Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-14

! had sense. than to marry million
airc who had no sense.
Andrew Carnegie gave the right
answer to the lawyer who was cross
examining him before the Industrial
Relations Commission. MIR. Carnegie.
he was asked, what is your business -
| My business is to do all tho good that
! can. Perhaps in the earlier years
of his life accumulation was the only
! objective. but II is not 50 to-day.
Spirit OF TRADE AND
! WAR ARE UNCONQUERED
Il will read you Il sentence which |
believe will clarity my talk: If we
! have not brains enouEht TO make busl-
| ness anything else than business. then
| tinder.'
The speaker then explained that bus
| mess and religion are not separate
| functions in life. He said that tho
spirit of religion has, nevertheless,
conquered every force in the world eX-
cept two These forces were the spirit
of trade and the spirit OF war. Until
| these last named are conquered. then
there Is no hope for the world He
spoke of the great trading nations of
antiquity and compared them with
England to-day.
The trouble with the English nation
to-day. Ito said, Is that the spirit of
trade predomlnates over the spirit Of
religion. 1T took England eighteen
months to prepare for tho wnr. BECAUSE
her energies were wound up with
trade. If England does not conquer it's
business spirit. it will be damned
las il is With nations SO II is with
the individuals DIR. Potcat continues
and YOU, Mr.. Businessman. when YOU
joined Your church, do YOU think your
minister got an asset or Il liablityse
RELIGION MUST OVERCOME:
THE SPIRIT Or TRADE
Business mon realize that there is
something in life besides the mere &C
emulation OF money. y rich man
said TO me the other day that the more
money he got the meancr lie got. Now.
the usual objection OF most men Is,
first, am in business 10 make Il liv-
ing; second. To make money: third. to
provide for my children. and fourth.
10 secure power. No mans character
is safe under these detectives. Reli-
;;ion must overcome tho spirit of
trade"
The bencdiction was pronounced by
Rev. r. Clagctt Skinner. n. D.. pastor
of the Second Baptist Church.
The program to-day provides f.c q
meeting OF ministers for conference
and prayer 1t the Grace Street H:tp-
tlSl Cnurcn, tniS afternoon al y O'Clock.
DR.. Tippy will lead. Ministers and
laymen are invited TO attend.
OLIVER j. SANDS
TO PRESIDE TO-NIGIiT
The mems masS-mcetiuS will be held
IN Grace Street Church at O'Clock to-
night, with oliver !. Sands. chairman
OF the convention committee. presiding.
Rev q. Frccland Peter. rector OF ST.
James Church will read the invoca-
ZION. The addresses and speakers will
include tho following:
~ Tourists View OF Missions" Rev
J. y. Mills, u. d, OF Washington, aft
ter which Rev. H.. .. Mahie u. r.. OF
Roston. will speak on "rhe World Mes
sage Of our Time" Colonel T. l.. Hal
ford vicc-chairman OF the Laymen's
! MisSinary Movement. will speak on
Leaving Your Mark on the World"
The closing bcncdictiun will be given
10y Rev II. -. e. Maclachlan. H. D..
pastor OF the Seventh street Christian
Church.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF Grace
Covenant Presbyterian church Will
serve dinner at the Grace street build
/ ing between IL and : O'Clock this af-
t"ruoon.
! The intcrdcnominatiouHl meetings
< for women viii be held at the Ccntcn-
AIRY Methodist Episcopal Church at i
o'clock. Rev. H. {. Mai4c H. ~. and
Rev. L. II. Rawlings. y. -, viii hc
the speakers