Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-17
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DIR. TALMAGE FINDS MANY LES
SONS IN THE PANIC.


BROOKLYN, July 16,--Rev. DR.. Taimage
has selected as his subject for today topic
OF the greatest interest and timeliness--yiz,
Comfort For Business Men, the text be,
ing Isaiah xl, 2, Speak ye comfortably to
Jerusalem"
What an awful six weeks in commercial
circlesl The crashing of banks from San
Francisco to New York and from ocean to
ocean. The complete uncertainty that has
halted all styles OF business for tbrcs
months atfa she pressure OF the money
market for the last year have mt ali har
gain makers at their WITS end. some q,
the best rnsn In the land have faltered. men
whose hearts are enlisted In every good
work and whose hands have blessed eyerv
great charity. Tho church OF God can M.
ford TO extend to them her syrnpntbies
and plead before heaven with all awaiting
prayer. The schools such men have estab.
lished, tho churches they have built, the
asylums and beneficent institutions they
have fostered, will be their eulopy long
after their banking institutions are forgot
ten, Such men can never fail. They have
their treasures In banks that never break
and will be millionaires forever.
The strlngency OF the money market.
am glad to say, begins to relax. NAV the
wisdom OF Almighty God come down upon
our national legislature at their converting
next mouth in Washington and such re-
suits be reached MS shall restore confidence
and revive tradc and multiply prosperitiesl
Yet not only now in The time of financial
disaster, but all through life, our nctive
business people have struggle, and think
1t will be appropriate and useful for me to
talk about their trials and try to offer some
curative prescriptions
THE TEMPTED MERCHANT.
In the first place. have to remark that
great many Of our business men feel ruin.
Gus trials and temptations coming to them
from small and limited capital In business.
IL Is everywhere understood that IL takes
now three or four times as much to do
business well as once 1t did. Once few
hundred dollars were turned into goods
the merchant would be his own store
sweeper, his own salesman, his own book
keeper. He would manage all the affairs
himself, and everything would be net
profit. Wonderful changes have come.
Costly apparatus, extensive advertising,
exorbitant store rents, heavy taxation, ex-
pensive agencies, are only parts Of the de.
mand mnde upon our commercial men.
And when they have found themselves in
such circumstances with small capital they
have sometimes been tempted to run
against the rocks Of moral and financial
destruction.
This temptation Of limited capital has
ruined men in two ways, Sometimes they
have shrunk down under the temptation.
They have yielded the battle before the
first shot was fired At the first hard gun
they surrendered. Their knees knocked
togethernt the fall of the auctioneers ham
mer. They blanched ut the financial peril.
They did not understand that there Is such
thing MS heroism in merchandise, and
that there are Waterloos of the counter,
and TINT q man can fight no Drawer battle
with the sword than he can with the yard
stick
Their souls melted in them because sug
mrs were 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 overshadowod even their dry
goods and groceries, Dependency, coming
from limited capital, blasted them. 9th
ers have felt 1t In different way They
have said Here Ish have been trudgng
along, / have been trying TO be honest all
these xprs. find IL is Of no use. Now it
is malloor break"
The small craft that could have stood the
streamiis put out beyond the lighthouse
on the great sea of speculation. Stocks
are the dice with which he CANDLES. He
boughrto n few dollars vast tracts OF west
ern lao' Some man at the east living on
a Eat ~ 1pestead meets this gambler OF for
tune an his persuaded to trade off his estate
here q llots in q western city with large
avenueSI,nd costly palaces and lake steam
ers smoking at the wharyes and rail trains
coming down with lightning speed from ev-
cry direction. There IT is all on papcrl The
city has never been built nor the railroads
constructed. but everything points that
way, and the thing will be done ms sure as
you live. And that is the process by which
many have been tempted through limita-
ton OF capital into labyrinths from which
they could not be extricatcd.
would not want to chain honest enter
prise. would not want to block up any
OF the avenues for honest accumulation
that open up for young men. On the con-
trary, would like TO cheer them on aud
rejoice when they reach the goal, but when
there are such multitudos OF men going to
ruin for this life and the life that is to
come through wrong notions OF what are
lawful spheres OF enterprise ~ - tue uuty
Of the ministers OF religion and the friends
of all young men TO utter plain, emphat-
ic. unnistakable protest. These are the
influences that drown men in destruction
and perdition,
THE FEvEnIsH THIRST FOR GAIN.
Again, great many of our business men
are tempted to over anxiety and care. You
know that nearly all commercial businesses
are overdone in this day. Smitten with
thelove ofquick gain, our cities are crowded
with men resolved TO be rich at all hazards.
They do not care how money comes. Our
best merchants are thrown into competi-
ton with men OF more means and less CON
science. and II hn opportunity OF accumula-
ton be neglected one hour some one else
picks 1t up. From january to December
the struggle goes on. Night gives no quiet
to limbs tossing In restlessness nor TO
brain that will not stop thinking The
dreams are narrowed by imaginary loss and
flushed with imaginary gains. Even the
Sabbath cannot dam back the tide Of anx
iety, for this wave Of worldliness dashes