Connecticut western news., 1899-08-31

| read their Bible without thinking of | the time when with lie on their soul [ In the custom house they kissed the l book They can think of death and | the judgment that comes after 1t with | out any fiinching.-that day when all | charlatans and cheats and Jockeys and | frauds shall be doubly damned. It | does not make their knees knock to- | gether, and 1t does not make their l teeth chatter to read "as the partridge I si,leth on eggs and hatcheth them not: | so he that getteth riches and not by | right shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be | fool"
 Only once.
 What q school of integrity business I life isl If you have ever been tempted ! to let your integrity cringe before pres ent advantage, if you have ever walk ened up in some embarrassment and | said: ''Now, l will step q little aside | from the right path, and no one will know it, and l will come all right | again. It is only once." That only once has ruined tens of thousands of men for this life and blasted their souls for eternity.
 A merchant in Liverpool got a f5 Bank of England note, and, holding 1t up toward the light, he saw some in ! terlineations in what seemed red ink. He finally deciphered the letters and found out that the writing had been made by slave in Algiers, saying i'll substance, Whoever gets this bank note will please to inform my brother, John Dean, living near Carlisle, that l am a slave of the bey of Algiers." The merchant sent word, employed govern ment officers and found who this man was spoken of in this bank note. Aft CT awhile the man was rescued. who for II years had been a slave of the bey of Algiers. He was immediately emancipated, 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 have passed 1t would be a tragedy eclipsing any drama of Shakespeare, mightier than King Lear or Macbeth.
 AS go on in this subject I am i'm pressed with the importance of our having more sympathy with business men. Is. 1t not a shame that we in our pulpits do not oftener preach about their struggles, their trials and their temptations? Men who toll with the hand are not apt to be very sympa- thetic with those who toll with the brain. The farmers who. the corn and the oats and the wheat sometimes are tempted to think that grain mer- chants 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 sea coast
 But you and I know that there are no more industrious or high minded men than those who move in the world of traffic. Some of them carry burdens heavier than hods of brick, and are exposed to sharper things than the east wind, and climb mountains higher than the Alps or Himalayas, and If they are faithful to Christ will at last say to them: Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord"
 Business Martyrs.
 We talk about the martyrs of the Piedmont valley, and the martyrs among the Scotch highlands, and the martyrs at Oxford. There are just as certainly martyrs of Wall street and State street, martyrs of Fulton street and Broadway, martyrs of Atlantic street and Chestnut street, going through hotter fires, or having their necks under sharper axes. Then 1t be- hooves us to banish all fretfulness from our lives, If this subject be true. We look back to the time when we were at school and we remember the rod, and we remember the hard tasks and we complained grievously; but now we see 1t was for the best. Busi- ness life is a school, and the tasks are hard, and the chastisements some times are very grievous; but do not complain. The hotter the fire the bet ter the refining. There are men before the throne of God this day in triumph who on earth were cheated out of ev- erything but their coffin. They were sued, they were imprisoned for debt, they were throttled by constables with whole pack of writs, they were sold out by the sheriffs, they had to compromise with their creditors, they had to make assignments. Their dying hours were annoyed by the sharp ring
 Ing of the door bell by some impetuous creditor who thought 1t was outrageous and impudent that a man should dare to die before he paid the last half dol lar.
 I had friend who had many mis- fortunes. Everything went against him. He had good business capacity and was of the best of morals, but he was one of those men such as you have sometimes seen, for whom every thing seems to go wrong. His life be- came to him plague. When I heard he was dead, I said, Good; got rid of the sheriffs!' Who are those lustrous souls before the throne? When the question Is asked. "Who are theyT the angels standing on the sea of glass respond, These are they who came out of great business trouble and had had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb"
 How God Helps.
 A man arose In Fulton street prayer meeting and said: II wish publicly to acknowledge the goodness of God. was In business trouble. I had money to pay, and had no means to pay it, and I was in utter despair of all hu- man help, and I laid this matter be- fore the Lord, and this morning I went down among some old business friends I had not seen In many years just to make call, and one said to me: Why, l am so glad to see you! Walk in. We have some money on our books due you a good while, but we didn't know where you were, and therefore not having your address we could not |