Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-19

crisis who sympathlzed with you aud
helped you. 70 say How lucky !
WASH There was no luck about II. God
sent that friend just ss certain as He sent
the angel to strengthen Christ. Your
domestic friends, your business friends,
your Christian friends, God sent them to
bless you, snd II anyof them have proved
traitorous 1t In only to bring ont the
value OF those who remain. II some die
1t is only that they may stand at the out
post Of heaven
TO GREET you AT YOUR COMING.
You always will have friends-warm-
hearted friends, magnanimous friends;
and when sickness comes to your dwell
Ing, there will be watchers; when trouble
comes to your heart, there will be sympa-
thizers; when death comes, there will be
gentle fingers to close the eyes and fold
the hands, and gentle lips to tell OF a
resurrection. Oh, we are comprised by
a bodyguard OF friends Every man, II
he has behaved himself we'll, is sur
rounded by three circles of friends
those Of the outer circle wishing him
well; those IN the rext 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 friendsl He
has not behaved we'll
l remark agaiD, that God puts down
the limit to our temporal prosperity. The
world OF finance seems TO have no God
In 1t. You cannot tell where man will
land The aflluent fall the poor rise.
The ingenious fail; the ignorant succeed.
An enterprise opening grandly shuts In
bankruptcy, while ont of the peat dug up
from some New England marsh the mill
ionaire builds his fortune. The poor
man thinks IL Is chance that keeps him
down; the rich man thinks 1t Is chance
which holsts him; aud they are both
wrong, II 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 1t is
best for you to lose. You never gain un.
less IL is best for you 10 gain. You 20 up
when 1t is best for you to 90 up, and 90
down when II is best for you to go down.
Prove II, you say. | will: Romans viii,
80; GAN things work together for good
to them that love God.n You 90 into a
factory and you see twenty or thirty
wheels, and they are going In different d.
rections. This hand Is rolling of this
way, and another hand another way; one
down and another up. You say: "What
confusion In factorY" o, mol all
these different hands are only different
parts of the machinery. SO | go into
your life and see strange things. Here is
one providence pulling you one way, and
another IN another way. But these are
differentparts OF one machinery by which
He will advance your everlasting and
present wellbeing. Now you know that
second mortgage, and third and fourth
mortgage, Is often worth nothing. IL is
the first mortgage that is good invest
mel MT | have to tell you that every
Christian man has FIRST mortgage on
every trial, and on every disaster, and II
must make a payment o1eternal advantage
to his soul How many worriments IL
would take out of your heart, If you be.
lieved that fully. You buy goods and
hope the price will 60 up, but you are in
a fret and frown for fear the price will &C
down. You do not buy the goods using
your best discretion in the matter, ant
then say; 80 Lord | have done tn,
best ! could; commit this whole trans
action into thy hands," That is wha
religion is good for, or
IT Is GOOD toR NOTHING.
| There are two things, says an oil
proverb, that you oughtnot to fret about
First, things that you can help, and, sec
ond, things which you cannot help. |
you can help them, why do you not apply
the remedy If you cannot help them
you might as well surrender first as last
My dear brethren, do not sit any longei
moping about your ledger. Do not ST
looking so Responding upon your stock o
unsaleable goods. Do you think that Goo
Is going TO allow you, a Christian man, Il
do business alone? God is the CONTROL
ing partner in every firm; and although
your debtors may abscond, although you
securities may fail, although your stor,
may burn, God will, out OF an infnity O
results, choose for you the very best re
suits, Do not have any idea that you Cal
overstep the limit that God has laid dow
for your prosperity. You will never ge
one inch beyond 1t. God has decided how
much prosperity you can stand honora
bly,, and employ usefully, and control
righteously; and at the end of 1856 you
will have just 80 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
500 for every penny beyond that. Goo
has looked over your life. He knows
what is best for you and He is going tC
bless you In time, and bless you fol
eternity; and He Will do it in the besi
way.
Your little child says; 'Papa, wish
you would let me have that knife.
mo" you say, ''it is sharp knife and
you will cut Yourself" He says: al
must have it." "But you cannot have
it," you reply. He gets angry and red in
the face, and says he will have It; but
you say he shall not hayeit Are you moi
kind In keeping 1t from him2 SO God
treats His children. / say al wish
heavenly Father, to get that" God says
mo, my child" ] say; al mast have
it," God says "You cannot have it,
! get angry and say; 81 will have it,
! God says; "You shall not have II, !" ant
do not get it. Is he not kind and Low
ing and the best OF fathers? Do you tel
me there is no rule and regulation in