Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-29

transaction into thy handsn That Il wha
religion is good for, or II is good for nothing.
There are two things, says an old proyerb
| you ought not to fret about; First, thing
that you can help; and second, things which
a mot app he Tsed aS nf y yos
help them. YOU might as well surrender first
as last Ny dear bretherD do not sit any long
err moping about your ledger. Do not sil
looking SO Responding. upon your unstable
| goods. Do YOU think that God Is going to al.
low you, Christian man, to do business
alonci God IS the controlling partner In
every firm; and although your debtors may
abscond, although your securities may fail,
although your store may burn, God will, out
OF an infnity Of results choose for you the
very best results.
THE LORD KNOWS WHAT Is BEST.
Do not have any idea that you can overstep
the limit that God has laid down for your
prosperity. You will never get one inch be.
yond 1t. God has decided how much pros
perity you can stand honorably and employ
usefully, and control righteously; and at the
end of 1886 you will have just as many dollars
and cents, just so much wardrobe, just so
much furniture, just so many bonds and mort.
Cages, and nothing more. will give you one
hundred dollars for every penny beyond that.
God has looked over your life. He knows
what is best for you, and lie is going to bless
you In time, and bless you for eternity; and
He will do 1t in the best way
Your little child says: Papa, l wish you
would let me have that knife. "Mo," you
say: ut is q sharp knife and you viii cut
yourself" He says: II must have it." 'But
you cannot have it," you reply. lie gets an
cry and red In the face and says he win have
1t; but you say he shall not have it, Are you
not kind in keeping 1t from hima So God
treats his children. / say: II wish, heavenly
II must have It." God says: f'You shall not
have 1t, " and do not get it. Is He not kind
and loving and the best Of Fathersl Do you
tell me there Is no rule and regulation in
these things! Tell that to the men who be-
lieve in no God and no Bible. Tell 1t not to
me.
A man Of large business concludes to go out
of his store, leaving much of his investment
In the business, and he says to his sons :
snow, / am going 10 leave this business in
your hands. Perhaps may come back in a
little while, and perhaps not. While l am
gone you will please look after affairs" After
awhile the father comes back and finds every
thing at loose ends, and the whole business
seems to be going wrong He says: II am
going to take possession of this business-you
know never fully surrendered it; and hence
forth consider yourselves suboriinates.n Is
he not right In doing It'll He saves the bust
ness. The Lord seems to let us go on in life,
guided by our own skill, and we make misera-
BILE work Of it. God comes down to our shop
or our store, and says: Things are going
wrong, come to take charge. / am master
and know what is best aud / proclaim nv
authority" We are merely subordinates.
THE GREAT GOOD INSTRUCTOR
1t is like boy at school with a long sum
that he cannot do. He has been working at it
for hours, making figures here and rubbing out
figures there, and it 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. "Begiu again" just so
God does to us. Our affairs get into an mex
trlcable ENHANCEMENT, and He rubs everything
out and says "Begin againr' Is He not wise
and loving in SO doingl
think the trouble Is, that there is so large
difference between the divine and the human
estimate as to what is enough. ] have heard
of people striving for that which is enough,
but have never heard of any one who had
enough. What God calls enough for man,
God says is too much. The difference between
poor man and rich man is only the differ
ence in banks The rich man puts his money
in the Nassau bank or the Park bank, or Full
ton bank, or some other bank Of that charac-
ter. while the poor man comes up and makes
his investment in the bank of Him who runs
all the quarries. all the mines, all the gold, all
the earth, all the heaven. Do you think a
man can fail when he is backed up like that'
/ want 10 bring this truth close up to the
heart of those people in this audience who
have to calculate rigid economy, who are now
peTpleNeu now tnel Will make lle Olu EdrlilenL
hold out little longer, with whom the great
question is not which is the best investment
or the most lucrative security, but how shall
make the two ends meet. To such peO-
pie | bring the coincidence of the Christian
truth.
You may have seen map on which is de-
scribed, with red ink, the travels of the chill
dren of Israel through the desert to the Prom
ised Land. You see how they took this and
that direction, crossed the river and went
through the sea. Do you know God has made
map Of your life with paths leading up to
this bitterness and that success, through this
river and across that seal But blessed be
God' the path always comes out at the Prom
ised Land. Mark that! Mark that!
NO SUCH THINGS AS ACCIDENTS.
1 remark again that all those things that
seem to be accidents in our life are under d.
vine supervision. We sometimes seem to be
going helmless and snchorless You say: 'lf
| had some other trade; if | had not gone
there this summer; If had lived in some 9TH
er house" You have no right to say that. Ev-
ery tear you have wept, every step you have
taken, every burden you have carried, is I'M
der divine inspection, and that event which
startled your whole household with horror
God met with perfect placdity because he
knew it was for your good. 1t was part of
great plan projected long ago. In eternity,
when you come to recken up your mercies,
you will point to your siiiiction as one of your
greatest blessings. God has strange way
with us.
Joseph found his way to the prime minister's
chair by being pushed into pit, and to many
a Christian down is up The wheat must be
failed, the quarry must be blasted, the dia-
mond must be ground, the Christian must be
afflicted, and that single event which you sup
posed stood entirely alone, was connecting
link between two great chains, one chain
reaching through ell eternity past and the
other chain reaching through all eternity
,ftNrrt r1rS, atat
mites together.
A missionary coming from India to the
United States stopped at st. Helena while the
vessel was taking water He had his little
child with him. They walked along by an en-
bankn.ent and rock at that moment became
loosened and falling instantly killed the child.
Was it an accident! Was 1t a surprise to Godi
Had He allowed his servant after a life OF con-
secration, to come to such q trial! Not such
Is my God. There are no accidents in the
divine mind, though they may seem so to u.s.
God is good, and by every single incident Of
our life, whether it be adverse or otherwise,
before earth and heaven, God will demonstrate
his mercy.
LITTLE THINGS SPEAK LoUDEsT.
hear a man say: THAT idea belittles God
You bring him down to such little things"
o, have a more thorough appreciation Of God
in little thing than | have in great things
The mother does not wait until the child has
mashed its foot or broken its arm before she
administers sympathy. The child comes in
with the least bruise and the mother kisses IT,
God does not wait for some tremendous crisis
in our life, but comes down to us in our most
insignificant trials and throws over US the
arms Of his mercy.
Going up the White mountains some years
ago | thought of that passage in the Bible that
speaks Of God as weighing mountains in a
balance. AS | looked at those great mount
aims ] thought can 1t be possible that God
can put these great mountains in scalesa 1t
was an idea too great for me to grasp, but
when ! saw blue-bell down by the mules
foot on my way up to Mount Washington, then
/ understood the kindness and goodness of
God. 1t is not so much of God in great things
that | can understand, but of God in little
things.
There Is man who says: THAT doctrine
cannot be true because things do go so very
wrong" reply, 1t is no inconsistency on the
part Of God, but lack Of understanding on
our part. l hear that men are making some
very fine shawls in some factory. 90 in on
the first floor and see only the raw materials,
and l ask: "Are these the shawls / have
heard aboutf' mo, says the manufacturer,
Ego up to the next floor" And ! 20 up, and
there begin to see the design. But the man
says: ''Do not stop here; go up to the tor
floor of the factory, and you will see the idea
fully carried out" ! do so, and, having come
to the top, see the complete pattern of an ex.