Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-23

III do the best | can, and then I'll de-
pend on my friends generosity for the
rest
Now more than that is promised to
every Christian business man. God
says to him: Il own New York and
London and 81. Petersburg and Pekin.
and Australia and California are mine; |
can forsee a panic a million years; | have
all the resources of the universe, and |
am your fast friend; when YOU get in
business trouble or any other trouble call
on ms and | will help; here is my hand
IN pledge OF omnipotcnt delivcrance.
How much should that man worry? Not
much. What lion will dare to put bis
I paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in
this? j. there not an eternal vacation III
this?
"Oh," you say, there is a man who
asked God for a blessing in q certain en-
tcrpr * and he lost -, 900 in il. Explain
that viii. Wonder is a factory and
one wheel is going north and the other
wheel is going south. and one wheel
plays l%atcrally and the other plays vcrtic-
ally. | go to the manufacturer and say:
20, manufacturer. your machinery is d
contradiction. Why do you not make
an lu' Nilttie 10 one way Ntls Ht
says, 4 made them 90 in opposite direc-
ton on purpose and they
produce the right result. You
80 down stairs and examine the carpets
we are turning ont in this establishment
and YOU viii see / 90 down on the
other floor and see The carpets and | am
obliged ia confess that though the wheels
in that factory 90 in opposite directions,
do, .Fr,, t,s Al l4.,rtsF4l rlM,1, ,.t
while | am standing there looking at the
exquisite fabric an old scripture passage
comes into my mind: "All things work
together for good TO them who love God
Ia there not rest in that Is there not
tonic in that? Is there not longevity in
tAatt
Suppose a man is all TIC time worried
about his reputation? One man says he
lies. another says he is stupid, another
saws he is dishonest, and half Il dozen
printing establishments attack him. and
he is in a great state of excitement and
worry and fumc, and cannot sleep; but
religion comes to him and says: Man,
God is ON your side, He will take care of
your reputation. if God be for You, who
can be against youE' How much should
that man worry about his reputation?
Not much. If that broker who
some years ago in Wall street. after
he had lost money, sat down and wrote a
farewell letter to his wife before he blew
his brains odt--if instead Of taking ont of
m.S PpoN,t " p'a,o' ~ NAM r"M,1, l. az, a
been one less suicide. Oh nervous and
fcvcrish people OF the world, try this
almighty scdativc. You will live twenty
five wears longer under its soothing
power. It is not choral that you want,
or s~lorphinc that you want: il is the
gospel of Jesus Christ. "With long life
viii ! satisfy him"
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want to take the strain Off your nerves
and the depression off your soul, and |
make two or three experiments. Expert
mont first: When you 20 out of this
world it does not make any difference
whether YOU have been good or bad, or
whether 0 believed truth or error. YOU
will 90 straight to glc:v ~"Impossible," |
YOU say: my common sense AS well as
my religion teaches that the bad and
cannot live together forever. You
give me no comfort in that experiment"
Experiment the second: When YOU leave
this world YOU viii 20 into an intermedi-
ate state where you can get converted and
prepared for heaven. "Impossible,' YOU
say; ''as the tree falleth so il must lie,
and | cannot postpone TO an intermediate
state reformation which ought To have
been effected in this state Experiment
the third: There is no future world: when
a man dies that is the last of him. Do
not worry about what you are to do in an
other state of being; YOU will not do anv-