The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-10-18
FOR SALE BY j. e. KAUFMAN,

only in the fire. After a man has
been in business activity ten, twenty,
thirty years, his energy is not to be
measured by weights or plummets or
ladder. There is not height it can
not scale, and there is no depth it
cannot fathom, and there is no OBJ
stacle it cannot thrash.
Now, my brother, why did God
put you in that school of energy?
Was it merely that you might be a
yardstick to measure cloth or steel
yard to weigh flour? Was it merely
that you might be better qualified to
chatter and higgle? No. God placed
you in that school of energy that
you might be developed for Christisn
work. If the undeveloped talents in
the Christian charches of today were
brought out and thoroughly harness
ed, I believe the whole earth would
be converted to God in twevemonth.
There are so many deep streams that
are turning no mill wheels and that
are harnessed to no factory bands.
Now, God demands the best lamb
out of every flock. He demands the
richest sheaf of every harvest. He
demands the best men of every gen
GRAFTON. A cause in which Newton,
and Locke and Mansfield toiled, you
and I can afford to toll in. Oh, for
fewer idlers in the cause of Christ
and for more Christian workers, men
| who shall take the same energy that
| from Monday morning until Saturday
| night they put forth for the achieve,
| ment of livelihood or the gathering
| of fortune and on Sabbath days
| put it forth to the advantage of
Christ's kingdom and the bringing
of men to the Lord.
DR.. Duff visited'a man who had
inherited great fortune. The man
said to him: II had to be very busy
for many years Of my life getting my
! livelihood. After awhile this fortune
came to me and there has been nc
necessity that I toll since. There
came time when I said to myself,
shall I now retire from business, or
shall I go on and serve the Lord in
my worldly occupations'" He said.
II resolved on the latter, and I have
been more industrious in the com
mercial circles than I ever was before,
| and since that hour I have enever kept
| farthing for myself. I have thought
it to be great shame if I couldn't
! toll as hard for the Lord as I
| had toiled for myself, and all the
products of my factories and my
commercial establishments to the last
| farthing have gone to the building
of Christian institutions and sup
porting the Church Of God" Would
that the same energy put forth for the
world could be put forth for God.
Would that O thousand men in these
great cities who have achieved for
tune could see it their duty now to
do all business for Christ and the al
deviation of the worlds suffering.
Again, I remark that business life
is school Of patience. Inyour every
day life how may things to annoy and
disqaiet7 Bargains will rub. Com
! mercial men will sometimes fail to
| meet their engagements. Cash book
| and money drawer will sometimes
quarrel. Goods ordered for special
| emergency will come too late CT
be damaged in the transportation.
People intending no harm will go
shopping without any intention Of
purchase, overturning great stocks
of goods and insisting that you break
the dozen. More bad debts on the
ledger. More counterfeit bills in the
drawer. More debts to pay for othel
people. More meanpess on the par
partners in business. Annoyance
after annoyance, yexation after vexa
ton and loss after loss.
How many men do you suppos
there are in commercial Life who Cal
say truthfully, In all the sales
have ever made I have never over
stated the value of goods, in all th
| sales I have ever made I have neve
covered Up an imperfection in tn
| fabric, Of all the thousands of dol
lars I have ever made I have no
taken one dishonest farthing?" Their
are men, however, who can say il
hundreds who can say it, thousand
who can say it. They are more hon
honesty and integrity have been test
ed, tried and cone out trilupha IT
But they remember time when the,
could have robbed partner, or haV
! absconded with the funds of bank
or sprung snap judgment, o
| ~,olo q f,1oo ocoirpooopt or horrown,