The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-22

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sto0p OF the nonogenarian. No time 20
attend 10 improved dentistry. the grinders
cease because they are few. Actually dy-
ing OF old age at forty or fifty. when
they ought 10 be at the meridian Many
OF these business men have bodies like a
neglected clock 10 which you come and
wind 81 up, and Il begins 10 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.
Il is neglected clock. and though by some
summer recreation 10 may be wound up,
stin the machinery Is all out Of gear. The
hands turn around with 4 velocity that eX-
cites the astonishment OF the world. Men
cannot understand the wonderful activity.
and there Is a roar and a buzz. and a rat
tie about these disordered lives. and they
strike ten when they ought 70 strike hye,
and they strike twelve when they ought 10
strike six, and they strike forty when they
ought 10 strike nothing, and suddenly
they stop Post norton examinations re-
veals the fact that all the springs, and
pivots. and weights and balance wheels
Of health are completely deranged.
The human clock has simply run down.
And al the time when the steady hand
ought 20 be pointing to the Industrious
hours on a clear and sun-lit dial, the
whole machinery OF body. mind. and earth
~ capacity stops forever. The cemete-
ries have thousands OF business men who
died OF old age at thirty. thirty-five, forty.
foriy-nve
Now. what Is wanted IS grace-divlne
grace for ordinary business men, men
who are harnessed from morn TIL night
and all the days Of their life-harnessed
In business Not grace 10 lose a hundred
thousand, but grace to lose ten dollars.
Not grace TO supervise two hundred and
fifty employees in a factory. but grace 10
supervise the bookkeeper, and two sales
men, 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 spice from the Indies. but grace to en-
dure the loss Of n paper OF collars from the
leakage Of a displaced shngle on a poor
roof. Grace not 10 endure the hardness
Of the American congress in passing nee
essary law, but grace to endure the tar
diness of an errand boy stopping to play
marbles when he ought TO deliver the
goods. Such a grace as thousands of bus
mess men have to-day-keeping them tran
quill whether goods sell or do not sell,
whether customers pay or do not pay,
whether tariff Is up or tariff is down,
whether the crops are luXuriant or dead
faiure-calm in all circumstances and
amid all vicissitudes That is the kind of
grace we want Millions Of men want it.
and they may have II for the asking. Some
hero or heroine comes to town, and as the
procession passes through the street the
business men come out and stand on tip
toe on their store steps and look at some
one who in Arctic cline, or
in ocean storm, or in day
of battle or in hospital agonies, did
the brave thing, not realizing that they,
the enthusiastic spectators, have gone
through trials in business life that are
Just as great before God. There are men
who have gone through freezing Arctics.
and burning torrids, and awful Marengoes
of experiences without moving five miles
from their doorsteps. Now, what ordinary
business men need is to realize that they
have the friendship OF that Christ who
looked after the religious interests OF
Matthew, the custom house clerk, and
helped Lydia of Thyatira, to sell the dry
goods, and who opened bakery and hsh
market in the wilderness of Asia Minor
to feed the seven thousand who had come
out on q religious picnic, and who counts
the hairs OF your head with as much par
tioularity as though they were the plumes
Of a coronation, and who took the trouble
to stoop down with his finger writing on
the ground although the first shuttle of
feet obliterated the divine caligraphy, and
who knows just how many locusts there
were in the Egyptian plague, and knew
lust how many ravens were necessary to
supply Eliiahs pantry by the brook Che
rith, 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 kin
die their camp fires Of color all around the
hemisphere-that that Christ and that God
knows the most minutes affairs of your
business life and however ihconsiderable,
understanding all the affairs of that wo-
man who keeps a thread-and-needle store
as well as all the affairs of Rothschld
and a Stewart.
Then there are all the ordinary farmers.
We talk about agricultural life. and we
Immediately shoot off to talk about Gin
cinnatus the patrician who went from the
plough to a high position, and after he
got through the dictatorship in twenty
one days went back again to the plough.
What encouragement is that to ordinary
farmers? The vast majority of them
none Of them will be patricians. Perhaps
none of them viii be senators If any of
them have relationships 1t viii be over
forty. or fifty, or hundred acres OF the
old homestead. What those men want is
grace to keep their patience while plough
ing with ball5y oxen. and to keep cheerful
amid the drought that destroys the corn
crop, and that enables them to restore the
garden the day after the neighbors cattle
have broken in and trampled out the
strawberry bed, and gone through the
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corn in such large quantities that they
must be kept from the water lest they
swell up and die. Grace in catching wealth
er that enables them, without impreca-
ton. to spread out the hay the third time,
although again and again and again it
has been almost ready for the NOV. a
grace TO doctor the COW with a hollow
horn, and the sheep with the foot-rot, and
the horse with the distemper. and to COM
pei the unwilling acres TO yield liveli-
hood for the family, and schooling for the
children, and little extras TO help the
older boy in business and something for
the daughters wedding outfit, and a little
surplus for the time when the ankles will
get stiff with age, and the breath will
be a little short, and the swinging of the
cradle through the hot harvest field will
bring on the old mans vertigo. Better
close up about Cincinnatus. l know five
hundred farmers just as noble as he was.
What they want is to know that they
have thefriendship of that Christ who Off
Ia drew~his SMILES from the farmers life,
.fwhen he said: "A sower went forth to
Ew:" as when he built his best parable
Ec0t of the scene of a farmers boy coming