Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-14

| YOU know that a second mortgage and a
third and fourth mortgage, is often worth
nothing. 1t is the first mortgage that is a
1 good investment / have to tell You that
every Christian man has a first mortgage on
every trial and on every disaster, and it must
make payment of eternal advantage to his
l soul
! How many worriments it would take out
of your heart if you believed that fully
You buy goods and hope the price will go up;
but you are in fret and frown for fear the
price will go down. You do not buy the
goods, using your best discretion in the
I matter, and then say: ooh, Lordi l have
I done the best could; 1 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 proverb,
you ought not to fret about: First, things
that you can help; and, second, things
which you can not help. If you can help
! them. why do You not apply the remedy If
| YOU can not hello them, you might as well
surrender first as last NV dear brethren,
do no sit any longer moping about yo1r
ledger. Do not sit looking so responding
upon your stock of unstable goods. Do you
think that God is going to allow you, Chris
tian man, to do business alone? 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 infinitY 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
prosperity. You will never get one inch be-
yond it. 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 so many dollars
and cents, just so much wardrobe, just so
much furniture, just so many bonds and
mortgages, and nothing more will give
you 500 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; and He
will do it in the best way.
Your little child says: Papa, wish you
would let me have that knife /" NO you
say, 1T is a sharp knife. and you will cut
YOURSELF He says: ''I must have it. y "But
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 himl So
God treats His children. l say: 81 wish,
Heavenly Father, to get that" God Gays:
''No, my child" / say: II must have it."
God says: "You can not have itn l get
angry and say: ~ will have it." God says:
'You shall not have it, And l do not get
it. Is He not kind and loving and the best of
fathers. Do you tell me there is no rule and
regulation in these thingss Tell that to the
men who believe in no God and no Bible.
Iell IL not TO me.
A man of large business concludes to go
out of his store, leaving much of his invest
ments n the business, and he says to his
sons: Snow. am going to leave this bust
ness in your hands, Perhaps l may come
ba,k in a little while, and perhaps not
While l 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: 81 am going to take possession of
this business-yOu know / never fully sur
rendered it; and henceforth consider your
selves 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 comes down to our
shop or our store and says: Things are go
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 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
ofI il. and o'eaaing the slate, says: begin
8, pounood Al, God does to us. Our affairs
n hounced the whOhle ENHANCEMENT, and
' Another vote of mensSn id says , Begin ;sg in
speed to the race.
4 Thursday ushers in and the &c e sS Su lnrge
II nave popular attention again. g heard
7 O'Clock the streets were crowded.
l. anxious spectators, clad in their Sups
N go-to'mOeting clothes, with their e>
r turned toward Odd Fellows hall watt,
o In pensive silence for the appearance
is the Odd Fellows parade. The cloc
II strikes eleven, the procession march
II down behind the district officers ar
d speakers, who took carriages which stoc
e awaiting their arrival. All ready and q
n they march up Main street to publ
" spare down Depot street to the c., C.
n A. II. H., back up Depot street to Yol
street and forward to the Far Ground
y where stands, seating and every accom-
), mediation await the large concourse
I people. The band furnished charmir
music all the way to quicken the footste,
OF the grand pageant which drew the a
tention of all. On arriving at the Fo
Grounds the ladies of the Household m,
the procession, all clad in snowy whit,
and they put in the beautiful appearance
: to brighten the grandeur of the attractiy
8 procession. A few moments rest wa
taken and then speaking began. Mr.. D
ID. Gilmore, principle of the Chester ora
ded school, was master of ceremonie,
Grand Marshal Frank Williams. of c.
iumbia, introduced him; he proceede
to Introduce the speakers. Rev. E. Hir
ton, annual, was the first to be greeted b
the audience. He entertained the audi
ence for about 80 minutes in an inter
estlng manner. James Lowndes. ESQ. q
Columbia, followed, and gave brie
history Of Odd Fellows in this State, an,
showed that tho order presented a stronge
and more popular showing than any OF
ganization in the State. Mr.. S. A. Haw
kins followed him in a mastery addres
on the strength of Odd Fellowship
Messrs. Gilmore, of Chester, Mitchell. o
Charleston. and District Maefar n N