Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-17

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years; hold the controlling stock in
thirty Of the best monetary institutions
cf New York; whenever you are in
trouble call on me and ! will help you;
you can have my money and YOU can
have my influence; here is my hand in
pledge for il " How much would YOU
worry about businessg Why, YOU would
say: I'm do the best / can, and then
Ill depend on my friends generosity for
the rest"
Now more than that Is promised to
every Christian business man. God says
70 him: II own New York and London
and st. Petersburg and Pekin, and Aus
tralia and California are mine: can for
see panic million years; havea all the
resources Of the universe, and | am your
fast friend: when you get in business
trouble or any other trouble. call on me
and ! will help; here is my hand in
pledge Of omnipotent deli How
much should that man worryl Not
much. What lion will dare to put his
paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in
thisI l. there not eterna. vacation in
this?
"Oh,' you say, "here is 1 man who
asked God for blessing in 4 certain en-
terprise, and he lost five thousand dol
lars in it. Explain that" will. Yon-
der is factory, and one wheel is going
north and the other wheels y)ing south,
and one wheel plays laterall and the
other plays vertically. go t. he manu-
facturer and | say: "Oh, manufacturer,
your machinery is contradiction. Why
do you not make all the wheels go one
wayr'
well, " he says, Il made them to
go in opposite directions on purpose. and
they produce the right result. You go
down stairs and examine the carpets we
are turning out in this establishment and
you will see. - Igo down on the other floor
and see the carpets. and am obliged
to confess that though the wheels in that
factory 60 in opposite directions, they
turn out a beautiful result; and while L
am standing there looking at the exquis-
ite fabric an old Scripture passage comes
into my mind: "Al things work TO-
gether for good to them who love God"
Is there not rest in that Is there not
tonic in thatl Is there not longevity in
that!
Suppose a man is all the time worried
about his reputation: One man says he
lies, another says he is stupid, another
says he is dishonest and half a dozen
printing establishments attack him, and
he is in great state Of excitement and
worry and fume. and cannot sleep; but re-
ligion comes to HIM and SAYS: MAN, God
is on your side: he viii take care Of your
reputation; if God be for you, who can
be against your" How much should
that man worry about his repu-
tation? Not much. If that broker
who some years ago in Wall street,
after lac had lost money, sat down and
wrote q farewell letter TO his wife before
he blew his brains out-if instead Of TAX
ing out of his pocket pistol lac had taken
out well read New Testament there
would have been one less suicide. o
nervous and feverish people Of the world,
try this almighty sedative. You will
live twenty-five years longer under It's
soothing power. il is not chloral that
you want, or morphine that you want; it
is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. with
long life viii satisfy him."
Again. practical religion is friend of
longevity in the fact that il removes all
corroding care about future existence.
Every man wants 10 know what is To be-
come Of him. If you get on board rail
train you want 10 know a. what depot il
is going to stop; if you get on board
ship you want to know into what harbor
il is going to run, and if you should tell
me you have no interest in what is 20 he
your future destiny, l would in as polite
way as know how tell you did not
believe you. Before / had this matter
settled with reference TO my future exist
ence, the question almost worried me
into ruined health. The anxieties men
have upon this subject, put together,
would make a martyrdom This is
state OF awful unhealthiness. There are
people who fret themselves 10 death for
fear Of DIVING.
want totake the strain of your nerves
and tie depression of your soul, and
make two or three experiments. Expert
ment first: When you 60 out Of this
world il does NOT make any difference
whether YOU have been good or bad, or
whether you believed truth or error, you
will 20 straight to glory. Impossible, y
You say: "my common sense as well as
NV religion TEACHES that the bad and the
good cannot live together forever. You
give me no comfort in that experiment.
| Experiment the second: When you leave
this world You will go into an intermedl-
ate state where you can get converted
and prepared for heaven. Impossible" "
YOU say; "as the tree falleth 80 il must
lie, and ] cannot postpone 10 an interme-
diate state reformation which ought TO
have been effected in this state. " Ex-
pertinent the third. There is no future
world; when a man dies that is the last
Of him. DO not worry about what you
are 10 do in another state Of being: you
will not do anything. Impossible, you
say; there is something that tells me
that death is not the appendix. but the
preface; there is something that tells me
that on this side Of the grave only get
started. and that ! shall go on forever;
my power TO think says forever, my
affections say forever, my capacity 70
enjoy or suffer, forever.
Well you defeat me in my three ex.
periments | have only one more 10
make, and II you defeat me in that am
exhausted' A mighty One on a knoll
back Of Jerusalem one day, the skies
filled with forked lighinings and the
earth filled with volcanic disturbances.