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had prayed, had found the copy of the Scriptures left. They also found one aged woman who was his convert. They sought to sum up his brief life, and reck oned more than thirteen thousand living converts that had sprung from that life which seemed such a failure.SSiL J. Gor don. Diamonds found in the mud o f Africa now adorn the diadems of princes and merchants, but the workmen who found them are unknown. Stanley, Livingstone! and Bishop Tucker never found, a dia mond all the time they were in Africa, but the immortal souls they rescued from heathenism have transfigured them before the whole world. God honors His work men. September 2, 1928 Will the Golden Rule Work in Business and Industry? Phil. 4:8, 9 (Consecration Meeting) Who is the honest man? ' He that doth still and strongly good pur sue, • To God, his neighbor, and himself most true Whom neither force nor fawning can • Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. ;— Herbert. —o— T houghts on the T opic A striking illustration o f the workabil ity of the Golden Rule in business came to the writer the other day as follows 1 :) A certain wholesale paper firm in Los Angeles discovered two months after an order had been placed by a local printer, that they had undercharged the printer. They called thè printer on the phone ask ing him what could be done about the matter. He replied : “ Send in your bill . for the difference and we will pay it.” About the same time the assistant ' to the manager o f the printing establishment ordered several reams o f paper. Soon after he had placed his order he was called on the phone by this same paper company, and referring to his order, they said : “ If you will change your order from reams [naming the numberjt to pounds, we can let you have several pounds more o f paper for the same price as you would pay for a less quantity when purchased by the ream.” To this the buyer cheerfully consented. “Honesty is the best policy,” is a trite saying which will bear repeating. It is proved in the above illustration. —o— C hoice N uggets A merchant had a rival who sold sweat shop goods at cut prices. The young man’s friends told him, “You will have to do the same or fail.” He replied : “I have taken God as. my partner; if I work as : hard to sell honest goods as the other man does' to sell dishonest goods, God won’t let the firm fail.” The religion o f Christ is the religion of absolute honesty. An Anglo-Indian once gave Alfred Smith, a field secretary for the Young Men’s Christian Association, a
check for one thousand dollars for his work. When doing so, he said: “Your work means money to me. Before you came to India with your missions and Clubhouses, life for a business man was not worth living. Now all is changed. I can go away for weeks knowing that my employees will behave themselves and protect, my interests; whereas before, my clerks stole from me, my foreman lied to me, my workmen fought and quarreled. Every employer o f labor in India will tell you the same story.”— Rev. W. Hart, D.D. Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion o f his business has a business life of no character. The world is God’s workshop; -the raw materials are His.; the ideals and patterns are _Hisrj our hands are “the members of Christ,” our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turn ing its water- into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work.'— Maltbie Babcock. The world expects as much o f honesty and true devotion to humanity from the business man as from the clergyman, doc tor, or teacher. There is more in business than mere dollars and cents.— Dr. Chas. R. Brown. The foundation o f business^ is confi dence, which springs from integrity and fair dealing. Performance or Worship—Which? ("TOD is. not seeking performers but worshipers. He “seeketh such to worship him as do worship him in spirit and in truth.” The Christian should earnestly desire to afford God what He seeks rather than to offer Him some sub stitute for it. The very best we can offer is poor enough and there is such a thing as vain worship, the offering of which is an insult to God. Many “services” impress one as being mere performances. The singing is for the sake o f the piece o f music and the execution; the reading of the Scriptures and the prayers are just a part of the pro gram ; the preaching is a display o f sup posed eloquence or keen logic, or an oc casion to please a certain constituency by exposing somebody else; ».'“breaking bread” is with many a mere form, and contributing all but a farce. The things, in themselves, mentioned above are right things and things to be practiced, but they are too often done in the wrong way. ' Worship is directed to ward an object, and in all true worship that object is God. In worship, the mind must be upon Him. He must be in the thoughts. The soul must be active to ward Him. Indeed we are to be neither spectators nor performers, but worshipers; but oh, “This , people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me!” Angels would not dare to practice such make-believe worship: they “ fall down on their faces and worship God.” “Let us have grace whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.” —Stanford Chambers.
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