Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-09-06
SERMON
Rev. DR.. Callilage

War Between Religion and Business
RIghteousness 10 . Reinforcement
and Not Hindrancs In Lifs's Anairs.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. isss.I
WAsHISeroN, d. C.-In this discourse DIR.
Talmage argues that religion may be tax en-
into all the affairs of life and instead of
being hindrance, rs many think, Is q re-
| enforcement. The text Is Romans XIII, IL:
''Not slothful In business. fervent In spirit,
serving the Lord"
Industry. devoutness and Christian ser
vice-all commended in that short text.
What Is It possible that they shall be con-
joined2 Oh, yes! There Is no war
between religion and business, between
ledgers and Bibles, between churches and
| counting houses. On the contrary, re-
wits, sweetens acerbity Of disposition,
fllips the blood Of phlegmatics and throws
| more velocity into the wheels Of hard
work. It gives better balancing to the
| Judgment, more strength to the will, more
muscle to Industry and throws into enthu-
In all the circle Of the world show me a
man whose honest business has been de-
spoiled by religion.
The indu-trial classes are divided into
three gronps,producers, manufacturers,
| 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 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
as he clung to 1t, his comrades all escap-
ing, but he falling under the lances OF the
| savages, a great many people blamed the
| empress for allowing her son to go forth
into that battlefield, and others blamet
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; II the
strap had held, the prince imperial would
probably have been alive to-day. But the
strap broke. No prince Independent OF a
harness makerl High, low, wise, ignorant,
you in one occupation, In another. all
others work. Blu. whatever your vocation,
| II you have a multiplicity Of engagements,
II into your life there como losses and an
noyances and perturbations as we'll as per-
centages and dividends, II you are pursued
| from Monday morning until Saturday night
and from January to January by inexor-
able obligation and duty, then you are a
| 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 q prison
into which a man Is thrust or that It Is IN
unequal strife where unarmed man goes
forth to contend. / shall show you this
morning that business life was inteRdad OF
God for grand and glorious education aAd
discipline, and II shall be helped to sa,
what want to say shall rub some Of the
wrinkles Of caro- ont Of your brow and un-
Istsap sone ~ fhe hurdsns from msz6nb hA1ass
am not talking oe.ak abstraction.
IknoW all about business mon.
In my hrst parish at Believille, N. J., ten
miles from New York, . large portion OF
my audience was made up Of New York
merchants. Then went to Syracuse, =
place OF immense commercial activity. and
then went TO Philadelphia and lived long
among the merchants of that city, than
| whom there are no better men on earth,
and for twenty-five years stood In my
Brooklyn pulpit, Sabbath by Sabbath
preaching to audiences the majority OF
| whom were business men and business
| women. 1t Is not an abstraction OF which
I speak. but a reality with which am we'll
acquainted.
life was intended as school of energy.
God gives US certain amount OF raw ma
| terial out OF which we are to hew our
character. Our faculties are to be reset,
rounded and sharpened up. Oar young
folks having graduated from school or col
lege need higher education, that which
| the rasptpg and collision Of everyday life
alone can effect. Energy Is wrought out
| only In the fire. Af.er man has been In
business activity ten, twenty, thirty years.
| or plummets or ladders. There is no height
| It cannot scale, and there Is no depth II
cannot fathom, and there is no obstacle 1t
| cannot thrash.
Now, my brother, why did God put you
| In that school of energy? Was 1t merely
that you might be yardstick to measure
cloth or steelyard to weigh nour? Was
/ 1t merely that you might be better qualified
| to chatter and higgle? No. God placed
| you in that school Of energy that you might
| be developed for Christian work. II the un-
| developed talents In the Christian churches
Of to-day were brought out and thoroughly
| harnessed, believe the whole earth would
| be converted to GOD in twelvemonth.
There are SC many. deep streams that are
| turning no mill wheels and that are har-
| messed to no factory bands.
Now, God demands the best lamb out Oh
every hock. He demands tho richest sheaf
| Of every harvest. He demands the best
men Of every generation: A cause In which
yod and can afford to toll in. Oh, for
fewer idlers In the cause Of Christ and for
more Christian " orkers, men who shall
take the same energy that from Monday
| morning to Satu rday night they put forth
for the achievement OF livelihood or the
gathering Of a fortune and on Sabbath
days put Il forth to the advantage Of
| Cbrist's kingdom and the bringing Of men
| to the Lord.
Dr.. Duff visited man who had inheri
ted a great fortune. The man said to him:
81 had to be very busy for many years OF my
life getting my livelihood. After while
| this fortune came to me and there has
| been no necessity that toll since. There
came time when l said to myself, Shall
now retire from business. or shall 60 on
| tion2" He said: 81 resolved on the
latter, and have been more indus
trious- In commercial circles than ever
was before, and since that hour | have
never kept a 'farthing for myself !
I couldn't toll as hard for the Lord as
had toiled for myself, and all the pro-
ducts Of my factories and my commercial
establishments to the last farthing have
gone for the building of Christian tnstitu-
Would that the same energy put forth for
tho world could be put forth for God.
Would that thousand men In these great
cities who have achieved fortune could
see It their duty now to do all business for
Christ and the alienation Of the worlds
suferingi
Again, I remark that business life Is q
school Of patience. In your everyday life
how many things to annoy and to disquisti
Bargains will rub. Commercial men will
sometimes fail to meet their engagements.
Cash book and money drawer will some
times quarrel. Goods ordered for a special
emergency will come too late or be dam
aged In the transportation. People intend
ing no harm will 60 shopping without any
intention Of purchase, overturnfng 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 peo-
pie. More meannees on the part Of part
ners In business. Annoyance after annoy.
ance, vexation after vexation and loss af.
ter loss.
How many men do you suppose :here
arc In commercial life who could say
truthfully, sIn all the sales have ever
madA haYa naYar oYarstatad the YaluA