The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-01
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE
Subject: Ledgers and Bibles-There Is No
War Between Religion and business
Righteousness is n Re-enforcetnen
and Not "a H~indrance In Ltfe's Affairs.

War cen Religion and business
Righteousness is n Reinforcement
and Not "A Hindrance In Life's Affairs.
copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1921
WASHINGTON, D. Gin this discourse DR..
Tulmage argues that religion may be taken
into all the affairs of life and instead OF
being n hindrance, MS many think, Is a re-
enforcement. The teSt Is Romans xiii, IL:
''Not slothiul In business, feryent In spirit,
serving the Lord"
Industry. ~deyoutness and Christian SER
vice-all commended In that short text.
What Is 1t possible that they shall be con-
Joined? Oh, yesl There is no war
between religion and business, between
ledgers and Bibles, between churches and
counting houses. On the contrary, re-
ligion accelerates business, sharpens mems
wits, sweetens acerbity OF disposition,
Allips the blood Of p~hlegmatics and throws
more velocity Into the wheels OF hard
work. 1t gives better balancing to the
Judgment, more strength to the will, more
muscle to industry and throws into enthu-
einsm a more consecrated fire. You cannot
In all the circle OF the world show me q
man whose honest business has been de-
spoiled by religion.
The industrial classes are divided into
three groups-producers, manufacturers,
traders. Producers, such rs farmers ard
miners. Manufacturers, such as those whc
turn COTE into food and wool and flax 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 any one or all
of these classes, and not one is tndepen-
len Of any other.
When the prince imperial OF France fell
on the Zulu battlefield because the strap
fastening the stirrup to the saddle broke
as he chung to 1t, his comrades all eseap-
ing, but he falling under the lances OF the
--A-A 800 -. Na11la 1lnFa al thn
empress for allowing her son to go forth
into that battlefield, and others blamei
the English Government for accepting
the sacrifice, and others blamed the Zulus
for 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 1t
was found to have been afterward. If the
strap had held, the prince imperial would
probably have been alive to-day. But the
strap broke. No prince Independent OF u
harness makerl High, low, wise, ignorant,
you in one occupation, l in another, all
bound together. So that there must be
one continuous line of sympathy will each
others work. But whatever your vocation,
II you have a multiplicity OF engagements,
If into your life there come losses and an
noyunces and perturbations as well as per-
eentHges and dividends, If you are pursued
from Monday morning until Saturday night
anu lIOll JuuuulJ " hhuull Wy
able obligation and duty, then you are a
business man, or you are q business wom-
an, and my subject is appropriate to your
case.
We are under the impression that the
MOL and tug of business life are a prison
into which a man is thrust or that it is an
unequal strife where unarmeda man goes
forth to contend. l shall show you this
morning that business life was intended of
God for grand and glorious education and
discipline, and If | shall be helped to say
what l want to say l shall rub some of the
wrinkles of care out OF your brow and I'M
strap some of the burdens from your back.
[ am not talking of an abstraction.
Though never having been IN business life,
know all about business men.
In my first parish at Belleville, N. j., ten
miles from New York, a large portion OF
my audience was made up of New York
merchants. Then I went to Syracuse, q
place of immense commercial activity, and
then l went to Philadelphia and lived long
among the merchants Of that city, than
whom there are no better men on earth,
and for twenty-five years | stood in my
Brooklyn pulpit, Sabbath by Sabbath,
preaching to audiences the majority OF
whom were business men md business
women. 1t is not IN abstraction OF which
l speak, but n reality with which l nm well
acquainted.
In the first place, l remark that business
life was intended as a school of energy.
God gives US a certain amount OF raw ma
terial out OF which we ar6 to hew our
character. Our faculties arc to be reset,
rounded and shHrpened up. Our young
folks having graduated from school or col
lege need Il higher education, that which
the rasptng and collision of everyday life
alone can effect. Energy is wrought out
only in the fire. After Il man has been in
business activity ten, twenty, thirty years,
bIS anarop lie Dnf IN ha m anGura1 hv wpiDbts
or plummets or ladders. There is no height
1t cannot scale, and there is no depth it
cannot fathom, and there Is no obstacle 1t
cannot thrash.
Now, my brother, why did God put you
in that school of energy2 Was 1t merely
that you might be q yardstlck to measure
cloth or "A steelyard to weigh -four? Was
1t merely that you might be better qualified
to chatter and higgle? No. God placed
you in that school of energy that you might
be developed for Christian work. Iftheun-
developed talents in the Christian churches
of to-day were brought out and thoroughly
harnessed, l believe the whole earth would
be converted to Goa in a twelvemonth,
There are sc many deep streams that are
turning no mill wheels and that are har-
messed to no factory bands.
Now, God demands the best lamb out OF
every flock. He demands the richest sheaf
of every harvest. lie demands the best
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Newton and Locke and Mansfield toiled
you and l can afford to toll in. Oh, for
fewer idlers in the cause OF Christ and for
more Christian workers, men who shall
take the same energy that from Monday
morning to Saturday night they put forth
for the achievement of a livelihood or the
gathering OF a fortune and on Sabbath
days put It forth to the advantage OF
Christ's kingdom II the bringing of men
to the Lerd.
DR.. Duff visited a m an who had inheri-
ted a great fortune. The man said to him:
II had to be very busy for many Yeas Of my
life getting my livelihood. After n while
this fortune came to me and there has
been no necessity that | toll since. There
came n time when | said to myself, Shall
I now retire from business, or shall I go on
and serve the Lord in my worldly oceupa-
tionP" He said; Il resolved on the
latter, and l have been more indus
trlous in commercial circles than l ever
was before, and since that hour have
never kept a farthlng for myself. l
have thought 1t to be u great shame il
l couldn't toll as hard for the Lord as
l had toiled for myself, and all the pro-
ducts OF my factories and my commercial
establishments to the last iarthing have
gone for the building of CHRISTIAN ~institu-
lions and supporting the church OF God"
Would that the same energy put forth for
tho world could be put forth for God.
Would that n thousand men in these grent
cities who have achieved a fortune could
see it their duty now-to do all business for
Christ and the alienation of the worlds
So fferingi
Again, | remark that business life is n
school of patience. In your everyday life
how many things to annoy and to disquiet?
Bargains will rub. Commercial men will
sometimes fail to meet their engagements.
Cash book and money drawer will some
times uunrrel Goods ordered for n sneaIAl
emergency will come too late or be dam
aged in the transportation. People intend
ing no harm will go shopping without any
intention Of purchase, overturning great
stocks of goods and insisting that you
break the dozen. More bad debts on the