The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-09

| directs US and we know it not. Thousands of
! years are to Him as the fight of shuttle. The
most terrific occurrence does not make God
| tremble. The most triumphant achievement
does not lift Him into rapture. The great
| thought of God goes out through the centuries,
and nations rise and fall, and eras pass and the
world changes, but God still keeps the undi-
vided mastery linking event to event and
story the propriety Of laying up for the future.
During the seven years Of plenty
Joseph prepared for the famine,
and when it came he had crowded
store-house. The life Of most men in worldly
respect is divided into years of plenty and fam
inc. 1t is seldom any man passes through life
without at least seven years of plenty. Dur
ing those seven years your business bears
rich harvest You hardly know where all the
money comes from. it comes so fast. Every
bargain you make seems to turn into gold. You
contract few bad debts. You are astonished
with large dividends. You invest more and
more capital. You wonder how men can be
content with a small business gathering In only
few hundred dollars while you reap thousands.
Those arc the seven years of plenty. Now
Joseph has time to prepare for famine for to
almost every man there do come seven years Of
famine. You will be sick, you will be unfortun-
ate, you will be defrauded, there will be hard
times, you will DE disappointed. and if you have
no store house upon which to fall back you may
be famine-struck. We have no admiration for
this denying ones self all personal comfort and
luxury for the mere pleasure of boarding up this
grasping, grasping for the mere pleasure OF
seeing how large pile you can get; this always
being poor because as soon as dollar comes in it
is sent out TO if it find another dollar, so
that it can carry it home on its back. We have
contempt for all these things, but there is an
intelligent and noble minded forecast which we
love to see in men who have families and kin
dred depending upon them for the blessings Of
education and home. God sends to the in
sects for lesson. which, while they do not stint
themselves in the present do not forget their
duty to forecast the future. go to the ant,
thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:
which, having no guide, overseer or ruler, pro-
videth her meat in the summer, and gathereth
her food in the harvest" Now, there are two
ways OF laying up money. One OF these is to
put it in stock and deposit it in bank, and invest
it on bond and mortgage. The other way to lay
up money is giving 1T away he is the safest
who makes both of these investments. There
| are in this house men who, if they lose every
dollar they have in the world would be million
aires for eternity. They made the spiritual in
vestment; but the man who deyotes none of his
gains to the cause of Christ and looks only for
his own comfort and luxury is not safe, l care
not how the money is invested. He acts as the
rose if it should say: Il will hold my breath,
| and none shall have snatch of fragrance from
me until next week, and then | will set all the
garden afoat with aroma" OF course the rose,
| refusing to breathe, died. But above all, lay up
| treasures in heaven They never depreciate in
value. They never are at a discount They
are always available You may feel safe now
with your l000 50 O00 or $l0,0 900, or 500, 900
income, but what will such an income be
worth after you are deadl Others will get it.
Perhaps some of them will quarrel about it be
! fore you are buried. They will be so impatient
to get hold of the will they will think you should
be buried one day sooner than you are buried.
They will be right glad when you are dead.
They are only waiting for you to die. What
then will oil your earthly accumulations be
worth! Ii you gathered it all in your bosom and
walked up with it to heavens gate it would not
| purchase your admission. Or if allowed to enter
| it could not buy you crown a robe, and the
| poorest saint in heaven would look down at you
and say Where did that pauper come FROM
| May we all have treasures in heaven. Amen!