Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-19


/ Goods. using your best discretion IN the mat
ter, and then say: 80 Lord. have done me
rt--t Cpuit; com "1it tins whole trfnodcilnill
iuio thy bands" That is what religion Is aood
for, or 10 is good for nothin :.
There are TWO things, saws an Old proycro,
you ought not 10 az sb VI: First, things mat
. youcan hep; and second, things when yod
. CanuOt help. II you can help them, Why q ,
Won not epply the TemetvS II you cannot
/ help them you might az well surrender nrst as
last. u ne, brethren. do not SIT any iohg aF
. mouing about YOUR ledger. Do not slt loohlng
J ode bonding upon your stock OF un-dltaJ.e
. goods DO Won think that God rs gong 10
. allow you, q Christian U&n. 10 40 Guslac-
/ alone2 God IS The controlling partner IN
every firm; and although vonr doctors may
. a0Acoud although YOUR securltles may IAN,
! although your store may burn, God VIII,
ont Of an inGni-y o. results, choose
/ for you the very best results. DO
not have any idea that you can over
step the limit INST God has Lard down for your
urpsprrlty You VIII never get one inch be-
/ yOud il. God has decided how much prosper
/ ity You can stand honorable, and employ u-e-
I fully, and control righteOusly; and ut the end
/ Of $50 you viii have just 50 many dollars ana
1 cents. Just so much wardrobe, Jast so much
/ furniture lust so many bonds and mortgages.
and nothing more. l will give you one nun
( dred dollars for every penny beyond that.
God has looked over YOUR life. He knows
what IS best for you. and He is going to bless
you in time, and bless YOU Tor eternity; ana
II will do it in tine best way.
Your little child says: Para / wish you
would let me have that knife" NO" you
say, 1T Is sharp knife and you VIII cut YOUR
sell He SAYS: u must have it," But you
cannot have it, you reply. lie sets angry
and red in the face and says he Will have ~;
but you say ne shall not have it. Are you not
kind in keeping II from HIM So God treats
his children. say:"I wish. heavenly Father,
to get that" God says: NO, my child"
say: II must have it, God says; You can
not have it." get angry and say; 81 VII
nave it," God SAYS: "Iou shall not have it,
and DO not get it. Is he not kind and loving
and the best of FathersY Do YOU tell me
there is no rule and regulation in these things
| Tel that to the men who believe IN no God
and no Bible. Tell it not 30 me.
A man Of large business concludes to go out
OF his store, leaving much Of his investments
IN the business, and he says to his sons: "Now,
| am going to leave this business in your
hands. Perhaps may come back in a little
while and perhaps not. While / am gone
you viii please to look after affairs After
awhile The father comes back and finds every
JhIns at loose ends, and the whole business
seems to he going wrong. lie says: II am
going TO take possession of this buslnesS-gou
know never fully surrendered 1T; and hence
forth consider yourselves subordluates." Is
ne not right IN doing itT He saves the bust
ness The Lord seems to let us 60 IN life,
guided BY our own skill, and we make mis-
cradle work OF 1t. God comes down to our
shop or our store, and says: Things are GO
ing wrong. come to take charge ! am mas
ter and know what is best, and proclaim
nv authority" We are merely subordlnates.
1t Is like a boy at school with long sum
that he cannot do. He mas been working at il
for hours, making figures here and rubbing
out figures there, anu IL is all mixed up; and
the teacher, looking over the boys shoulder,
knows that he cannot get out of it, and clean
ing the slate, says: Begin again" Just so
God does to us. Our affairs get into an mex
tricable ENHANCEMENT, and He rubs every
thing out and says: Begin again. Is He not
wise and loving IN 50 doing?
| think tSe trouble Is, that there IS so large
q difference between the divine and the
human estimate "a to what is enough. have
heard Of people striving for that which Is
enough, but | never heard of anyone who had
enough. What God calls enough for man,
man calls too little. What man calls enough,
God says Is too much. The difference be-
tween poor man and a rich man is only the
difference in hanks. The rich man puts his
money the Nassau Bank, or the Park Bank,
or Fulton Bank, or some other bank OF that
character, while the poor man comes up and
makes his investments in the bank OF lin
who runs all the quarries. all the mines. all
the gold, all the earth, all heaven. Do you
think man can fail when he is backed up
like that
want to bring this truth close up to the
heart of those people in this audience who
have to calculate rigid economy, who are per
picked how they Will make the old garme Mt
hold out little longer, with whom the great
question is not winch is the best investment
or The I}l-~@t lucrative security. but how shall
| make the two ends meet? To such people |
bring the coincidence OF this Christian truth.
You NAV nave seen q map on WnlCD Is Ue-
fcribed, with red INK, the travels of the chill
dren Of Israel through the desert to the
promised land. You see how they took this
and that direction, crossed the river and went
through the sea. DO you know God has made
a map of your life with paths leading up to
this bitterness and that success, through This
river and across that sea? but, blessed he
God the path always comes out at the prom
ised land. Mark that! Mark that!
l remark again: That all those things that
seem to be but accidents in our life are
under the divine supervision. We sometimes
seem to be going hemless and anchOrless. \ GU
say: elf had some other trade: If had not
gone there this summer; if | had lived in
some other house," You have no right TO say
that. Every tear you wept, every step you
have taken, every burden you have carried,
is under divine inspection, and that event
which startled your whole household with
horror, God met with perfect placidity, be-
cause lie knew it was for your good. 1t was
part of q great plan projected long ago. In
eternity, when you come to reckon up your
mercies, You viii point to that aflliction as
o OF your greatest blessings. God has a
strange way with us. Joseph found his way
TO the Prime Minister'S chair by being pushed
into pit; and to many Christian down is
up. The wheat must be failed; the quarry
must be blasted; the diamond must be
ground; the Christian must be afflicted; and
that single event, which you supposed stood
entirely alone, was n connecting nix between
two great chains. one chain reaching through
all eternity past, and the other chain reach
event fastening two eternities together.
a missionary, coming from India to the
/ United states, stopped at ST. Helena while
| the vessel was taking water. He had his lit
/ tie child with him. They walked along by an
! cmbankmeut, ana a rock at that moment be-
! came loosened and, falling instantly. killed
| the child. W as 1t an accident? Was it a sur
| prise TO God? Had lie allowed his servant,
after a life Of conservation, to come to such a
! trial? Not such is my God. There are nc
| accidents in the Irvine mind, though they
| NAV seem so TO us. Col is good, and by every
single incident OF our life, whether il he ad
| verse or otherwise. before earth and heaven
| God will demonstrate His mercy.
hear man say: ''That idea belttlcs God
You bring III m down to such little things
O! have a more thorough appreciation o
| God in little things than | have in grea
/ things. The mother does not wait until thu
| child has mashed it's foot or broken lts arm be
| fore she administers sympathy. The chill,
comes in with the least brulse, and the m0thci
| kisses IT.. God does not wait for some tire
| mendous crisis IN our life, but comes down t
| us in our most insignificant trials, and throw
over us the arms OF His mercy.
Gong up the White Mountains some year
! ago, | thought of that passage IN the Blbl
| that peaks OF God as weighing mountains il
Z "a balance. AS looked at those great noun
tains, | thought can II be possible that God cal
| an idea too great for me to grasp; but when
| saw blue bell down by the mules foot. oi
my wa up Mount Washington, then under
| stood the Kindness and goodness OF Goa. |
| is not so much Of God in great things car
understand but Of God in little things.
There is u man who saws: That doctrine
cannot be true. because things do so so vel