The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-08-01


their want Of 1t, or remarkable for
Herodias and Athaliah, and Dorcas
and the Marys, excellent or abandoned
1T is high time that some Of the at
tention we have been giving to these
conspicuous women Of the Bible be
given to Julia of the text, an ordinary
woman amid ordinary circumstances,
attending to ordinary duties, and meet
ing ordinary responsibilities.
Then there are all the ordinary bust
ness men. They need divine and
Christian help. When we begin to
talk about business life we shoot right
off and talk about men who did bust
ness on large scale, and who sold MIL
lions of dollars of goods a year; but
the vast majority of business men do
not sell a million dollars Of goods, nor
half million, nor a quarter Of a mil
lion nor the, eighth part of million.
Put all the business men of our cities,
| towns, villages and neighhorhc DDS side
by side and you will find that they sell
less than $4,000 worth of goods. All
| these men in ordinary business life
want divine help. You see how the
wrinkles are printing on the counte-
nance the story of Worriment and care.
You cannot tell how old a business
man is by looking at him. Gray hairs
at 80. A man at As with the stoop of
a nonogenarian. No time to attend to
improved dentistry, the grinders cease
because they are few. Actually dying
of old age at 40 or so, when they ought
to be at the meridian. Many Of these
business men have bodies like a ne
elected clock to which you come, and
you wind it up, and it begins to buzz
and roar, and then the hands start
around very rapidly, and then the
clock strikes five, or ten, or forty, and
strikes without any sense and then
suddenly stops. So is the body Of that
WORKOUT business man. 1t is a ne
elected clock, and though by summer
recreation it may be wound up, still
the machinery is all out of gear. The
hands turn around with velocity that
excites the establishment of the world.
Men can not understand the wonderful
activity and there is a roar, and a
buzz, and rattle about these disor-
dered lives, and they strike ten when
they ought to strike five, and they
strike twelve when they ought to
strike six, and they strike forty when
they ought to strike nothing, and sud-
denly they stop. Post-mortem exam
nations reveals the fact that all the
springs, and piyots, and weights, and
balance-wheels of health are complete
ly deranged. The human clock has
simply run down. And at the time
when the steady hand ought to be
pointing to the industrious hours on a
clear and sunlit dial, the whole ma
chinery Of body, mind, and earthly
capacity stops forever. The GENE
teries have thousands of business men
who died of old age at 30. 35. 40. IS.
Now, what is wanted is grace-di-
vine grace for ordinary business men.
men who are harnessed from morn till
night and all the days of their life
harnessed in business. Not grace to
lose hundred thousand, but grace to
lose ten dollars. Not grace to super
wise two hundred and fifty employees
in factory, but grace to supervise
the bookkeeper, and two statesmen
and the small boy that sweeps out the
store. Grace to invest not the eighty
thousand dollars of net profit, but the
twenty-five hundred of clear gain
Grace not to endure the loss of a
: whole shipload Of spices from the In
dies, but grace to endure tile loss of a
paper OF collars from the leakage of
displaced single ON poor roof
Grace not to endure the hardness OF
the, American congress in passing a
necessary law, but grace to endure
the hardness of an errand boy stop
ping to play marbles when he ought
to deliver the goods. Such grace as
thousands of business men have to-
day-keeping them tranquil whether
goods SELL or do not sell; whether Gus
toners pay or do not pay; whether
tariff is up or tariff is down; whethe,
the crops are luxuriant or a dead fail
ure--calm in all circumstances an(
amid all vicissitudes. That is the kline
Of grace, we want. Millions of mer
want it, and they may have it for the
asking. Some hero or heroine comes
to town, and as the procession passes
through the street. the business me1
come out and stand on tiptoe on thei]
store step and look at some one who
IN arctic cline, or in ocean storm, o.
in day of battle, or in hospital agonies
did the brave thing, not realizing tina
they, the enthusiastic spectators, hay,
: gone through trials in business lif,
that are Just as great before God
There are men who have gone through
freezing arctics, and burning torrids
and awful Marengoes of experience,
: without moving five miles. from thei
doorsteps. Now, what ordinary sbusi
ness men need is to realize that the
: have the friendship Of that Chris
who looked otter the religious inter
ests of Matthew, the custom >hous
&: clerk, and helped Lydia of Thyatira
to sell the dry goods, and who opene,
a bakery and fish market in the will
derness Of Asia Minor to feed ZOO
; who had come out on religious pic
ME, and who counts the hairs of YOU
head with as much PARTICULARLY a
though they were the plumes of TIL
coronation, and who took the troubl
to stoop down with his finger writin.
Oh the ground, although the first shut
!, f1e of feet obliterated the divine cali
i graphy, and who knows just how
many locusts there were in the Egyp
tan plague, and knew just how man.
ravens We're necessary to suppl
Elijah's pantry by the brook O
:, Cherifh, and who, as floral. command
! er, leads forth all the regiments o
prinrpses, foxgloves, daffodils, hya
cinthS, and lilies which MITCH thai