The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-02-19

dias and Alfalfa, and Dorcas and tho
Marys, excellent and abandoncd-it il
high time some of the attention we
have been giving TO these conspicuous
women of the Bible be given TO Julia
an ordinary woman, amid ordinary cir.
cumstances, attending to duties, and
meeting ordinary responsibilities.
Then there are all the ordinary bust
ness men. They need Divine and
Christian help. When we begin to
talk ABOUT business life we shoot right
off and talk about men who did bust
ness on a large scale, and who sold
millions of dollars of goods year; and
the vast majority of business men do
not sell IA million dollars of goods, nor
half n million, nor quarter of a million,
nor the eighth part of n million. Put
all the business men of our cities,
towns, villages, and neighborhoods
side by side, and you will find that
they sell less than "a hundred thou
sand dollars worth of goods. All
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 30. a man at IS with the stoop of "a
nonogenarian. No time to attend to
improved dentistry the grinders cease
because they are few. Actually dying
of old age at 40 or 80. when they ought
to be at the meridian. Many of these
business men have bodies like a
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
worn-out businessman. 1t is a neglect
ed 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 cxcites the aston
! ishment of the world. Men can
not understand the wonderful activity,
! and there is n roar, n buzz, and IA rattle
! about these disordercd lives, and they
strike L. 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 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 30, 81. 40, -.
Now, what is wanted is grace-di-
vine grace for ordinary business men,
men who are harnessed from morn till
night and allthe 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
bookkecper. 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 whole
ship load of spices from the Indies. but
grace to endure the loss of paper of
collars from the leakage of displaced
single on n paper 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 grace as thousands of business
men have to-day-<eeping 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 failure 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 tiptoe 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 agonics did the brave thing,
not realizing that they, the enthusi-
astic spectators, have gone through
trials in business life that are Just $
great before God. There are men who
have gone through freezing arctics and
burning torrents, andawful Marengoes
of experiences without moving five
miles from their own doorstep.
Now, what ordinary business men
need is to realize that they have the
friendship of that Christ who looked
after the religious interests of Mat
thew, the custom-house clerk, and
helped Lydia, of Thyatira, to sell the
dry goods, and who opened bakery
and fishmarxet in the wilderness of
Asia Minor to feed the 5000 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 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
she 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 prim-
roses, foxgloves, daffodils, hyacinths
and lilies which mitch thoir fantc ~