ad Dr. Talmage Preaches on the lnfluence of the Gospel in Bosiness. Christianity and the lntellect—Can You Get Along Without It. Wasmixarox, D. C—In this discourse Dr. Talmage advocates the idea that the Christian religion is as good for this world a8 the next, and will Bo us to do any- thing that ought to be done at all; I Tim- othy iv, 8, “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that row is and of that which is to come.” There is a gloomy and passive way of waiting for events to come upon us, and there is a heroic way of gring out to meet them, strong in God J fearing nothing. When the body of Catiline was found on the battlefield, it was found far in advance of all .1is troops and among the enemy, and the best way is not for us to lie down and Jet the events of life trample over us, but to go forth in a Christian spirit deter mined to conquer. You are expecting pros- rity, and I am determined, so far as I ave anvthing to do with it, that you shall not be disappointed, and, therefore, I pro- pose, as God may help me, to project upon vour attention a new element of success. You have in the business firm frugality, patience, industry, perseverance, economy —& very strong business firm—but there needs to be one member added, mightier than them all, and not a silent partner either, the one introduced by my text, “Godliness, which is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come.” I suppose you are all willing to admit that godliness is important in its eternal relations, bul perhaps some of you say, “All I want is an opportunity to say a rayer before 1 die, and all will be well.” here are a great many people who sup- pose that if they can finally get safely out of this world into a better world they will have exhausted the entire advantage of our holy religion. They talk as though re- ligion were a mere nod of recognition which we are to give to the Lord Jesus on our way to a heavenly mansion; as though it were an admission ticket, of no use ex cept to give in at the door of heaven. And there are thousands of people who have great admiration for a religion of the shroud and a religion of the coffin and a religion of the cemetery who have no ap- preciation of a religion for the bank, for the farm, for the factory, for the ware- house, for the jeweler's shop, for the office. Now, while I would not throw any slur on a t-mortem religion, I want to-day to eulogize an ante-mortem religion. A relig- ion that is of no use to you while you live will be of no use to, you when yon die. “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come.” And I have always noticed that when grace is very low in a man’s heart he talks a great deal in prayer meetings about deaths and about coffins and about graves and about churchyards. I have noticed that the healthy Christian, the man who is living heaven. is full of ju talks about the duti smnding well that if God he) right He will help him to die right Now, in the f ce, 1 remark godliness good for a man’s physical health. I do not mean to say that it will restore a broken down or drive rheumatism from the limbs or neural gia from the temples or pleurisy from the side, but i do mean savy th it It ives one such habits and puts one in = con dition as most favorable for physical health. That I believe, and that 1 avow Everybody knows that buoyancy spirit 1s good physical advantage unrest, dejection, are at war with every pulsation of the heart and with every res. piration of the lungs. They lower the vi tality and slacken the ulation, while exhilaration of spirit pours the very balm of heaven through all the currents of life The senze of insecurity which sometimes hovers over an unregenerate man or pounces upon him with the blast of ten thousand trumpets of terror is most deplet- ing and most exhausting, while the feeling that all things are working together for our good now and for our everlasting we! fare 1s conducive to physical health You will observe that godliness induces industry, which is the foundation of good kealth. There 18 no law of hygiene that will keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will stab him, erysipelas will burn him, jaun- dice will discolor him, gout will eripple hm, and ths intelligent physician will not prescribe antiseptic or febrifuge or anodyne, but saws and hammers and Yeraeiicks and crowbars and pick. axes. There is no such thing as good physical condition without positive work of some Lind, although you should sleep on down of swan or ride in carriage of softest upholstery or have on your table all the luxuries that were poured from the wine vats of Ispahan and Shiraz. Our re- ligion says: “Away to the bank, away to the field, away to the shop, away to the factory! Do something that will enlist all the energies of your body, mind and soul!” “Diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,” while upon the hare back of the idier and the drone comes down the sharp lash of the apostle as he says, “If anv man will not work, neither shall he eat.” Oh, how important is this day, when so mueh is said about anatomy and physio Jogy and therapeutics and some new style of medicine is ever and anom springing upon the world, that you should under stand that the highest school of medicine i8 the school of Christ, which declares that “godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come.” So if you start out two men in the world with equal physical health, and then one of them shall get the religion of Christ in his heart and the other shall not get it. the ene who becomes a son of the Lord Al ighty will live the longer. “With long ite will 1 satisfy him and show him My salvation.” Again I remark that godliness is good for the intellect. 1 know some Bave sup d that just as soon as a man enters mto the Christian life his intellect goes into a bedwarfing process. So far from that, religion will give new brilliancy to the intellect, new strength to the imagina- tion, new force to the will and wider swing to all the intellectual faculties. Christianity is the great central fire at Which philosophy has lighted its brightest tore 3 t 14 constitution are er The religion of Christ ia the fountain out of which learning has dipped its elear- est draft. The Helicon poured forth no such inspiring waters as those which flow from Juder the throne of God clear as tal. ligion has given new energy to poesy, _ in Dr. Young's x Thoughts,” teaching in Cowper's “Task,” flaming in les Wesley's ifn and Fushing with lie lendor through Tton's “Paradise Lost.” The religion of Christ has hung in studio and in ga of art and in Vatican the | best. Jlotures--. Sian’ Ys, on, phaei’s “Transfiguration,” jption “Descent From the Cross” “ “Burning Bush” and o's “Last Judgment.” Religion has made the dn's “Crea which bu on the omontoreis of worldly power can ve effect upon a man’s intellect elevation Duk slevation? mand godliness sa the best mental discipline, better than belles lettres to purify the taste, better thdn mathema'- ics to harness the mind to all intricacy and elaboration, better than logic to. marshcl the intellectual forces for onset and vie tory. Again I remark that godliness is profit able for one’s disposition. Lord Ashley, before he went into a great battle, was heard to offer this prayer: “0 Lord, 1 shall be very busy to-day! If I forget Thee, for- get me not.” With such a Christian dispo- sition as that a man is independent of all circumstances. Our piety will have a tinge of our natural temperament. If a man be cross and sour and fretful naturally, after he becomes a Christian he will always have to be armed against the rebellion of those evil inclina- tions. But religion has turned the wildest na- tures. It has turned fretfulness into grat- itude, despondency into good cheer, and those who were hard and ungovernable and uncompromising have been made pli- able and conciliatory. Good resolution, reformatory effort, will not effect the change. It takes a mightier arm and a mightier band to bend evil hab- its than the hand that bent the bow of Ulysses, and it takes a stronger lasso than ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A manufacturer cares but very little for a stream that slowly rune through the meadow; but values a torrent that leaps from rock to rock and rushes with mad energy through the valley and out toward the sea. Along that river you will find fluttering shuttles and grinding mill and flashing water wheel. And a nature the swiftest, the most rugged and the most tremondous—that is the nature that God turns into greatest use{uiness. Religion will give an equipoise of spirit. It will keep you from ebullitions of tem- per, and you know a great many fine busi- nesses have been blown to atoms by bad temper. It will keep you from worriment about frequent loss; it will keep you back from squandering and from dissipation; will be easily distinguished from that mere store courtesy which shakes hands violent- ly with you, asking about the health of your family, when there is no anxiety to but the anxiety is to know how many dozen cambric pocket handkerchiefs you will take and pay cash down. It will pre- pare you for the practical duties of every- day life. n New York City there was a merchant, hard in his dealings with his fellows, who had written over his banking house or his counting house room, “No compromise.” Then when some merchant got in a crisis and went down-—no fault of his, but a con- junction of evil circumstances—and all the other merchants were willing to compre mise-—~they would take seventy-five cents on the dollar or fifty cents or twenty cents —coming to this man last of all, he said: “No compromise. I'll take 100 cents on the dollar, and I can afford to wait.” Well, the man was in a crisis of business, and he sent out his agent to compromise, and the agent said to the merchants, “Will you take fifty cents on the dollar? “No.” “Will vou take anything?” on the dollar. No compromise.” And the man who wrote that inscription over his counting house door died in Oh, we want more of the kindness of the gospel and the spirit of love in our business enterprises! How many young men have found in the religion of Jesus Christ a practical help? How many there are to-day who could tes tify out of their own experience that god- liness is profitable for the life that now is! There were times in their business career when they went here for help and there help until they knelt before the Lord ery ing for His deliveran nd the Lord res Ing ior ris nveranee, and the Lord res cued them. In a bank not f his accounts sick nigh unto death as a result. He knew that bank, but somehow, for some reason, balance. The time rolled on and the morn- under the inspection of the other officers arrived, and he felt himself in awful peril, conscious of his own integrity, but unable to prove that integrity. That morning he went to the bank early, and he knelt down before God and told the whole story of mental anguish. and be said: “0 Lord, 1 have dome right, I have preserved my in- tegrity, but Bore I am about to be over thrown unless Thou shouldst come to my rescue. Lord, deliver me.” And for one hour he continued the prayer before God, and then he arose and went to an old blot- ter that he bad forgotten all about. Ie opened it, and there lay a sheet of figures which he only peeded to add to another line of figures—some line of figures he had forgotten and knew not where he had laid them-—and the acrounts were balanced. and the Lord delivered him. You are an infi- del if you do not believe it. The Lord de livered him. God answered his prayer, as He will answer your prayer, oh, man of business, in every crisis when you come to fim. Now, if this be wo, then I am persuaded, as you are, of the fact that the vast major- ity of Christians do not fully test the value of their religion. They are like a farmer in California with wheat land and culturing only a quarter of an acre. Why do you not go forth and make the religion of Jesus Christ a practical affair every day of your business life and all this year, beginning now, and to-morrow morn. ing putting into practical effect this holy religion and demonstrating that godliness is profitable here as well as hereafier? {ow can you get along without ‘this re ligion?! Is your physical health po good you do not want this divine tonic? Is your mind so clear, so vast, #0 comprehensive, that you do not want this divine inspira tion? Is your worldly business go thor oughly established that you have no use for that religion which has been the help and deliverance of tens of thousands of men in crises of worldly trouble? And if what I have said is true then you see what a fatal blunder it is when a man adjourns to life’s expiration the uses of religion. A man who postpones religion to sixty years of age gets religion fifty years too late. Ie may get into the kingdom of God by final repentance, but what can compensate him for a whole lifetime unalleviated and un. comforted? You want religion to-day in the {mining of that child. You will want religion to-morrow in dealing with that customer. You wanted religion yesterday to eurb your temper. Is your arm strong enough to beat your way through the floods? Can you, without being incased in the mail of God's eternal help, go forth amid the assault of all hell's sharpshoot- ers! Can you walk alone asecross these erumbling graves and amid these ing earthquakes? Can you, waterlogged an mast shivered, outlive the gale? Oh, how been who, postponing the into t, although and like ser. pen wheels dragging their mauled bodies under the rocks to die. So theses men have fallen under the wheel of awful calamity, while a vast multitude of others have taken the religion of Jesus Christ into life, and, first, in practieal business affairs, and, second, on the throne of heaven! triamph, have illus. ls looked on and a uni ed rious truth that profitable unto all things, the promise of the life which now is as of that which is to come.” (Copyright, 109, L. Kiopech.) COMMERCIAL REVIEW. General Trade Conditions. R. G. Dun & Company's “Weekly Re- view of Trade” says: “Consumers of iron and steel products are still anxious regarding conditions during the next threee months. After July 1 it is be- lieved that deliveries will be ample, Ac- cording to the ‘Iron Age’ the weekly ca- gaciy of pig iron furnaces in blast on arch 1 had declined to 330,710 tons, or about ten thousand tons from the pro- duction on February 1. All records prior to February 1 are still eclipsed and the resumptiion of many idle plants this month practically assures new high water marks in the near future unless some un- foreseen interruption occurs. Official in dications of farm reserves on March 1 were not surprising as to corn, but the statement that 23 per cent. of the enor. mous wheat yield remained in farmers hands was not calculated to sustain values, Needed rains in the Southwest made the outlook more favorable for the next crop and further weakness in quota tions developed. A sustaining feature was the interior movement of only 2,681, 301 bushels, against 3,002,650 last year. “Failures for the week were 232 in the United States, against 209 last year, and 34 in Canada, against 33 in 1001." LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour-~ Best Patent, $4.00: High Grade Extra, $4.40; Minnesota Bakers, $3.75 3.85. Wheat-—New York No. 2, 8514c: Phil adelphia No. 2, 8514a86¢c: Baltimore No 2, Rydsc. Corn—New York No. 2 delphia No. 2, 65/4365¥c; 2, O7t4C. Oats—New York No. 2, 69'%c; Phila BaltimoresNo s52c; Philadel No. 1, timothv large bales $15.0 : timothy, $1400a14.50;: No 3 do, $12.00a13.00. Green Fruits and Vegetables—Apples New York, assorted, per brl, $3.7534.50: York Imperials, per brl, $37s5a400 Beets—Florida, new, per crate, $1.000 $00. Broccoli—Norfolk, per brl., 70a8sc ~-abbage—New York, large Danish, pet ton, $ Booa1900; do, small Danish, per ton, $16.00a17.00; do, new Florida, per crate $1.50a1.75; do, Farly York, per rate, $200a2.25. Carrots—Native, per hox, 4s5asoc Celery— Native, per 2a3c Egeplants—Florida, per Grape fruit—Florida, Horseradish Lettuce Hay- at. Native, per box, $1.00a1.25 North Carolina, per half-barrel basket, Florida, per half-barrel $1 000200 Onions—Maryland do asket, Florida, per box, as tc do, California seedings, do, navels, per box, Oysterplants Native, per Radishes—F] pet 13%a2c ~Native 35as0; do, Norfolk, per bri Sprin per 100 Strawberries—Florida do, oper Florida, per six $2.7533.00: do, fair ¢ Oranges ize, $2.25a3.25; 2'5a3c ida, " long per bu. box, Spinach onions, rate, 10215. Tomatoes yasket carrier, fancy, $1.50a200 Potatoes. —White. Maryland and Penn sylvania, per bu, No. 1, 75a78¢: do, sec nds, 65a70; do. New York, per bu, best 75a78; do, 65aro; do, ‘estern, per bu, prime, 75a78 Sweets Eastern Shore, Virginia, kiln-dried, per lL. $225a2 40; do, per flour bel, $2¢a Maryland, per bri, fancy, $2.00 do, York River, per bri vv e ams seconds, : do North Carolina, per Butter— Separator, TEAM, 24A2%5C imitation, 20a21¢; prints, t-1b, 2Ba2gc; rolls, 2-1b, 2Bazoc; dairy prints, Md. Pa. and Va, 26az7c Eggs-—Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1saific; Eastern Shore, MarY. land and Virginia, do, 15316; Virginia, do, —a15;: West Virgima, do. —ars: Western, do,; —ats; Southern. -—atg puinea, do, —a— Fancy, per dozen —a3oc do, Western and Southern, do, 28329; do, small and dirty, do, 27a28 ; goose, 43a%0 Cl eese— New cheese, large, 60 hs, 12a 12%4c; do, flats, 37 Ibs, 1214 to 1254; pic. nics, 23 Ibs, 123% to 13¢ Live and Dressed Poultry —Turkeys— Hens. choice, 15 a1fic; young toms choice ~ald Chickens—Hens, rza12%4: old roosters, each 25330; young —a13 Ducks ~Fancy, large, 13a14¢: do, small 11a12 Geese, Western, ea tare. Guinea fowl, each. 18a20¢ Dressed poultry Turkeys—Hens, good to choice. 17a: hens and young toms, mixed, good to choice, —a16 Docks, good to choice, 14 s15c. Chickens— Young. good to choice, 12a14¢c; mixed, old and young. 11312 Geese, good to choice, 10a13. Capons— Fancy, large, 17218¢. Dressed ae Western Maryland and Pennsylvania lightweights, 7%4a734c per b Ib; Virginia and Southern Maryland, est stock, 7% per 1b. ; medium hogs, 64 aye, and heavyweights irregular at from 6 to 614¢c per Ib. Old boars less—sasiic Hides Heavy steers, association and salters, late kill, 60 Ibs. and up. close se lection, 10a1034¢; cows and light steers Baltse. Maxx: pathered Live Stock. Chicago—Cattle—Good to prime steers $6.5006.05; poor to medium $4.2536.30 stockers and feeders $2502.25; cows, $ryms.50; heifers, $2300560; canners, $1.4002.40; bulls $2.50a4.00; calves $3.00 560; Texas fed steers, $4.75a5.00. Hogs Mixed and butchers $6.00a6,50; good to choice heavy $6.40a660; rough heavy $6.10a6.30 ; hight $6.0006.25 ; bulk of sales $6.10a6.45. Sheep—Lambs active, strong, good to strong wethers $4.50n5.25; West- *rn sheep and yearlings $4.603%.00; native larry $0006.60; Western lambs $5.25a Fast Liberty Cattle, choice $6.6086.55; prithe $6.20a6.40; good $5.50a500. 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