$ REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subject: “Advice to Commercial Dram- mers"—Many Are the Temptations That Beset Traveling Men~Christian Associations Necessary. Texr: “The chariots shall rage in the ptreets; they shall justle one against an- er in the bread ways; they shall seem @ torches; they shali run like the light. pings.” —Nabum it., 4. 14 has been found out that many of the arts and discoveries which we supposed were peculiar to our Own age are mereiy the restoration of the arts and discoveries of thousands of years ago, I suppose that the past centuries have forgotten more than the present century knows, It seems to me that they must have known thou- sands of years ago in the days of Nineveh of the uses of steam and its application to swift travel, In my text I hear the rush of the rail train, the clang of the wheels and the jamming of the car couplings. “The ochariois shell rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.” Have you ever taken your position in the pight far away from a depot along the track waiting to see the rail train come at full speed? At first you beard in the dis- tance a rumbling, like the coming of a storm, then you saw the flash of the head- light of the locomotive as it turned the eurve; then you saw the wilder glare of the flery eye of the train as it came plunging then you saw the hurricane dash of cin- ders; then you felt the jar of the passing earthquake and you saw the shot thunder- bolt of the express train. Well, it seems that we can hear the passing of a midnight express train in my text, “The chariots shall rage in the streets; they justle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem ike torches; they shall run like the lightnings.” I halt the train long enough to get on board, and I go through the cars, and 1 find three-fourths of the passengers are commercial travelers, They are a folk peculiar to themselves, easily recognized, at home on all the trains, not startied by the sudden dropping of the brakes, familiar with all the railroad signals, can tell you 11 stop, what piace the passengers take luncheon at, ean give you information on home everywhere Francisco. They are on the 8 hidnight train. You take a berth in sleeping car, and either above you or a $ we are 100,000 professed commercial travel in the United States, but 500000 wo not include ail those who are so times engaged in this sgervive, spend millions of dollars every the hotels and in the rail trains, have their official newspaper organ. bave their mutual benefit asso about 4000 names on the rolls, and have » ready distributed more than 200,000 among families of alio deceased members, They are ubiquitous, unique, and mendous for good or evil dencies of merchandise are multiplication. The hous back on its dignity and wait to come, instead of going seek bargain makers, will have more and more unsaiable goods on the sheif and will gradually lc fts control of the markets. Wh great, enterprising and successful will bave their agents on all ire the broad ways. torches, they shall nings." I think commercial travelers can stand a sermon of warm hearted sympathy. If you bave any words of good cheer for them you had better utter them. If you 1! any good, hondst prayers in their bebalfl, they will be greatly obliged to you. Ipever knew a man yet who did not Hke to run like the light- ve not like to be beiped. It seemsto me this sermon is timeiy. At this season of year there are tens of thousands of men golug out to gather the spring trade, The bitter curse of Almighty God will gest upon that commercial establishment which expects its employes to break the Sabbath. snerchant to sit down in church on the Sabbath when bis clerks are traveliog abroad through the land on that day? ¥p, professed Christian merchant, so act. fog. You have no business here, Go out and call that boy back. There was a mer- Sabbath. Obliged to work from morning on Saturday, especially on Saturday after. noon, that 1 must have reat. It was lke going into a dense fog, Everything looked dark apd gloomy as if nothing could be saved, I dismissed all and kept the Bab bath in the old way. On Monday it was ail sunshine, but bad it not been for the Sab fo my grave,” Be ashamed to sell foreign fabrics or fruits unless you know something about the that grew them. Understand all about the Jaws that eontrol commercial banking, about tariffs, about markets, about navigation, about foreign people their ebaracteristics and their political revolutions as they affect ours; about the harvests of Rossin, the vineyards of Italy, the teaflelds of China. Learn about the great commercial eeutres of Carthage and Assyria and Pheeniein. Read all about the Medici of Florence, mighty in trade, mightier in jriiantizepies. You belong to the royal family of merchants, Be worthy of that royal family, Ob, take my advice and turn the years of weariness into years of luxury. our railroad travel, You begin business, ow, let me say, there are two or three things you ought to remember. First, that all the trade you get By the prac- tice of “treating” will not stick, If you cannot get custom except Ly tipping a better not get his custom. * An old commeraial traveler gives as his experience that trade ot by “treating” always damages the ouse that gets 44 In one way or the other, © commercial traveler, though your firm may give you the largest salary of any man in your line, though they might give you ten per cent, of all you sell, or twenty per cent, or fifty per cent. or nluety.nine cont, they cannot pay enough to make t worth your while to ruin your soul! Besides that, a commercial house never eimpensates a man who has been morally ruined fo their employ. A young masa in iphia was turned out from his em- ploy because of inebristion got in the service of the merchant who employed Bim, and here is the letter he wrote to his smployer: “Sir—I eame into your service uncor. fuptin neiples and fa morals, but the rules of your house muired me to spond my evenings at places of publie entertain. ment and amasement in search of custom. ers. Tonecomplish my work in your ser. vice I was obliged to drink with them and join them in their pursuits of pleasure, It was not my choice, but the rule of the house. I went with them to the theatre snd the bililard table, but it was not my eholes, 1 did not wish to go; I went in your service, It was not my pleasure so to do, but I was the conductor and compan. fon of the simple ones, vold alike of under. standing and of prineiples, in their sinful see, and I know too well, You have be. come wealthy, but L am poor indeed, and now this erusl dismissal from your employ is the recompense I receive for a character ruined and prospects blasted in helpiog to make you a rich man!” Alas for the man who gets such a letter as that! Again, I charge you, tell the whole truth about anything you sell, Lying commer. cinl travelers will precede you. Lying commercial travelers will come right after you into the same store. Do not let their unfair competition tempt you from the straight line, It is an awful bargain that a man makes when he sells his goods and his sonl at the same time, A young man in one of the stores of New York was selling some silks, He was binding them up when he said to the lady customer, “It is my duty to show you, that there is a fracture fn that silk.” She looked at it and rejected the goods. The head of the firm, hearing of it, wrote to the father of the young man in the country, saying: “Come and take your son away. He wiil never make a merchant.” The father came in agitation, wondering what his boy had been aolng, and the head men of the firm said: “Why, your son stood here at this counter and pointed out a fracture in the silk, and of course the lady wouldn't buy it. We are pot responsible for the ignorance of cus- tomers. Customers must look for them. selves. Your son will never make a mer- chant.” “Is that all?’ sald the father, “Ah! Yam prouder of my boy that I ever was. John, get your hat and come home." But it is aimost nignt, and yoda go back to the hotel, Now comes the mighty tug There is an abundances of choice, our room with the books. There are the week night services of the ling saloon. There is the theatre, togo to. But which, O immortal man, which? O God, whieh? “I guess I will—I guess I will go to the theatre.” prove your bodily health, or your flaancial prospects, or your eternal fortunes? atre. . “Well,” you say, ‘I guess then, I will go to—I guess I will go to the gambi- ing saloon.” You will first go to look. Then you will goto play. You will make $100, you will make $500, you will make { #1000, you will make $1500, Then you will {lose nil. Then you will borrow some money $0 as to start anew, You will make | $50, you will make $100, you will make $600. Then you will jose sll. These wretches of the gambling saloon know how | te tempt you, But markthis: All gamblers die poor. They may make fortunes | great fortunes—but they lose them. “Well,” you say, “II I can't go to the sh then I guess—1 guess I will go to Commercial trav. { slers have told me that in the letter box at i the hotel, within ons hour after their ar- { saloon, ion in that direction. It is far away from home, Nobody will Know It. Commercial travelers have sometimes gone fo that evil . Why no Halt! ier gates win through | man may go and yet come out, i that gate bas a spring lock which snaps him in forever, He who goes there is already. He mav seem to be free for a little while, but the limits, and the aa- their eyes upon bim to any moment. The hot that erime, and becnuse are men whose heaven was out ten years ago. Thereis no danger that they be lost; they are lost now, look through thelr glaring eyeballs down | {uto the lowest cavern of hell. O destroyed { spirit, why comest thou in here to-day? | Dost think I have the power to break open | the barred gateway of the penitentiary { of the damned? There Is a passage in somewhat hesitate to read, i but I do not hesitates long: dow of my house I looked casement and beheld among the simple ones, 1 discerned among the youths, a i young man, void of understanding, pass- ing through the street near her eorner, | and he went the way to her house in the { twilight, in the evening, inthe black and ! dark night. Ho goeth after her straight. | way, as an ox goeth to the slaughteror asa | fool to the correction of the stocks, till a { dart strikes tnrough bis liver.” ] But now the question Is still open ! Where will you spend your evening? ©O commercial travelers, how much will you i give me to put you on the right track? { Without charging you & farthing I wiil | prescribe for you sa plan which will save you for this world and the next, if you will { take it. Go, before you leave home, to the | Young Men's Christian Association of the | gity where you live. Gel from them Jelters | of Introduction. Carry them out to the { towns and cities where you go. If there be { no such association in the place you visit, i then present them at the door of Chris. | tian churche, and band them over to { the pastors, Pe not slow to arise in the {devotional meeting and say: I am acom- { mercial traveler, I am far away from { home, and I come in here to-night to seek | Christian society.” The best houses and | highest style of amusement will open be. fore you, and instead of your being de. { pendent upon the leprous crew who ban { mround the hotels, wanting to show you all ¢ Gf comparatively is only on tanie poliee have ing bim in at iod 1s on he i the slums of the ity, on the one condition | that you will pay their expenses, you will | get tue benediction of God in every town you visit. Remember this, that whatever piaes you visit bad influences will seek you out. Good influsoces you must seek out, While I stand Lere I bethiok myself of a commercial traveler who was a member of my charch in Philadeiphia. He was a splendid young man, the pride of his wid. owed mother and of bis sisters, It was bie {07 to support them, and for that purpose | he postponed his own marriage day. i thrived in set up his own household, Leaving that inquiry io regard to him. such Inquiry, dead. The story was, soeinl, and he got into the habit of “treat. ing” eustomers and of showing them all the sights of the town, aad he began rapid. ly to go down, and he lost his position in the church of which he was a member, and he lost his position in the commercial hecuse of which be was the best agent, and his beautiful young wife and his sek old mother and his sisters went into destita- died In Kirkbride Insane Asylum, O commercial travelers, I pray for vou the all sustainiog grace of God. Theraare two kinds of days when you are especially in teed of divine grace. The one, the da when you have no sucoess--when you fall to make a sale ~and you are very much disappointed, and i £0 back to your hoe tel discomfited, That night you will ve tempted to 20 Lo strong drink and rush ia. to bad surronadings. The other day, when you will especially need divios grace, will bo when you have tad a day of great success and the devil tells you you must go and colsbrate that success, Taen you will want the grace of God to restrain you from rollicking indalgenves, Yes, there will be a third day whea you will need to be Christians, and that wil be the fast day of your life. I do notknow where you will spend it, Perhaps in your house, mare probably in a rail ear, or 8 steamer, or the ge hotel, [ see you on your inst pommereial exeand, Yon have den pood inst b”, Jour earthly exiztence to the amily at home for the ip Eo oi law 4 ve, ey “Every morning I have a bad taste in my mouth; my tongue is coated; my head aches and I often feel dizzy. I have no appetite for breakfast and what food I eat distresses me. § have a heavy feeling in my stomach, I am getting so weak that sometimes 1 tremble and my nerves are all unstrung. 1 am getting pale and thin. am as tired in the morning as at ght.’ What does your doctor sayp “You are suffering from im- ure blood.” What is his remedy? 2 Vd You must not have consti. ated bowels if you expect the arsaparilla to do its best work. But Ayer's Pills cure constipa- tion, We have a book on Paleness and Weakness which you may have for the asking. . 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Miss Marie Corelll has sent her views on suicide to the Kingston De- bating Soclety, In the following letter, quoted in the London Mall: “I may state at once that I do not consider suicide justifiable under any cireum- stances whotever. It is quite true that God has given us free will in the mat- ter of ending our lives {f we wish, but at the sume time we must not forget that free will was not ours when we came into the world, There can be no doubt that we are brought into it for some purpose known only to the Crea- tor, and it is but a coward's act to shrink--nay shirk—the work he has given us to do. The most difficult course is the most heroic. To dle is easy; it is but the matter of a few minutes; but to live a life of hardship toll, privation and sorrow, and to live it well, is the work of a hero. Does not our frail human nature exult and glow when we hear of some grand act of self-abnegation or extreme bravery, or when we read of the splendid acts of bravery and heroism that men have performed ever since the world be gan? Therefore, arguing a la Socra- tes, the most difficult is the best to do and the bravest. No; this gift of free will {8 a very sacred one. And who knows but that there are Iimvisible spectators of ‘our acts watching as to whether we use it to the best of our ability, as soon as we become conscious of the gift? If we use that free will that we care nothing for the precious gift of God which He gave us in the beginning, and what the result of that contempt may be we can not possibly imagine, save that cowardice is In- stinctively despised by both earth and heaven," BE He Knew, Teacher—What is a fossil? Little Willle (raising nand)—I know, please, Teac her--Well? 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