Notes of a sermon preached by the Rev. C. E. Darwent in Union Church, Sunday evening, March 7.
Jeremiah IV. 18. "Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee."
Just a year ago I cut out of one of our local papers couple of singularly interesting columns. I thought them so important and instructive from every point of view—from the points of view of business—-the moral, of the spiritual life of individual and national life, that it would be a shame not to call the attention of every man to them. They are so full of warning and instruction, especially everyone beginning life. The two columns were headed "Records of failures and their causes. An Informative booklet just issued by the Bradstreet Mercantile Agency." I wish I had the booklet, but the gist of it is well given in the paper, and will serve us very well. The business failures in Canada and the United States are given, and their
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.