Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-09-02
BUSINESS TRIALS.
Or. Taimsge Shows How They Re
fne the Spirit.
0sitEfsn an Trade-The Nerehanrs
once q school of Industry, Pa
ttence. I.tegrfty and Up
: rtEht LivtsT.
rCopyrlEht. isss by Louis Kiopsch.1

that religion may be taken into all the
Affairs OF life. and instead Of being
hindrHnce. as many think, IL re-
enforcement. The text is Romans y;
IL: Not slothful In business; fervent
IN spirit; serving the Lord
Industry. devoutness and Christian
service-al commended in that short
text. What. Ia IL possible that they
shall be con joined? oh. yea. There is
no war between religion and business.
between ledgers and Bibles, between
churches aud counting houses. On the
contrary, religion acceleratCS business,
uharpens mems wits, sweetcns acerDity
of disposition. fllips the blood Of phleg-
matics and throws more velocity into
the wheels Of hard work 1t gives bet
ter balancing to the judgment. more
strength 10 the will. more muscles 20
industry and throws into enthusiasm
more consecrated fire. You cannot in
all the circle of the world show me
man whose honest business has been
6espoiled by religion.
The Industrial classes are divided into
three groups-produccrs manufae-
turerx. traders Producers, such as
farmers and miners. Manufacturers.
such as those who turn corn into food
and woel aud faN into apparel. Traders.
such as make profit out of the transfer
and exchange OF all that which is pro-
duced and manufactured. a business
man may belong TO any one or al OF
these classes and not one is independ-
ent 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 II. his comrades
all escaping. but he falling under the
IanceS of the savagos, = great many
people blamed the empress for allow
ing her son 10 90 forth into that bat
tleAeld. and others blamed the Eng
Hxh government for 4ccepting the Hac-
rifice. and others blamed the Zulus for
their bar arbariSm. The one most TO blame
was the harness maker who fashioned
that strap OF the stirrup out OF Shodd y
and imperfect material, as IL waS found
TO have been afterward. II the STRAP
had held. the prince imperial would
probably have been alive to-day. Hu'
the strap broke. No prince iEdepend
snt OF a harness maker. Eigh. low
wise, ignorant, you ia one occupation
in another. all bound together.
SO that there must bs one continuOui
line OF sympathy with each other
work. But whatever your vocation
n YOU have = multiplicity of engage
rneats. ifiuto your life there come loSse
and annoyances and perturbations a
well as percentages and dividends.
YOU are pursued from Monday mornin,
until Saturday night. and from Januar.
10 January by ineXOrable obligation
and duty, then you are a business man
or you are a business woman. an
my subject Is appropriate TO you
case.
We are under the impression that IN
moil and tug of business life are pri'
on into which man is thrust, q
that il is an unequal strife. where III
armed a man goes forth TO contend.
shall show you this morning tASt bus
ness life waS intended OF God fer gran
and glorious education and disciplin
and IL / shall be helped 20 say what
want TO say I shall rub some of II
wrinkles of care out OF YOUR brow al
unstrap some OF the burdens from yo'
back. I am not talking Of an abstra
ton. Though never having been
business life, know all about bus
ness men. In my first parish at Bell
Vile. y. J., ten miles from New Yor
q large portion Of my audiencs W
made up of New York merchants Th'
wen, 20 Syracuse, place of inmen
commercial activity. and then j we
10 Philadelphia and lived long amor
the merchants of that city, than who
there are no better men on earth, al
for rs years I stood at my Brook.
pulpit. Sabbath by sabbath. preaehi
toaudiences the majority of whom We
business men and business women.
ts not an abstraction Of which i sPes
but q reality with which i am well
quainted-
In the frst place. / remark u
business life was intended as sch'
of energy. God gives us eert'
amount OF raw material out OF which
are TO hew our character. Our fac
ties are TO be reset. rounded and sha
ened up. Our young folks having gr'
uated from school or college neee
higher education. that which the "a
ing collision of everyday life alone {
effect Energy is wrought out o.
in the FIRE. After q man has been
business activity 10. 20, 80 years.
energy Ii not TO be measured by weig
or plummets or ladders. There 10
height IL cannot scale, and there is
deuth II cannot fAthom, and there n