The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-28

the pr0co93 10 Decohe Yetulant, dnu cnoi-
eric. aud angry, and pugAacisus, and
cross. and sour, and queer. and they lost
their customers, and their name became
q detestatien. Other men have been
frightened up under the process. They
were toughened by the exposure. They
were like rocks, all the more valuable for
being blasted. At first they had to choke
down their wrath, at first they had to
bite their lip, at frst they thought Of
some singing retort they would like to
make, but they conquered their impa-
tience. They have kind words now for
sarcastic filings. They have gentle be-
havior now for unmannerly customers.
They are patient now with unfortunate
debtors. They have Christian reflections
now for sudden reverses. Where did
they get that patience? BY hearing q
minister preach concerning 1t on Sab
bath? Oh, no. They got 1t just where
you will get tiff you ever get 1t at all
selling hats, discounting notes, turning
banisters, blowing corn, Timing roofs,
pleading causes. Oh, that amid the tur-
moil and anxiety and evaporation of ev-
eryday life you might hear the voice Of
God saying: "In patience possess your
soul. Let patience have her perfect
work."
A severe Schoolmistress.
remark again that business life Is q
school Of useful knowledge. Merchants
do not read many books and do not study
lexicons. They do not dive into pre-
POUNDS Of learning, and yet nearly all
| through their occupations come to under
rtand questions Of finance, and politics,
and geography, and jurisprudence, and
ethics. Business is severe schoolmis-
tress. II pupils will not learn, she strikes
them over the head and the heart with
severe losses. You put $4,000 into an en-
terprise. 1t is all gone. You say, THAT
| Is a dead loss." Oh, no. You are paying
the schooling. That was only tuition,
very large tuition--I told you 1t was p
severe schoolmistress-but it was worth
1t. You learned things under that proc
| ess you would not have learned In any
other way.
Traders In grain come to konw some
thing about foreign harvests; traders in
fruit come to know something about the
prospects of tropical production; manu-
facturers Of American goods come to
understand the tariff on imported arti-
Giles; publishers Of books must come to
! understand the new law of copyright;
owners of ships must come to know winds
and shoals and navigation, and every
bale of cotton and every raisin cask and
every tea box and every cluster of
bananas Is so much literature for BUSH
ness man. Now, my brother, what are
you going to do with the intelligence? Do
you suppose God put you In this school
of information merely that you might be
sharper In a trade that you might be
more successful as wording! Oh, no.
| 1t was that you might take that useful
information and use 1t for Jesus Christ.
| Can 1t be that you have been dealing
with foreign lands and never had the
missionary spirit, wishing the salvation
of foreign people? Can it be that you
have become acquainted with all the out
RACES inflicted in business life and that
you have never tried to bring to bear that
gospel which is to extirpate all evil and
correct all wrongs and illuminate all
and save men for this world and the world
darkness and lift up all wretchedness
to come? Can it be that understanding
all the intricacies of business you know
nothing about those things which will
last after all bills of exchange and con-
shall have crumped up and been con-
sumed in the fires of the last great day?
Can it be that n man will be wise for
time and fool for eternity?
1t Teaches Integrity.
I remark also that business life is
school for integrity. No man knows
what he will do until he is tempted.
There are thousands of men who have
kept their integrity merely because they
never have been tested. A man was
elected treasurer Of the state Of Maine
some years ago. He was distinguished for
his honesty, usefulness and uprightness,
but before one year had passed he had
taken Of the public funds for his own
private use and was hurled out of Office
in disgrace. Distinguished for virtue be-
fore. Distinguished for crime after. You
can call over the names of men just like
that, in whose honesty you had complete
confidence, but placed in certain crises OF
temptation they went overheard.
Never so many temptations to scoun-
dreism as now. Not law on the stat
ute book but has some back door through
which miscreant can escape. All, how
many receptions in the fabric Of the
goods! So much plundering in commercial
life that il man talk about living life
of complete commercial integrity there
are those who ascribe 1t to greenness and
lack of tact. More need Of honesty now
Than ever before-tried honesty, complete
honesty.-more than in those times when
business was a plain affair and woolens
were woolens, and silks were silks and
men were men.
How many men do you suppose there
are in commercial life who could say
truthfully, "1n all the snles l have ever
made l have never overstated the value
of goods; In all the sales have ever
made l have never covered up an imper-
fiction in the fabric; in all the thousands
of dollars have ever made ! have not
taken one dishonest farthing?" There are
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