Year: 1875

T. DE WITT TALMAGE.


Rev T De Witt Talmage preached to assemhlnge OF
about 200 people yesterday forenoon in the Taber
nace Schermerhorn street, Third avenue, Brook
lyn. 4Not slothful In business feryent in spirit;
serving the Lord"-Romans, xiii, I-was the text OF
the reverend gentemans discourse There is he said,
no war between religion and business, between Bibles
and edgers between churches and counting houses.
Religion accelerates business, sharpens mems wits
sweeens acerbty of dispositions fips the blood or
phegmatics and throws velocity into all tho
wheels Of hard work To tho judgment il gives moro
skilful balancing; to tho viii strength; TO in
dustry more muscle; to enthusiasm more consecrated
fire You cannot show me a man whose business
prospects have in anywise been retarded by his
religion BY business men l mean the industrial
classes who are divided into three groups-produccrs
manufacturers traders God intended business life TO
be glorious education and discipline and He started
us in life giving US certain amount OF material
out Of which we were TO hew our characters After
our Young people have graduated schools and
colleges they need higher education-that which the
collision and rasping OF everyday lite alone effect
Energy OF soul is wrought out only in fire You arc
here to develop your energy for His and for His
kingdom There is enough unemployed in all the
churches OF God aud in tho world to-day TO reform all
empires and all kingdoms and people in three weeks.
Oh how much idleness amid strong muscles and quick
forces and hearts How many deep streams that
turn no mill wheels and haul the bands Of
no factoryl Oh for fewer idlers and for
more consecrated Christian workers We want men
as eminent in the Church they are eminent in com
mercia circles and il is possible that these things Will
be achieved for your mind Immediately calls up the
Of men in the past and Of men in the present
who are serving God al Christian affairs and character
ized hy great benehcence, while at the same time


THEIR MIGHTY on ExCHANGE


and the mere Of them affects the money
markets Of all the world God intended business life
to be TO you a school Of patience. How many little
things there in days engagements to perturb
and annoy and dsquet you Bargains will rub and men
will break their engagements Collecting agents will
come back emptyhanded Trcksters business VIII
play upon the i'hard tmes what they call the hard
times when in any time they pay and under all
circumstances they fail Cash books and money drawer
in a quarrel People going about shopping and
unrong good that they do not intend TO buy and try
ing break the dozen More counterfeit bills IN the
drawer. More bad debts. Under all this friction men
break down. they are secured up into additional
brightness. How you going TO got that grace Of
patience? Not through hearing ministers preach about
IL II you get IL at all you will get 1t IN the world
where you sell hats, and plead causes, and tin roofs,
and mako shoes, and turn bannisters | pray God
that through the turmoil and sweat and evaporation
OF your everyday life you may hear the voice Of Christ
saying, I'm patience possess your soul: let patience
have a perfect work.


God also intended business life to be to you school
for the attaining OF knowledge Merchants do not read
many books study many lexcons, nor dive into every
profound subject; yet through the force Of circum-
stances they get intelligent the questions OF politics,
finance, geography, Jurisprudence and ethics. Now
what is the use Of all this intelligence
less you give it 10 Christ Can It be that, notwith-
standing all your acquaintance with the intrica-
ces Of business you ignorant OF those things which
will last the soul long after tho bills OF exchange and
commissions and invoices consignments and rent rolls
have crumpled up and been


CONSUMED IN TIIR FIXES or A JUDGMENT DAY.
God further intended business life TO be TO you school
OF Christian integrity No age Of the world ever offered
so many Inducements for scoundresm as are offered
now There Is hardly q statute the law books that
has not some back door through which miscreants
escape oh, how many deceptions in the fabric Of
goods Commercial life plies the land with trckeres
innumerabe, and there are 50 many people IN Brook
lyn and New York who live life of punder that when


man proposes straightforward honest business II Is
almost charged to greenness and want Of tact


This ought not to be but can tell you II requires


more grace to be honest than IL did the days Of
our fathers when business plain and there
stock gamblers and wooen woollen and silk
silk and men were How rare IL Is that you find
man who from his heart say: ~ never cheated in
trade; never overestmated tho value OF goods when
/ was selling them; | covered up defect In
fabric; never played upon tic ignorance of a
TONER and In al my estate there not one dishonest
farthng"


Let Us have larger sympathy for business mon
think II is a shame that in our pupits do not
oener preach this subject and show that appre-
ciate the sorrows struggles, temptations and trials Of
business Men who toll with the mind very apt to
be suspicious Of those who move In the world Of ranc
and think that they get their money IDLY and give no
equivalent


In conclusion, the speaker enjoned his hearers 20
dui all fretfuness IN business and 10 seek business
grace for the lack OF which many have been ruined