Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-07-28
REV. DR.. TtLFiaGF.
TIE BROOhLNN DIlINE'> SIN.
LAY SERMON.
3uBJECr' "CuNfoEr FOR BI SrNTss

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 III
the land have fA.icrei--mea whose hearts
enlisted In every good work and
whose hands have blessed every great
charity. Tne church OF tiod can afford to
extend to them her sympathies and plead be-
fore heaven with all availing prayer. Tho
schools such men have established the
churches they have built the asylums aud
henehcent 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 hanks that never 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 ronYenlng next month In Washington
and such results bs reached rs shall restore
confidence and revive trade and multiply
prosperities Yet not only now in the time
OF financial disaster. but all through life, our
active business people have a struggle, and
think 1t will be appropriate and useful for
NE to talk about their trials AMI try to offer
some curative prescriptions.
In the first place, | have 10 remark that q
great many Of our business men feel ruinous
trials and temptations coming to them from
small and limited capital in business. II Is
everywhere understood that II takes now
three or four times AS much TO do business
we'll as once 1t did Once few hundred dol
lars ware 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 every
thing would be net profit. Wonderful
changes have come. Costly apparatus, eX-
tensiye Advertising, exorbitant store rents,
heavy Taxation, expensive agencies, are
only parts Of the demand made upon our
commercial men. and when they have found
themselves in such cir 'umstances with small
capital they have sometimes been tempted to
run against the rocks Of moral and financial
destruction.
This temptation o! limited capital has
ruined men in two ways. sometimes they
have shrunk down under the temptation.
/ They have yielded the battle before the frs,
shot was fired. At the first hard gun they
surrendered. Their knees knocked together
/ at the fall OF the surtioneer's hammer. TLey
+ blauched at the financial peril. They dii
/ not understand that there is such a thing
i herulsm in IN 'rrhandise, and that there are
Waterloos OF the counter. AMI that man
! can fight no bIay-r battle with the sword than
he can with the vardstick
Their souls melted in them because sugars
were up when they wanted 20 buy and down
! Wnen tneN wanted 10 sell ana ulbAIhDls
goods were on the shelf and bad debts in
their ledger "he gloom OF their counte-
nanc-s oversha lowed even their dry goods
and groceries Dependency, coming from
! limited capita, blasted them. Others have
t-G !; In different way. They have said
Here have been truiging along. | have
been irving TO be honest all these years.
lind 1t is OF no use. Now 1t Is make or
! break.
The small craft that could have stood the
stream is put ont beyond the lighthouse on
the great sea OF speculation. Stocks are ta,
dice with which he Hamhie-. He bought fol
( 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 OF his estate here FOR lots
in western city with large avenues ant
costly palaces and lake steamers smoking al
the wharvt~ and rail trains coming dOwr
with lightning speed from every direction
Their 1t IS all on paper, The city has never
been built nor the railroads constructed. bu
eV-rvtning points that way, and the thing
will b. done as sure as YOU live. And tha
is the process by which many have herI
temp,"i through limitation Of capital int
abvrlnths from which they could not he tx
tri'at.d.
would not want to chain honest enter
prl=r would hot want to block up any o
open before young men. On the contrary,
would like to cheer them on ani rejoice
when they reach the goal but when there ar
such multitudr- OF men going to ruin io
TINS life and the life that is to come through
wrong notions ot what are lawful spheres o
enterprise II is tn" duty Of ministers OF re-
llyion aad the friends OF all young men /,
utter a plain emphatic, unlistakaOle pro
test These are the influences that drowl
! IA lost tr, inn and ,Ar
Again. great many Of our business mel
nre tempted to oyer-anN.ety and care Io
know that nearly all cOmmcrrlal businesSe
are overdoue in this day. Smltten with tn
love OF quick gain, our cities are crowle'
with men resolved 20 be rich at all hazard Is
They do not care bow money comes. Ou
best merchants are thrown into competition
with men OF more means and less conscience
and II an opportunity DISCRIMINATION be ne
elected one hour some one else picks it up
From January To December the struggle Goe
on. Night gives no quiet to limbs tossing 4
restlessnrSs. nor to a brain that will not sto
thinking. Tho dreams are harroE'l J.
} Imaginary loss and flashed with imaSincr
gains Even the Sabbath cannot dam bar
the tide Of anxiety, for this Wave OF woridl
, ness dashes clear over the churches an
lea ses its foam on Bibles and prayer books.
J Men who are living on salaries or by IL
| culture OF the soil cannot understand tn
wear and tear OF body and mind to whic
I our merchants are subjected when they d
, not know but that their livelihood and thci
business honor are dependent upon the vi
= certainties OF the next hour. This exrIt'
ment OF the brain, this corroding care OF Tn
heart, this strain OF effort that exhausts tn
u spirit, sends great many OF our best men /
midlife to the grave. They fin
that Wall street docs not end Mt the Ea'
River. It ends at Greenwood Their Iii
dashed out against money safes. Tlcy G
8 with their store on their back. They tru IL
, like camels, sweating from Aleppo to Dams
Gus, They make their life q crurIi!XioI
4 Standing behind desks and counters, bss
ished from the fresh air, weighed down /
carking cares, they are so many suicides.
n oh, wish could to-day rub out some
these lines Of care that could lit some
r the burdens from the heart that | couI
. give relaxation TO some OF these wor
muscles 1t Is time for you to begin TO tai
Q Il q little easier. Do your best, and the
q trust God for the rest. Do not fret &c
manages all the affairs OF your life, and
r manages them for the best. Consider Il
lllies-they always have robes. Behold Il
: fowls OF the air-they always have nest
I Take q long breath. Bethink betimes tn
God did not make you pack horse ID
d yourselves out from among the hogshea'
= and the shelves, and 80 the light OF the ho
Sabbath day resolve that you will give to 4
J. winds your fears, and your fretfulness al
, your distresses. You brought nothing IN
=" the world, and 1t is very certain you ca
II carry nothing out. Having food az
:, rHimant, be Herewith content.
The merchant came home from the stor
There had been great disaster there. 7
opened the front door and said In the mid
OF his family circle: ~ am ruined. f
erything is gone. am all ruinedw II
A wife said, 81 am left" and the little chi
threw up Its hands and said, "Papa. a
4 here" The aged grandmother seated in Ii
{ room said, "Then you have all the proms,
OF God beside, John" And he burst in,
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