The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-26

ness men. 1ney neeQ divine and chris
tian help. When we begin to tall
about business life we shoot right of
and talk about men who did business
on large scale. and who sold millions
of dollars of goods year; but the vast
majority of business men do not sell {
million dollars of goods. nor half q
million, nor quarter of million. mol
an eigth part of million. Put all the
business men OF our cities, towns, vii
lagos and neighborhood side by side.
and you viii find that they sell less
| than $50, 600 worth of goods All these
men in ordinary business life want di-
vine help. You see how the wrinkles
are printing on the countenance
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 45 with the stoop of a nono-
genarian. No time to attend to i'm
proved 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 neg
lected clock to which you come, and
you wind it up, and it begins to buzz
and roar, and then the clock strikes
five, or ten, or forty. and strikes
without any sense, and then sud
denly stops. So is the body of
that WORKOUT business man. 1t is a
neglected clock. and though by some
summer recreation it may be wound
up. still the machinery is all out of
gear. The hands turn around with a
velocity that excites the establishment
of the world. Men cannot understand
the wonderful activity. and there is a
roar, and buzz. and a rattle about
these disordered lives. and they strike
ten when they ought to strike i've. 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
ination reveals the fact that all the
balance-wheels of health are COM
pletely deranged. The human clock
has simply run down.
Now. what is wanted is grace-di-
vine grace for ordinary business men.
who are harnessed from morn till
night and all the days of their life
harnessed in business. Not grace to
lose a hundred thousand. but grace to
lose so. Not grace to super
wise 250 employees in fac
tory. but grace to supervise the
bookkeeper, and two statesmen, and
the small boy that sweeps out the
store. Grace to invest not the $50. 600
of ne profit, but the $500 of clear
gain. Grace not to endure the loss of
a whole shipload of spices from the
Indies, but grace to endure the loss If
a paper of collars from the leakage of
a displaced shingle on a 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 stopping to play
marbles when he ought to deliver the
goods. Such a grace as thousands of
business men have to-dav-keeping
them tranquil whether goods sell or do
not sell, whether customers paw or do
not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff
is down, whether the crops are luxuri-
ant or dead failure-calm in all cir
and amid all vicissitudes.
That is the kind OF grace we want
Millions of men want it. and they have
it for the asking. Some hero or hero
inc comes to town, and as the process
sion passes through the street, the
business men come out and stand on
tiptoe on their store steps and look
at some one who in Arctic cline.
or in ocean storm. or in day of bat
tie, or in hospital agonies. did the
brave thing, not realizing that they. |
the enthusiastic spectators, have gone |
trials in business life that are |
business men need is to re-
alize that they have the friendship of |
that Christ who looked after the re-
ligious interests of Matthew. the Gus |
tom house clerk, and helped Lydia, of |
to sell the dry goods, and |
who opened a bakery and fish mar
ket in the wilderness of Asia Minor |
to feed the seven thousand who |
had come out on a religious picnic. |
and who counts the hairs of your |
head with as much particularly as
though they were the plumes of a
and who took the trouble |
to stoop down with his finger writing
On the ground, although the first
shuttle of feet obliterated the divine
and who knows just how
many locusts there were in the Egypt
ian plague, and knew just how many
ravens were necessary to supply |
Elijah's pantry by the brook Cherith,
and who, as floral commander, leads |
forth all the regiments of primroses.
daffodils. hyacinths and |
lilies which pitch their tents of beauty |
and kindle their camp-fires of color all
around the hemisphere-that that
Christ and that God knows the most
minute affairs of your business life
md however inconsiderable, under
standing all the affairs of that woman
who keeps a thread-and-needle store
Is well as all the affairs of Roths-
mild and Stewart
Then there are all the ordinary farm
RS. We talk about agricultural life.
md we Immediately shoot off to talk
about Cincinnatus, the patrician, who
vent from the pillow to a high position,
Ind after he got through the dictator
hip in twenty-one days went back
again to the pillow. What encourage
nent is that to ordinary farmers? The
Tast majority of them-none of them
will be patricians. Perhaps none of
hem viii be senators. If any of
hem have relationships it will be
'ver forty, or fifty, or a hundred
Icres of the old homestead. What
hose men want is grace to keep