Christianity Aids Success
By C. M. Cobern
“CAN a man succeed in business if he conducts his business on Christian principles?”—Yes; he can succeed in no other way. The Bible agrees with common experience in teaching that the chances of success in business are not decreased, but largely increased, if a man carries his religion into his business—and his accumulations are apt to stay in the family longer. Integrity has a commercial value. A man who has a reputation of being an honest man and a true Christian has a better chance of getting on his feet again when he falls down. The man who lives according to Bible rules will be temperate, frugal, prompt, energetic, “diligent in business.” He will not speculate with other people’s money, nor use his own in gambling and dissipation. He will be free from the “moral cracks” through which so many fortunes leak away. He will be courteous and considerate of those whom he employs, or will attend to his employer’s interests as if they were his own. The fact is, as somebody has said, “God Almighty has fixed things in this world so that it pays to do right.” Righteousness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.—Rev. C. M. Cobern, D. D.