Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-09-01
LEDGERS AND BIBLES
THERE is NO WAR BETWEEN RELI-
GlON AND BUSINESS.

GlON AND BUSINESS.
DIR. TnImaRe Declares That Right
eOusness II n Re-enfOrcemcnt and
Not IA Hindrnnce In the Affairs of
Life.
copyright, Louis Kopsch, 1901
WASHINGTON, Aug. PIN this dis
course Dr. Talmage argues that re-
lgion may be taken into all the affairs
Of life and instead Of being a him
drance. as many think. is re-enf0rcc-
ment The text is Romans xii, II: Not
slothful in business, feryent in spirit,
serving the Lord"
Industry, devoutness and Christian
service-all commended in that short
text. What, Is it possible that they
shall be conjoined? 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, hllips the
blood Of phlegmatics and throws more
velocity into the wheels of hard work.
1t gives better 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-
ligion.
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 fo<d
land wool and fax Into apparel Trad
ers, such as make profit out Of the
transfer and exchange Of all that
which is produced and manufactured.
\ business man may belong 10 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 sticrup to the sad
die broke as he clung TO ii, his CON-
rades all escaping. but be falling un-
der the lances of the savages, a great
many people blamed the empress for
allowing her son TO 90 forth into that
ibattleneld and others blamed the Eng
llish government for accepting the sac
Irifce, and others blamed the Zulus for
their barlansm. The one most 10
blame was the harness maker who
fashioned ,nat strap Of the stirrup out
OF shoddy aud imperfect material, as It
was found TO have been afterw9Vd. II
the strap had held, the prince imperial
would probably nave been alive today.
Bdt the strap broke. No prince indie
pendent of a 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 sjmpathy with each others
work. But whatever your vocation, II
you have multiplicity of engage
ments. II into your life there come loss
es and annOyances and perturhations
as well as percentages and dividends,
if YOU are pursued from Monday morn
ing until Saturday night and from
January to January by ipoxcrable OBJ
llgation and duty. then you are busi-
nocs man. or you are a 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 a
prison into which man Is thrust OF
that it is an unequal strife where un
ormed a man goes forth 20 contend
| shall show yau sns morning tna'
, business life was intended Of God for
! grand and glorious education and dis
cipline, and if J shall be helped to say
what 1 want to say | shall rub some
Of the wrinkles Of care out Of your
brow and unstrap seme OF the burdens
- from your back. am not talking OF
m abstraction. Though never having
been in business life, know al about
a business mem
.o my frst parish at Belleville, y. j.,
=. zen miles from New York. a large por-
: lion Of my audience was made up oi
i New York merchants. Then ! went "a
o Syracuse. q mace OF immense CONNER
% ,,ai activity. and then | went to Phlla
- delnhia ana lived long among the mer
n chants of that city, than whom tnert
Y are no better men on earth, and for ?,
4 Gears / stood in my Brooklyn pulpit
: sabbath by Sabbath, preaching to an
Y diences the majority Of whom were
I. business men and business women /
a. is not an abstraction Of which speak
but reality with which am well ac
Quaintcd.
In the first place, remark that 6usi
o ness life WAS intended as school o
f. energy. God gives US certain amour
n Of raw material out Of which we are u
le bew our character Our faculties ar
% TO be reset. rounded and sharpened W
1t Our young folks having graduates
Mt from school or college need a highe
ia education. that which the rasping an
ly collision of everyday life alone can el
I'd feet. Energy is wrought out only j
be the fire. After man has been In bus
rs ness activity 10, 20, 80 years, his enel
50 gv is not to be measured by weights
err pummets or ladders. There Is Ii
M height 1t cannot scale, and there IS
Nd depth It cannot fathOm. and there
Dec no obstacle it cannot thrash.
be Now, my brother, why did God PIT
h- you in that school OF energyf Was
ih merely that you might be yardstic
10 measure cloth or steelyard
Is weigh fourP Was 1t merely that yo
he might be better qualified to chaf'
at and higgle3 No. God placed you
ed that school of energy that you migl
re- be developed for Christian work.
'er the undeyeloped talents in the Chrl
tlan churches Of today were brougl
out and thoroughly harnessed. | b
lleve the whole earth would be co
go verted TO God in twelyemonth. The
sa- are so many deep streams that n
wn turning no mill wheels and that a
3a- harnessed to no factory bands.