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advantage, II you nave ever WHkeheu up
in some embarrassment and said. Now,
| will step little aside from the right
path and no one will know it, and / will
come all right again, 1t is only once"
That only once has ruined tens of thou
sands o: men for TINS lie ana blasted
their souls for eternity.
A slaves Message.
A merchant in Liverpool got IS
Bank of England note, and holding it up
toward the light, he saw some inter
lineations in what seemed red ink. He
finally deciphered the letters and found
out that the writing had been made by
slave in Algiers, saying in substance,
whoever gets this bank note will please
TO inform my brother, John Dean, living
near Carlisle, that l am a slave Of the
hey of Agiers" The merchant sent
word, employed government officers and
found who this man was spoken of in
this bank bill. After awhile the man
was rescued who for IL years had been
a slave of the hey of Algiers. lie was
Immediately cmancipated, but was so
worn out by hardship and exposure he
soon after died. Oh if some of the bank
bills that come through your hands could
tell all the scenes through which they
eclipsing any drama of Shakespeare,
mightier than King Lear or Macbeth!
As | go on in this subject, l am i'm
pressed with the Importance of our hav-
ing more sympathy with business men.
Is it not shame that we in our pulpts
do not oftener preach about their strug-
giles. their trials and their temptations?
Men who toll with the hand are not apt TO
be very sympathetic with those who toll
with the brain. The farmers who raise
the corn and the oats and the wheat
sometimes are tempted to think that
grain merchants have an easy time and
get their profits without giving any
equivalent.
Plato and Aristotle were so opposed to
merchandise that they declared com
merce to be the curse OF the nations, and
they advised that cities be built at least
ten miles from the seacoast. But you
and | know that there are no more in
dustrious or highminded men than those
who move in the world of traffic. Some
of them carry burdens heavier than hods
OF brick, and arc exposed to sharper
things than the east wind. and climb
mountains higher than the Alps or Him
| alayas, and if they are faithful Christ
will at last say to them: well done,
good and faithful servant Thou hast
been faithful over rev things. VIII
| make thee ruler over many things. En-
| ter thou into the Joy or thy Lord.
Our Everyday Martyrs.
We talk obout the martyrs of the Pied.
| mont valley. and tho martyrs among the
! Scotch biphlonds and tho martyrs ,t
Oxford There arc iust "a certainly mar
tvrs Of Will street and state stroet
martyrs NJ Fulton street and broadway,
martyrs ~ Atlantic street md Chestnut
/ strest Going through hotter 6res ar hav.
| inc tbeir nocts under shannon axos Than
il hehooves MS TO banish all fretfulness
from our livcs 10 this subioct he true
| We Ioot b,ck 70 tho limo WHOM wo wore
or school and ,va remember tho rod and
NO romor,hor tho hard tosks and wa
co,nnloinod oroyorslv hnt now vn 500
Il wos for tho hast BUSINESS ife is q
scbool and tho tasks are hard and the
chostisomnnts sop,e,in,cs ere vsrv GRAY.
ous Rut do NOT COMPLAIN Tho hotter
III. fro tho hetter thu re6,inc Tbare
are mon before the throne Of Cod this
day in triumph who on earth were cheat
ed out Of everything but their coffin
| They were sued, they were imprisoned
for debt, they were throttled by consta
bles with a whole pack OF writs, they
were sold out by the sheriffs they had tt
compromise with their creditors. they
had to make assignments. Their dyns
| hours were annoyed by the sharp ringing
| of the doorbell by some mpetuOus cred
itor who thought it was outrageous am
impudent that a man should dare to di,
before he paid the last half dollar.
had friend who had many misfor
tunes. Everything went against him. II
had good business capacity and was o
the best Of morals. but he was one o
those men such as you have sometime
seen, for whom everything seems to g
wrong. His life became to him a plague
When heard he was dead. | said, "Goo'
got rid of the sheriffs" Who are thos
lustrous souls before the throne? Whel
the question is asked, who are they =?
resnonJ "'These are they who came on
of groot business trouhle and had thei
robes washed and made white in tn
blood NJ tho Lamb"
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