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

to pay 1t. FelS-Naptha soap
is worth five times sc.
Fels & Co, makers, Philadelphia.
that amid the turmoil and anxiety and
evaporation of everyday life you
might hear the voice of God saying:
I'm patience possess your soul. Let
patience have her perfect work"
| remark again that business life is
school of .seful 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. Busi-
ness is severe schoolmistress. If
pupils will not learn, she strikes them
over the head and the heart with Sc
we're losses. You put $1,000 into an
enterprise. 1t is all gone. You say,
THAT is Il dead loss" Oh, no! You
are paying the schooling. That was
only tuition, very large tuition-I told
you it was severe schoOlmistress-
but it was worth it. You learned
things under that process 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 production,
manufacturers of American goods
come to understand the tariff on inn
ported articles, 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 a business 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 n trade, that you might. be
more successful as a worldling? Oh.
no. 1t was that you might take that
useful information and use it for Jesus
Christ
Need of Honesty.
Can it be that you have been dealing
with foreign lands and never had the
missionary spirit, wishing the saliva
tion of foreign people? Can 1t be that
you have become acquainted with all
the outrages inflicted in business life
and that you have never tried to bring
to bear that gospel which 10 70 eXtir-
pate all evil and correct all wrongs and
illuminate all darkness and lift up all
wretche 1ness and save men for this
world and tie world to Gomez Can It
be that understanding all the intrica-
cies Of business you know nothing
about those things which will last aft
er all bills of exchange and consign-
ments and invoices and rent rolls shall
have crumpled up and been consumed
in the fires of the last great day? Can
it be that a man will be wise for
time and fool for eternity?
l 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 distin-
suished for his honesty, usefulness and
lprightness, 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. Dis
.inguished for virtue before. Distin-
,uished for crime after. You can call
over the names of men just like that,
n whose honesty you had complete
but placed in certain crises
If temptation they went overheard.
Never so many temptations to scoun-
lreiism as now. Not Il law on the |
statute book but has some back door |
through which miscreant can escape |
Ali, how many deceptiOns in the fabric |
If goods; so much plundering in com.
nercial life that if man talk about |
living life Of complete commercial
integrity there are those who ascribe it
o greenneSS and lack Of tact! More
iced of honesty now than ever before.
ried honesty, complete honesty. more
han in those times when business was
plain affair. ard woolens were
yooiepS, and silks We're silks. aud men
we're men.
How many men do you suppose there
re in commercial life who could say
in au the sales have ever
made have never overstatcd the value
f goods, in all the sales | have ever
lade | have never covered up an im
erIection in the fabric, OF all the thou
andS of dollars | have ever made ]
ave not taken one dishonest farth
lg?' There are men, however, who
an say ii, hundreds who can say it,
thousands who can say it. They are
Iore honest than when they sold their
rst tierce of rice or their first firkin Of
utter, because their honesty and in
egrity have been tested. tried and
ONE out triumphant. But they re-
lember time when they could have
obbed a partner, or have absconded
18th the funds of a bank, or sprung a
nap judgment, or made false as
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