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today Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on
his western lecturing tour, chow a subject
‘ strum-l interest—viz, “Business Tron»
W’w-the text selected being Ezekiel
knit, . “Thesewerethy merchants insll
cash of things.”
, . We no at the opening door of returning
,- mmlty. Thecoming crops, the
, ishment of public confidence and,
above all, the blessing of God will turn in
upon, all sections of America the widest,
greatest prosperity this country has ever
”on. But that door of successes is not yet
fully open, and thousands of business
; ‘ men us yet suffering from the distressing
, .‘ glues through which we have been pass-
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Some of the best men In the land have
faltered, men whose hearts are enlisted in
, cverygood work and whose hands have
blessed every great charity. The church of
' God can. afford to extend to them her sym-
pathiesand plead before heaven with all
a prayer. The schools such men
have established, the churches they have
built, the ssylums and beneficcnt institu.
tions they have fostered, will be their on-
logy long after their banking institutions
are forgotten. Such men can never fail.‘
They have their treasures in banks that
never break and will be millionaires for.
. ever. 1% I thought it would be appro-
priate ,and useful, for me to talk
about/she trials and temptations of -our
business men and try to odor some cura-
tive prescriptions.
‘ . ”suited Capital.
In the first place, I have to remark that
a" great many of our business men feel
ruinous trials and temptations coming to
them from small and limited capital in
business. It is everywhere understood
that it takes now three or four times as
much to do business wellasonce it did.
Once a few hundred dollars were turned
into goods-the merchant would be his
own store sweeper, his own salesman, his
own bookkeeper; he would manage all the
film himself, and everything would be
profit. Wonderful changcs have come;
$1, apparatus, extensive advertising, ex-
tant store rents, heavy taxation, ex-
pensive agencies are only parts the de-
mand made upon our commercial men,
and when they have found themselves in
‘ such circumstances with small capital,
they have sometimes been tempted to run
against the rocks of moral and financial
destruction. This temptation of limited
capital has ruined men in two ways.
Sometimes they have shrunk down under
the temptation. They have yielded the
battle before the first shot was fired. At
the first hard dun they Hurnmdcrcd. Their
knees knocked together at tho fall of tho
auctionecr’s hammer. They blanched at
the financial peril.‘ They did not under-
stand that there is such a thing as heroism
in merchandise and that there are Water-
loos of the counter and that a man can
fight no braver battle with the sword than
he can with the yardstick. 'l‘hclr souls
melted in them because sugars were up
when they wanted to buy and down when
' theywanted to sell and unsalable goods
were on the shelf and bad debts in their
ledger. The gloom of their countenances
overshadowed even their dry goods and
groceries. Dcspondoncy, coming from lim~
itcd capital, blasted them. Others have
felt it in a difi'orcnt way. Thcy have said:
"Here! have been trudging along. I have
been trying to be honest all these years. I
find it is of no use. Now it is make or
break." The small craft- thnt could have
stood the stream is put out beyond the
lighthouse, on the great son of speculation.
Be borrows a few thousand dollars from
friends who dare not refuse him, and he
goes bartering on a largo scale.
Ho reasons in this way: “Perhaps I may
succeed, and if I don‘t I will be no worse
oil than I am now, for $100,000 taken
from nothing nothing rcnmins.” Stocks
are the dice with which be gamblcs. He
bought for a few dollars vnst tracts of
Western land. Some man at tho cast. liv—
ing on a fat honlosicnd, meets this gam—
bler of fortune and is persuaded to trade
08 his estate for lots in ilVVi'SIt‘I'II city
with large nvcnucs, and costly paluccs,
and lake steamers smokingut tho wlmrvcs,
and rail trains coming down with light-
nlng speed from every direction. Thorn it
lean on paper. The city has m'vorhccll
built, nor the railroads constructed, but
everything points that way, and the thing
will be done as sure as you live. Wi'll, tho
man gooson, stopping at no fraud or out—
rage. In his splendid equipagohodasbos
past, while tho honest laborer looks up
nndwipcs the sweat from his brow and
says, ”I wonder where that man got all
his money." After awhile the bobbin
bursts. Creditors rush in. The law
clutches, but finds nothing in its grasp.
The men who were swilullcd say, “i don't
know how I could have over boon tll‘f‘l'ivoll
by that man," and the plclol‘lan in hand-
some woodcuts set forth the hero who in
ten years had genius ”rough to foil for
$150,000.
And that is the process by which many
have boon tempted through limitation of
capital to rush into labyrinth» from which
they could not be cxtricatod. I would not
want to chain honest ontcnlriso. I would
not want to block up any of tho nvclmcs
for honest accumulation that open before
young men. 0n the contrary, I would like
lochcer them on and rejoice when they
reach the goal, but when there amsuch
multitudes of men going to ruin for this
life and the life that is to come, through
wrong notions of what are lawful spheres
of enterpri it is the duty of the church
of God. and t ministers of religion, and
the friends of all young men to utter a
emphatic, unmistakable pmtest.
mine influences that drown men
in destruction and pcl'ditlon.
Over-unis”.
Apia, a great many of our business
men are tempted to overmmloty and care.
You knowthat nearly all commercial busi-
nesses are overdone in this day. Smitten
with the love of quick gain, our cities are
crowded with men resolved to be rich at
all hoards. They do not care how money
course. if it only comes. Our best mor-
ohmtsars thrown into competition with
mono! more means and less conscience,
and if an opportunity of accumulation be
one hour smne one else picks
it up. From January to Ixiccmber the
struggle goes on. Night gives no quiet to
bulbs tossing in restlessness nor too brain
at will not stop thinking. The dreams
' borrowed by imaginary loss and
Med with imaginary gains. Even the
lahbsthesunosdsmhaes instilled-na-
ism for this wave at. dashes
‘ sitar over mm ;. “avails than:
as Bibles and we Isa who us
’I am all ruined.” His wife said, “I am
trudge like camels, sweating, fro lsppc
ta Damascu They make the life a
crucifixion. Standing behind desks and
counters, banished from the fresh air,
weighed down by carking cares, they are
so many suicides. Oh, I wish I could to-
day rub out some of these lines of care;
that I could lift some of the burdens from
the heart; that I could give relaxation to
some of these worn muscles. It is time
for you to begin to take it a little easier.
Do your best, and then trust God for the
rest. Donot fret. God manages all the
affairs of your life, and he manages them
for the best. ,
Consider the lilies—they always have
robes. Behold the fowls of the nib—they
always have nests. Take a long breath.
Bethlnk betlmes that God did not make
you for a pack horse. Dig yourselves out
from among the hogsheads and the shelves
and in the light of the holy Sabbath day
resolve that you will give to the winds
your fears and your fretfulnoss and your
distresses. You brought nothing into the
world, and it is very certain you can carry
nothing out. Having food and raiment,
be therewith content. The merchant came
home from the store. There had been a
great disaster there. He opened the front
door and said in the midst of his family
circle: “I am ruined. Everything is gone.
left." And the little child threw up its
hands and said, “Papa, I am here.” The
aged grandmother, stated in the room,
said, “Then you have all the promises of
God besides, John." And he burst into
tears and said: “God forgive me that I
have been so ungrateful. I find I have a
great many things left. God forgive me."
Neglect of Home Duties.
'Again I remark that many of our basin"
ness men are tempted to neglect their
home duties. How often it is that the
store and the home seem to clash; but
there ought not to be any collision._ It is
often thccase thatktho father is the more
treasurer of the family, a sort of agent to
see that they have dry goods and groceries.
The work of family government he does
not touch. Once or twice irha year he
calls the children up on a Sabbath after-
noon whcn he has a half hour he docs not
exactly know what to do with, and in that
half hour he disciplines the children and
chidcs them and corrects their faults and
gives them a great dcul of good advice, and
then wondcrs all the rcst of the year that
his children do nht do better when they
have tho wonderful advantage of that
semiannual castigation.
The family table, which ought to be the
place for pleasant discussion and cheerful.
noss. often becomes the place of perilous
expedition. If there he anyblossing asked
at all, it is cut oil at both ends and with
the hand on the carving knife. He counts
on his fingers, making estimates in the in-
tcrsticcs of the rcpast. The work done,
the hat goes to the head and he starts
down the street, and before the family have
arisen from the table he has bound up an»
other bundle of goods and says to the cus-
tomer, "Anything more I can do for, you
today, sir?" A man has more responsibil-
ities than those which are dischargml by
putting competent instructors over his
children and giving them a drawing mas—
ter and a music teacher. The physical cul-
turoof the child will not lli‘ attended to
unless the father looks to it. He must
sometimes lose his dignity. He must- no-
limlu-r his joints. He must sometimes
lead them out to their sports and genres.
The warrant who cannot forget the severe
duties of life somciilncs, to fly the kite, and
iruudlo the hoop, and chasc the bull. and
jump the rope with his children. ought
never to how boon tempted out of a crusty
and unrudwmahlo solitarincss. If you
want to keep your children away from
plnccs of sin, you can only do it by mak-
ing your homoattractive. You may pmlch
sermons and mlvm-atv reforms and dc-
nouncc wickedness. and yet your children
will bc captivated by the glittering saloon
of sin unless you can make your home a
brighter place than any other place on
cnrth to flu-u). ()h. gather all charms into
your house! If you ronoii'ord it, bring
books and pictures and cheerful entertain-
ments totho household. lint, above all,
touch thosocbildrcn, not by half an hour
twico n ycnr on tho Sabbath day, but day
after day and ovary day tomb them that
religion is a great glndnoss. that it throws
chains of goidobout tho neck. that it takes
no spring from the foot. no blitbcnoss
from the heart, no sparkle from the eye,
no ring from the laughter, but that “licr
ways are ways of plcasonincss. and all her
paths arc pom-r." I sympathize with the
work being done in many of our cities, by
which beautiful rooms are sci. apart by our
Young Men's Christian msuclutious, and I
pruyliod toprospcr tin-m in all things.
Jim I tell you there is soon-thing back of
that and ln-luro rim—«we nml moi-choppy,
coast-cram], chocrfnl Christian honws cv‘
orywhoro.
' Value of tho Haul.
Again I rcmurk that a great many of
our business men on- lvmpicd to put the
attainment of mollvy ulmvo tho valuooi'
the soul. It is a grand thing to have
plenty of money. The more you get of
it the better, if it come honestly and go
usefully. For the lack of it sickness (line
without nmliclnc, and hunger finds its
coflln in the empty brood tray, and united.
noss shivers for lock of clothes and fire.
When I hear a man in coating tirade
against money-«n Christian man—as
though it had no possible use on earth
and he had no interest in it at all, I come
almost to think that the heaven that would
be appropriate for him would be an ever-
lasting poorhonso. While, my friends. we
do admit there is such a thing as the law-
ful use of money—a profitable use of
money-4st us mgnlsc also the fact that
money cannot satisfya man’s soul; that
it cannot glitter in the dark valley; that
it mnnot pay our fare across the Jordan of
death; that it cannot unlock the gateof
heaven. There are men in all new tlons
who seem to act as though they tfi'mght
that a pack of bonds and mortgages could
he traded off for a title to human, and as
though gold would be a lawful tender in
that place where it issocommon that they
make pavements out of it. Salvation by
Christ is the only salvation. Treasures in
heaven are the only incorruptible trees»
“I.
Have you over cipherod out in the rule
of loss-ad gain the sum, “What shall it
profit amen if hegain the whole world
and lose his own soul!" However fins
l, the winds of donut: will lint-
‘ 0cm sail" with them a
the Gen America. That noble steam.
had, I think, about 000 managers aboard.
Suddenly the storm was, and the surges
trampled the decksand swung into tlu
batches, and time went up a hundred
voiced death shriek. The foam on the jaw
of the wave. The pitching of the steamer
as though it were leaping a mountain
The dismal flare of thesignalrockets. Th!
long cough of the steam pipes. The his
of extinguished furnaces. The walking
God on the wave! The steamer went not
down without a struggle. As the passen-
gers stationed themselves in rows to ball
out the vessel, hark to the thump of tbs
buckets, as men unused to toil, with blls
tercd hands and strained muscle, tag for
their lives. There is a sail seen against tht
sky. The flash of the distress gun is no
ticed; its voice heard not, for it is choked
in the louder booming of the sea. A few
passengers escaped, but the steamer gave
one great lurch and was gone! So than
are some men who sail on prosperously in
life. Ali's well; all’s well. But at last
some financial disaster comes—a enrocly-
don. Down they go! The bottom of the
mmnwrcial sea is strewn with shattered
hulks. But because your property goes dc
pot let your soul go. Though all else per
sh, save that; for I have to tell you of c
more stupendous shipwreck than that
which I just mentioned. God launched
this World 6,000 years ago. It has been go
ing on under freight of mountains and im-
mortals, but one day it will stagger at the
cry of fire. The timbers of rock will burn,
the mountains flame like masts and the
clouds like sails in the judgment hurri-
cane. Then God shall take the passengers
of! the deck, and from tho berths those
who have long been asleep in Jesus, and
he will set them far beyond the reach of
storm and peril. But how many shall go
down will ncvcrbe known until it shall
be announced one day in heaven; the ship-
wreck of a world! So many millions
savedl So many millions drowned! Oh, ,
mydear hearers, whatever youlose,'thongh
your houses go, though your lands go,
though all your earthly possessions perish,
may God Almighty, through the blood of
the everlasting covenant, save all your
souls.
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