The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

Sunday and a sharp, scheming, avari cious. unprincipled business man dur ing the week. He cannot be a true elder of the church and pass the sacred bread at the holy communion and then as usurer or produce exchange ma nipulator cheat the farmer out of his yearly harvestings on week days. He cannot be a servant of God in the church and vet deny him in the store. And 1t is in the store that our religion is put to it's severest test. If we are willing to give to God a consecrated pocl1etbook, there will be no difficulty about God giving to us many souls for our hire.
 Christ in Business.
 Do you see that young man standing over there? Who is he? Why" you answer, he is one of my new clerks l have just hired him. I do not know who he is, except that he has lately been put upon our payroll" Is that all you know about that young man? Well. I will tell you who that young man is He is one of your spiritual children. As the sculptor can take lot of soft clay in his hand and mold it and twist it into the
 figure of the plaster cast so you today are molding the spiritual life of that young man. He is as putty in the hands of the glazier He comes to you fresh from his mothers arms. He knows notn- ing about the great wide world. You are to be his next teacher. It makes a great deal of difference to him whether you go to church. It also makes a great deal of difference whether you have de- creed that honesty and truth shall re- main supreme in your business establish ment. If you allow your clerk to sell goods under false pretenses you are go- ing to corrupt him. If you compel your employe to be true and honest in dealing with your customers you will make him true and honest and pure. You did not think you were a city set upon a hill. You did not know your gospel light was shining before men in the store. But to- day as a business man, you are spir- itual archer. and you cannot help your self You are fighting for or else you are fighting against Christ in the store, and your arrows are flying every whithcr.
 But if it is important that should use our influence for Christ in our finah- cial dealings is 1t not also important that we should use that influence for Christ in social intercourse? ln- deed, I often think it more important how we deal with our fellow men for Christ in our social intercourse than in business. for then we are able to study mems peculiarities and find out "the joints of their harness" And every man has his vulnerable spot in which he can be reached for Christ. When we meet men in social intercourse we find them off their guard. Then 1t Is so easy to bring them to Jesus if we can only touch the right spot. I never had this fact So powerfully presented to me as by an Hld friend who was telling me an incident connected with the laying of the Atlantic cable.
 Some years ago Charles Kin gsley was on a featuring trip through the United States. He was in company with Cyrus w. Field. his friend of many years. These two famous men. with a friend of my informant, were travelling to- gether in the same coach To tighten the tedium of the journey MT. Field began to tell some of the incidents of the laying of the cable. He had com pletely failed to raise enough money for the undertaking in America. Then he went to England for help, but skep- ticism confronted him everywh ere. The people said an electric current could not be sent a distance of 5000 miles un- der the sea. It was an impossbility. At last, completely discouraged, he was about to come home when he went to bid farewell to Charles Kingsley. No" said MT. Kingsley, don't give up yet. l want you to go and call on Lord So- and-So. l believe he will help you out" No" said MT. Field; there is no need of going. Lord So-and-So cares nothing for a scientific proposition. It would only be wasted time." But at last, under the persuasion of Kingsley, he decided to go
 He found the noble lord in his park surrounded by his dogs. He was so interested in his pack that he gave lit tie attention to MT. Fields project. He would point out the excellence of this or that animal all the time MT. Field was explaining his plans. MT Field was disappointed, for the nobleman had the money, and if he could get him in terested it might be the success of the enterprise. He saw that he must reach him through his dogs, so he said "I am surprised that your lordship should say I cannot send an electric current 5000 miles. Look at that dog" pointing to a fine greyhound. How long does 1t take the nerves of that dog to notify his brain that his tail Is being hurt? Now, I want to stretch such nerve across the Atlantic, so that when l pinch the dogs tail in New York he will bark in London" "Ah, aht' laughed the lord. Very good Let us hear how you can do it." When Cyrus Field left the house he had the lords order on ms bankers for s250,000 in his pocket. The rest of the money raising was easy. 50 every man has his vulnerable spot Tor Christ as that member or the Brltlsh nobility had his vulnerable spot for inc purposes of an Atlantic cable. Dare we can we, afford to fritttr away our social moments, which may be used for winning souls for the Master? You have no idea how far your gospel lh- vitations may sink when you deliver them for Christ in the parlor or in the street car or at the dining room table.
 Mighty Facts.
 The story is told that many years ago the Genevan evangelist, Caesar Maiau u,as at a Fashionable dinner in the west End of London. He was seated by a hoo,tiful voung girl. During the pan .o,,et ba onietly said to her: Are you d 1 C,nristian?" She flushed up at once ana answered sharply, That IS suoJect do mt care to have discussed here tHls evening" well" answered the minister with a gentle. earnest voice, Il VIII not nersist in speaking of it. but I shall pray | that you may give your heart to Cnrlst and become a useful worker Tor linn That was all pr. Malan said. ie" uayS later that lady came to Dr. Malah sensS beeging him to show her the way or ne She then and there gave her heart u Jesus. That young lady's name was MISS Charlotte Elliott, whose memory Will pe honored as long as the Chrlstiah chuien shall last for out of that simple quesuou of a humble evangelist there came lo, ti from her pen that matchless hyiiln wn'+" has won multitudes of sinners to Christ; Inst as I am, without one piea
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