In tile straights of Magellan, I have been
told, there is a place where whichever way
a ship captain puts his ship he finds the
wind against him and there are men who
all their lives have been running in the
teeth of the wind and which way to turn
they do not know. Some ot* them may lie in
this assemblage and I address them face to
face, not perfunctorily, but as one brother
talks to another brother. “Cast thy- burden
upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee.”
There are a great many men who have
business burdens. When w? see a man
harried and perplexed and annoyed in bus
iness life we are apt to say: “He ought
not to have attempted to carry so much ’
Ah! that man may not be to blame at
ali. When a man plants a business he
does not know- what will be its outgrowths;
what will be its roots; what will be its
branches. There is many a man with
keen foresight and large business faculty
who has been flung into the dust by unfore
seen circumstances, springing upon him
from ambush. When to buy, wh.cn to sell,
when to trust and to wh it amount of credit,
what will be the effect of this new in
vention of machinery, what will be the
effect of that loss of crop and a thousand
other questions perplex business men until
the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles are
plowed in the cheek, and th- stocks go up
by mountains and go down by valleys and
they are at their wits’ ends and stagger like
drunken men.
There never has been a time when there
have been such rivalries in business as now.
