Evening journal., 1894-02-14
BOOKS IN BUSINESS.
Rev. w. L. S. Murray, D. D.,
Lectures at Goldey College.
his PRACTICAL TALK TODAY
Before the Students Of Goldey Will
mington Commercial College-Be lee
lures on the Necessity of Reading
Good. Books and Papers to Become a
Good aud Useful Man.

Gooos BOOKS ana fapers TO become
Good aud Useful Man.
Rev. w. L s. Murray D. D. of Dover,
lectured before Goldey Commercial
College this afternoon on Books in
Business. Mr. Murray said:
"The business of to day and the future
is and must be transacted on higher
mental aud moral scale than the business
of the past. The advance Of the arts
and sciences make it positivelynecessary
that business men and women shall have
a better mental equipment in order to
intelligently represent their vacation.
For illustration take machinery, how
complicated, how difficult to understand,
how hard to properly describe
"The salesman, unless he can grasp the
principle and set forth the advantage IN
good and convincing language. may lose
the sale Take for another illustration
the advance in science as set forth
through chemistry. Here we have some
of the most rapid strides not only as
represented in the drug store. where
ignorance, carelessness or a mistake may
eudanger the life Of ali individual or the
lives of family, but il enters into the
analysis Of the SOIL the needs OF the
crops to be grown thereon, and seeks
TO supply in fertilizers what the
crop needs snd the soil lacks
To enter upon this line OF business
there must be intellectual discernment
and discrimination, not only for the sake
of the proper mixtures but for the pro.
lection of life and property as well
This must not all be left to the chemist,
there must also be those who can receive
and intelligently execute his orders.
"When we gointo the business Of manu-
featuring goods In the lines of fabrics, of
paper, jute, and Of making boards out OF
straw aud even beyond this, and harness
tine lightDings of the heavens and
the waters of Niagara, it is evident to all
that brain must be mixed with
business as never before. On the other
hand the light of Christianity, the in
fuence of the golden rule and the recog-
milton OF universal brotherhood all make
It necessary that business shall be con
Quoted according to the Ten Command
lnents aud the Sermon on the Mount.
"The get rich quick, the shortcuts TO
wealth. The tricks in trade are more and
more frowned upon, and lives like that Of
George w Childs, who said integrity. in
dustry and economy were the foundation
of his fortune, are more and more exalted
and appreciated.
five accept these things as true.
then books, good books must have
greater influence in siness than ever
before. Books are the very life blood of
the brain as food is of the body In
order to secure the best possible service
and highest degree of usefulness of
W ich the body is capable it must be
kept clean, well clothed, carefully fed
with variety of food, il must be given
proper rest and recreation and housed
If sick the physician must be called and
medicines given.
Zone of tho FIRST requisites Of a sound
strong intellect Is pure mindedness
! HOw are we to secure this in our de-
praved state, in a world of corrupt asso
cistionsg There are books which contain
the truth in such degree, if properly
read, will rid the mind of it's impurity
and hold up such pure characters before
It that the thought will be,sO fastened on
the truth that the mind will become like
those it reads about, the heart like
what it thinks about One Of the
| greatest of ancient teachers said as a
man thinketh in his heart so is he A
man grows more and more like his ideal.
whether that be low, groveling and
mean, or whether it be high, pure and
sublime.
In books in good books, we have sci
forth ideals, high ideals, pure ideals, and
the success of business men who have
sought TO attain the same, and we cannot
read of their success or failure, under
standing the causes OF the same, without
having the life-blood of our brain
ouickened, strengthened and purified.
The business men OF the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries need TO be mer
of strong viii, so that the idoal set be
fore them may be attained though tn,
heavens fall The man who formulatsl
a plan mustgha a will to follow it II,
who resolves must have a will to execute
He must be able to say yes when b,
knows he ought and to say no when he il
convinced it is for the best.
"The all round man does not become
monomaniac, because of his work and Il
less likely TO become such from disease
"a gray-haired business man Travelled
several miles to attend the funeral o
Lord Tennyson and gives TO the worl,
the story. that in the darkest hour Of BIZ
life, when his heart was bruised by tn
tragedy OF disappointment ana lost low
Tennyson's Ia Memoriam, fell into hi
hands. It was the fruit of the tree o
= life for the healing of his grief II re
called him to the broader horizons.
T ministered to the mind diseased. From
that hour Tennyson became TO him
! friend that WAS closer than a brother
! Through all his long business life OF toi
3 and harassment he found that the powe
/ of poetry touched his soul and held
5 above the corruption and selishness o
the world
p In the college here you have q well
= selected library for your needs ss com
( mercial students Make the best publica
i tions your companions outside ofbusines
? hours, rather than seek recreation an
I companions in questionable places q
? with persons Of doubtful character. Ye
t do not need to go to the theatre for
g good laugh there are good books tbs
will make you either laugh or cry. Blu
above all books for the whol
d man, for all his faculties TAX
t the book of books, the Bible, and folio
5 its instructions, heed its warnings. stud
its precepts. embrace its promises, an
Won will be thOroughlv furnished Joh