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' DK. TALMAGE’S SERMON. SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS T t . “Net sWhfnl fn business, fervent in ? t> serving the Lord.”—Romans xii. 5. ind ’strv devoutnew and Christian service •1 reioniniended in that short text. What, t'vou really think they can ba conjoined ? »h res. There is no war betwe *n religion 1 n I badness, between bibles and le Igers, be *» n churches and count.ng houses. On contrary, religion accelerates bus lo\. sharpens men’s wita, sweetens lD L|’ity of disposition, fillips the slow blood * nhleg and throws more velocity 'ntoalUho wheels of hard work. It gives I alaiMiQfi U> the judgment, it gives ,'njrth to the wealth, ft gives muscle to in 7 .*• it gives consecrated fire to enthu 4l.\nf an lin all the world and in all th?ages cannot show ine a man whose honest £ iness has been despoiled or hurt by his re i’lan Anvthinr that religion will help vou do ought never to ?, done- The industrial classes are h i led into throe groups—producers, manu facturers. Producers, such as far mars and miners. Manufacturers, such as •hos? "ho take the corn and turn it into i ,1 or the silk or the flax and turn it into •lothing. Traders, those who profit by the L'ansfe?- or exchange of that which is pro duced or manufactured. Now, a business man may belong to any one of these classes, or to all of Uiem. Whatever be your a m ation—if you have to plan and ealc date and bargain—if into your life there t-oine annoyances, vexations, exasperations, disappointrnente. as well a; gains, pereent •tres and dividends—if you are harassed with multiplicity of occupation ; in other words, i from Monday morning until Saturday ni ht. aud from January to January you are driven by relentless duty and obliga tion. then you are a business man or a bjsness wotnal and my subject this morning is especially appropriated to your case. There is anJd a abroad that business life is a sort of pfilon in which a man is in carcerated. or it is a strife into which ho goes sometimes half armed. But I shall sho w you tlua morning, it <’Od will help me, that busi ness life is a glorious education, and if I shall Im? divinely aided I will rub some of the wrinkles from your brow and unstrap some of the burdens from your back. Do you know that the time is coming when the religion of Jesus Christ is going to take entire possession of the business world? Two rivals iu busines did each other as much i arm as they could for many years. They were in the .‘•ame'line of busines and on the same street. Aft r a while one of them was converted to God. and he immediately asked himself: ‘Now, how shall I treat my rival? Well,’’ ho said to himself, “I will treat him in this way: When a man comes to niy store aud wants a style of goods that I have not, 111 send him over to my rival.” A very hard thing to do. But the gra o of (lod will help a man do anvthing that is right, go the plan was carried out, and this rival in business found customers coming from the other store and aske 1 about it, ami found that they were recommended by his obi rival »So he called on him, and said: “How's this? We warred against inch other for many years, and now I hoar vo i are sending me customers. Those who cannot get certain styles of goods in your store yeti are sending to mine.” Then the rival told him how he had been converted by the gra eof God, and ho had lea- ned the law <>f kindnessand love and generosity, and then they shook hands, and it was not many w e .s before the other man came into the Kingdom of God, and for many years they di 1 business m quietude and prosperity and Christian kindness on the tame. street. And that principle is going to submerge the whole earth, pernaps not in your day nor m ine,but it will come as certain ly as there is a God in Heaven, and the Gos pel of Jesus Christ is to triumph over all nations. If we do not see it perhaps our children will see it. But, taking things as they are, I want to show you, in the first place, that business life is a school for Christian energy. Gcd starts us in the world with a certain amount of raw mate rial out of which we are to hew our charac ter.” Every faculty needs to be reset, rounded, sharpened up. After our young folks have graduated from s bools aud col lege-; an 1 universities thev hove to have a higher education, which they can only get by the collisions and the raspings of every day life. Energy of character is wrought out only in the fire. After business m“n have been in the-e adversities ten. twenty or thirty years, they have an energy which cannot be meas ured by weight; or ladders or plummets. It can scale any height. It can plummet any depth. It can thrash any obstacle. Now’, oh business man, you have in this school of active life gained a great deal of energy. Why has God put you in that school, and why has this development gone on? Merely that you may gain more dol lars and build large fortunes and spend your days higgling and chaffing? Ah, no. God intended yon to bring atl that energy into his service. What would occur in these cities if all the business talent were brought into the Kingdom of God? Do you not know that in many of our churches the vast majority of work is being done by those who have not had any especially opportunity, while in all our churches there is a vast amount of energy settling into comparative idleness. The deepest streams do notseem to be turning the mill wheel or hauling on factory bands. Do vou not know that God demands" tho best lamb out of every flock: the richest sheaf out of every harvest the Lest men of every generation, and surely, in a cause in which Locke and Mansfield and Newt >n were proud to be engaged.you and I need not be ashamed to invest our interest. Oh. for fewer idlers and for more workers. Oh, that the im mense, the almost infinite business energy o f tcese cities might be consecrated to God. I remark furthsr that business life is a school for Christian patience. During one day's engagement how many things to per turb and auuoy and perplex. Bargains will nib. Men will break their engagements. Collecting agents will come back empty handed. Tricksters in business will take ad vantage of the hard times when they do not pay in good times. Goods put on the JTong shelf. Cash book an I money drawer in a quarrel. People intending no harm going shopping, having no id*-a of making purchases, or after a while trying to break the dozen. Goods ordered for an espe cial emergen y and not coming, or coming damaged in the transportation. More counterfeit bills in the drawer. Another ridiculous panic. Other men’s notes pay. Annoyance after annoyance, and under the pro-sure hundreds and thou-ands of men go down. They be come cross and cranky and pugnacious, and after a while people lea -e their store and their nam<* becomes a positive detestation. Ou the other hand, f could mention the name of a score of merchants, business men m all d -partrnents,who have been brightened U P by the process. They can look back to the time when they gave retort for f®tort, sarcasm for sarcasm, wrong for jrooz, but not now. They remember when they hail to bite their lip. They remember when they thought of the stinging answer they would like to have sent. They remem ber just how they could have overthrown their antagonists in business. But they have conquered th -mselves and when a man has couriered himself he has conquered the obsta les in human life. He has suppressed all this. It has been a ynoo] of patience to him. Christ came through all the annoyances of his life and Itohi n: “Let patiencq have her perfe t work; in j atience possess your soul.” There * r men h- re to-day who under all this per a - ion and annoyance of life have been jneil >wed. have been rinened for more use lu.ne-is and n eaed to- Heaven. It has t>een a- for patience all rears. Archi ua. j si ane was one of the chief business m*n < hdadelf hia. When I res! led in that citv, he Lad b*r-n gon? many years, the ■r .of integity and of his kindness and his nobility of character w in the air. . e ha 1 lost all his propertv. He had been J® a firm who had not done right, and to rn ‘ c their wrong Archibald Sloane bad wv?- n -d the la<t dollar of his private fortune, everything that they owed. In Phladelnhia he rose in nrospe-lty, and tna i story of his goodness, of his in egrity. of his kindness, was everywhere told. Once he went to collect a debt, and he came back without the money. Soma one said: “Did vo i 'et the money?" He replied: “No, I didn’t get it. I went to the man’s house and I saw thev were ju«t packing up their goods, and they were juat about to move to Tex as,and , were going t> start anew in 1 fe; and I saw the wife, and i saw the children, and I ma le up my mind if 1 Miaed their property I would kike the bread out tho children’s mouths, and I could not do it, aa I I came away without saying one worl about it. “Ah," save some one. “that isn’t business,” and I have heard it before that “business is business.’’ After a while you and I will come up before the throne of God in judgment. How if Christ should say to us: “Right is and wrong is wrong. You did a thousand wrong things in your life; you neglected a thousand duties. De part, ye cursed! Business is business!” There is an old book that says something like this; “With what judgment ye mete it shall be measured to you again.” I would rather take the opportunitv, the chan e of Archibald Sloane in the judgment. My subjec t al<o impresses metwith the fact 1 that business life is a school for the obtaining of very important knowledge. Business men for the most part do n H rea 1 books. The business men of America do not average one book apiece a year. Yet they are all intel i ligent if they have succeeded—intelligent on •questions of finance an I jurisprudence and ; geography and ethics and morals. Th«y are compelled to intelligence bv the activities of business life. Often some of those who have large labraries know nothing about them. Their libraries are established in tho same way as when in England a library was to be established and a Secretary wrote to a book , seller: “Send my master six feet of theology and about as much metaphysics and some thing like a yard of old civil law." And 3 r et, though they as a class do not read many i books, they are compelled by their style .of life to intelligence. Misfortune is’ a harsh schoolmistress, and when a pupil will not learn she strikes him with irrevoca ble loss. You put $5,1)0 )in business and it is gone. You say “these $5,00 • are all wasted." No, they were the tuition—expensive school ing—but it is worth it Traders in grains are compelled to bo intelligent in regard to foreign harvests. Traders in fruits are compelled to be intelligent in regard to the prospe ts of tropical fruits. Manufacturers of American goods are compelled to be intelligent in regard to tho tariff on importe 1 artTHos. Tho question that I want to pre ent to you this morning i is. have you applied your intelligence in the Christian direction? Trading with foreign lands, are you nut interested in foreign mis sions? Understanding how in business there is so much fraud and chicanery and double dealing, are you advo | eating the Gospel or Jesus Christ to eradi cate all wrong and irradiate all darkness and correct all mistakes and up lift all wretchedness! Understanding as you , do all the intricacies of business, do you un derstand that there is something for the soul I which will last after all bills of exchange and invoices and rent rolls shall have crum bled up and Ijeen i onsumed in tho fires of a I judgment day. Wise for time, are you wise, my brother, for eternity? “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and then lose his soul.'"’ I go further and remark to you that busi ness life is a school for integrity. It requires more business grace n w than it did in the time when there were uo stock gamblers and woolen was woolen and silk was silk and i men wore men. There n ver was a time i when there were so many temptations to s ‘oundrelism as there are t -day. There • are so many men doing business on a wrong scale in all departments that if a man startscut and stakes a straight path for himself it is called verdancy, it is as cribed to lack of tact, business ta *t. You know better than I do how true all this is, and how you, tho Christian man, trying to live faithful to God an I do justice to your soul and the s mis of others, you know how many obstacles you have to run against. In the city of New York a young man was selling goods and after hs had sold a silk dress to a lady he said; “Madame, I feel bound to tell vou ' that there is a fracture in that silk” “Why,” ' she said, “then I don't want it.'’ She de l parted without tho goods. The head man of the firm came and said: “What was that customer wanting?” “Well,” the other re plie 1. “she bought this dross, but I felt bound to tell her there was a fracture in the silk, so she went off without it.” The business man then went into his counting room and wrote a letter to the young man’s father in the country: “Come to town quickly and take vonr boy.” Tho old farmer came down to the city in great agita tion, wondering what his boy had been doing, and he went into the st ire, and the head man of the firm recited all the circum stances aud said: “Your son will never make a merchant.” Tho old farmer said: “Is that all? Is that all my b >y has been doing, pointing out the imper fections in the goods? Well, I always was proud of John aud 1 am prouder now than ever. John get your hat and come homo.” And I tell young men it is always safe to do right and it is never safe to do wrong. God will never lot a young man like that suffer. Oh, how hard sometimes it is to take the straight path when so many are divergent. And yet there are those. I beli ;ve they are in the majority. I believe there is a higher stylo of commercial ethic; than ever before, and I believe they are in the ma jority, the men who •an say: “I never mis state the value o'' good;, I never covere 1 up the imperfection in a fabric. In all of my money there is not a dishone t faith, ng. Go 1 help me.” If you do not know such men I am sorry for your acquaintances. I know many such. They are as lion st as th , day they sold their first yard of cloth, or their fii>t firkin of butter. So it will Ikj all the way thr< ugh. The school of life has do velopea them. They can ay their prayers without being haunted by the chink of dis honest dollars. They can read their bible without thinking of t he time when with a lie on their soul they kissed the book in the Cus tom House. They <an think of death wiih cut having their teeth hatter at Ihe thought of a judgtuentjwhere defrauders and jockeys and tricksters and charlatans '•hail be doubly damned. They car. n*ad without flinching: “As a partridge sotteth on eggs and hat heth them not, so ri hes g< t by fraud, a man shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at the end he shall be a fool.” Are you being developed upward by the school of business life, or are you being developed downward; I was reading vesterday in an old book < f a scene that oc , < urred in New York City. Mr. N was in a group of gentlemen, and he said: “If 1 had fcyOOd I could double the money in a short time in business, but 1 don t know where I shall get the $5,0)0.’ There was a Georgia planter standing by, and be “You want. $5,000 do you?” “ Yes.” ’ ‘ Whit security, can you give for it?” “Well, he said, “the word of an honest man. “I’ll take that as se urity,” said the Georgia planter. So he gave him ache k for $5,0 h). Time passed on and the Georgia planter was in business troub e. H s fortune, had failed and he must raise and he said to himself: “Now, J will go to that man iu New York whom 1 helped and I think he will help me.” He ca ne to New York. He told th? man his perplex ity. He said: “1 loaned you $5.0/) aud upw I wish you w >uld loan me “Well,” said th, otuer ' '-what se urity will you give me;’ He re r.li; 1: “The word oan hon-st man. “leant , !-r v. u have it on that ground.' He did not i-t him nave it. Busin ss life, how it de velops some men up and bow it develop! i oth r> down. What vast multitudes are ground to powder, when God intended all Le hardships, al the annoy men,, all th; vexations and all the a divitiei an opp >r tunlty for developing the soul for use! ulnoss and for Heaven. No.v, if tnese things be so, it s ens to me that we ought to enlarge our sympatiiiee to ward business men. It ts a shame tha in our pulpits we do not oftener s -oak of their tr als, their mis'ortuoes aud their bar iships. Tue fa t is, the men who Uni with the hand are not always sym >achetic those who toil with the brain. Ine man who raises the corn and the wheat h apt to think that the gram mer chant get, his nioujy eadly. Does he? lam sorry to see that the fl«c is often Jealous of the brain. ’ Plato and Aristotle were so op l>o el to commerce that they pronounced it thecureeof the nations and they advised that no city ever tie built nearer thesoaboard than ten miles. But you and I have learned that there are no mon* faithful or more con*’ratel men than thos? to bo found in business life, and that they lift a burden heavier than the carrying of a hot! up the ladder oa the wall, and that t.i<‘\ get out into exposures sharper than t he northeast wind aud tliat they climb heights greater than tho Alp* or the Himalaya, and God is going to meet them at the last an I say to them: “Well done, good and faithful ser vants; you have been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things; enter into the joy of the Lord. ’ If what lam saying is true, then I enjoin upon you to ouit all fret fulness about business matters, is there not somet ring iu your house that you would rather have than all tha worl Uy success of som? men you know? Betid ‘ that, if business life be a s bool, ought you not be thankful to God forth * whip of discipline' The more notes you have to pay, the larger the obliga tions yon have to meet; the greater the un certainties of b isiness life, the i>etter for you if by the gra *e of God you con pier. Il »w do 1 know’ it? 1 know it by the principle tho hotter the fire the better the relining. Who are they’ be .'ore tho throne? There is a vast multitude of business men who were in perplexities just like yours. We are wry apt to put a hal» around the departed, but I tell you there are men in glory now who had the same battles to in business life that you arj fighting, and they triumphed in the grac> of God. They were cheated out of everything but their coflins. They Were sued. They were ejected from the premises. 'They were throttled by c in stables, with whole i a ks of writs. They had to confess judgment. Upon the most sa cred family relic the auctioneer’s mallet came down—going, going, gone! And yet they are triumphant before the throne of Goa. An I do vou think the Lord ha; no regard for you? He knows every item of your worldly business better than you know it yourself, ‘and having delivered them. He will deliver you. I had a very good friend in busi ness who wa; always unfortunate. He s ‘©mod to have fine business faculty. He was of excellent character, an I one of the noblest man I ever knew. But just as you sometimes observe in life in regard to some one else; everything he put his hand to was a failure. After a while, under tho stress and burden he died, w nen i ne ird oi his death tho first won Is 1 uttered were: “Good! he has got rid of tho sheriff.” And then* are those multitude; before tha throne. When the question comes up in regard to tho u tho angels standing on the sea oi glass answer: “Tiies? are they who ame o a of geeat tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.” If what 1 have been saying is true, then you ought tj cultivate busmess gra e. You want t j offer such a prayer a; Mr. Ashley offered jiif;‘ ba bro the great charge nt the ba! tie oi Edgehill. In tho presence of his troops lie knelt down and sud: “Lord God, Thon kno vot h>w busy I am roing to ba to-day. If I forgot thee, do not Thou forget mo.” What a prayer that would bo for you to start out with every •norningof year busi n-si life: “Lord I will be very busy t><hiy, If I forg ,‘t Thee, forget not Thou me.'’ C mimer ial ethics, business honor, law; of tra le an* good enou ;h in their place, but there will c nue a time when tho world wll slip away from you. It will bj a time when it will semi as if all thodevils of dark nesj were after your soul. Under that ri ’uciice how many have gone down? Soin ■ forged, some maltreated their friends, some cursed thoir enemies, some ha 1 their namo born amid scandals aud thoir name was pro lounood with detesta tion. Tney were ruino 1 by business life. You co.ild count up a groat many of them. Others have gouo through all uascithol. Mm camo out from their store. They said: “Well, if there ever was a C’hristiau trader that is one.” Integrity Kept tho books. Into ;rity waited on tho cus tomers. A light from the throne of God flashed Into his show window. Wrath never stamped that floor, nor did sly dishonesty ever cover up the imperfec i >ns of goods. Love to God,love t >men were tho controlling principles of that man. After a while, one morning the shutters ar j not let down from the store window The bolt; are not removed from the door. People passing say: “What is the matter!” B.isnnoss acquaintances stop and say: “Why is this store closed?” They come up closer ami they read a card on th • door saying: “Close 1 on account of th* death of one of tho firm.” That day it is talked all through budnesscir cle* how that a good man is gone. Boards of trade pass resolution; of sympathv, and churches pr <y: “Help Jx>rd, for the G<Hlly man ceaset’.i.” He his made his list bargain. Ho lias suffered his last loss. He has ached with his last fatigue. His Christian industries will ble;s his children now that ho is gone; ami be piests to tha Kingdom of (rod will gather many sons into glory. Everlasting rewird-i for earthly discipline. “Th’re th? wi-dro I cease from troubling and the weary aro at rest. ” Taking Big Chances. “You asked me to marry yon,George,’’ she said slowly. “Do you know that I am rich?” “Yes.” “In my own right?" “Yes.” “And that you will have to come to me for money?” “Yes.” “Even for car fare?” “Yes.” “And that you may have to walk in pleasant weather:” “Yes.” “And you are willing to marry me and take the chances?” “Yes.” “Then I am yours, George, and 1 hope you may be happy.”—Aev; York Sun. A Sure Way to Get a Pass. Hilarious Passenger—“l’ve got a past over this road. I can get one any day ) want it.” Pres dent of the lloadlunrecognized) [ —“Will you allow me to see it?” “Certainly. Here it is.” “This is a regular ticket. You paid . for it.” “Why, of course I did. You didn't supp >se I stole it, eh? I buy one every day. I didn't say it was a free pass.”-. fldladelphii Call. — A Poor Cook. Proprietor of hotel.-“ You call yourself a French cook! A fine specimen of a French cook you are. Consider your self di-charged.” Cook. “But, sare, vot has J done?” Proprietor. “Where are those chicken croquettes we were to have for dinner?” Cook. “-ate. ere. ees no chicken.” Pro irietor. “ Who sad anything abont chickens? Make them out of codfish ay our last cook did.”— Ham ler." An Advantageous Transaction. Sharplcy—“Gid fellow, you’ve b en taken in Do you know why skinner j borrowed all that money of you?” Green—“ No.” Sharplcy—“Be ause he was so hard up that he had to borrow in order to p,.y creditors who ve wait d for years.” Green—“Oh, that’s a 1 right then. I’m ‘ the large tof cm.”— l.ife. 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Boston, fihe-n dan‘a Conditional m mb m■ mb ■ ■ ■■■■£■ ■ mi Wa aaWothLng “ '• .< X Powder jh rkbsohite.yl H !■ K ■ M ■■ ■ ■ will .‘«xlU| A y L ULAiV I is worth a pound of |Ufl ■■ BA ■ ■■ W aJ <J any other TMNCOMRWABLE The Most Perfect Instrument u. World. Used Exclusively at the “Grand Conservatory of music,” OF NEW YORK. Endorsed by all Eminent Artiste. LOlf PUICESI ICASV TltltMSl AUGUSTUS BAUS& CO.'Mfss. Warerooms, 58 W. 23d St. New York. IThta Wash Board la made of o>k SOLID allk k r o F nt av v < obiuj. <urn> zinc, which produces ■ double faced board of the brat quality and durability. The fluting In very deep, holdlna more water, nnd <■< uat ijuently dfoit'i: bettnt wiu hlng than any " .wh board Iu the market. The Ira mv I ■ imulo of hard wood, ami held toft! t):f I U ill) on iron !«>lt rum nine thr. uih a of the ziiiC, thill! bl n.li nil tha i(1 tin. mot 11 i.b «t«nUalm.wntA ind producing a washboard which for oeunoiny.cxoellrm c m.«l dur ability in unqnoHtlonablv tln» boat In tho world. We And ho many dealern that object to our board on account of Hi PI IHIII I.l*l Y, raying “It will last too lom’. wo can never arif a euntoincr but one.” take till* means to adviao consumers to INSIST upon having the NORTH STAR WASH BOARD. Tim urvr ih urn cuKAi.r:ar. Muuf.cture<i by PFANSCHMIDT, DODGE & CO., >4B & 290 West Polk St., Clllonao, til. Are the Finest in tie Worli. Thesa Extracts never vary. BUPEBIOR FOR STRENGTH, QUALITY, K PURITY, ECONOMY, ETO. Made from Selected Fruita nod Bpioea, Insist cn having Baitlne’o Flavora AND TAKE NO OTHERS. SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. 41 Warren St., New York. theORRVILLE CHAMPION COMBINED Grain ItaherMta Hullei, Acknowledged by Thrcahcnnon to bo \ ■ / £ • ,/r- TUo iS-in®! Remember we rnako tho only*••»<* w CAruin AlirralM r mid < l«»v< r lliilhr that will do tho work of two nep.irate lum hlnci ■ Clover IB 11 Iler Ih notn simple utvmhmcnl but aacpmntc Imlllim'cylinder construe d m-d opera ted upon timin'. pt wpproved aclmrilflc principles. Hns tho widest »■' pm ding capacity of any machine in the market. I.* liaflif, coinpitci, «l omble, tiM-N but oil« buH mid requiron lean power xtnd has r working par Himimiy ofhor inncliltir. »ie ln<’onsirm lion tliat It UeawllV ■food. W. I th"’h p-ih cfly all kln;Dof grain, perns timothy, 11. x. < 'over, etc. K< r.d for' price IM. «♦' , of Th retd. <r»4, Eng n<", H«w and Grain H( ;;I>*lcns nml be sure to mention Inin paper. iitw wanted* Addrcaa THE KOPPES MACHINE CO. OROVILLE, O.