Connecticut western news., 1895-07-25

part CT u m1lllOn. Tut all the DuS1neSS men of cur cities, towns, villages and | leighborhCods side by side, and you will find that they sell less than $5O,- | poo worth of goods All these men in ordinary business life want divine help. You see how the wrinkles are printing on the countenance the story of worri- i nent and care. You cannot tell how old business man is by looking at him. 3ray hairs at 30 A man at 45 with the ,toop of nonogenarian. No time to at tend to improved dentistry, the grinders cease because they are few. Actually lying of old age at 10 or 30 when they ought to be at the meridian.
 Many of these business men have | bodies like neglected clock to which you come, and you wind it up, and 1t begins to buzz and roar, and then the hands stars around very rapidly, and then the clock strikes or 10 or 40, md strikes without any sense, and then suddenly stops. So is the body of that wornout business man. It is a neglect ! sd clock, and though by some summer ,ecreation it play be wound up still the machinery is all out of gear. The hands 1 ;he astonishment of the world. Men cannot understand the wonderful activ- | ty, and there is a roar, and a buzz, and rattle about these disordered lives, and they strike ten when they ought to strike five, and they strike 12 when | hey ought to strike six, and they strike 10 when they ought to strike nothing, md suddenly they stop. Post mortem | examination reveals the fact that all the springs and pivots and weights and bal ,nce wheels of health are completely leranged The human clock has simply | .un down. And at the time when the steady hand ought to be pointing to the industrious hours on clear and sunht lial the whole machinery of body, mind md earthly capacity stops forever. The | cemeteries haye thousands of business nen who died of old age at 30, 35, 40, i5.
 The Best Kind of Grace.
 Now, what is wanted is grace-divine | Tace for ordinary business men, men who are harnessed from morn till night md all the days of their life-harnessed n business Not grace to lose $100,- poo, but grace to lose $10.. Net grace % supervise 25O employees in a factory, put grace to supervise the bookkeeper md two salesmen and the small boy hat sweeps out the store. Grace to in- vest not the $50, 900 of net profit, but :he $2, 800 of clear gain. Grace not to endure the loss of a whole shipload of pices from the Indies, but grace to en- lure the loss of paper of collars from ;he leakage of displaced shingle on poor roof.
 Grace not to endure the tardiness of he American congress in passing nec- ,ssarv Jaw but grace to endure the tar illness of an errand boy stopping to play marbles when he ought to deliver the l yoods; such Q grace as thousands of business men have today, keeping them tranquil whether goods sell or do not Iell, whether customers pay or do not pay, whether the tariff is up or tariff is town, whether the crops are luxuriant Yr dead failure, calm in all circum- stances and amid all vicissitudes-tha s the kind of grace we want. Millions # men want it. and they may have it or the asking Some hero or heroine comes to town, and as the procession passes through the street the business nen come out and stand on tiptoe on heir store steps and look at some one who in arctic cline or in ocean storm ,r in day of battle or in hospital agonies lid the brave thing, not realizing that hey, the enthusiastic spectators, have yone through trials in business life that sre just as great before God. There are nen who have gone through freezing lrctics and burning torIids and awful Marengos of experiences without moving i've miles from their doorsteps. Now, what ordinary business men need is to .ealize that they have the friendship of hat Christ who looked after the religious interests of Matthew, ths custom house clerk, and helped Lydia of Thyatira to pll the dry goods, and who opened a bakery and fish market in the wilderness f Asia Minor to feed the 1000 who had come out on religious picnic, and who counts the hairs of your head with as much particularity as though they were he plumes of coronation, and who .ook the trouble to stoop down with his finger writing on the ground, although he first shuttle of feet obliterated the 1ivine caligraphy, and who knows just now many locusts there were ill the Egyptian 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, fox gloves, daffodils, hyacinths and lilies which pitch their tents of beauty and | 1o !, Gyac c/,fo M nd she hemisphere; that that Christ and slat God know the most minute affairs E your business life. and, however in-
 considerable, understanding all the af
 fairs of that woman who keeps thread
 and needle store as we'll as all the affair
 of Rothschild and Stewart.
 Tillers of the Soil.
 Then there are all the ordinary farm
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 Cincinnatus, the patrician, who wen
 from the blow to high position, an' after he got through the dictatorship il 21 days went back again to the blow
 What encouragement is that to ordinar, farmers? The vast majority of them none of them, will be patricians. Per haps none of them will be senators. l any of them have Relationships, it vii be over 40 or 50 or 100 acres of the ol : homestead. What those men want grace to keep their patience while blow ing with balky oxen and to keep cheerfu amid the drought that destroys the cor. crop and that enables them to restor the garden the day after the neighbor cattle have broken in and trampled ou the strawberry bed and gone through tn lima bean patch and eaten up the swee corn in such large quantities that the must be kept from the water lest the swell up and die; grace in catchin weather that enables them without in
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