The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-11-04
Or. TAIMAGES SERMON
sRIeF SYNOPSIS OF IhF oivlNE's SUN
nsx DISCOURSE

Subject: Ledgers and Bibles-There Is No
War Between Religion and Business
righteousness is Reinforcement
and Not Hindrance In L.fe's Affairs.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1891
Warrington, d. Gin this discourse Dr..
Talmare argues that religion may be tak en-
into ali the Affairs OF life and instead OF
being kindrance, as many think, is re-
enforcement. The text Is Romans Kill, II:
mot slothful In business, feryent In spirit
serving the Lord"
Industry. deyoutness and Christian SER
yice-all commended In that short text.
| What Is It possible that they shall be con-
ioinedf OH, yesI There Is no war
between religion and business, between
iedgers and Bibles, between churches and
| counting houses. On the contrary, re-
ligion accelerates business, sharpens mems
wits. sweetens acerbity OF disposition,
| films the blood Of phlegmatics and throws
more velocity into the wheels OF nara
work. 1t gives better balancing TO the
| Judgment, more strength to the Will, more
muscle to industry and throws into en.nu.
siasm more consecrated fire. You cannot
In all the circle of the world show me a
man whose honest business has been de-
spoiled by religion.
The Industrial classes are divided into
three groups-producers, manufacturers,
| traders.
| miners Manufacturers, such as those VINO
| turn corn into food and wool and max into
| Rpparel, Traders, such as make profit out
oil 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 indepen-
dent OF any other.
When the prince imperial Of France fell
on the Zulu battlefield because the strap
fastening the stirrup to the saddle broke
! as he clung to 1t, his comrades all escap-
ing. but he falling under the lances OF the
sayages, great many people blamed the
empress for allowing her SON to go Iortn
into that battle field, and others blame1
the English Government for accepting
the sacrifice, 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. 1.-THE
strap had held, the prince imperial would
nrobably have been alive to-day. But the
strap broke. No prince Independent Of q
harness makeri High, low wise, ignorant,
you In one occupation, In another, all
bound together. So that there must DC
others work. But whatever your vocation,
n Won have multiplicity OF engagements.
II into YOUR life there come losses and an
noyhnces and perturbations as we'll as per-
centages and dividends, II you ere pursued
from Monday morning until Saturday night
and from January to january by inexor-
}. able obligation and duty, then you are a
J, business man, or you are business wom-
). an, and my subject is appropriate to your
= case.
We are under the impression that the
. moil and tug of business life are prison
!. into which a man Is thrust or that II - an
: UNEQUAL strife where uharmed man goes
forth to contend. / shall show you this
e I morning that business life was intended OF
c God for grand and glorious education and
q discipline and IL shall be helped to say
i what want to say shall rub some OF the
}. wrinkles of care out OF your brow ana un'
r. strap some OF the burdens from your back
, am not talking ct an abstraction
Il Though never having been In business lie
know all about business men.
Inmy first parish at Bellevllle, N. j., ter
|, miles from New York, large portion o
nv audience was made up OF New forl
i merchants. Then / went to Syracuse,
y place of immense commercial activity, AM
: then I went to Philadelphia and lived lonl
among the merchants OF that city, thai
. whom there are no better men on eartn
&c and for twenty-five years | stood In m
g. BROOKLYN pulpit, Sabbath by Sabbath
r preaching to audiences the majority Q
,e whom were business men and bushes
,s women, 1t Is not an abstraction OF whic
d speak, but reality with which am wei
a acquainted.
.; In the first place, remark that bushes
'H life was intended as a school OF energy
ie God gives US a certain amount OF raw hf
81 terfal out of which We are to hew GU
u. character. Our faculties are to be rese
IL rounded and sharpened up. Our youn
al folks having graduated from school or co
=. lage need a higher education, tnat whlc
the rasping and collision OF everyday III
alone can effect. Energy is wrought OF
k. business activity ten, twenty, thirty year
his energy Is not to be measured by weigh
or nlummets or ladders. There Is no heigi
- It cannot scale, and there Is no depth
T. cannot fathom, and there is no obstLcle
W cannot thrash.
in In that school of energy? Was it mere
10 that you might be yardstick to measu
= cloth or a steelyard to weigh -four? WI
- II merely that you might be better qualifie
y, -, to chatter and higgle? No. God place
'1 you in that school OF energy that you mig
:. be developed for Christian work. Il the u
II developed talents in the Christian church,
or of to-day were brought out and thorough
ad harpessed, 1 believe the whole earth wou
. be converted to GOD in twelvemont
m There are sc many deep streams that
90 turning no mill wheels and that are ma
% messed to no factory bands.
he Now, God demands the best lamb out
ne >yerv mock. He demands the richest she
OF every harvest. He demands the be
NJ men OF every generation. A cause In WIFI
er Newton and Locke and Mansfield toll
rs you and I can AFFORD to toll In. On, l
fewer idlers In the cause OF Christ and l
more Christian W orkers, men who sh'
take the same energy That from Mond
morning to Saturday night they put lor
for the achievement OF livelihood or
gathering of fortune and on Saba
70 days put 1t forth to the advantage
Christ's kingdom and the bringing OF m
to the Lord.
DR.. Duff visited man who had inhe
ted a great fortune. The man said to hi
'I had to be very busy for many years OF l
''o life getting my livelihood. After VIII
this fortune came to me and there
u been no necessity that toll since. Tit
came a time when cid to myself, 'Sh
Inow retire from business, or shall go
nm. and serve the Lord in my worldly Occur
tion?'" He said: 81 resolved on
latter. and 1 have been moro Ind
for trious in commercial circles than g
was before, and since that hour he
never kept farthins for myself.
ted have thought 1t to be a great shame
I couldn't toll as hard for the Lord
-, had toiled for myself, and all the p
tn ducts OF my factories and my commere
rst. establishments to the last fartbiDg hi
gone for the building Of CHRISTIAN insti
Ior lions and supporting the church oil. Go
for Would that the same energy put forth
tho world could be put forth for q
Would that thousand men in these or
un- cities who have achieved fortune Co