The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-10-18
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Prepared Especially for the Instruc-
ton of the Young and Old.

Subject: Ledgers and Bibles-Tbere
is No War Between Religion and
Observation-Disclosures is Rein
forcement and Not Hinderance
in Life's Affairs.
In this discourse DR.. Talmage ar
CUES that religion may be taken into
all the affairs of life and instead OF
it being hinderance, as many think,
it is a reinforcement. The text is
Romans xii, II: "Not slothfulin bus
mess, fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord"
Industry, devoutness and Christian
service-all commended in that short
text. What! Is it possible that they
shall be coioinede Oh, yes! There
is no war between religion and busi-
ness, between ledgers and Bibles, be-
tween churches and counting houses
On the contrary, religion accelerates
business, sharpens mems wits, sweet
ems acerbity of disposition, fills up
the blood of pblegmatics 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 enthusiasm q more consecrated
fire. You cannot in all the circle OF
the world show me man whose hon.
est business has been despoiled by
religion.
The industrial classes are divided
into three groups-producers, man
ufcaturers, traders. Producers such
as farmers and miners. Manufactur
ers, such as they 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 an!
one or all of these classes, and no.
one is independent of another.
When the prince imperial of Franc
fell on the Zulu battlefield becaus'
the strap fastening the stirrup t. be
saddle broke as he clung to it, his
comrades all escaping, but he falling
under the lances of the saVages, +
great many blamed the empress TO-
allowing her son to 60 forth into tha'
battlefield, and others blamed the
English government for accepting
the sacrifice, and others blamed ths
Zulus for their barbarism. The one
most to blame was the harness maker
who fashioned that strap of the stir
rup out of shoddy and imperfect ma
teriai, as it was found to have beer
afterward. If the strap had held, the
prince imperial would probably have
been alive today. But the strap
broke. No prince Independent Of 3
hrness maker. High, low, wise,
Ignorant, you in one occupation, I il
another, all bound together. So that
there must be one continuous line OF
sympathy with each others work.
But whatever your vocation, if you
have a multiplicity Of engagements,
if into your life there come losses
ani annoyances and perturbation as
well as per centsges and dividends,
if 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 bus
mess woman, and my sermon is sp
propriate to your case.
We are under the impression that
the moll and tug of business life are
a prison into which man is thrust
or that it is an unequal strife where
unarmed a man goes forth to contend
I will show you this morning that
Business life was intended of God
for grand and glorious education and
discipline, and if I shall be helped to
say what I want say shall rub some
of the wrinkles out of your brow and
unstrap some of the burdens from
your back. I am not talking of an
abstraction. Though never having
been in business life, I know all
8OOQG BUSINESS mSu.
In my first parish at Bellville, N
j., ten miles from New York, large
portion of my audience was made uI
of New York merchants. Then
went to Syracuse, place Of immense
commercial activity, and then [ wen
to Philadelphia and lived long among
the merchants of that city, thar
whom there are no better men OF
earth, and for twenty-five years
stood in my Brooklyn pulpit, Sab
bath by Sabbath, preaching to audi
ences the majority of who were bust
ness men and business women. L