-
surrendered. Their knees knocked togetbes
az the fall OF the auctioneer's hammer. The,
lpianched at the financial peril They dix
nos understand that there Is such thing a
nsroism 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
/, Iheir souls melted In them because sugars
We're up when they wanted to buy and down
when they wanted to sell and unsalable
goods were on the shelf and bad debts in
their ledger. The gloom of their counte-
hances oyershadowed even their dry goods
and groceries. Dependency, coming from
limited capital, blasted them. Others have
felt 1t in different way. They have said
Here have been trudging along. I have
been trying to be honest all these years. I
md 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 lighthouse on
the great sea of speculation Stocks are the
dice with which he CANDLES. He bought for
a few dollars vast tracts of western land.
Some man at the east living on a fat home
stead 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 smoking al
the wharves and rail trains coming down
with lightning speed from every direction
There it is all on paper 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
iabyrinths from which they could not be ex-i
tricated.
would not want to chain honest enter
prise. would not want to block up any of
the avenues for honest accumulation 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 notions OF what are lawful spheres OF
enterprise 1t Is the duty of ministers of re-
ligion and the friends of all young men to
utter plain, emphatic, unmistakable pro.
test. These are the influences that drown
men IN destruction and perdition
Again, great many of our business men
are tempted to over-anxiety and care. You
Know that nearly all commercial 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 conscience,
and II an opportunity of accumulation be ne
elected one hour some one else picks it up.
From January to December the struggle goes
On. Night gives no quiet to limbs tossing in
restlessness, nor to a brain that will not stop
thinking. The dreams are narrowed bv
loss and flashed with imaginary
gains Even the Sabbath cannot dam back
the tide OF anxiety, for this wave. of worldH-
ness dashes clear over the churches and
leaves its foam on Bibles and prayer books.
Men who are living on salaries or by the
culture OF the soil cannot understand the
wear and tear OF body and mind to which
our merchants are subjected when they do
not know but that their livelihood and their
business honor are dependent upon the un-
certainties of the next hour. This excite.
ment OF the brain, this corroding care Of the
heart, this strain of effort that exhausts the
spirit, sends great many OF our best men in
midl1fe 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 20
With their store on their back They trudge
IKE camels, sweating from Aleppo to Damas-
,us. Thew make their life a cruciflxiop.
behind desks and counters. BAN
sned from the fresh air, weighed down by
'ark1ng cares, they are so many suicides.
IN, wish could to-day rub out some of
nese lines OF care that could lift some of |
ne burdens from the heart that / could |
ave relaxation to some of these worn |
muscles 1t u time for you to begin to take |
little easier. Do your best, and then
rust God for the rest Do not fret. God |
manages all the affairs OF your life, and He |
manages them for the best Consider the |
always have robes Behold the |
Owls OF the air-they always have nests.
axe long breath. Bethink betimes that |
sod did not make you pack horse. Dig
ourselves out from among the hogsheads |
nd the shelves, and In the light of the holy |