RELIGION IN BUSINESS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 30, 1869

RELIGION IN BUSINESS.

The North British Review says:—“The pressing need of our faith is not simply faithful evangelists to proclaim its doctrines, but legions of men consecrating their worldly vocations, witnessing to that truth on which much skepticism prevails, that Christianity, so received as to become an integral part of a man, is omnipotent to keep him from the evil, not by taking him out of the world, but by making him victorious over it. He is a most worthy disciple of Christ, who, like Palissy, or Buxton, or Budgett, or Perthes, exhibits religion as ‘the right use of a man's whole self,’—as the one thing which gives dignity and nobility to what is in itself sordid and earthly—as the main-spring of earnest and successful strivings after loftier ends and a purer life—as the power outside of and within man, which, lifting up conduct in the individual, raises the community—and not as a state of mind mystical, and in active life unattainable, high up among things intangible, separated from contact with work-a-day life, appropriate to Sabbath days and special hours, to leisure, old age, and death-beds. Every man who is ‘diligent in business, serving the Lord,’ is a sermon brimful of the energies of life and truth, a witness to the comprehensiveness and adaptability of Christ's religion, a preacher of righteousness in scenes where none can preach so effectively or so well.”—Sel.