Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-22

weights and measures, il you put sand
IL sugar and beet juice in vinegar and
lard in butter and sell for one thing that
which is another thing. then religion will
interfere with that business. but law
ful business, lawfully conducted. will find
the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ its
mightiest auxiliary.
Religion viii give an eqaipoise OF spirit.
IL will keep You from ebullitions OF tenn
per- and you know a great many hne
businesses have been blown TO atoms by
bad temper 1t will keep You from wor-
riment about frequent loss; it viii keep
You industrious and prompt; 1t Will keep
YOU back from squandering and from dis
sipation; it viii give you a kindness OF
spirit which will he easily distinguished
from that mere store courtesy which
shakes hands yiolently with you. asking
about the health of your family, when
there is no anxiety to know whether
your child is well or sick, but the anX-
iety is to know how many dozen cam
bric pocket handkerhciefs you Will take
and pay cash down. 1t will prepare you
for the practical duties of everyday life.
do not mean TO say shat religion will
make us financially rich, but | do say
n comfortable sustenance at the start, 4
comfortable sustenance all the way
through and it will help us 10 direct the
bank, 10 manage the traffic, to conduct
all our business matters and to make the
most insignificant affair of our life mat
ter of vast Importance. gloritied by Chris
tian principle.
The Story of Merchant.
~. Nvoue~ fvftxr fItara
chant, hard in his dealings with his fell
lows, who haa written over his banking
house or his counting house room. NO
compromise" Then when some mer-
chant got in 4 crisis and went down
no fault OF his. but 4 conjunction of evil
circumstances and all the other mer-
chants were willing to compromise they
would take - cents on the dollar or 81
cents or 20 cents coming TO this man
last OF all. he said; NO compromise. III
take 100 cents on the dollar, and | can
afford to watt Wen, the wheel tura-
ed. and after awhile that man was ia
a crisis OF business. aud he sent out his
agent to compromise aud the agent said
to the merchants. "Will You take 90
cents on the dolIar? No" "Nill you
take anything?' wen take 100 cents
on the dollar. No compromise And
the man who wrote that inscription over
his counting house door died in destitu-
ton. Oh, we want more Of the kindness
of the gospel and the spirit Of love in our
business enterprises! How many young
men have found in the religion of Jesus
Christ a practical help? How many
there are to-day who could testify out
of their own experience that goodness
is profitable for the life that now isl
There were times in their business en-
reer when they went here for help and
there for help and yonder for help and
got no help until they knelt before the
Lord crying for his delverance, and the
Lord rescued them
In bank not far from New Yorka
village bank IAN officer could not balance
his accounts. lie had worked at them
day after day night after night, and he
was sick nigh unto death as result lie
knew he had not taken one farthing from
that bank but somehow for some. reason.
inserutable then, the accounts wosrfd rrtsg
balance. The time rolled on and the
morning Of the day when the hooks
should pass under the inspection OF the
other officers arrived, and he felt him-
self in awful peril, conscious OF his own
integrity, hut unable TO prove that in
tcgrity. That morning he Went TO the
bank early, and he knct down before
God and told the whole story of mental
anguish, and he said: 20 Lord, have
done right, have preserved my integ
rity, but here ! am about TO be over
thrown unless thou shoudst come TO mr
rescue Lord, deliver me-" And for one
hour he continued the prayer before God.
and then he arose and went to an old
blottcr that he had forgotten all about
He opened it, aud there lay sheet Of
figures which he only needed to add to
another line of figures some line OF fig
urcs he had forgotten and knew not
where he had laid them-and the ac-
counts were balanced, and the Lord de-
Hvcrcd him. You are an infide il y0a
do not believe it. The Lord delivered
him. God answered his prayer, as he
will answer your prayer, oh, man OF bnsi-
ness in every crisis when you come to
him.
Can You Get Along without Itf
Now IL this be so, then ! am persuade
ed, as you are. OF the fact that the vast
majority OF Christians do not fully test
the value OF their religion They are
like Il farmer in California with 10000
acres Of good wheat land and culturing
only quartSF of an acre. Why do YOU
not go forth and make the religion OF
Jesus Christ Il practical affair every day
OF your business life and all this year.
beginning now, and tomorrow morning
putting into practical effect this holy
religion and demonstrating that godliness
is profitable here as well as hereafterg
How can YOU get along without this re-
ligionf
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