REV. DR. TALMAGE.
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THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY
DISCO
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Subject: Ledgers and Bibles—Thero is No
War Between Religion and Business
Righteousness ia =a Re-enforcoment
sud Not a Hindrance in Life's Affairs.
[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1860.]
Wasainaron, D. C.—In this discourse Dr,
Talmage argues that religion may be taken
nto all the affairs of life and instead of
being a hindrance, as many think, Is a re.
enforcement. The text is Romans xii. 11:
“Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit,
serving the Lord.”
Industry, devoutness and Christian ser
vice—all commended in that short text,
What! Is it possible that they shall be con-
joined? Oh, yes! There is no war
between religion and business, between
ledgers and Bibles, between churches and
counting houses. On the contrary. re-
wits, sweetens acerbity of disposition,
more velocity inte the wheels of hard
work, It gives bhetter balancing to the
judgment, more strength to the will, more
muscle to industry and throws into enthu-
siasm a more consecrated fire. You cannot
in all the ecircle of the world show me a
man whose honest business has been de-
spoiled by religion. -
.. The industrial classes are divided into
three groups—producers, manufacturers,
traders. Producers, such as farmers and
miners. Manufacturers, such as those who
turn corn into food and wool and flax into
apparel. Traders, such as make profit out
of the transfer and exchange of all that
whieh is produced and manufactured. A
business man may belong to any one or all
of these classes, and not one is indepen
dent of any other,
When the prince imperial of France fell
on the Zulu battlefield because the strap
fastening the stirrup to the saddle broke
as he clung to it, his comrades all escap-
ing, but he falling under the lances of the
savages, a great many people blamed the
batti-fleld, and others blamed
Government for
the sacrifice, and others blamed the Zuius
for their barbaris The most to
was the
into that
the English
one
IArLCES
of the stirrup
DALBTIAL,
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out
perfect
streams t!
and that are
18 the ri
demas
YK Ace
i Locke and Mansfield
you and Ican afford to toliin, ©
fewer idlers in the eanuse of Christ and for
more Christian workers, men who shall
take ¢ same energy that from Monday
morning to Saturday night they put forth
for the achievement of a livellnood or the
gathering of a lortune and on Sabbath
days put it forth to the advantage of
Christ's kingdom aud the bringing of men
to the Lerd.
Dr. Duff visited a man who had inheri-
tod a great fortune. The man said to him:
“I bad to be very busy for many yeas of my
life getting my livelihood. After a while
this fortune came to me and thers has
been no necessity that 1 toll since, There
eame a time when I sald to myself, "Shall
I pow retire from business, or shall I go on
and serve the Lord in my worldly oceupa-
tion?” He said: “I resolved on the
fatter, and 1 have been more indus.
tricus in commercial circles than 1 ever
was before, and since that hour | have
never kept a farthing for myself. I
have thought it to be a great shams {ff
I eouldn't toll as hard for the Lord as
I bad tolled for myself, and ali the pro-
ducts of my factories and my commercial
establishments to the last f{arthiog have
gone for the bulldiag of Chnstian institu.
tions and supporting the church of God.”
Would that the same enargy put forth for
tha world could be put forth for God.
VY ould that a thousand men in these great
cities who have achieved a fortune could
see it their duty now to do all business for
Christ and the alleviation of the world’s
suffering!
Again, I remark that business life is a
school of patience, In your everyday life
how many things to annoy and to disquiet?
Bargains will rub. Commercial men will
sometimes [ail to meet thelr engagements,
Cash book and money drawer will some.
times quarrel, Goods ordered for a special
emergency will coma too late or be dam»
aged in the transportation, People intend.
ing no harm will go shopping without any
fntention of purchase, overturning great
stocks of goods and insisting that you
break the dozen, More bad debts on the
Jedger. More counterfeit bills In the
drawer. More debts to pay for other peo-
ple. More meanness on the part of part.
ners ln business, Annoyance after annoy.
every fl
of «
men of
xt
Newton an
t
§
HE
isa in whi
ance, vexation after vexation and loss af
ter loss, |
How many men do you suppose there |
are in eommercinl life who could say
truthfully, “In all the sales 1 have ever |
made I have never overstated the value
of goods, in all the sales I have evel
made I have never coverad up an imper-
fection {n the fabric, of all the thousands
of dollars I have ever made I have not |
taken one dishonest farting?’ Thera arn
men, however, who can say it, hundreds
who can say it, thousands who can say it.
They are more honest than when they sold
their fiest tierce of rice or their first firkio
of + butter, because their honesty and
integrity have been tested, triad and
out triumphant Bat they re-
member a time when they could bave
robbed a partner, or have absconded with
the funds of a bank, or sprung A snap
judgment, or ma ie a fnlse assignment, or
po. rowed illimitably without nny efforts
at payment, or got a man into a sharp
coruer and flescod him. But they never
took one step on that pathway of hell fire
They can say their prayers without hear.
ing the chink of dishonest dollars, Can
rend their Bible without thinklog of
their soul in
kissed the book.
come
the custom house they
that dt:
and }
damned,
What a school of integrity life
is! Ifyou have ever been tempted to Jet
yours-integrily eringe before present nd
vantages, il you have aver wakened up in
some embarrassment and said: “Now [will
step a little aside from the right path, and
po one will know it, and 1 will come all
right again. It is only once.” That only
onee has rained tens of thousands of men |
uls for eter.
y when chariatans and cheats
keys aud frauds shall be doubly
nil
business
nity.
A merchant io Liverpool got a £5 Dank
of England pote, and, holding is toward
the light, he saw some ioterlineations io
what seemed red ink. He flaally de.
elpbered the letters and found out that the
writing had been made by a slave in Al-
giers saying in substance, ' Whoever gets
this bank note will pleass to inform my
Denn, living near Carlisle,
that I am a siave © bey of Algiers,
merchant se employed G
offiae his m
baa ’
Ken <
ernment
wis 8h
nwo
wanl down am
1 had pot seer i
, and one sal
giad to see vou! Walk We have some
noney on our books due i a good while
Hdn't kpow where you Were, an
therefore not having vouraddress we could
not send it. We are very glad you have
some!'” And the man standing in Faltoo
streat prayer meeting said, “The amount
they pald me was six times what I owed.’
You say it only happened so? You are un
believing, God answered that man's
prayer.
Oh, you want business grace! Com.
mercial ethics, bu<lgess honor, jaws ol
trade are all very good in their piace, but
there are times when you want something
more than this world will give you, You
want God, For the lack of Him some
that you bave known have consented to
forge, aud to malireat their friends, and |
to curse their enemies, and thelr names
have been bulletined among scoundrels,
and they have been ground to powder,
while other men you have known have gone
through the very same stress of oir.
cumstances triumphant, There are men |
here to-day who JIought the battie and |
gained the victory. Peoples come out of |
that man's store and they say, “Well, if |
there ever was s Christian teader, that is
one.” Iotegrity kept the books and waited
on the customers, Light from the eternal |
would flashed through the show windows, |
Love to God and love to man presided in |
that storehouse. Some day people golog |
through the street notice that the shutters |
of the window are not down, The bar of |
that store door has not been removed. |
People say, “What is the matter?” |
You go up a little closer and you see
written on the eard of that window, |
NAKE
I am se
“Closed on aceount of the death of one |
of the firm.” Ths! day all through the
eiroles of business thers is talk about how |
a good man has gone. Boards of trads |
pasa resolutions of sympathy, and churobes |
of Christ pray, “Help, Lord, tor the god. |
ly man ceaseth.” He has made his fast |
bargain, be bas suffered his inst loss, he |
has nohed with bis last fatigue, His chil. |
dren will get the result of his Industry, or,
if throngh misfortune there be no dolinres |
Christian example, which will be everiast. |
ing. Honvenly rewards for earthly dis
sipiine, There '‘the wicked cease from
rou
pling and the weary are at rest,”
SAVED FROM INSECT PEST,
Timely Discovery of n Fruit Destroy. |
er in on Box of Cucumbers,
A big service to the State of Call
forn'g and perhaps to the whole Unit
od States was done Thursday by Alex.
ander Craw, quarantine officer of the
State Board of Horticulture, when he
seized and destroyed a box of Japan-
cucumbers, containing an insect
pest, which destroyed in the Hawalian
Islands per of the
melons, summer squashes euenm
Had the insect been overlooked
¢ gained a footheld
many
lon-grow-
eRe
ent
1
i
seventy-five
al
bers,
it could easily hay
on the coast and have done
years serious injury to thie ne
ers of California,
The cucumbers brought from
Japan, via Vietoria, by a Japanese pas-
senger the Umatilla, The native
habitat the pest Iu never been
known, but now Mr. Craw is confident
that home Is
Three years
the Hawalian Islands,
spread until it has almost pla ed a pro-
hibition on the of
the melon family imported
injurious insects
Iv, until it i= known in almost all the
cultivated portions of the islends, The
reason for the rapid spread of an lm-
for
wore
on
of 18
its original
ago it was
pnd
raising of members
Like all
this one spread rapid
ported insect is that the insect enemies
of the pest are not brought along with
it.
The insects found in the cucumbers
by Mr, Craw were small maggots, the
As determined by him
selentists
it
voung of a fly
the fly is what is known by
as the dugeas enrcurbitae,
to a family of
many injurious sped jes. one of which
North
South.
belongs
flies ile contains
the
the
attacks
and another
San Francis
the gooxeberry
thu
a Chron
Ancient Horrors of Smallpox,
teentl 1
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in the nosseszion of a Lond
gational minister, the Rev,
Williams,
Matrieninted,
Beautiful stream with shely.
ing banks, overhanging Uwe swift
enrrent, cows wading short
below, Large building, evidently
lunatic asylum, In background. Tour
fishing. Doy. ap
parently inmate of asylum. but harm
jess, looking out through enclosure,
watching fisherman,
Boy-—Caught anything?
Tourist-—No,
Boy-—How long have you been floh-
ing?
Tourist—8even hours,
Boy--Come inl—Chicago Tribune.
Hoewene:
distance
His Recommend,
Mr. Wholesale~Your foriner employ. |
or tells me you were the quickest book 3
keeper in the place.
Applicant (dublously)-~He does ?
Mr. Wholesale—~Yes—he says yon
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Fast French Traine,
flecords for high speed in express
train service have been made on
French rallronds lately, showing an
average of BAS miles per hour, includ.
ing stops, Special compound locomo-
tives of the four-cylinder type, de-
signed for this service, are employed
on these trains, ie -
LEARNED TO RIDE
A Bleyecle Within the Sacred Precincts
of the White House, i
Washington correspondence Chicago
Tribune: To an usher of the white
house belongs the distinction of being
the only person who has mastered the
gilent steed with the east room of the
executive mansion as the riding aca
demy. For obvious reasons his name
{6 withheld from publication. Like all
learners he needed assistance in bal
ancing, and another usher was called |
fn to render the service, The learner |
mounted the wheel in an awkward |
manner, and was trundied toward the
south end of the big parlor, when his
teacher let go with the usual
The force of th iI broke the huge |
result,
the fall
crystal chandeliers, and the bump could
be heard plainly in the president's of
fice, This misfortune did not deter
the student, and he bravely
the wheel started off again, and after
wobbling along a few feet came
on the heavy carpet. T
was repeated several times, and then
the first lesson ended. The next day
a second lesson was taken with
better result. But usher
the perse
until he
the
he took a lesson
good command of unruly wheel
Then he began to “speed.” The
ord be made was creditable to a be
ginner, and the novelty
bicycle in the white house was thor-
oughly enjoyed. The usher is now one
of the best riders in the city, but
neither the resident nor the
usher knew what caused the house to
shake as if a small earthquake had
visited the city during the week in
question,
had fairly
rec
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