Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-31

| are in a fret and a frown FOR fear the
price will 90 down. You do not buy
the goods using your best discretion in
the matter, and her say; 80 Lord! I
have done the best / could; | commit
this whole transaction into thy hands
That is what religion is good for, or it
is good for nothing.
There are two things. says an old
proyerb, yon ought not to fret about:
First, things that you can help; and
second, things which you cannot help.
If you a help them. why do you not
apply the remedyp if you cannot help
them, you might as well surrender first
as last. My dear brethren, do not sit
any longer moping about your ledger.
DO not sit looking so Responding upon
your stock of unsaleabie 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 debt
ors may abscond. althoug your securi-
ties may fail, although your store may
burn, God will, out of an iniinity of re-
suits, choose for you the
VERY BEST RESULTS.
Do not have any idea tina: you can over
step the limit that God has laid down
for your prosperity. You Will never
get one inch beyond it. God has de-
cided how much prosperity you al
stand honorably, and employ usefully,
and control righteously; and at the end
of 1886 you will have just so many dol
lars and cents, just so much wardrobe.
just so much furniture, just so many
bonds and mortgages, 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 He is
going to bless you in time, and bless
you for eternity; but he will do it in the
best way.
Your little child says: Papa. | wish
YOU would let me have that knife"
No" YOU say, III is n share knife
and you will cut yourself HE says:
Il must have it," But you cannot
have it, YOU reply. He gets angry
and red in the face, and says he will
have it; bat You say he shall
not have it. Are you not kind in keep
inc it from him? So God treats His
children. / say: Il wish, heavenly
Father. to get that God says: mo,
my child" ! say: al must have it."
God says: you a not have it,"
get angry and say: Il will have it."
God SAYS: You shall not have it,
and | do not get it. Is he not kind and
loving and the
BEST OF F~ATHERSo
DO you tell me there is no rule and
regulation in these thingsp 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
90 ont 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. Per-
haps | 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 to be going wrong. He
says: II I'm going to take possession
of this buslness-you know | never
surrendered It; and h~enceforth con-
slider yourselves subordinates." Is he
not right IN doing it? He saves the
business. The LORD seems to let US 90
on in life, guided by our own skill, and
we make miserable work of it. God
nnnNns Inyy,, a., n,,r chn,, on Ctnra nnJ
says: Things are gong wrong,
come TO take charge. | am master
and | know what is best, and | pro-
claim my authority" We are merely
su~bordinates.
1t is like a boy at school with a long
sum that he cannot do. He has been
working at il for hours, making figures
here and rubbing ont figures there, and
it is all mixed up; and the teacher,
looking owe the boys shoulder, knows
that he cannot get ont of it, and cleaL-
ing the slate, says: Begin again"
just so God does to us. Our affairs get
into an inextricable ENHANCEMENT, and
He rubs everything out and says: BE
gin again. Is He not wise and loving
in so doing?
| think the trouble is, that there is so
large u difference between the divine
and the human estimate as to what is
enough, have heard of people striv-
ing for that which "a enough, but ]
never heard of any one who had
enough. What God calls enough for
man, man calls too little. What MAJ
calls enough,
@ SAY
Is too much. The difference between
a poor man and a rich man is only the
difference 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, while the
poor man comes mp and makes his in
vestments in the bank of Him who runs
all the quarries, all the gold, all the
earth, all heaven. Do you think a man
can fail when he is backed up like
that?
l 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 gar
ment hold Out a little longer with
whom the great question is not which
ia the best investment OF the most lucra-