Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-09-01
downright, Louis Klopsch, 1899. ]

Not n Hindrance In the Affairs of
Life.
copyright, Louis Klopsch 1891
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2I.-1n this dis
course DIR. Talmage argues that re-
ligion may be taken into all the affairs
of life and instead Of being him
lrance, as many think, is reinforce
ment. The text is Romans xii, IL: 'Not
slothful in business. fervent in spirit.
serving the Lord"
Industry, devoutness and Christian
seryice-au commended in that short
text. What! Is it possible that they
shall be conjoined? Oh, yes! There
is no war between religion and busi-
ness, between ledgers and Bibles, be-
tween churches and counting houses.
On the contrary, religion accelerates
business, sharpens mems wits, sweet
ems acerbity of disposition, fillips the
blood of phlegmatics and throws more
velocity into the wheels of hard work.
1t gives better balancing to the judg-
ment, more strength to the will, more
muscle to industry and throws into
enthusiasm more cOnsecrated fire.
You cannot in all the circle Of the
world show me q man whose honest
ligion.
The Industrial classes are divided ill.,
TO three groups-producers, manufae-
turers, traders. Producers, such rs
farmers and miners. Manufacturers.
such as those who turn corn into food
and wool and flax into apparel. Trad
ers, such as make profit out of the
transfer and exchange of all that
which Is produced and manufactured.
A business man may belong to any
one or all of these classes, and not one
is Independent of any other.
When the prince imperial of France
fell on the Zulu battlefield because the
strap fastening the stirrup to the sad
die broke as he clung to it, his COM
rades all escaping, but he falling un-
der the lances of the savages. great
many people blamed the empress for
allowing her son to go forth into that
battlefield, and others blamed the Eng
lisb government for accepting the sac
rifice, and others blamed the Zulus 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 1t
was found to have been afterward. If
the strap had held, the prince imperial
would probably have been alive today.
But the strap broke. No prince inde-
pendent of harness makeri High,
low, wise, ignorant, you in one occupa-
ton, l in another, all bound together.
So that there must be one continuous
line Of sympathy with each others
work. But whatever your vocation, IL
you have multiplicity of engage
ments, If into your life there come loss
es and annoyances and perturbations
as well as percentages and dividends,
If you are pursued from Monday MORN
January to January by ineXorable OBJ
legation and duty, then you are busi-
ness man, or you are business wo-
man, and my subject is appropriate to
your case.
Grand and Glorious.
We are under the impression that
the moil and tug Of business life are a
prison into which a man is thrust or
that it is an unequal strife where un-
armed q man goes forth to contend.
shall show you this morning that
business life was intended of God for
grand and glorious education and dis
cipline, and if shall be helped to say
what l want to say shall rub some
of the wrinkles of care out of your
brow and unstrap some of the burdens
from your back. l am not talking of
an abstraction. Though never having
been in business life. know all about
business men.
In my first parish at Belleville, n. j.,
ten miles from New York, large por-
ton of my audience was made up Of |
New York merchants. Then went to |
Syracuse, place of immense CONNER
cial activity, and then l went to Phila-
delphia and lived long among the mer-
chants Of that city, than whom there !
are no better men on earth, and for 25 /
years l stood In my Brooklyn pulpit,
by Sabbath, preaching to au-