Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-03-25

those 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 can not tell how old business
man is by looking at him. Gray hairs
at 80. A man at As with the stoop of
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 II
neglected clock, to which you come,
and when you wind it up it begins to
buzz and roar, and then the hands
start around very rapidly, and then the
clock strikes five, or ten, or 40, and
strikes without any sense, and then
suddenly stops, So is the body of that
WORKOUT businessman. 1t is neglect
ed 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 aston
ishment of the world. Men can
not understand the wonderful activity,
and there is roar, buzz, and rattle
about these disordered lives, and they
strike IL when they ought to strike six,
and they strike 40 when they ought to
strike nothing, and suddenly they
stop. Post-mortem examination re-
vcals the fact that all the springs, and
pivots, and weights, and balance
wheels of health are completely de-
ranged. The human clock is 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 machinery of
body, mind and earthly capacity stops
forever Oak Hill and Greenwood
have thousands of business men who
died of old age at 80, 35, 40, As.
Now, what is wanted is grace--di-
vine grace for ordinary business men,
men who are harncssed from morn till
night and all the days of their life
harnessed in business. Not grace to
lose 100000, but grace to lose $40.
Not grace to supervise $50 employees in
a factory, but grace to supervise the
boolSkeeper, and two statesmen, and the
small boy that sweeps out the store.
Grace to invest not the $4,000 of net
profit, but the $500 of clear gain.
Grace not to endure the loss of u whole
shipload of spices from the Indies, but
grace to endure the loss of paper of
collars from the leakage of displaced
shinglc on paper roof Grace not to
endure the hardness of the American
congress in passing 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-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 a
dead failure-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 it for the asking. Some
hero or heroine comes to town, and as
the procession passes through the
street the business men come out. stand
on tiptoc on their store step 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 enthusi-
astic spectators, have gone through
trials in business life that are Just a.
great before God. There are men who
have gone through freezing arctics and
burning torrents, and awful Marengocs
Of experiences without moving five
miles from their own doorstep.
Now, what ordinary business mer
need is to realize that they have tn,
friendship of that Christ who looked
after the religious interests of Mat
thew, the custom-housc clerk, anC
helped Lydia, of Thyatira, to sell tn,
dry goods, and who opened bakery
and fishmarket in the wilderness o
Asia Minor to feed the 5000 who haC
come out on religious picnic, and wht
counts the hairs of your head with al
much particularly as though thel
were the plumes of coronation, anC
who took the trouble to stoop down
with His finger writing on the ground
although the first shuttle of fee
obliterated the divine caligraphy
and who knows just how
many locusts there were il
the Egyptian plague, and knew jus
how many ravens were necessary t,
supply Elijah's pantry by the brool
Cherith, and who, as floral commander
leads forth all the regiments of prim
roses, foXgloves, daffodils, hyacinth
and lilies which pitch their tents o
beauty and lindle their camp-6rcs o
color around the hemisphere tina
Christ and that God know the mos
minute affairs OF your business life an,
however inconsiderable, understandin,
all the affairs OF that woman VIII,
keeps thread-and-needle store as wei
as all the affairs of a Rothschild and
Barring.
Then there are all the ordinary farm
ers. We talk about agricultural life
and we Immediately shoot off to tall
about Cincinnatus, the patrician, VIII
went from the pillow to a high position
and after he got through the dictator
ship, in 81 days went back again t
the pillow. What encouragement is tina
to ordinary farmers? The vast major
ity of thcm-none of them will be pa
, tricians. Perhaps none of them viii b
senators. If any of them have dict;
torships it will be over 40, 80 or 1C
, acres of the old homestead Wha
, these men want is grace to keep thei
patience while blowing with ballSy o'
, en-, and to keep cheeful amid the drough
that destroys the corn crop, and tha
) enables them to restore the garden til
, day after the neighbours cattle hav