The Christian Merchant a Discourse Delivered in the Church of the Divine Unity
The Christian Merchant a Discourse Delivered in the Church of the Divine Unity
Henry W Henry Whitney Bellows
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Honor, uprightness, brotherly kindness, purity and singleness of purpose, moderation and essential superiority to worldly maxims and ambitions these qualities, if they exist in the merchant at all, exist in him in spite of daily trials and temptations. If any man's principles require to be sound to the core, it is his. They do not exist by the forbearance or felicity of circumstances. They are not passive graces. They need to be positive, active, aggressive qualities ; opposing to the perils an...d assaults of his circumstances a rugged and stern resist- ance. As such they are recognized and honored ; and no man occupies a more commanding moral position, displays a more useful character, or wins a more sincere and compulsory reverence, than the Chris- tian Merchant ! And what does the community need so much, what can it so ill spare, as the example of such men 1 My brethren, we have had such an example before us, in a distinguished merchant of this community, and an honored member of this Christian Society, recently departed from among the living.
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