Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-20
REV. MILLS TALKS
TO |. D. S. STUDENTS
Takes as His Theme MIXED Re-
ligion and Business
Some OF His Hits.
TELLS MODERN PROVERBS.
Stories OF the Wealthy Man and the
Captain of Industry-Bis Attend
ancc ut Barrntt Hall.

Rev. Benjamin Fay Mills spoke last
evening to another large audience IN
Barratt hall. His subject was, Find
ing God in Foolish Men, He did not
hold a question meeting at the close OF
the lecture but announced that ne
would this evening, when his sup1ect
will be- what Tolstoi says IL the
heart OF Jesus teaching, Resist not
Evil"
This afternoon the Rev. Mr.. Mills is
speaking in Unity Hall on THE Free
Soul" and tomorrow at O'Clock ne
will give his last lesson In the Bhega-
vad Gita on the subject OF HeailEa-
ton"
This morning the Rev. Mr.. Mills ac-
cepted an invitation to address the stu
dents of the l.. d. s. University, ana
at o'clock he spoke to an audience
which completely filed Barratt Han.
on Mixed Religion and Business nc
said In part:
When man says he never mixes
religion and business you may make up
your mind that he has very little re-
ligion to mix. Mr.. Beecher used TO
say that the tide broke twice a day
In the New York harbor, but that II
only broke once a week in the house OF
God. Men write over their places OF
trade. Business is business ana
over the temple of worship Religion
is religion" And they say to the busi-
ness, you keep out of here" and TO
the religion. Don't you ever come In
herel" They oblige God sometimes
not frequently, but sometimes-py go
ing to church on Sunday and they
think that is all God ought TO ask OF
anybody. They seem to think that
they have put God very much In their
debt by going to church. They get up
late on Sunday morning, and after
they have read all they care to In the
morning papers they go down 10
church. little late. to obllge God and
be religious. And there they sit and
doze away and hear a sermon about
Abraham or Melchisedek or Niagara
Falls or biology and listen TO little
heather music in an unknown tongue,
and think they have been religious.
PARTING OF THE WAYS.
ION Monday-well Monday is quite
different. On Monday they want the
liberty to go out and mark their goods
with the wrong stamp, and TO take the
unfortunate debtor by the throat and
say, PAY me that thou owest," and
to be unjust and unlSind and dishonest.
And IL there ever be minister VINO
stands up and talks about these things
in the pulpit, they send the deaeons
or trustees to them, and they say,
You attend TO preaching the gospel
And IL you don't. we will turn you
out and get somebody who will come
in and sing to US.
RELIGIOUS BUSINESS.
"a religious business would not nee
essarily be a place where you had
Scripture texts hung all over the walls.
II would not necessarily be a place
where people had to come is minutes
early in order to have a prayer meet
ing before they commenced the days
work. But It would be a business
that had for it's object, not to get
something out of the world, but to be
a means by which person might give
something to the world. That spirit
Is needed. II does not make any diff
ference whether n man blacks boots.
or works in a shop or a mine, or wheth-
er he does clerical work or more in
telectual work. That is the only kind
of spirit that is going to help humani-
ty--to do your work because II needs
to be done, and because these people
are your brothers and sisters whom
you ought to serve.
FOR SAKE OF HUMANITY.
1.-THE time will come for many of you
when you found your own business.
Then found your business for the sake
OF humanity and not for the sake of
what you can secure.
II was In the home. awhile ago, of
very wealthy gentleman. 1t was
during the hard times, a dozen years
back. And do you know what found2
That man had sold all his loose prop
erty and had lnortgaged all OF his
property. and had borrowed money, and
was running his factory at loss-did
so for at least a year--in order that
he might keep his economic family to-
gether.
"The secretary of one of the great
foreign missionary societies went to see
u very wealthy man. at about that same
time, who wrote out check for $4,000
and gave 1t 10 him. The president OF
the missionary society asked, ''How's
business?'
lawful. Awful. Getting worse and
worse. Discharged 90 moro girls last
week was the reply.
what is going to become OF them?'
How do / know
"'Have they got homes to go tor
"Some OF them have, they will go
| back to the country, and some will stay
here in the city. and go to the bad-oh,
how do l know what will become of
them2
LAST TO LEAVE SHIP.
"That man had Just given $40 200 10
convert foreign heathenl He ought to
know what became of them. They
we're like his own children, he had
brought them there, and he was respon-
sible for their well-being. The captain
ought % be the last one TO leave The
sinking ship. And ! can tell you the
people who ought TO suffer the most in
hard times are the captains of indus
try, and not the poor working people.
and there Is one thing you win do
II you live this way. Frances Willard
said Whoever speaks of competition
has breathed out curse on the race,
and whoever speaks OF cooperation
has breathed out blessing and be-
lieye that. II is simply the applica-
ton OF the riinc pl@s OF religion The
economic world You are going 10
waste -'ou' re unless yoi wI.h with
every energy that Is in YOU toward the
establishment of cooperation in the
place OF competition