St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-09-30
BUSINESS TRIALS.
D.. Talmage Shows How They Re-
fine the Spirit.
Relfglon In Trade-The MefehaAt's
Omce q school Of Industry, Pa
tience, Integrity ana Up.
right Living.
Copyright. 1899. by Louis Klopsch.l

In his Q16COufSG LII. 1ulIDdkc al q uCo
that religion may be taken into all the
affairs of life,- and instead of being a
hindrance, as many think, is a re-
enforcement. The text is Romans II:
IL: Not slothful in business; fervent
In spirit; serving the Lord"
Industry, devoutness and Christian
service-all commended in that short
text. What. is it possible that they
shall be con Joined? Oh. yes. There is
no war between religion and business
between ledgers and Bibles, between
churches and counting houses. On the
contrary, religion accelerates business
sharpens mems wits, sweetens aceroity
of disposition. fillips the blood OF phieg-
matics and throws more velocity INTO
the wheels of hard work. 1t gives pet
tar balancing to the Judgment. more
strength to the will, more muscles 10
industry and throws into enthusiasm q
more eonsecrated fire. You cannot in
all the circle of the world show me
man whose honest business has been
despoiled by religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
Iihree eroups-producers, manufac-
turers. traders. Producers, such as
farmers and miners. Manufacturers,
such as those who turn corn into food
| and wool and fax into apparel. Traders
such as make profit out Of thetransfel
| and exchange of all that which is pro-
| duced and manufactured. A business
man may belong to any one or all OF
these classes, and not one is independ
ent of any other. at
When the prince imperial OF France
fell on the Zulu battlefield because tht
strap FASTENING the stifrup to the saddle
broke as he chung to it, his comrades
all escaping, but he falling under th'
lances of the savages, a great many
people blamed the empress for allow
inr her SON to 20 forth into that bat
tlefield, and others blamed the Eng
lish government for accepting the sac
rifice. and Others blamed the Zulus fcs
/ 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 it was found
to have been afterward. If the stral
had held, the prince imperial wouls
probably have been alive to-day. Blu
the strap broke. No prince independ
ent of harness maker! High, low
wise, ignorant, you in one occupation
/ in another, all bound together.
So that there must be one continuoul
line of sympathy with each other''
work. But whatever your vocation
II YOU have a multiplicity of engage
ments, ifinto your life there come losses
and annoyances and perturbations Al
we'll az percentages and dividends, i
YOU are pursued from Monday morning
until Saturday night, and from Januar.
to January by memorable obligation
and duty, then you are business man
or you are a business woman. ant
my subject is; appropriate 80 you
case.
i We are under the impression that tn
MOL and tug of business life are prls
Inn into which a man is thrust, o
that it is an unequal strife, where un
armed q man goes forth to contend.
shall show you this morning that busl
ness life was intended of God for gram
and glorious education and discipline
land if / shall be helped to say what
want to say I shall rub some OF tn
wrinkles of care out of your brow an
unstrap some of the burdens from you
back. / am not talking of an abstrat
!. ton. Though never having been i
, business life, 1 know all about bus
ness men. In my first parish At Belle
willie. N. j., ten miles from New Yori
q large portion of my audience wa
: made up of New York merchants. The
/ went to Syracuse, a place OF lmmens
commercial activity, and then ! wen
to Philadelphia and lived long anon
the merchants of that city, than whol
e there are no better men on earth, an
: for IS years 1 stood at my Brookly
5 pulpit, sabbath by Sabbath. preachin
toaudiences the majority of whom wer
. business men and business women. ]
! is not an abstraction of which speal
; but q reality with which I am well a
quainted.
In the first place, / remark ths
. business life was intended as scho'
. of energy. God gives rs a certai
amount of raw material out of which "
are to hcw our character. Our facu
D ties are to be reset, rounded and sharl
ened up. Our young folks having graz
, uated from school or college need
D higher education, that which the ras
ing collision Of every day life alone g
effect. Energy is wrought out oni
I in the fire. After man has been
business activity 10, 20. 80 years, d
! energy is not to be measured by weigh
or plummets or ladders. There il
height it cannot scale, and there is
4 depth it cannot fathom, and there Is I
obstacle it cannot thrash.
/. Now, my brother, why did God p
i you in that school of energy? Was
merely that you might be a yardsti'
to measure cloth, or steelyard
weigh flour? Was it merely that "
might be better qualified to chatter al
) higgle? No. God placed you in tn
school of energy that you might be d
veloped for Christian work. If the u
developed talents in the Christi'
4 churches of to-day were brought o
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