Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-09-02
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loss.
School of Patience.
All that process will either break
you down or brighten you up. 1t Is
school of patience. You have known
men under the process to become petu-
liant. and cholcrc, and angry, and pug
nacious, anl cross, and sour, and
queer. and they lost their customers.
and their name became Il detcstatlon.
Other men have been frightened up
under the process. They were tough
ened by the exposure They were like
rocks, all the more valuable for being
blasted. NJ first they had to = .ic
down their wrath. ut first they had to
bite their lips at first they thought OF
some singing reto-; they would like TO
make. bnt they conquered their inDa-
thence. Thcs have kind words now for
sarcastic figs icy have gentle be
hnrinr now ;or uni.i.rncrly customers.
They are patient NO." With unfortunate
debtors. 'i'!.cy have Christian reilec-
items now Tor sudden reynrses Where
did :hcy ger that ..at!rilce? ~ hear
ing Il ri.u:ster preach concerning il on
S,bi,a.. Oh. 10! They got it just
where .ycu w;.il gel TT: ycu ever get
It at all-se!lin% hats d;scountne
notes. turning ban;siers piowing corn,
timing rooia. pleading causes. On,
that amid The turmoil and anxiety and
evaporation of everyday life you
might hear the voice of God saying:
I'm patience possess your soul Let
patience have her perfect work"
| remark again that business life is
school OF useful knowledge. Mer-
chants do not read many books and do
not study lcxicons. They do not dive
into profounds of learning. and yet
nearly all through their occupations
come to understand questions of
finance, and politics. and geography,
and Jurisprudence. and ethics. Bust
ness is Il severe schoolmistrcss. If
pupils will not learn, she strikes them
over the head and the heart with Sc
we're losses. You put $1,000 into an
enterprise 1t is all gone. You say,
That is dead loss" Oh, no! You
are paying the schooling. That was
only tuition. very large tuition-l told
you 1t was a severe schoolmstress-
but it WAS worth 1t. You learned
things under that process you would
not have learned in any other way.
Traders in grain come to know some
thing about foreign harvests, traders
in fruit come to know something about
the prospects OF tropical production,
manufacturers Of American goods
come to understand the tariff on I'M
ported articles, publishers Of books
must come to understand the new law
of copyright. owners of ships must
come to know winds and shoals and
navigation and every bale of cotton
and every raisin cask. and every tea
box, and every cluster Of bananas is
so much literature for n business man.
Now, my brother, what are you going
to do with the intelligence? Do sou
suppose God put you in this school OF
information merely that you might be
sharper in trade, that you might be
more successful as wording? Oh,
no! 1t was that you might take that
useful information and use it for Jesus
Christ.
Need of Honesty.
Can it be that you have been dealing
with foreign lands and never had the
missionary spirit, wishing the saliva
ton of foreign people? Can 1t be that
you have become acquainted with all
the outrages Inflicted in business life
and that you have never tried to bring
to bear that gospel which Is to eXtir-
pate all evil and correct all wrongs and
illuminate all darkness and lift up all
vretchedneSs and save men for this
world and the world to conner Can is
be that understanding oil the intrics-
cies of business you know nothing
about those things which will last aft
err all bills Of exchange and conslgn-
mcnts and invoices and rent rolls shall
have crumpled up and been consumed
In the fires of the last great day! Can
II be that a man will be wise for
time and fool for eternity?
remark, Also, that business lie Is
school for integrity. No man knows
| what he will do until he is tempted.
! There are thousands of men who have
kept their integrity merely because
! they never nave been tested. man
was elected treasurer of the state OF
Maine some years ago. He WAS distln-
guished for his honesty. usefulness and
uprightncss but before one year mad
passed he had taken of the public
funds for his own private Use and was
hurled out OF office III disgrace. Dis
tinguishcd for virtue before. Distln-
! euished for crime after. You can call
over the uamca of men just like that
| in whose honesty you had complete