The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-09-08
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
BUSINESS LIFE, LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
A Lecture in Common Honesty-"Not
slothful In Businessi Fervent In Spirits
Serving the Lord"-ROnL 1911.

ness, between ledgers and Bibles, be-
tween churches and country 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 better balancing to the judg-
ment, more strength to the will, more
muscle to industry, and throws into
enthusiasm a more consecrated hre'
You cannot in all the circle OF the
world show me 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 food,
and wool and flax into apparel. Trad
ers, such as make profit out or 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 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 under
the lances OF the savages, a great
many people blamed the Empress FOR
allowing her son to go forth into that
battlefield, and other blamed the Eng
lish government for accepting the sac-
riflce. and other blamed the Zulus for
their barbarism. The one most 10
blame was the harnessmaker who FASH
toned that strap of the stirrup out OF
shoddy and imperfect material as IL
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 inde-
pendent of a harnessmaker! High,
low. wise. ignorant. you in one occu-
patton, l in another, all bound to-
gether. So that there must be one
continuous line of sympathy with each
others work But whatever your vo-
cation, if you have a multiplicity OF
engagements, if into your life there
come losses and annoyances and per-
turbations as we'll as percentages and
dividends, if you are pursued from
Monday morning until Saturday night
and from January to January by in
exorable obligation and duty then you
are business man, or you are bust
ness woman. and my subject is appro-
pirate to your case.
Traders in grain come to know some
thing about foreign harvests; traders
in fruit come to know something
about the prospects of tropical p"oduc'
ton: manufacturers of American
goods come to understand the tariff or
imported articles publishers Of books
must come to understand the new Law
of copyright; owners of ships mus
come to know winds and shoals ant
navigation; and every bale OF cotton
and every raisin cask. and every te;
box and every cluster of bananas is S,
, much literature for a business man
Now, my brother, what are you goin
to do with the intelligence? Do yo
suppose God put you in this school o
information merely that you might b
sharper in a trade, that you might
more successful as a wording? OF
no; IL was that you might take tina
!, useful information and use it for Jesu
: Christ
Can 1t be that you have been deal
:, ing with foreign lands and never ha
the missionary spirit, wishing the sa
walton of foreign people? Can it b
= that you have become acquainted wit
all the outrages inflicted in bushes
e life and that you have never tried [
bring to bear that Gospel which is
extirpate all evil and correct a
e wrongs and illumine all darkness an
/ lift up all wretchedness and save me
for this world and the world to come
u Can it be that understanding all the IL
s. tricacies of business you know nothir
about those things which will last aft
~ all bills of exchange and consignment
I" and invoices and rent rolls shall ha'
. crumpled up and been consumed
~ the fires Of the last great day? Ca
it be that a man will be wise for tin
. and fool for eternity?
!. l remark, also, that business life
- a school for integrity. No man kno'
~ what he will do until he is temple
:, There are thousands of men who ha
: kept their integrity merely becau
- they never have been tested. A M
- was elected treasurer of the State
Maine some years ago. He was d
=, tingulshed for his honesty, usefulne
y and uprightness, but before one We
!, had passed he had taken of the pub
= funds for his own private use, and W
:. hurled out OF Office in. disgrace. ID
90 tinguished for virtue before. Dist
=" guished for crime after. You can C
over the names of men just like tn
he in whose honesty you had compile
he confidence, but placed in certain Girls
u Of temptation they went overboa
e. Never so many temptations to scou
It drelism as now. Not a law on
r. statute book but has some back dc
throuoh which q r,niscraant can egca