The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-09-02
BUSINESS TRIALS.
Dr.. Talmage Shows How They Re
fine the Spirit.
ReitxIsa In Trnde-The Merchants
Once m school of Industry, Pa
sience, Integrity and Up
right Living.


anairs OF life, and instead of being
enforcement. The text is Romans /:
IL: Not slothful in business; ferver
in spirit; serving the Lord"
Industry, devoutness and Christia
scrvice--all commended in that shoI
text. What, is it possible that the
shall be conjoincd? Oh, yes. There
no war between religion and bushes!
between lcdgers and Bibles, bctwec
churches and counting houses. On tn
contrary, religion accelerates business
sbarpcns mems wits, sweetens accrbit.
of disposition, fllips the blood of phleg
matics and throws more velocity int
the wheels of hard work. 1t gives bet
ter balancing to the Judgment. more
strength To the will, more muscles Il
p industry and throws into enthusiasm ;
more consecratcd fire. You cannot in
NIL the circle of the world show-Ipe 4
man whose honest business has been
despoilcd by religion.
The Industrial classes are divided into
three groups producers, manufac-
turcrs, traders. Producers, such as
farmers and miners. Manufacturers.
such as those who turn corn into food
and wool and flax into apparel. Traders,
such rs make profit out of the transfer
and exchange of all that which is pro-
duccd and manufactured A business
man may belong TO any one or all of
these classes, and not one is indepcnd-
ent of any other.
When the prince imperial Of France
fell on the Zulu battlefield because the
strap fastening the stirrup 10 the saddle
broke as he chung TO it, his comrades
all escaping, but he falling under the
lanccS of the sayages, great many
people blamed the empress for allow
ing her son to go forth into that bat
tlciicld, and others blamed the Eng
lish government for accepting the sac
rificc, and others blamed the Xulus for
their barbarism. The one most to blame
was the harness maker who fashioned
that strap of the stirrup out of shoddy
and imperfect material, as il was found
10 have been afterward. If the strap
had held, the prince imperial would
probably have been alive to-day. But
the strap broke. No prince indcpcnd-
cnt Of harness maker! High, low,
wjsc, ignorant, you in one occupation,
in another, all bound together.
SO that there must be one continuous
line of sympathy with each others
work. But whatever your vocation,
If you have II multiplicity of engage
mcnts, ifinto your life there come losses
and aEnoyances and perturbations a.
well as percentages and dividends, if
You are pursued from Monday morning
until Saturday night, and from January
10 January by memorable obligation
AMI duty, then you are business man,
or Won are n. business woman, and
my subject is appropriate to your
CASE.
We are under the impression that the
mol and tug of business life are pris-
on into which man is thrust, or
that ii is an unequal strife, where UNI
armed a man goes forth to contend, |
shall show you this morning that bust
ness life was intended of God for grand
and glorious education and discipline.
and If ! shall be helped to say what
want TO say ] shall rub some of the
wrinkles of care out of your brow and
unstrup some of the burdens from your
back. ] am not talking of an abstrac-
ton. Though never having been in
business life, ] know all about bust
ness men. In my first parish at Belle
willie. n. j., ten miles from New York,
Il large portion of my audience was
made up of New York merchants Then
! went to Syracuse, place of immense
commercial activity, and then | went
Go Philadelphia and lived long among
The merchants at that city, than whom
there are no be Scr men on earth, and
for - years l stood at my Brooklyn
pulpit, Sabbath by Sabbath, preaching
tnaudicnccs the majority of whom were
business men and business women. 1T
is not an abstraction of which speak,
but "a reality with which ] am well ac-
qnainted.
In the first place, i remark that
business life was intended MS II school
of energy. God gives us a certain
amount of raw material out of which we
are To hew our character. Our facul-
ties are To be reset, rounded and sharp
encd up. Our young folks having grad
uatcd from school or college need Il
higher education, that which the rasp-
ing collision of everyday life alone can
effect. Energy is wrought out only
in the fire. After man has been in
business activity 10, 20, 80 years, his
energy is not TO be measured by weights
or piummets or ladders. There is no
height il cannot scale, and there is no
depth il cannot fathom, and there is no
obstacle IL cannot thrash.
Now, my brother, why did God put
you in that school of energy? Was IL
merely that you might be a yardstick
to measure cloth, or steclyard TO
weigh flour? Was IL merely that you
might be better qualified to chatter and
biggle? No. God placed~you in that
school of energy that you might be de-
vciopcd for Christian work. If the I'M
developed talents in the Christian
churches Of to-day were brought out
and thoroughly harnesscd, 1 believe the
whole Garth would be converted to God
I'm tweIvemonth. There are so many
deep streams thu. are turning no mill