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BM1S.T ii i LEDGEKS AND BIBLES THERE IS NO WAR BETWEEN RELI GION AND BUSINESS. - , Dr. Talmase Declare. Tnat niffbt eonineu la a Re-enforcement and Sot a Hindrance In tlie A ot Life. - Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 18. Washington, Aug. 27.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage argues that re- ligion may be taken into all the affairs of life and instead of being a hin drance, as many think, is a jwyforce;. ment. The text is Romans xii, 11: lot slothful In business, fervent in splrit, serving the Lord." - Industry, devoutness and Christian service all commended in that short text. What! Is it possible that they shall be conjoined? Oh. yes! There is ho war between religion and busi ness, between ledgers and Bibles be tween churches and counting houses. On the contrary, religion accelerates business, sharpens men's wits, sweet ens, acerbity of disposition, fillips the blood of phlegmatics and throws more velocity into the wheels of hard work. It gives better balancing ta the judg ment, more strength to the will, more muscle to industry and throws into enthusiasm a more consecrated fire. Tou cannot in all the ; circle of the world show me a man whose honest business has been despoiled by re ligion. The Industrial classes are divided in ,to three groups producers, manufac turers, traders. Producers, such ; as farmers and miners. Manufacturers, such as those who turn corn Into food and wool and flax into apparel. Trad-' ers, such as jnake profit put of the . M 11 i.L J. transier anu eicuauge ui . tuai, which Is produced and manufactured. a ' 1 I moir Kalnnrf tft " 6nr one or all of these classes, and not one Is Independent of any other. When the prince imperial of France fell on the Zulu battlefield because the strap fastening the stirrup to the sad dle broke as he clung to It, his com rades air escaping, butane falling un der the lances of the savages, a great 'many people blamed the empress for allowing her son to ga forth into that battlefield, and others blamed the Eng lish government for accepting the sac rifice, and others blamed the Zulus for their barbarism. The one most to blame was the harness maker who fashioned that strap of the stirrup out of shoddy and imperfect material, as it was found to have been afterward. If the strap had held, the princejmperial would probably have been alive today. But the strap broke. No prince inde? pendent of a harness maker! High, low, wise, Ignorant, you in one occupa tion, I in another, all bound together. So that there must be one continuous line of sympathy with each other's work. But whatever your vocation, If yon have a multiplicity of engage ments, If Into your life there come loss es and annoyances and perturbations as well as percentages and dividends, If Touare Dursued from Monday morn ing until Saturday' night and from January to January by Inexorable ob ligation and duty, then you are a busi ness man, or you' are a business wo man, and my subject is appropriate to your case. Grand and Glorious. We are under the impression that the moil and tug of business life are a prison into which a man is thrust or that it is an unequal strife where un armed a man goes forth to contend. I shall show you this morning that business life was intended of God for grand and glorious education and dis cipline, and If I shall be helped to say what I want to say I shall rub some of the wrinkles of, care out of your brow and. unstrap some of the burdens from your back. I am not talking of an abstraction. Though never having been in business life, -I know all about business men. ten miles from New York, a large por tion of my audience was made up of New York merchants. Then I went to Syracuse, a place of immense commer cial activity, and then I went to Phila delphia and lived long among the mer chants of that city, than whom there are no better men on earth, and for 25 years I stood In my Brooklyn pulpit, Sabbath by Sabbath, preaching to au diences .the majority of whom were business 'men and business women. It is not an abstraction of which I speak. but a reality with which I am well ac quainted. In the first place. I remark that busi ness life was intended as a school of energy. God gives us a certain amount of raw material out of which we are to bew our character.! Our faculties are to be reset, rounded and sharpened up. Our young folks J having graduated from -school or college need a higher education, that which the rasping and collision of everyday life alone can ef fect Energy la wrought out only In the fire. After a man has been In busi ness activity 10, 20, 30 years, his ener gy Is not to be measured by weights or plummets or ladders. There is no height It cannot scale, and there is no depth It cannot fathom, and there Is no'obstacle It cannot thrash. -Now, my brother, why did God put you in that school of energy? Was it merely that you might be a yardstick to measure cloth or a steelyard T to weigh flour? Was it merely that you might be better qualified to chaffer and higgle? No. God placed you in .that school of energy that you might be developed for Christian work. If the undeveloped talents In the Chris tian churches of today were brought out and thoroughly-harnessed, I be lieve the whole earth would be con certed to God In a twelvemonth. There are so many deep streams that are turning no mill-wheels and that are harnessed to no factory bands." God Demands the Best. ! Now. God demands the best lamb out of every flock. He demands the richest sheaf of every harvest He de mands the best men of every genera tion. A cause in which Newton and Locke and Mansfield toiled you jand I can afford to toll in. Oh, for fewer idlers in Uhe cause of Christ and for more Christian workers, men who shall take the same energy that from Mon day morning to Saturday night they put forth for the achievement of a livelihood or the gathering of a for tune and oh Sabbath days put it forth ta the advantage of Christ's kingdom and the bringing of men to the Lord. Dr. Duff visited a man who had In herited a great fortune. The man said to him: "I had to be very busy for many years of my life getting my live lihood. After awhile this fortune came to me and there has been no necessity that I toil since. There came a time when I said to' myself, 'Shall I now; re tire from business, or shall I go on and serve the iLord In my worldly occupa tion?' " He said: "I resolved on the latter, and I have been more indus trious in commercial circles than I ever was befere, and since that hour I have never kept a farthing for myself. I have thought it to be a great shame If I couldn't toll as hard for the Lord as I had tolled for myself, and all the products of my factories and my com mercial establishments to the last farthing have gone for the building ' of Christian Institutions and supporting the 'church of God." Would that the same energy put forth for the world could be f put forth for God. Would that a thousand men In s these great cities who have achieved a fortune could see it their duty now to do all business for Christ and the allevia tion of the world's suffering! Again, I remark that business life Is a school of patience. In your every day life how many things to annoy and to disquiet? Bargains will rub. Com mercial men will sometimes fail to meet their engagements. Cash book and money drawer will sometimes quarrel. Goods ordered for a special emergency will come too late or be damaged in the transportation. People intending no harm will go shopping without any intention of; purchase, overturning great stocks of goods and insisting that you break the dozen. More bad- debts on the ledger. More counterfeit bills in the drawer. More debts to pay for other people. More meannesses on the part of partners in business. Annoyance after annoyance, vexation after vexation and loss after lOSS. . ". -' ; . -:, . ! School of Patience. , All that process will either break you down or brighten you up. It Is a school of patience. You have known men under the process, to become petu lant, and choleric, and angry, (and pug nacious, and cross, and sour, and queer, and they lost their customers, and their name became a detestation. Other men have been brightened up under the process. They were tough ened by the exposure. They were like rocks, all the more valuable for being blasted. At first they had to c!ioke down their wrath, at first they had to bite their lips, at first they thought of some stinging retort they would like to make, but they conquered their Impa tience." They have kind words now for sarcastic flings. They have gentle be havior now for unmannerly customers. They are patient now with unfortunate debtors. They have ; Christian reflec tions now for sudden reverses.: Where did they get that patience? By hear ing a minister preach concerning it on Sabbath? Oh, no! They got it just where you will get it If you ever get It at -all selling - hats, discounting notes, turning banisters, plowing corn, tinning roofs, pleading causes. Oh, that amid the turmoil and anxiety and exasperation of everyday life you L might hear the voice of God saying: "In patience possess your soul. Let patience have her perfect work." I remark again that business life is a school of useful knowledge. Mer chants do not read many books and do not study lexicons. - They do not dive into profounds of learning, and yet nearly all through their occupations come to understand questions -of finance, and politics, 1 and geography, and Jurisprudence, and ethics. Busi ness is a severe schoolmistress. If pupils will not learn, she strikes them over the head and the heart with se vere losses. "Yen put $5,000 Into an enterprise. It is all gone. You say, That is a dead loss." Oh, nb! You are paying the schooling. That was only tuition, very large tuition 1 told you it was a severe , schoolmistress but It was worth it You learned things under that process you would not have learned in any other way. Traders in grain come to know some thing about foreign harvests, traders: in fruit come to know something about the prospects of tropical production, manufacturers of American goods come, to understand the tariff on im ported articles, publishers of books must come to understand the new law of copyright owners of ships must come to know winds and shoals and j navigation, and every bale of cotton, and every raisin cask, and ; every tea box, and every cluster of bananas is so much literature for a business man. Now, my brother, what are you going to do with the Intelligence?. Do you suppose God put you in this school of information merely that you might be sharper in a trade, that you might be more successful as a worldling? Oh, no! It was that you might take that useful Information and use it for Jesus Christ ' , Need of Ilonestr. ! Can it be that you have been dealing with foreign lands and never had the missionary spirit wishing the salva tion of foreign people? - Can It be that you have become acquainted with all the outrages inflicted in business life ind that you have never tried to bring to bear that gospel which is toextir pate all evil and correct all wrongs and Illuminate all darkness and lift up all wretchedness and save men for this World and the world to come? Can It be that understanding all the intrica cies; of business you know nothing about those things which will last aft er all bills of exchange and consign ments and invoices and rent rolls shall have crumpled up and been consumed in the fires of the last great day? Can it be that a man will be wise for a time and a fool for eternity? j i remark, also; that business life is a school for Integrity. No man knows what he will do until he Is tempted. There are thousands of men who have kept thelrntegrlty merely because they never have been- tested. A man was elected treasurer of the state of Maine some years ago. He was distin guished for his honesty, usefulness and uprightness, but before one year had passed he had taken' of the public funds for his own private use and was hurled out of office in disgrace. Dis tinguished for virtue before. Distin guished' for crime after. You can call over the names of men just like that, In whose honesty you had complete confidence, but placed in certain crises of temptation they went overboard, j Never so many temptations to scoun drielism as now. Not ; a law on the statute book but has some back door through which a miscreant cab escape. Ah, how many deceptions in the fabric of goods; so much plundering In com mercial life, that If a man talk about liyiiig a life of complete commercial integrity there are those who ascribe It to greenness and lack of tact! More heed of honesty now than ever before, tried honesty, complete honesty, more than In those times when business was a plain affair, and woolens were Woolens, and silks were silks, and men were men. " '. - j How many men do yousuppose there are in commercial life who could say, truthfully, "In all the sales I have ever made I have never overstated the value bf goods, in all the sales I have ever 'made I have never covered up an im perfection In the fabric, of all the thou sands of dollars I have ever made I have; not taken one dishonest farth ing?" There are 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 first tierce of rice or their first firkin of butter, because their honesty and In tegrity have been tested, tried and come out triumphant But they re member a time when they could have robbed a partner, or have absconded the fund of a bank, or sprung a judgment, or made a false-as- ,wun snap THOSE PROVE RBI Some people merchantshave : spas modic fits in offering bargains. We believe in consistency and keep ' Bargains Going all the Time. . I' t V " - - Now is the time to turn merchandise loose and we are guilty of offering some of the BEST BARGAINS IN SEASONABLE GOODS that it will be your opportunity to get; - ater while youSvait. " Ice W - - . I mm. J Mi, mm 300 SOUTH ELM ST., GREENSBORO. SALESMEM: J. W. Crawford, W. II, Bees, II. B. Donnell, Will R. Rankin, J. T. ReeV. 1 PAUl -it:..': STROUD . . ' I jfcffl slgnment, or borrowed inimitably with out any efforts at payment, or got a 'man Into a sharp corner and fleeced jhim. But they never took one step on that pathway - of hell fire. - They can 'say their prayers without bearing the chink of dishonest dollars. They can read their Bible without thinking of the time when with a He on their soul in the custom house they kissed the book. They can think of death and thje Judgment that comes after It with out any flinching that day when all charlatans and cheats and jockeys and frauds shall be doubly damned. It does not make their knees knock to gether, and It does not make their teeth' chatter to read "as the partridge siueth on eggs and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches and not by right; shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be a fool." - . . ..; ; j Only Once. What a school of Integrity business life Is! If you have ever been tempted to let your Integrity cringe before pres ent advantage. If you have ever wak ened up in some embarrassment and said: "Now, I will step a little aside from the right path, and no one will know it, and I will come all right again. It is only once." That only once has ruined tens of thousands of men for this life and blasted their souls for eternity. a. merchant in Liverpool got a 5 Bank of England note, and, holding it up toward the light, he saw some in terlineations in what seemed red ink. He finally deciphered the letters and found out that the writing had been made by a slave In Algiers, saying in substance, "Whoever gets this bank note will please to inform my brother, John Dean,' Hying near Carlisle, that I am a slave of the bey of Algiers." The merchant sent word, employed govern ment officers and found who. this man was spoken of in this bank note. Aft er awhile the man was rescued who for 11 years had been tfslave of the bey j of Algiers. He was Immediately emancipated, but was so worn out by hardship and exposure he soon after died.- Oh, If some of the bank billi that come through your hands could tell jail the scenes through which they have passed it would be a tragedy eclipsing any drama of Shakespeare, mightier than King Lear or Macbeth! As I go on in this subject I am im pressed with the importance of our having more sympathy with business men. Is it not a shame that we in our pulpits do not of tener preach about their struggles, their trials and their temptations? Men who toil with the hand are not apt to be very sympa thetic with those who toil with the brain. The farmers who raise 4he corn and the oats and the wheat sometimes are tempted to think that grain mer chants have an easy time and get their profits without giving any equivalent j Plato and Aristotle were so opposed to merchandise that they declared com merce to be the curse of the nations, and they advised that cities be built at least, ten milesi from the sea coast. But you and I know that there aregnd more Industrious or high minded men than those who movein the world of traffic Some of them carry burdens heaVier than hods of brick, and are exposed to sharper things than the east wind, and climb mountains higher than the Alps or Himalayas, and If they are jfalthful to Christ will at last say to tpem: "Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a tasks I M Bus!-'tasks were debt, ables were few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou Into the joy; of thy Lord." Business Martyrs. We talk about the martyrs of the Piedmont valley, and the martyrs among the Scotch highlands, and the martyrs at Oxford. There are just as certainly martyrs of Wall stree; and State street, martyrs of Fulton street and Broadway, martyrs of Atlantic street and Chestnut street, going through hotter fires, or having their necks under sharper axes. Then it be hooves us to . banish all fretf illness from our lives, if tins subject betruei We look back to the time when we were at school, and we remember the roa, ana we rememDer tne nara and we complained grievously now we see It was for the-best, ness life is a school, and the are hard, and the chastisements some times are Very grievous; but . do not complain. The hotter the fire thi bet-j ter the refining. There are men before the throne of God this day in triumph who on earth were cheated out ; of ev-'. erythlng but . their coffin. They sued, they were imprisoned for rthey were throttled by consi with a whole pack of writs, they sold out by the , sheriffs, they had to compromise with their creditors,! they had to make assignments. Their dying hours were) annoyed by the sharpjring ing of the door bell by some impetuous creditor who thought it was outrageous and impudent that a man should, dare to die before be paid the last half dol lar. . , . I had a friend who had many mis-, fortunes. Everything went against him. He had good business capacity and was of the best of morals, but he was one of those men such as you have sometimes seen, for whom every thing seems to go wrong. His life be came, to him a plague. When Ii heard he was dead, I said, "Good; got; rid of the sheriffs!" Who are those lustrous souls before the throne? When the question is asked, "Who are they?" the angels standing on the sea of glass respond, "These are they who came out of great business trouble and had had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." - ' -' ! How God Helps. A. man arose In Fulton street prayer meeting and said: , "I wish publicly to acknowledge the goodness of God, I was in business trouble. I had money to-pay, and I had no means to pay It, and I was in utter despair of all hu man help, and I laid this matter be fore the Lord, and this morning I went down among some old business friends I had not seen in many years just to make a call, and one said to me l 'Why, I am so glad to see you! Walk In. We have some money on our books due you a good while, but we didn't kiow where you were, and therefore not having your address we coulc not send It. We are very glad you Lave corner" And the man standing1 In Fulton street prayer meeting said, "The amount they paid -me wasljslx times what I owed." You say it only -happened so? You are unbelieving. God answered that man's prayer.1 i Oh, you want business grace! Com mercial ethics, business honor, laws of trade are aU very good in their ptace, but there are times when you (want something more than this world .will give you. You want God, For the jack of him some that you have known have consented to forge, and to maltreat their friends, and to curse their ene mies, and their names have been bul letined among scoundrels and they have been ground to powder, while other men you have known have; gone through the very same stress of cir cumstances triumphant. There are men here today who fought the battle and gained the victory. People come out of that man's store and they sayr?WelL If thereever was a Christian trader, that is one." Integrity kept the books and waited on the customers. Light from the eternal world flashed through the show windows. Love Jo God and love to man presided tn that store house. Some day people going 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 card of that window, "Closed on account of the death of one of the firm." That day all through the circles of business there is talk about how a good man has gone. Boards of trade pass resolutions of sympathy, and churches of Christ pray, "Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth." He has made his last bargain, he has suf fered his last loss, he has ached with the last fatigue. His children will get the result of his Industry, or, If through misfortune there be no dollars left, they will have an estate of prayer and Christian example, which will be ever lasting. Heavenly rewards for earthly discipUne. There "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest? The Oberammergaa Passion Play. The preparations for the passion play next year are in full swing. All' the actors for the chief parts have not yet been chosen, but the singers have been selected andare practising diligently In conjunction with the musicians.. The part or Christ will be performed, as before, by Anton Lang. Workmen are actively employed on the new buildings which the committee have decided to erect. The auditorium is being covered with an iron roof of not. less than 45 meters span, at a cost of fully 150,000 marks. Berlin Letter. Two explosive (machinei raa 1 w explosive machine ii a dreid'J Ilia. 1.... A. , ' niug, uufc noi nsariy ao dreil'i as an explosive Frenchman. Scsi of these days, very likely, all Gi?i uegin io mow up, one bj c:t, and each will be divided into s man tnree parts. ' ; - The eagle on the diver dolly i merely to remind us that rlchettn nrinrro i ' KIDNEY iEJCKSJ; TROUBLE SS&iis. mistake by using Dr. Kilmer's Swmi-ErtO great kidney remedy. At dn-pgin tin cent and dollar sizes. Sample U ttl I t u irue. aiao pampniec telling you tvr o rt if tou haye kidnev trouble, i ; Addroaa, Dr. Kilmer ft Co Bingbamtoo. 11 CLARELIOIIT COLLEGE ' 70S GXBLS AND OH. - HICKORY, IS'. C. Noted health resort, rure mimti;a rrfci water. Ten w-hooU in on. thar ftate. 1400 Piano iriven to lot mu Home comforts. Farultr of 11 l'nim.ti and women. Students from nc arlyrwy v ern state, also from t'anxla, Mff r Northern slate. Keasonahle sir. ' Mr! Catalogue. 8.1' 1IATTOX, A. lun Southern Railway -!! "" U ' The Dlrd That Tell. The military man walked nervously back and forth till his spurs jingled like sleighbells. Stopping abruptly be fore the woman who had confronted film, he asked: "How do you know all these things about my past?" - "A little bird told me."' " 'Sdeathr he hissed. "Another round robin r Washington Star. UNCLE SAM'S HOT BATHS. The Hot Springs of Arkansas. Via. SoutnenBailway. Will eradicate from your system the lingering effects of grip and other ailments caused by the severe winter, and malaria, rheumatism, neuralgia, catarrh, stomach, kid ney, liver and nervous disorders. paralysis, blood and skin diseases, and chronic and functional de rangements. The mountain cli mate of Hot Springs is cool and. delightful in summer. 100 hotels open the year around. , For illustrated literature, con taining all information, address C. F. Cooley, Manager Business Men's League, Hot Springs, Ark. - For reduced excursion tickets and Darticulars of the triD. see local agent or address W. A. Turk, Gen'l Pass. Agt., Southern By., Washington. D. C. Richmond. Ya June 10. 1808. Goosx Grx ask Liniment Co.,Gbiin3boroNC. : Dxab Sib Some time ago you sent me one dozen bottles of Goose Grease Liniment to be used in our stable amongst our horses, and we beg to state that we have used this exclnsirely since receiving it, and would state frankly that we hare never had anything that save us as good satisfaction. We hare used it on Cuts, Bruises, Sore Necks. Scratches and nearly every disease a horse can have and it has worked charms. We need more at once. Please let me know if you have it put up in any larger bottles or any larger packages than the ones sent us and also prices. ours truly. SIA DAKD OIL COMPACT. Jij J.C. West. 1 IX EFFKCT DKCEM BK rbasis This condensed schedule-is formation and is subject to notice to the public. Trains leare Greensboro, N..C. 7.-06 a. jn.-0. 3? asuy, ,T . . ; western Limited loramnuur. (f Orleans and Connects Savannah Pullman SleeH asii'ssft -- . : j,wra all H.irt xth n; .M"-"r.a atCharhttc for u..nn.i - . 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