The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-07-27
AT THE TABERNACLE.
Or. TAlMAGE FINDS MANY LESSONS
IN THE PREVAILING PANIC.

NNh, ouI h'ko All human behireS !
Should BE Rig,d'y Subjected to God
Law.
BROOKLYN, July l6.-Rcv DR.. Tai
mage has selected as his subject for to
day a topic of the greatest interest an
timeliness-viz, "Comfort for busnes
men," the text being Isaiah Nl, q
"Speak We comfortably to Jerusalem.
What an awful SIX weeks IN CONNER
c'al circles! The crashing OF bank
from San Francisco to New York an,
from ocean to ocean. The complete un
certainty that has halted all styles o
business for three months and the pres
sure of the money markc, for the las
year have put all bargain makers Il
their wits end. Some Of the best mel
in the land have ialtclcd; men whose
hearts are enlisted IN every %"o'
work and whose hands bavc blessed "v
cry great charity. The church OF Go"
can afford to extend to them hrr SYM
thies and plead before heaven whh all
availiny prayer. The schouls such men
have established, the churches lhcN
have built, the asyums and brn' Iclcrt
institutions they barr lostcrcd, Will hc
their culory long after their banking in.
stutOns arc forgotten, Snrn men can
never tall They have their treasures
in banks that Will never break and will
be milliOnaircs forever.
The stringcncy Of the money market,
! am glad 10 say, beCins to relax. May
the wisdom OF Almighty God come
down upon our national Legislature at
their cOnveninW next month in Wa 9h
ingtOn and such results be reached as
shall restore confidence and revive
trade and multiply prospcritce! Yet
not only now in the time o; iinanSial
disaster, but all through lie, our active
business people have struggle. and |
think IT will be appropriate and useful
for me to talk about their trials and try
TO ofler some curative prescriptions.
In the first place, have to remark
that a great many ul our business men
feel ruinous trials and temptations com
ing to them from small and limited cap.
ila) in business. 1t ls everywhere I'M
derstood that it takes now three or four
II nes us much to do BUSINESS well rs
once 1t d'd. Once few hundred dol
lars were turned into goods-lhc mcr.
chant would he his own store sweeper.
his own salesman, his own huokkccpcr
lie would manage all the affairs hm.
sell, and everything would he net profit.
wonderful changes have come. Costly
apparatus, extensive adVCrtoi4I, CXOr-
Dltant store rents, heavy taxation, GX-
penslve agencies, arc onlv parts Of the
demand madcupOn our commercial men
Aud Wncn they have found thcmSclvc!
IN such circumstances with small capi
tai they have sometimes been temple,
TO run against the rocks OF moral and Ii
nancial destruction.
The temptation of limited ralltal ha
ruined men in two ways, Sometime
they have shrunk down under the tG ~
tation. They have yielded the battle be
fore the first shot was fired. AT tn
first hard gun they surrendered. Thcl
knees knocked together at the tall of tn
auCtiOneer's hammer. They hlanchcd Il
the financial peril. They Gid not un
derstand that there is such Il lhrny n
heroism in merchandise, and that thcr
are WatcrlOOs OF the cuuE Ter, and that
man can fight no Drawer battle with tn
sword than ne can with the yar,istlck.
onaars were up when they wanted [,
puy and down when they wanted {,
sell and unstable goods were on tn,
snell ond bad debts in their lcd~cr. TN,
gloom OF their cOuntenanccs ovrrshad
owed even their dry goods and grocer
les. dependency. coming from limit
Gu capital, blasted them. Others hav,
IclC IL III different way. They have
SAID: "llcrc | have been trudriny along
! nave been trying to be honest ali
tncse years lnu 1t of no uSG. Now
It's makes or breaks"
The small craft that could have stood
the stream Is put ont beyond the light.
house on the great sea of speculation
Stocks are the dice with which he gam.
DleS. lie bought for a few dollars vas;
tracts OF western land. Some men a;
the east living on Il fat homestead meets
this gambler of fortune and is persuaded
TO trade Gil his estate here for lots ina
western city with large avenues and
costly palaces and lake steamers smok.
ING Mt the wharvcs and ran trains com.
ing down with lightning speed from cv.
cry direction. There IT is all ON paprr,
Inc Guy has never been built nor the
rallfoads constructed, but everything
lN'i'o thoI way, ana lilt lnln0 Will he
uohe as sue az you live. And that is
The process by which many have been
tempted through limitation of capital in.
10 labyrlnths from which they could not
be eXtrlcated.
would not want to chain honest on.
terprlse. would not want to block M
any OF the avenues Tor honest accumula.
t,op lhat open up for young men. On
the contrary, ! would like to cheer them
On ana rejoice when they reach the GOAL
put "hea there are such multitudcs of
men gong to ruin for this lie and the
ne that ls to come through wrong no.
IONS OF what arc lawful spheres OF en-
lerprlse it ls the duty Of the ministers Of
rellgion and the friends of all yo,nr
men 10 utter plain, cmphatic, unmis
taxable protest. These are the intu.
ehces That drown men in destruction and
perdition. ''''"
Again, great many of our business
men are tempted 10 over anxiety and
care. You know that nearly all com
'neIclal businesses are Oycrlono in this