Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1901


Copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1901
WASHINGTON, Aug. Pin this dis
course DR.. Talmage argues that re-
4igion may be taken into all the affairs
of life and instead of being him
arance, as many think, is a reinforce
ment. The text is Romans xii, IL: Not
slothfuI in business, fervent in spirit.
serving the Lord"
Industry, devoutness and Christian
service-an commended in that short
text What! Is it possible that they
shall be conjoined? oh, yes! There
is no war between religion and bust
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, fillips the
blood of phlegmatics and throws more
velocity into the wheels of hard work.
1t gives batter balancing to the judg-
ment, more strength to the will, more
muscle to industry and throws into
enthusiasm a more cOnSecrated fire.
You cannot in all the circle of the
world show me a man whose honest
business has been despoiled by re-
1igion.
The Industrial classes are divided in
to three groups-producers, manufac-
turers, traders. Producers, such as
farmers and miners. Manufacturers,
such as those who turn corn into food
and wool and fax into apparel. Trad
ers, such as make profit out of the
transfer aSd 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 independent of any other.
When the prince imperial Of France
fell on the Zulu battlefield because the
strap fastening the stirrup to the sad
die broke as he chung to it, his COM
rades all escaping, but he falling I'M
der the lances Of the savageS, a great
many people blamed the empress for
allowing her son to go forth into that
battlefield, and others blamed the Eng
1ish government for accepting the sac
rifice, and others blamed the Zulus fer
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 it
was found to have been afterward. If
the strap had held, the prince imperial
would probably have been alive today
But the strap broke. No prince indie
pendent of Il harness maker! High,
low, wise, ignorant, you in one occupa-
ton, in another, all bound together.
So that there must be one continuous
line of sympathy with each others
work. But whatever your vocation, IL
you have a multiplicity of engage
ments, if into your life there come loss
es and annoyances and perturbations
as we'll as percentages and dividends,
If you are pursued from Monday morn
ing until Saturday night and from
January to January by memorable OBJ
legation and duty, then you are bust
ness man, or you are business Wo-
man, and my subject is appropriate to
your case.
Grand and Glorious.
We are under the impression that
the moil and tug of business life are
prison into which a man is thrust or
that it is an unequal strife where IN
armed a man goes forth to contend.
4 shall show you this morning that
business life was intended Of God for
grand and glorious education and dis
cipline, and if 1 shall be helped to say
what l want to say l shall rub some
of the wrinkles Of care out of your
brow and unstrap some Of the burdens
from yoUS back. 1 am not talking of
an abstraction. Though never having
been in business life 1 know all about
business men.
In my first parish at Belleville, n. j.,
ten miles from New York, large por
ton of my audience was made up Of
New York merchants. Then l went to
Syracuse, place of immense CONNER
cial activity, and then l went to Phila-
delphia and lived long among the mer-
chants of that city, than whom there
are no better men on earth, and for %
years I stood in my Brooklyn pulpit,
Sabbath by Sabbath, preaching to au-
diences the majority Of whom were
business men and business women. 1t
is not an abstraction of which l speak,
but a reality with which I am well &C
Quainted.
In the first place, 1 remark that bust
ness life was intended as a school of
energy. God gives us certain amount
of raw material out of which we are to
hew our character. Our faculties are
to be reset, rounded and sharpened up.
Our young folks having graduated
from school or college need a higher
education, that which the rasping and
collision of everyday life alone can eff
feet. Energy is wrought out only in
the fire. After a man has been in bust
ness activity 10, 20, 80 years, his ener-
" is not to be measured by weights or
plummets or ladders. There is no
height it cannot scale, and there is no
depth it cannot fathom, and there is
no obstacle it cannot thrash.