The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-30

has behaved himself well, IN surrounded
by three circles Of frieM,is-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 few who would
die for him. God pity the wretch who has
not any friends! He has not behaved
well.
Iremark again: That God puts down
the limit to our temporal prosperity. The
world Of finance seems to have no God in
it. You can not tell where . man will
land. The anluent fall; the poor rise.
The ingenious fail; the ignorant succeed.
An enterprise opening grandly shuts in
bankruptcy. while out Of the peat dug mp
from some New England marsh the mill
lionaire builds his fortune. The poor man
thinks It IL chance that keeps him down;
the rich man thinks it II chance which
holds him up, and they arc both wrong. It
Is 90 hard to realize that God rules
the money market, and has . hook
in the nose Of the stock gambler, and that
all Of 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
best for you to lose. You never gain I'M
less it is best for you to gain. You go up
when it is best for you to go up, and 60
down when it is best for you to go down.
Prove it, you say. I will: Romans. viii,
IS:
All things work together for good to them
that love God.
You go into factory and you see TWEEN.
ty or thirty wheels, ami they are going in
different directions. This hand Is rolling
of this way, and another hand another
way; one down and another up. You
say: "What confusion in factoryw o,
no! 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 different parts of one machinery,
by which he will advance your everlast-
ing and present well-being. Now you
know that a second mortgage, and a third
and fourth mortgage, is often worth moth
ing. 1t is the first mortgage that is q
good investment. Ihave to tell you that
every Christian man has first mortgage
on every trial, and on every disaster, and
it must make payment Of eternal advan-
tage to his soul How many worriments
it would take out of your heart II you
believed that fully. You buy goods
and hope the price will go
up, but you are in q fret and
frown for fear the price will go down.
You do not buy the goods, using your best
discretion in the matter, and then say: 20
Lord! 1 have done the best could; COM
NIT 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 prov.
erb, you ought not to fret about: First,
things that you can help: and, second,
things which you can not help. II you can
help them, why do you not apply the REM
edy? If you can not help them, you might
as we'll sur ender 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 unstable
goods. Do you think that God is going to
allow you, Christian 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 results,
choose for you the very best results. Do
not have any idea that you con overstep
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 hon.
orably and employ usefully, and con-
troll righteously; and at the end of
1886 you will have just 80 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
for eternity! and he will do it in the best
way.
Your little child says: "Papa, wish
you would let rue have that knife"
"No," you say, cit is q sharp knife, and
you will cut yourself"
He says: 81 must have it."
"But you can not have it," you reply.
He 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.
I say:
81 wish. Heavenly Father, to get that"
God says: mo, my child"
I say: 81 must have it."
God says: "You can not have It."
I get angry and say: ~ 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 fathers? Do you tell mo there is no
rule and regulation in these things: Tell
that to the men who believe in no God and
NO Bible. Tell II 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:
SNOW, I am going to leave this business
in your hands. Perhaps may come back
in little while, and perhaps not. While
am gone you will please to look after
affairs"
After awhile the father comes back and
whole business seems to be going wrong
He says:
II am going to take possession Of this
business-you know never fully surren.
dered it; and henceforth consider your.
selves subordinates."
IL he not right In doing TT He saves the
business. The Lord seems to let us 60 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 going wrong, leone to take
charge. am master and / know what ID
best, and proclaim my authority" We
are merely subordinates.
1t is like boy at school with . long
sum that he can not do. He has been