Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-19
WHEEIING W. VA, MONDAY MORNING. july 49, 1886.

friends! Every man, if he has behaved
himself we'll, is surrounded by three cir
cles of fiends-those of the outer circle
wishing him we'll; those in the next circle
willing to help him; while close up to his
heart are a few who would die for him.
God pity the wretch who has not any
friends! He has not behaved well.
l remark again: That
GOD PUTS DOWN THE LIMIT
to our temporal prosperity. The world of
finances seems TO have no God in it. You
cannot tell where man will land. The
affluent fall; the poor rise The ingenious
fail; the ignorant succeed An enterprise
openly grandly shuts in bankruptcy, while
out OF the peat dug up in some New Eng
land marsh the millionaire builds his for
tune. The poor man thinks it is chance
that keeps him down; the rich man thinks
it is chance which hoists him; and they are
both wrong 1t is so hard to realize that
God rules the money market, and has a
hook in the nose of the stock gambler, and
that all the commercial revolutions of the
world shall result in the very best for
Gods dear children. My brethren, do not
kick against the divine allotments. God
knows Just how much money it is hest for
you TO lose. You never gain unless il is
best for you to gain. You 90 up when it is
best for you to 90 up, and 80 down when il
is best for you TO 90 down. Prove il, you
say. will: Romans viii, %: "All things
work together for good to them that love
God" You 90 into factory and you see
twenty or thirty wheels, and they are go
ing in different directions. This hand
is rolling off this way, and another
hand another way; one down and
another up. You say: What confusion
in a factory o, no all these different
hands are only different parts Of the ma
chinery So go into your life and see
strange things. Here is one providence
pulling you one way, and another in an
other way. But these are different parts
of one machinery by which lie will advance
your everlasting and present well-being.
Now YOU know that second mortgage,
and a third and fourth mortgage, is often
worth nothing. 1t is the first mortgage
that is a good investment. | have To tell
you that every Christian man has first
mortgage on every trial. and on every dis
aster, and it must make payment of
eternal advantage TO his soul. How many
worriments it would take out of your
heart, if you believed that fully. You
buy goods and hope the price will 90 up,
but you are in fret and frOwn for fear
the price will 90 down. You do not buy
the goods using your best discretion in the
matter, and then say: 20 Lord! ! have
done the best | could; commit this whole
transaction into thy hands. That's what
religion is good for, or it is good for moth
ing.
There are
two THINGS,
says an old proverb you ought not 10 fret
about: First, things that You can help;
and second, things which YOU cannot help.
If You can help them, why do you not al'-
ply the remedy? if You cannot help them,
you might aS well surrender first as last.
NV dear brethren, do not sit any longer
moping about your ledger. DO not sit
any looking 50 dcSpOnding upon stock OF
unstable goods. Do you think that God
is going to allow you, a Christian man, To
do business alone? God is the controlling
PARTNER in every firm; and although your
debtors may abScOnd, although your sccu-
rites may fail, although your store may
burn, God will, out of an iniInity results,
choose for you the very best results. DO
not have any idea that you can over
step the limit that God has laid down for
your prosperity You will never get one
inch beyond it, God has decided how
much prosperity you can stand hOnorably,
and employ usclully, and control righte-
Ously; and at the end of lSS6 You Will
have inst 80 many dollars and cents. just
so much wardrobe, Just 80 mucn furniture,
Just so many bonds and mortgages, and
nothing more. will give you one hun
drcd 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 for ctcr-
nity; and He will do it
IN THE BEST WAY.
Your little child says: Papa, wish
YOU would let me have that knife mo, "
YOU say, lit is a sharp knife and you will
cut Yourself" He says: Il must have it. "
But you cannot have it, " you reply. lie
gets angry and red in the face, and says he
will have it; but you say he shall not have
it. Are you not kind in keeping it from
him? SO God treats his children. say:
Il wish, heavenly Father. 10 get that. "
God says: "No, my child. | say: Il
must have it," God says: "Iou cannot
have it," get angry and say: IL will
have it," God says: lyon shall not have
il, and do not get it. Is he not kind
and loving and the hest Of Fathers? do
Won tell me there is no rule and regulation
in these things? Tell that TO the men who
believe in no God and no Bible. Tell it
not to me.
A man of large business concludes to go
out of his store, leaving, much of his in
vestments 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 will please to
look after affairs After awhile the father
comes back and finds everything at loose
ends, and the whole business seems 10 be
going NTulEs Ilt ~ - aiii SoihS VI
take possession of this business; you know
never fully surrendered it; and hence.
forth consider yourselves subOrdinates.
Is he not right in doing it? He saves the
business. The Lord seems to let us go on
in life. guided by our own skill, and We
make miserable work Of it. God come
down TO our shop or our store, and says:
Things are going wrong. come to take
charge. / am master and know what is
best, and proclaim my authority We
are merely subordinates.
1t is like 10Y at school with long
sum that he cannot do. He has been work
ing at it for hours, making figures here and
rubbing them out there, and is all mixed
up. and the teacher, looking over the boys
shoulder, knows that he cannot get out OF
it, and cleaning the slate says: Begin
again" Just 80 God says to us. Our az
fairs get into an inextricable ENHANCEMENT
and he rubs everything out and says:
Begin again" Is He not wise and loving
in 50 doing?
think the trouble is that there is
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