The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-03-18
FOR THE DRUMMERS.
Dr.. Talmage breaches to the Army
Of Commercial Travellers.
Cautions Them to Start Right on
Their JOurneys-COndemn work
on the Sabbnth-The Duty
of Employers.

washington, copyright, 1871
In this discourse DR.. Talmage gives
words of good cheer to commercial
travellers and tells of their safeguards
and their opportunities; text. Nahum
ga, The chariols shall rage in the
streets; they shall justle one against
another in the broad ways; they shall
seem like torches; they shall run like
the light nings."
1t has been found out that many Of
the arts and discoveries which we sup
posed were peculiar TO our own age are
merely the restoration of the arts and
discoveries of thousands of years ago.
! suppose that the past centuries have
forgotten more than the present cen
fury knows. II seems to me that they
must have known thousands of years
ago, in the days of Nineveh. of the uses
of steam and its application to swift
travel. In my text hear the rush of
the rail train. the clang of the wheels
and the jamming of the car couplings.
1.-THE chariots shall rage in the streets;
they shall justIe one against another in
the broad ways; they shall seem like
torches; they shall run like the light
nings."
Have you ever taken your position in
the night far away from depot along
the track waiting to see the rail train
come at full speed? At first you heard
in the distance rumblng like the com
ing of storm; then you saw the flash
Of the headlight of the locomotive as il
| turned the curve; then you saw the
wilder glare of the fiery oye OF the
train as it came plunging toward you:
then you heard the shrek of the whis-
tie that frenzied all the echoes; then
you saw the hurricane dash of cinders:
then you felt the jar of the passing
earthquake and You saw the shot thun-
derbot of the express train. Well. il
seems that we can hear the passing OF
midnight express train in my text
1.-THE chariots shall rage in the streets;
they shall justle one agains. another
in the broad ways; they shall seem like
torches; they shall run like the light
| nings."
halt the train long enought to get OIL
board. and go through the cars. and
| find lhreefourlhs of the passengers are
commercial travellers. They are foll
| peculiar to themselves. easily recog
nized. at home on all the trains. not
startled by the sudden dropping of tia
brakes. familiar with all the RAILROAD
signals, can tell you what is the mex
station. how long the train will stop
what place the passengers take lunch
con at. can give you information on al
most any subject, are cosmopolitan. a,
home everywhere from Halifax 10 Sar
Francisco. They are on the eigh
o'clock morning train. on the moor
train. on the midnight train. You tax,
berth in sleeping car. and either
| gentlemen. There are 100000 professeC
| commercial travellers in the United
States, but 100000 would not include al
those who are sometimes engaged il
this service. They spend millions o
dollars every day in the hotels and il
the rail trains. They have their otficia
newspaper organ. They have thei
mutual benefit association. bout 400
names ON the rolls. and have ALREADY
distributed more than 100000 anon!
the families of deceased members
They are ubiquitous. unique and tire
mendous for good or evil. All the ten
denotes of merchandise are TOWARD
their multiplication. The house tina
stands back on its dignity and wait
for customers TO come instead of gon.
TO seek bargain makers will have NOR
and more unstable goods on the shell
and will gradually lose its control o
the markets, while the great, enterpris
ing and successful houses will hav
their agents on all the trains. ant
"their chario,s will rage in the streets
they shall juste one against anothe
in the broad ways; they shall seem lik
torches; they shall run like the light
nings."
think commercial travellers cal
stand a sermon of warm-hearted sym
pathy. If you have any words of goo'
cheer for them. you had better ute
them. If you have any good, bones
prayers in their behalf, they will b
greatly obliged TO you. ! never knew
man yet who did not like to be praye'
for. | never knew man yet that di'
not like TO be helped. 1t seems to m
this sermon is timely. At this seaso1
of the year there are tens of thousand
of men going out to gather the sprini
trade. The months of February an
March in all our commercial estat
lishments are very busy months. In
few days our national perplexities vii
be settled, and then look out for tn
brightest ten years of national prosper
ity which this country has ever wit
messed All our astute commercial me
feel that we are standing at the openin
gate of wonderful prosperity. Let tn
manufacturers put the bands o
. their wheels. and the merchants open
new set of account books in place @
those filled with long columns of ba
debts. Let us start on a new CONNER
cial campaign. Let us drop the old tun
of Naomi" and take up Ariel" or "AI
tioch."
, Now you. the commercial traveller
| | have reneivad orders from, tho head me