The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-07-20
|TALMACE'S SERMON
|oF BUSINESS BRING
Temptations to the Husbands
FATHERS Struggling to
Make q Living.
beas ye comfortably TO yerusa.

yfsil six weeks IN commercial
crashing OF banks from San
New York and from ocean 10
complete uncertainty that has
Flea OF business for three months
lure OF the money market for the
I've put all bargain makers nj
nd. Some OF the best men in
Ne fnltered-men whose hearts
A In every good work and
is have blessed every great
e church OF uod can afford to
em her sympathies and plead be-
with all availing prayer. The
h men have established, the
ey have built, the asylums and
)nstitutions they have fostered,
eulogy long after their banking
are forgotten.
can never fail. They have their
banks that never break and will
res forever. The stringcncy OF
market, l am glad TO say, begins
May the wisdom OF Almighty God
upon our National legislature at
ming next month In Washington
fesults be reached as shall restore
and revive trade and multiply
Yet not only now In the time
disaster, but all through life, our
ncss people have q struggle, and I
Ill DO appropriate and useful for
about their trials nni try to offer
sive prescriptions.
rst place, I have to remark that q
b OF our business men feel ruinous
Somptations coming TO them from
limited capital In business. I, is
ID understood that it takes now
Dur times as much to do business
nrs Il did. Once few hundred dol
surned into goods--the merchant
his own store sweeper, his own
bis own bookkeoper. He would
b the affairs himself, aud every
nld be net profit. Wonderful
Snve come. Costly apparatus, ex.
sertlsing, exorbitant store rents,
ktation, expensive agencies, are
OF the demand made upon our
al men, and when they have found
e In such circumstances with small
|cy have sometimes been tempted to
Nd the rocks OF moral and financial
IN.
Dmptatlon OF limited capital has
tn In two ways. Sometimes they
nnk down under the temptation.
d yielded the battle before the first
Bred. At the first hard gun thev
red. Their knees knocked togethe.
ID OF the auctioneer's hammer. They
ut the financial peril. They di1
|rstand that there IA such thing a
|ln merchandise. and that there ara
D. OF the counter. and that n man
& no brayer battle with the sword than
nth the var 'stick.
when they wanted 20 buy and down
hey wanted to sell and unsalnbla
Fere on the shelf and bad debts in
>rer. The gloom OF their counte-
even their dry goods
oeries. Dependency, coming from
eapital. blasted them. Others have
a different way. They have said
/. bave been trudging along. | have
ing to be- honest all these years.
( Is OF no use. Now 1t Is make or
oall craft that could have stood the
: put out beyond the lighthouse on
sea OF speculation. Stocks are the
y which he ,gambles. He bought for
>llan vast Tracts OF westarn land.
zz attic edst living on a fat hone
pts this gambler OF fortune and is
~ to trade OF his estate here for lots
tern city with large avenues and
linces and lake steamers smoking at
yves and rail trains coming down
Mining speed from every direction.
" all on paper The city has never
|lt nor the railroads constructed, but
ny points that way, and the thing
lone as sure as you live. And that
rocess by which many have been
through limitation OF capital into
BIS from which they could not be ex-
ID not want TO chain honest enter
would not want TO block up any OF
Iues for honest accumulation that
'ore young men. On the contrary, |
ke to cheer them on and rejoice
ry reach the goal, but when there are
ltitudes OF men goins TO ruin for
and tho life that Is to come through
otions OF what ara lawful spheres OF
So II Il the duty Of ministers OF re-
li the friends OF all young men to
plain, emphatic. unmistakable pro.
lese are the influences that drown
destruction and perdition.
great many Of our business men
tied TO over-anNiety and care. You
at nearly all commercial businesses
done In this day. Smitten with the
lulck gain, our cities are crowded
Il resolved 70 be rich at all hazards.
not care how money comes. Our
chants are thrown into competition
OF more means and less conscience.
l opportunity denomination be ne.
)ne hour some one else picks IL up.
hunry TO December thestruggle goes
mt gives no quiet to limbs tossing In
esS, nor TO a brain that will not stop
!. Inc dreams ere narrowed bs
~ loss and flashed with imaginary
Even the Sabbath cannot dam back
OF anxiety, for this wave OF worldli.
shes clear over the churches and
: loan on Bibles and prayer books.
mo are living on salaries or by ths
ot the soil cannot understand the
d tear OF body and mind to which
chants are subjected when thew do
" but that their livelihood and their
honor are dependent upon the un.
Ies OF the next hour. This excite.
the brain, this corroding care of the
Ills strain OF effort that exhausts the
'nds great many OF our best men In
TO tho grave. They find
u street docs not end at the East
IL ends at Greenwood Their life
1ut against money safes. They 90
'ir store on their back. They trudee
'els' sweating from Aleppo TO Damas.
lev make their life a crucifixion.
: behind desks and counters. ban.
Dm the fresh air, weighed down by
cares, they are so many suicides.
wish | could to-day rub out some n,
nes OF care that could lift some of
uehs from the heart that could
sAaton to some OF these worn
! IL u time for you to begin 10 take
le easier. Do your best, and then
Du ior the rest. Do not fret. God
ail the Affairs OF your life. and He
the'n for the best. Consider tba
iey always have robes. Behold the
tho alr-they always have nests.
long breath. Bethlnk betime, tha,
not make you pack horse. Die
% out from among the hoosheads