Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-09-01

signment, or borrowed illimitably with
out any efforts at payment, or got q
man into sharp corner and heeced
him. But they Fever took one step on
that pathway of hell Lre. They can
say their prayers without hearing the
chink of dishonest dollars. They can
read their Bible without thinking of
the time when with a lie on their soul
in the custom house they kissed the
book. They can think Of death and
] the judgment that comes after it with
out any fiinching-that day when all
charlatans and cheats and jockeys and
frauds shall be doubly damned. 1t
does not make their knees knock to-
teeth chatter to read ''as the partridge
si,reth 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 a
fool"
| Only Once.
What school of integrity business
| life is. If you have ever been tempted
to let your integrity cringe before pres
ent advantage, if you have ever wax
ened up in some embarrassment and
said: Now, | will step a 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 thousands of
men for this life and blasted their
souls for eternity.
A merchant in Liverpool got TO
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 in
substance, Whoever gets this bank
John Dean, living near Carlisle, that
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
er awhile the man was rescued. who
y
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 it would be a tragedy
eclipsing any drama of Shakespeare,
mightier than King Lear or Macbeth.
AS l go on in this subject l am i'm
pressed with the Importance of our
having more sympathy with business
men. Is it not Il 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 raise the corn
and the oats and the wheat sometimes
nre tempted to think that grain mer-
chants have an easy time and get their
profits without giving any equivalent.
Plato and Aristotle We're so opposed
to merchandise that they declared COM
merce to be the curse of the nations.
and they advised th"- cities be built
at least ten miles from the sea coast
But you and 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
few things, 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 it be-
hoOves us to Danish 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 it was for the best. Busi-
ness life Is school, and the tasks
are hard, and the chastisemeEts some
times are very grievous; but do not
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
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
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