At the congress of religions in the World's Fair at Chicago, over three
hundred religions and sects were represented by delegates from all over
the world, and every one of these delegates, with hearty accord, sang,
"Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow" and "Rock of Ages." Those
hymns were universal; they fitted all creeds and sects.
Big men in the church are intensely interested in the get-together
universal church, and each year will mark a definite progress toward
amalgamation of sects and divisions.
There should be no Methodist Church North and Methodist Church South.
There should not be churches like the Congregational and Presbyterian,
whose creeds are identical, the difference being only in the officers.
The country village of 1,000 population has five churches; it should
have only one. The country is full of half-starved preachers and weak,
struggling congregations.
The get-together movement will help religion, and it's going to happen
surely.
45.
Every year the business man goes over his stock, tools, fixtures, and
accounts, and prepares a statement of assets and liabilities so as to
get a fairly accurate understanding of his profit and loss.
If he didn't take this inventory, his net worth would be a matter of
guess work.
This inventory, which deals with money, materials, etc., and things
which are mixed more or less with the human element, is affected by
conditions of trade, crops, competition, supply and demand.
The business man takes all these conditions into consideration in
preparing for the coming year. He red flags the mistakes and green flags
the good plans.
[Sidenote: Self Inventory. Listing the Liabilities.]
The business man should carry the inventory further. Every month or so
he should take a careful inventory of himself, putting down his assets
of health, initiative, patience, ability to work, smiles, honesty,
sincerity, and the like. So also he should put down on the debit side
in the list of liabilities the pull-backs, hindrances and other
business-killers. These items are untruth, unfairness, sharp practice,
grouchiness, impatience, worry, ill-health, gloom, meanness, broken
word, unfilled promises and the like.
In making up the inventory, pay particular attention to your habits:
smoking, drinking, over-eating, useless display, useless social
functions, and other useless things that pull on your nerves and your
pocket book.
Then check up department A, which is your family. How have you dealt
with your family and children?
Department B is friends. How do you stand in your treatment of them?
Department C includes all other persons. Did you lie to, steal from,
cheat or defraud any one? How much cash profit did you make? How much
less a man did the act make you?
Go over your self-respect account. Does it show profit or loss?
Check up your employees' account. What has your stewardship shown? Have
you drawn the employees closer, or have you driven them further from
you?
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