St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-24
THE GOSPEL OF GOOD CHEER.
Doctor Talmage Brings Christmas Tidings for
Business Men.

enjoin upon all those whom these Christmas
times find in comfortable circumstances two
things: First, helpfulness to the helpless and
the next, cheerful talk. This experiment has
been made by medical scientists: A dozen men
conspire to tell well man he looks sick. They
are to meet him on journey and by the time
the fourth man is giving him melancholy salu-
tation, he feels he is doomed, and the twelfth
man comes up with melancholy salutation just
in time to help to carry him home on a stretcher.
Then twelve men conspire that they will meet
man in uncertain health and tell him how
well he looks. By the time the fourth has met
him with cheerful salutation, his nervous
system is all toned up, and by the time the
twelfth man has met him with his cheerful sal
utation, he says to his wife: "Throw out that
apothecary shop from our shelves. Idon't want
any more medicine
Now, the nation is only man on a larger
scale. If you want to PROSTATE business and
keep it Frustrated, talk in dolorous tones and
keep on talking. Let all the merchants sigh,
and all the editors prognosticate hard winter,
and all the ministers groan in the pulpit. In
the great orchestra of complaint those who play
the loudest trombones are those who have the
fullest salaries and the completest wardrobe.
back upon the surplus resources of other years
or because they cannot make as large invest
ments as they would like to make, Did YOU
have your breakfasts Yes. Did you have your
supper last nighta Yes. Did you have pillow
to sleep ons Yes. What are you complaining
about! The genuine sufferers, those who are
really in restitution, for the most part suffer in
silence; but the1oudest cries against hard times
are by men to whom the times are not hard
Artists tell us it is almost impossible to sing
well on full stomach, but it has been demons
trated over and over again that it is impossible
for men to groan well on full stomach!
The land is full of prophets, and I have as
much right toprophesy as any one. prophecy
that we are coming toward the grandest tenn
poral prosperity we have ever witnessed in this
country. Mechanics are going to have larger
wages. Capitalists are going to have larger
dividends. The factories that are now closed
are going to run day and night to meet de-
mands. Stores are going to be crowded with
customers, impatient to get waited on.
You prophesy midnight. I prophesy mid
noon. You pitch your tent toward universal
bankruptcy. / pitch my tent toward national
opulence. What are your reasons9" you say.
/ give you one dominant reason: God s evident
determination to shower prosperity on this
nation.
In these Christmas days let all the comfort
able classes exchange the Lamentations of
jeremiah for the exultant Psalms of David, and
we viii have different state of things in this
country. I wish there might be conspiracy
formed. Iwould like to belong to it, conspir-
acy made up that all the merchants and editors
and ministers Of religion in this country agree
that they would have faith in God and talk
oheerfully, and there would be a revival of
| business immediate and tremendous and glori-
GUS. Stop singing Naomi and old Window, and
give us Mount Pisgah and Coronation. Merry
| Christmas. z. Disturbances.