The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-10

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my and conquered The ancient kingdom
Of the Jews and thrown off the triple
yoke of Roman and kingly tyranny If
he had bat so desired. He threw that
opportunity away again and again. He
might have been wealthy, if he had
used his magniidi cant powersto accumu-
late wealth. Hmight have had the
great. and powerful as his friends, but
swhenpeopie csdne to crown him and
make him theif1eader he escaped. And
Eshe died NEST miserable death, amid
exhe moek. and ieer and scorn Of hisen-
! slniies crlics between two thieges,
with not grave that he could call his
own, his very clothes stripped from his
body. dying thus outside the walls OF
Jerusalem, miserable felon, deserted
by his disciples, disowned by all who
knew him except few faithful women.
/ That's the kind Of life he lived. That is
what he meant when he said, IF man
would save his life, let him lose it, and
if he would find it let him lay It down. .
WHAT FAITH IS.
The second principle of Christianity
is what we call faith-the power to be-
ieve in something-to believe in God
and in man, our brother, the image of
God. The next principle is that of
5love-love to God and man. That is to
be y Eh1iistiianu, sanda HAT Is Christianity.
l take it from the definitions of Jesus,
from his life and character and from
his recorded word.
Second-What is business odern,
successful bnsiness-today? In the first
place, it rests upon the antithesis OF
sacrifice. Sacrifice represents one pole,
business the other pole, and thesdaner-
sence that separates them is gull as
deep and wide and as impossible 5asSthe
gulf that separates heaven from hell.
Tbefrst principle Of yeur modern busl.
ness world is war, competition, brutal
sfght-every man for himself. It IS the
strongest arm tlatwins, and the weakest
saee ire trampled 70 the earth and killed
sndsbeatenswithouf mercy. War and
pestilence are the only hope to regulate
our population, according to the princi-
pies Of this modern business world.
The brutal survive, while the weak per-
ish. What is to become Of this vast ar
my of weaklings? Well, our Malthusian
philosophers say: Ne will have pes
stilencaby and by, and God will send
Us the cholera. Orif not God in his
goodness and mercy viii send Us a war,
and war will thin the ranks, and the
battle will begin again. After the
weaklings have been eliminated the
world viii not be so crowded. and we
can proceed. -
S Such is the basis on which modern
commerce rests. In this battle, this
war, this madness, this struggle, the
very competition which has been called
the life Of trade is itsadefeat. For you
have only to press competition to GER
tain period when men who are fighting
each other know they must combine or
die. Only press your competition far
senough,. and it s either suicide or COM
sbinafon. This mingsinto your world,
8 governed BY that principle, infinite con-
fusion, for when that defeats itself and
no new system takes its place the result is
chaos cheating, lying, ,swindling. steal
ing, crime, intemperance. suicide, de-
spair. Why do men open saloons and sell
whisky? Why, because they have accept
ed this modern principle Of the modern
world that the strongest man is theman
that is worthy to survive: that it IS a
battle, war. and he who is victorious
is the man who il. crowned, let the bust
nessbe Wexts It may. Hencesthe gam
bler,wh does NOT hesitate about his
methods, saying that might oonsti itntes
the arsf principle Of your modern
world. Daily facts these are. Lying IN
the business wofld-so much there is Of
il il alletradest gRerreaching is what
thousands Of men are after in the busi-
ness world. To overreach man and
get the better Of him by some trick; to
ret cut of him more than we give In re-
turn. That is the sum total of the pur
pose Of some lives. IF in war a man is
wounded, You pass him by. Most heart
less Of all things in the world is your
modern business war. When man fall
by the wayside in modern business, the
world has no mercy, no heart, no ear to
pity, no arm TO save. That is modern
business.
Christianity s certainly in deadly
conflict with that sortsof life-succtes-
full businesswith modern methods down
to date. There are business men who
are honest. There are men who have
set cut in the world with the determi-
nation to make honor and truth and the
good of society their aim, and they have
grown wealthy some Of those men. They
have grown powerful. Now, that being
a fact, the man who departs hem that
law and says that he can justify him
self on the grounds Of success has be-
lieved lie that he may damn himself
in the process. There are men today
whose business career is absolutely
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