The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-21
RICHES HAVE WINGS.
Or, TALMAeE ON THE CURRENT FL
NANclAL DISTURBANCE.


In Making Haste to he Rich-Consoia-
tion to the Unfortunate.
BROOKLYN, July 16.-Rev. DIR. 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 xl, 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
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-
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 miliionaires 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 through life, our active business
people have d struggle, and / think it
will be appropriate and useful for me to
talk about their trials and try to offer
some curative prescriptions.
OVERWHELMED BUSINESS MEN.
In the first place, 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 a few hundred dollars We're turned
into gootls---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, eyorbitant store rents, heavy
Taxation, expensive agencies, are only
parts of the demand made upon our COM
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 q
man can fight 10 Drawer battle with the
sword than he can with the yardstick.
Their souls melted in them because
sugars We're 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 frem limited CAPT
tai, blasted them. Others have felt it in
different way They have said: "Here
have been trudging along. have been
trying to be honest all these years. find
it is of no use. Now it is make or break. y
The small craft that could have stood
the stream is put out beyond the light
house on tie 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 a
western city with large avenues and
costly palaces and lake steamers smok-
ing at the wharves 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
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.
7 would not want to chain honest en-
terprise. would not want to block mp
! any of the avenues for honest accumula-
tion that open before young men. On
, The contrary, would like to cheer them
bn 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.
lions of what are lawful spheres of en-
erprise it Is the duty of ministers of re-
hgion and the friends of all young men
10 utter plain, emphatic, unmistakable
protest. These are the influences that
drown men in destruction and perdition.
MAKING HASTE TO BE RICH.
Again, a great many of our business
: men are tempted to overanxiety and
care. You know that nearly all com
mercial businesses are overdone in this
day. Smittcn with the love of quick
eain, our cities are crowded with men
resolved to be rich at all hazards. They
i 10 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 accu-
mutation be neglected one hour some
one else picks it up. From January tc
December the struggle goes on. Night
gives no quiet to limbs tossing in rest.
/, lessness, nor to brain that will not sto
thinking. The dreams are narrowed b
imaginary loss and flashed with imag
nary gains Even the Sabbath cannC
/, dam back the tide of anxiety, for til
wave of worl illness dashes clear over ii
churches and leaves its foam on Bible
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