The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-03-26

and in Vatican the best pictures
Titian's Assumption" Raphaels
TRANSPORTATION" Rubens's Descent
From the Cross" Claude's Burning
Bush" and Angeles Last Judgment. y
Religion has made the best music OF
the world-Haydn'a Creation" Han
del's Messiah" Mozart's Requiem.
Is it possible that a religion which
builds such indestructible monuments
and which lifts it's ensign on the
highest promontories Of worldly power
can have any effect upon a mans in
tellect but elevation:
Now. | commend godl!nesS as the
best mental discipline, better than
bellies lettres to purify the taste, better
than mathematics to harness the mind
to all intricacy and elaboration, better
than logic to marshal the intellectual
| forces for onset and victory. 1t will go
with Hugh Miller and show him the
footprints of the Creator in the red
sandstone. 1t will go with the botaniS-
and show him celestial glories encampt
ed under the curtain of a water lily. 1t
will so with the astronomer on the
great heights were God sheperds the
great flock Of worlds that wander on
the hills of heaven answering his voice
as he calls them all by their names.
Again remark that religion is good
for worldly business. know the gen.
eral theory is the more business the
less religion. the more religion the less
business. Not so, thought DR.. Hans
in his Typography of Christian Mer-
chant" when he says: He grew in
grace the last six years of his life more
than at any time in his life. During
those six years he had more business
crowding him than at any other time"
In other words, the more worldly busi-
ness man has the more opportunity
to serve God. Does religion e1hilarate
or retard worldly business? is the prac-
tical question for you to discuss. Does
it hang, like a mortgage, over the
farm? Is it a bad debt on the ledger?
Is it lien against the estate? Does
it crowd the door through which Gus
toners come for broadcloths and silks?
Now, religion will hinder your busi-
ness If it be a bad business or if it be
a good business wrongly conducted. If
you tell lies behind the counter, if you
use false weights and measures, if you
put sand in sugar and beet juice in vim
egar and lard in butter and sell for
one thing that which Is another thing,
then religion will interfere with that
business, but a lawfully conducted,
will find the religion Of the Lord
Jesus Chrisa it's mightiest auxiliary.
Religion will give an eQuipoise OF
spirit. It will keep you from ebulli-
tions Of temper, and you know a great
many fine businesses have been blown
to atowms by bad temper. It will keep
you frem worriment about frequent
loss; it will keep you industrious and
prompt; it will keep you back from
squandering and from dissipation; it
will give you a kindness Of spirit which
will be easily distinguished from that
mere store courtesy which shakes
hands violently with you, asking about
health Of your family, when there is
no anxiety to know whether your child
is well OF sick, but the anxiety is to
know how many dozen cambria pocket
handkerchiefs you will take and pay
cash down. It will prepare you for the
practical duties Of everyday life, do
not mean to say that religion will
make US financially rich, but do say
that it will give US, it will assure US OF
a comfortable Sustenance at the start,
a comfortable subsistence all the way
through, and it will help US to direct
the bank, to manage the traffic, to
conduct all our business matters and
to make the most insignificant affair
OF our life matter Of vast smportance,
glorifed by Christian principle.
In New York city there was a mer-
chant hard in bis dealings with his
fellows, Yho had written> over his
banking house or bis counting house
room, mo compromise" Then when
some merchant got in crisis and went
down-no fault Of his, but a conjunc-
tion of evil circumstances all the
other merchants we're willing to COM
promise they would take IS cents on
the dollar or sc cents or 20 cents
ing to this man last Of all, he said: No
compromise. I'll take 100 cents On the
dollar, and I can afford to wait" Well,
the wheel turned, and after awhile
that man was in a crisis Of business,
and he sent out his agent to compro-
mise, and the agent said to the mer-
chants, will you take so cents on
the dollar?:" No" will you take
anything?', well take 100 cents on
the dollar. No compromise" And
the man who wrote that inscription
over his counting house door died in
destitution. Oh, we want more of
the kindness Of the gospel and the
spirit of love in our business enter
priSes! How many young men have
found in the religion Of Jesus Christ
practical help? How many there are
today who could testify out Of their
own experience that godliness is pro-
ftable for the life that now is. There
were times in their business career
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 deliverance, and
the Lord rescued them.
In a bank not far from New York
village bank-an officer could not
balance his accounts. He had worked
at them day after day, night after
night, and he was sick nigh unto death
as result. He knew he had not tax
en- one farthing from that bank, but
somehow, for some reason, inscrutable
then, the accounts would not balance.
The time rolled on and the morning
Of the day when the books should pass
under the inspection OF the other Off
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