Milford chronicle., 1895-07-26

cause 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 neglected clock to
which you come, and you wind 1t up, and
I it begins TO buzz and roar, and then the
! handG start around very rapidly, and then
the clock strikes or 10 or 40, and strikes
without any sense, and then suddenly
stops. So is the body of that wornout
/ business man. 1t is a neglected clock, and
| though by some summer recreation 1t may
be wound up still the machinery is all out
of gear. The hands turn around with a
velocity that excites the astonishment of
the world
Men cannot understand the wonderful
activity, and there is a roar, and a buzz,
and rattle about these disordored lives,
and they strike 10 when they ought to
strike ., and they strike IL when they
ought to strike 6, and they strike 40 when
they ought to strike nothing, and suddenly
they stop. PostmOrtem examination re-
yeals the fact that all ths springs and piv-
OTIS and weights and balance wheels OF
health are completely doranged. The hu.
man clock has simply run down And at
the time when the steady hand ought to be
pointing to the industrious hours on
clear and sunlit dial, the whole machinery
of body, mind and earthly capacity stops
forever. The cemeteries have thousands Of
business men who died Of old age at 80,
50, 40, 49,
The Kind Of Grace Needed.
Now, what is wanted is grace-divine
grace for ordinary business mon, men who
arc harnessed from morn till night and all
the days of their life-harnessed in bust
ness. Not grace to lose 500, OO0, but grace
TO lose $40. Not grace to supervise $50
employees in a factory, but grnce to super
wise the bookkeeper and two statesmen and
the small boy that sweeps out the store.
Grace to invest not the $50, 900 Of net
profit hut the 81, 500 Of clear gain. Grace
not to endure the loss Of n whole shipload
Of spices from the Indies, bat grace TO en-
dure the loss of 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 neces-
sary law, but grace 20 endure the tardlness
of an errand boy stopping to play marbles
when he ought to deliver the goods. Such
a grace as thousands Of business men have
them tranquil whether
goods sell or do not sell, whether custom !
ers pay or do not pay, whether tariff is up |
or tariff is down, whether the crops are |
luxuriant or a dead failure-oalm in all |
and amid all vicissitudes. |
Thatals the kind Of grace we want. Mil
lions Of mon 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 men come out and stand on
tiptoo 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
lgOnies, did the brave thing, not realizing
that they, the enthusiastic spectators, have
como through trials in business life that
are just as great before God. There are
mon who have gone through freezing arc
tics and burning tOrrids and awful Maren-
gos of experiences without moving five
miles from their doorsteps. Now what
ordinary business men need is to realize
hat they have the friendship of that Christ
who looked after the religious interests Of
Matthew, the custom house clerk and
helped Lydia of ThyatiTa to sell the dry
goods, and who opened bakery and fish
market in the wilderness of Asia Minor to
eed the 1000 who had come ont on a re-
igious picnic, and who counts the hairs of
TOur head with as much particularly as
hough they were the plumes Of a corona
ion, ana VINO TOOK the trouble TO slOop
Town with his finger writing ON the
,round, although the first shuttle Of feet
lbliterated the divine caligraphy, and who
Knows just how many loousts there were
n the Egyptian plague and knew just
low many ravens were necessary to supply
Elijah's pantry by the brook Cherith, and
Who, as floral commander, leads forth all
he regiments Of primroses, foxglOves, daft
odils, hyacinths and lilies which pitch
heir tents of beauty and kindle their camp
Tres of color all around the hemisphere;
hat that Christ and that God knows the
most minute affairs Of your business life,
nd, however inconsiderable, understand
ng all the affairs of that woman who
eeps u thread and needle store as well as
Il the affairs of a Rothschild and a Stew
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