Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-31
A school of Patience.

men will sometimes fail to meet their en-
gngements. Cashbooks aud money draw
or will sometimes quarrel Goods ordered
for n special emergency will come too
late or be damaged in the transportation.
People intending no harm will go shop
ping without any intention of purchase,
overturning great stocks Of goods and
insisting that you break the dozen. More
bad debts on the ledger. More counterfeit
bills in the drawer. More debts to pay
for other people. More meannesses on
the part of partners in business. Annoy
ance after annoyance, vexation after
vcxntion, and loss after loss.
All that process will either break you
down or brighten you up. 1t is a school
OF patience. You have known men under
the process to become petuant, and chol.
eric, and angry, and pugnncious, and
cross, and sour, and queer, and they lost
their customers, and their name became
detestation. Other men have been
frightened up under the process. They
were toughencd by the exposure. They
were like rocks, nil the more valuable for
being blasted. At first they had to choke
down their wrath, ut first they had to
bite their lip. at first they thought of
some singing retort they would like to
tience. They have kind words now for
sarcastic filings. They have gentle be-
havior now for unmannerly customers.
| They are ,patient now with unfortunate
debtors. They have Christian reflections
now for sudden reverses. Where did
they get that patience? by hearing a
minister preach concerning it on Sab
bath? Oh. no. They got it just where
you will get tiff you ever yet it at all
selling hats, discounting notes, turning
bnnsters, blowing corn, timing roofs,
| pleading causes. Oh that amid the tur-
moil and anxiety and evaporation Of ev-
crydny life you might hear the voice Of
| God saying: "In patience possess your
soul. Let patience have her perfect
work"
| A Severe SchOoImistress.
| | remark again that business life is a
school Of useful knowledge Merchants
do not read many books and do not study
| lcxicons. They do not dive into pro-
POUNDS Of learning. and yet nearly all
through their occupations come to under
stand questions Of finance, and politics,
and geography, and Jurisprudence, and
ethics. Business is a severe schoolmis-
tress. If pupils will not learn, she strikes
them over the head and the heart with
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RACES inflicted in business life and that
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