The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-24


In the cool breeze and songful with the
robins. There Is just land enough to
keep them interested, and its crops of al
most fabulous richness springing up
under application of the best theories
to be found in the agricultural journals.
The farm Is we'll stocked with cattle and
horses and sheep that know the voice
aud have kindly bleat when one goes
forth to look at them. In this blissful
abode theD children will be instructed In
art and science and religion. This shall
be the old homestead to which the boys
at college will direct their letters, and
the hill on which the house stands will
he called lakewood or Ivy Hill or Pleas
ant Retreat or Eagle Eyre. May the
future have for every business man here
all that and more besides! But are you
postponing your happiness to that time?
Are you adjourning your joys?, Suppose
that you achieve all you expect-and that
the vision mention Is not up to the
reality, because the fountains will be
brighter, the house grander and the seen
cry more picturesque-ths mistake ID
none the less fatal.
What charm will there be in rural
quiet for man who has for 80 or 40
years been conforming bis entire nature
to the excitements Of business? Will
focks and herds with their bleat and
moan be able to silence the Unsuitable
spirit of responsiveness which has for
years had full swing in the soul? Will
the hum of the breeze soothe the man
who now can find his only enjoyment in
the stock market? Will leaf and cloud
and fountain charm the eye that has for
three-fourths Of lifetime found it's
sale? Will parents be competent to rear
their children for high and holy purpose.
II their infancy and boyhood and girlhood
were neglected, when they are almost
ready to enter upon the world and have
oil their habits fixed and their principles
stereotyped? No, no; now is the time
to be happy. Now is the time to serve
your Creator. Now is the time to be
Christian. Are you too busy? l have
known men as busy as you are who had
a place in the store loft where they went
to pray. Someone asked Christian
sailor where he found any place to pray
in. He said, II can always find quiet
place at masthead" And in the busiest
day of the season if your heart is right
you Gun find place to pray. Busy
thoroughfares are good places to pray in
as you go to meet your various engage
ments. Go home little earlier and get
introduced to your children. Be not
galley slave by day and night dashed
fast to the oar of business. Let every
day have its hour for worship and in
tellectual culture and recreation. Show
yourself greater than your business. Act
not as though after death you would enter
upon an eternity Of railroad stocks and
coffees and ribbons Roast not your man
hood before the perpetual fires Of anxiety
With every yard of cloth you sell, throw
not in your soul to boot. Use firkin and
counting room desk and hardware crate
as the step to glorious usefulness and
highest Christian character. Decide
once and forever who shall be master
In your store, you or your business
Awakened From LetharGy.
Again, business men are often tempted
to let their calling interfere with the In
terests of the soul. God sends men into
the business world to get educated, just
as boys are sent to school and college.
Purchase and sale, loss and gain, disap-
pointment, prosperity, the dishonesty of
others, panic and bank suspension are
hnt a;ffarent lessops in tho scbool Tba
more business the more means of grace.
Many have gone through widest panic
unhurt. Are you not afraid you will
break?' said some one to a merchant In
time of great commercial excitement. He
replied, "Aye, shall break when the fif-
tteth psalm breaks, in the fifteenth verse,
Call upon me in the day of trouble, and
l will deliver thce.'" The store and the
counting house have developed some OF
the most stalwart characters. Perhaps
originally they had but little sprightliness
and force, but two or three hard business
thumps woke them up from their lethar-
gy, and there came thorough develop
ment in their hearts of all that was good
and holy and energetic and tremendous,
and they have become the front men in
Christ's army Us well as lighthouses in
the great world of traffic. But business
has been perpetual depletion to many
man. 1t first pulled out of him all benev-
olence, next all amability, next all re-
lgious aspirations, next all conscience,
aud, though he entered his vocation with
large heart and noble character, he goes
out of it skeleton, enough to scare
ghost.
Bad Partners.
Men onnreciate the Importance of hay-
ing good business stand, store on the
right side Of the street or in the right
block. vet every Mace of business is a
good stand for spiritual culture. Gods
angels hover over the world of traffic to
sustain and build nm those who are irving
to do their dutv, Tomorrow. if in your
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