The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-01-23
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lost world, to pull sinners out OF


lost world to pull sinners out OF
4 the fire.
i wonder who has ahsolved you
from these duties. Inyfead of do.
ing your duty you III as a stun
bling-block in the WY Of other sim
ners. Thus, instead of helping to
save a world, all your actions help
to send souiseto hells
YOUR THOUGHTS.
i Z. Yon are bound to give account
of the sentiments you entertain and
propagate. Gods kingdom is to be
| built up by truth, and not by error,
Your sentiments will have an i'm
sEportant bearing upon the influence
4 yc,l exert upon those around you,
Suppose the business upon which
tyour steward was employed requir-
Led that he should entertein right
motions concerning the manner of
doing it, and the principles involved
in it, of your will and Of. his duty.
And suppose you had given him, in
writing, set of rules for the gov
ernment of his conduct in relation
to all the affairs with which he was
intrusted; then if he should neglect
10 examine these rules, or should
pervert their plain meaning, and
should thus pervert his own CON
duct, and be instrumentalin in deceiv-
ing others and leading them in the
/ way Of disobedience, would you not
look on this as criminal and deserv-
ing the seyerest reprobation?
God has given you rules for the
government of your conduct. In
the Bible you have plain revela-
tion of his will in relation to all
your actions. And now, do you
either neglect or pervert it, and
thus go astray yourself, and lead
others with you in the way of dis
obedience and death, and then call
yourself an honest man? 0 SHAME!
YOUR OPPORTUNITIES.
8. You must give an account of
your opportunities for doing good.
If you employ a steward to transact
your business, you expect him to
take advantage Of the state of the
market and Of things in general to
improve every opportunity to pro-
mote your interest," Suppose at the
busy seasons of the year he should
spend his time in idleness, or in his
own private affairs. and not have
an eye at all to the most favorable
opportunities of promoting your in
terest, would you not soon say to
him, "Give an account of thy stew
ardship, for thou mayest be no
longer steward?"
Now, sinner, you have always
neglected opportunities of serving
God, of warning your fellow sim
ners, or promoting revivals in re-
ligion, and advancing the INTEREST
OF truth. You have been diligent
merely to promote yonr own private
interests, and have entirely neg
lected the interests of your EN-
ployer; and are you not a wretch,
and do you not deserve to; be put T
out of the stewardship. as a dishon-
est man, and to be sent to'the State
prison of the universe? How can
you escape the damnation OF hell?
You see the error of the maxim
that men cannot attend to business
and religion at the sane time. AL
mans business ought to be q part
Of his religion. y~He cannot be reiis1
gious in ldleness. He must have
some = laess, to be religious at
all an9-ff it is performed from a
right motive, his lawfal and neees-
ssary business is as mucha a necessa-
y part Of religion As prayer or
going TO church. OF reading his