The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-09-02

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: toll in. Oh, for fewer idlers in IN
cause of Christ and for more Christina
workers, men who shall take the sam
energy that from Monday morning I
. Saturday night they put forth for tn
achievement of livelihood or the gath
ering of n fortune, and on Sabbath day
put il forth to the advantage of Christ
kingdom and the bringing OF men 4
the Lord.
DIR. Dun visited a man who had in
5 hcrited great fortune. The man sal,
, TO him: II had to be very busy for man,
years of my life getting my livelihood
After awhile this fortune came to me
and there has been no necessity that
toll since. There came n time when
said to myself Shall now retire from
business or shall ! go on and serve tn,
Lord in my worldly occupation" lie
said: II resolved on the latter, and
have been more industrious in CONNER.
cial circles than ever was before, and
since that hour j have never kept n
farthing for myself. j have thought il
to be Il great shame if | couldn't toll
rs hard for the Lord MS | had toilcd
for myself, and all the products of my
factories and my commercial establish
ments, TO the last farthing, have gone
for the building of Christian institu-
tions and supporting the church of
God" Would that the same energy
| put forth for the world could be put
forth for God. Would that n thousand
| men in these great cities who have
| achieved fortune could see ii their
duty now to do all business for Christ
and the alienation of the worlds suf-
fcring!
Again, i remark that business life is
a school of patience. In your every
day life how many things to annoy and
to disquiet. Bargains will rub. Com
mercial men will sometimes fail TO
meet their engagements. Cashbooks
and money drawer will sometimes quar-
rel. Goods ordered for n special emer-
gency will come too late or be damaged
in the transportation. People intend
ing 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
oll lht l'hENls thoiC
in the drawer. Nor. debts to pay for
other people. More meannesses on the
part of partners in business. Annoy
ance after annoyance, yeNation after
vcXation, and loss after loss.
All that process will either break you
down or brighten you up. 1t is q
school of patience. You have known
men under the process TO become petu-
liant and cholerc, and angry. and pug
nacious, and cross, and sour, and queer
and they lost their customers, and their
name became IA detestation. 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 first they thought of some sting
ing rctort they would like to make, but |
they conquered their Impotence. They |
have kind words now for sarcastic
filings. They have gentle behavior now
for unmannerly customers. They are |
patient now with unfortunate debtors. |
They have Christian reflections now for |
sudden rcverses. Where did they get !
that patience? BY hearing minister |
preach concerning it on Sabbath? Oh, |
no. They got il just where you will get |
tiff YOU ever get ii AT all selling hats. |
discounting notes, turning banisters, |
blowing corn, timing roofs, pleading |
causes. Oh, that amid the turmoil and |
anxiety and evaporation of everyday |
life you might hear the voice of God |
saying: in patience possess your soul. |
Let patience have her perfect work"
! remark again that business life is |
n school of useful knowledge. Mer- |
chants do not read many books and do
not study lexicons. They do not dive |
into profounds of learning, and yet |
nearly all through their occupations |
come 10 understand questions of |
finance, and politics, and geography |
and Jurisprudence, and ethics. Bust
ness is severe schoolmistress. If pu- !
pills will not learn, she strikes them over |
the head and the heart with severe |
losses. You put $1,000 into an enter
prise. 1t is all gone. You say: That |
is dead loss" Oh, no. You are paying |
the schooling. That was only tuition,
very large tutition-I told you il was |
severe acknowledgements il was worth |
it. You learned things under that proc
ess you would not have learned in any |
other way.
Traders in grain come to know some
thing about foreign harvests; traders in
fruit come to know something about
the prospects of tropical productions;
manufacturers of American goods come
to understand the tariff on imported
articles; publishers of books must come
TO understand the new law of copy
right; 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 business man. Now, my brother.
what are you going to do with the intel
ligence? Do you suppose God put you
in this school of information merely
that you might be sharper in n trade,
that you might be more successful as
wording? Oh, no. 1t was that you
might take that useful information and
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