Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-08-06

done the best l could; commit this whole
transaction into Thy hands, That Is what
religion sgood for, or it is good for nothing.
There are two things, says an old proverb.
YOU ought not to fret about: First, things
that you can help; aud, second, things
which you can not help. If you can help
them. why do you not apply the remedyl II
you can not help them, you might as vel
surrender first as last Nv dear brethren.
do no sit any longer mOping about yof
ledger. Do not sit looking so deSpoiding
upon your stock of unstable goods Do YOU
think that God is going to allow you, Chris
tan man, to do business alonei God is the
contro ling FARMER in every firm: and
although your debtors may abscond, although
your securities may fail, although your store
may burn, God will, out of an inhnity OF re
suits, choose for you the very best results
Do not have any idea, that you can overstep
the limit that God has laid down for your
pros 3erity. You will never get one inch DO
You'd it. God has decided how much pros
perity you can stand h0norably, and employ
usefully, ard control riyhteously; and at the
end Of 1886 you will have Just so many dollars
and cents, Just so much wardrobe. just sc
much furniture, Just SO many bonds and
mortgages, and nothing more l will give
you 500 for every Jenny beyond that God
has looked over your life He knows what
is best for you, and He is going TO bless you
in tine and bless you for eternity; and He
will do it in the best way.
Your little child says: Papa, I wish you
would let me have that knife y "No,n you
say, 1T is sharp knife. and you will cut
yourself" He says: 81 must have it y But
you can not have it," you reply. He gets
angry and red in the face, and says h WI
have it, but you say he shall not have it.
Are you not kind in keeping it from hims So
God treats His children. | say: 81 wish,
Heavenly Father, to get that" God says:
mo, my chilli" l say; 81 must have it.h
God says: "You can not have itn l get
angry and say; 81 will have it." God says:
You shall not have it.n And 1 do not get
it Is He not kind and loving apd the best of
fathers2 Do you tell me there is no rule and
regulation in these thtngs' Toll that 10 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 invest
ments in the business, and he says to his
sons snow, l am going to leave this bust
ness in your hands Perhaps l may come
ba k in 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 to he going wrong.
ne says: II am going TO take possession or
this business-you know / never fully sur
rendered it; and henceforth consider your
selves subordinates. Is he not right in doing
itf 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. Col comes down to our
shop or our store and says: Things are 60
ing wrong; come to take charge. | am mas
ter. and know what is best, and proclaim
my authority" We are merely subordi-
mates. 1t is like boy at school with
long sum that he cannot do. He has been
working at it for hours, making figures here
and rubbing out figures there, and it i, all
mixed up; and the teacher, looking over thu
boys shoulder, knows that he cannot get out
Of it, and cleaning the slate, says: "Begin
again. Just so God does to us. Our affairs
got into an inextricable ENHANCEMENT, and
He rubs everything out and says: "Be gin
againN Is He not vie and loving i'll so
dong!
l think the trouble IL that tS.ere Is so large
a difference between the Divine and the human
estimate as to what is enough. l have heard
of people striving for that which is enough,
but lnever heard of any one who hai enough
What God calls enough for man, man calls
too little. What man calls enough, God says
is too much The difference between poor
man and rich man is only the dIlferen @ in
banks. The rich man puts his money in the
Nassau Bank, or the Park Bank, or Fulton
Bank, or some other bank of that character,
WnllG lLS pOOI Illtlu COlilGo Ip anu luuhco HIS
investments in the bank of Him who runs u
the quarries, ell the mines, all the goll, ali
the Garth, all heaven. % you think man
can fail when he is bake Up like that,
want to bring this truth close up to the
heart of those people i'll this audience who
have to calculate rigid economy, who are
perplexed how they will make tae old gar
great question is not which is the best invest
ment or the most lucrative security, but how
Shall l make the two ends meetl To such
people bring the con lolence Of this Chris.
tian truth
You may have seen a map on which is do
scribed, 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 map of your life, with paths lead
ing up to this bitterness and that success,
through this river and across that seal But,
blessed be Godl the path always comes out
at the Promised Land. Mark that Mark
that!
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 helmless and anchorless. You
say: eff l had some other trade; if l 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 car
ried, is under Divine inspection, and that
event which startled your whole household
with horror, God met with perfect placidity,
because he knew it was for your good. 1t
was part of a great plan projected long
ago. In eternity, when you come to
reckon up your mercies, you will point to
thai affection as one of your greatest bless
ings. God has 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 dia-
mond must be ground; the Christian must be
afflicted and that single event. which you
sIpposel stood entirely alone, was connect
ing link between two great chains, one chain
reaching through all eternity past and the
other other chain reaching through all eter-
nifty future SO small an event fastening two
sternities 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 will him. They walked along by an
embankm9nt and rock at that moment be-
came loosened, ami falling instantly killed
the child Was it an accident! Was it
surprise to God? Had He allowed His servant,
after a life Of conservation, to come to such
trial? Not such is my Col There are no
accidents in the divine mind, though they
may seem so to us. God is good end by
every single incident of our life, whe her it
be adverse or otherwise, before earth and
Heaven God VIII demonstrate His mercy.
Il hear man say: THAT idea beittles
God. You bring Him down to such little
things" Oh! | have more thorough ap-
pre- iltion OF God il little things than 1 have
in great things The mother does not wa
until the child has mashed its foot or broken
its arm before she admin stars sympathy.
The child comoi in with the least bruise aud
the mother kisses it. Col does net wait for
some tlem9u Gus crisis in our life but comes
down to Us in our most insignificant trials,
an throws over us the arms of His mercy.
Gong up the White Mountains some years
ago | thought OF that passage in the Bible
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