Milford chronicle., 1907-09-13

turn the apparent trivialities of life
into events of the mightlest Importance
and highest benehcence. The text is
Kings xii, "a, "And a certain man
drew a bow at a venture and smote the
king of Israel between the joints of the
kernas~"
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.
have just hired him. l do not know
who he is, except that he has lately
been put upon our payroll" Is that ali
you know about that young man?
Wen, 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 1t
and twist it into the figure of the plas-
ter 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 moth
er's arms. He knows nothing about
the great wide world You are to be
his next teacher. 1t makes a great
deal Of difference to him whether you
20 to church. 1t also makes a great
deal of difference whether you have
decreed that honesty and truth shall
remain supreme in your business es-
tablishment. If you allow your clerk
TO sell goods under false pretenses
you are going to corrupt him. If you
compel your employee 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 today, as bust
ness man, you are a spiritual archer
and you cannot help yourself. You
are fighting for or else you are fighting
against Christ in the store, and your
arrows are flying every whittier.
But if it Is important that we should
use our influence for Christ in our
financial dealings is it not also I'M
portant that we should use that lnnu
ence for Christ in our social inter
course? Indeed, often think it more
important how we deal with our
fellow men for Christ in our social in
4ercourse than in business, for then we
are able to study mems peculiarities
and find out "the joints of their mar
ness" And every man has his vul-
nerable spot in which be can be reach
ed for Christ. When we meet men In
social intercourse we find them on
their guard. Then it IS so easy TO
bring them to Jesus if we can only
touch the right spot. never had this
fact so powerfully presented to me as
by an old friend, who was telling me
an incident connected with the laying
Of the Atlantis cable.
Some years ago Charles Kingsley
was on a lecturing trip through the
United States He was in company
with Cyrus W. Field, his friend of
many years. These two famous men,
with friend of my informant, were
travelling together in the same coach.
To tighten the tedium of the journey
Mr.. Field began to tell some of the in
cidents Of the laying of the cable. He
had completely failed to raise enough
nancy for the undertaking in America
Then he went to England for help,
but skepticism confronted him every
where. The people said an electric
current could not be sent distance OF
5000 miles under the sea. 1t was an
impossibility. At last completely dis
Outraged he was about to come home
when he went to bid farewell to
Charles Kingsley. NO" said Mr..
Kingsley. don't give up yet want
you to 90 and call on Lord So-and-so,
l believe he will help you out" No
said Mr.. Field: there is no need of go
ing. Lord So-and-so cares nothing for
a scientific proposition. 1t 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
little attention to Mr.. Fields project.
He would point out the excellence of
this or that animal all the time Mr..
Field was explaining his plans. Mr..
Field was disappointed, for the noble
man had the money, and if he could
get him interested it might be the sue
cess Of the enterprise. He saw that
he must reach MN tuIOuSu HA9 uO59'
so he said: Il am surprised that your
lordship should say l cannot send an
electric current 5000 miles. Look at
that dog" pointing to a fine grey
hound. "How long does 1t take the
nerves Of that dog to notify his brain
that his tail is being hurt? Now, l
want to stretch such nerve across
the Atlantic, so that when pinch the
dogs tail in New York he will bark
IN London" "Ah, abr laughed the
lord. every good! Let US hear how
YOU can do it." When Cyrus Field left
the house he had the lords order on
his bankers for S25O,0OO in his pocket.
The rest of the money raising was