The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-27
PASTOR ADVISES
TRAVELLING MEN
REV. Or. WICKER COMPARES RE@
LIGIoN WITH BUSINESS IN
BANQUET ADDRESS.

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Appealing for the intermingiing a
BUSINESS and religion, advocating fat1
commercial methods and sixteen ounces
to pound and declaring that mercan~
tile pursuits are as sacred as the CALI
ing OF the ministry II conducted aions
honest lines. Rev. ]. J. Wicker. u. D.,
pastor of the Leigh Street Baptist
Church. delivered an interesting adj
dress at the annual banquet OF Rich-
Esond Council, No. 159, United Come
inerciai Traverers OF America, Mt Mur~
phys Hotel. Saturday night
1.-THE Optimistic Outlook" was the
Rev. MIR. Wicker's subject and among
other things he said: Travelling men
q travelling man the other day whiiA
riding between Springfield and New
York. II he was a Christian. He looked
at me and said are you q ciergymanf
And l had on my short tailed coat
too. Religion won't stand travel Z
said to a travelling man. Do you 70
much In church? And he replied s.No.
got confirmed and / quit Ii hs had
been Baptist guess It would have
been a case OF dip. dry of and be
done with.
1--WE need more business In religion
and more religion In business. GEN.
tieInen, your calling In just AZ sacred
as mine, provided you sell is ounces
for a pound. There are only two
classes of people In the worid-the OPP
irnist and the pessimist- ! call one
constructionist and the other an
ohstructionist. Every man Ii either m
exclamation point and says therefore 4
cam and In therefore a straight man,
or he IL an Interrogation point and
says can l2'' and IL therefore q crook
ed man. Somebody said:
The optimist the pessimist
The difference easy told
The optimist sees the doughnut
The pessimist the hold.
"A lady called some time ago at 4
store and looking at the doughnt1t.
she said. my! MIR. Grocer. what bIa
holes these doughnuts have, Don't
you knock OF something for these big
holes?" To which tho grocer replied,
Why certainly. madam. after you eat
the doughnuts return the holes and !
will allow you five cents DOZEN "
Gentlemen we are living In q day Of
large things. Your grandfather was =
hard shell in religion and did Z two
by four business. Nineteen centuries
ago a carpenter said bring the world
to me- The echo Of that voico WAS
heard little over q century ago "
a cobbler and modern missions started.
This is vision OF world supremacy
with Christ over all. This vision hAs
been caught by the business instinct
Of this generation and that Ii why ~
are doing large things. We owe Ii all
to Christianity. The big combine, corr
poration. and trust. IL after the NINA
OF Christ The wickedness associated
with these great enterprises 10 accord
ing to the mind OF the devil. We must
not despise the vision because Of the
vice. We are In danger Of the golden
calf. The Hebrew children built the
calf at the foot Of sinai. We are Ia
danger Of erecting our golden idol u
the foot Of Calvary. The hrHt II nm
against law: the last Ii sin against
love.
I am az mrch interested. Gentle
men. in your financial prosperity ~ I
arm In your attendance upon tbs reli6-
ious services Of the church. 4 advise
all my young men to take care Of their
money and Increase their bank &C.
count The man who tails to Dc this