The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-17
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COMPROMISED" And the man us1 wrote
that inscription over his counting house
door died in restitution. oh, we want
more Of the kindness of tho Gospel and
the spirit Of ldrs Id our business ENTER
prisesi How many young MEN have found
In the religion Of Jesus Christ practical
helpi How many there are in this house
To-day who could testify out of their own
Experience that godliness Is profitable for
the life that now is? There were times In
their business career when they went
| yonder for help, and got no help until
they knelt before the Lord crying for His
deliverance, and the lord fescued thornl
In A bank not far from DUR great me:
tropalis--a village bank-aR officer could
not balance his accounts. He had workea
at them day after day, night after night,
and he was sick nigh unto death as a re-
suit. He knew he had not taken one far
thing from that bank, but somehow, fOf
some feason, inscrutable then, the ac-
counts wouldn't balance. The time rolled
on, and the morning of the day when the
books should pass under ths Inspection of
the other officers arrived, and he felt hiris
self In awful peril, conscious IF his 6wh
integrity, but unable to prove that ipteg-
rity. That morning he went to the bank
early, and he knelt down before God and
told the whole story Of his mental augtiish,
and he said: "Oh, Lord, l have done right.
/ have preserved my integrity; but here ]
am about to be overthrown Unless Thou
should come to my rescue, lord, deliver
me-" And fen One hour ne continued the
prayer before God; and then he
arose and went to an old blotter
that he had forgotten all about; He
opened it, and there lay sheet "
figures which he only needed to add to an
other line OF fgures-some line OF figures
he had forgotten, and knew not where no
had laid them-and the accounts were
balanced end the Lord delivered him.
You are an infidel if you do not believe
1t. The Lord delivered him. God an
swered his prayer as He will answer yuir
prayer, oh, man OF business, in every
rrisis When you come to Him. Now, il
this be so, am persuaded, as yen are, OF
the fact that the vast majority Of Chris
tains do not fully test HE value OF thait
religion. They are like farmer in Cali
fornia with fifteen thousand acres of good
wheat land and cultivating only quarter
of an acre. Why do you not go forth and
make the religion of Jesus Christ d pfacs
teal affair every day of your business life,
and all this year, beginning now, and to.
morrow morning putting into practical
OBJECT this holy religion, and demonstrate
ing in your life that goodness is prutita-
bic here as we'll as hereafter2
How csp you get along without this re-
ligiOn? Is your physical health so good
that you do not want this Divine tonic?
Is your mind SO clear, so vast, so COM
prehensive, that you do not want this
Divine jnsriratlcns Is y6tir worldly bus.
mess so thoroughly established that you
have no use for that religion which has
been the help and deliverance of tens of
thousands of men in crises or worldly
troubles And it what / hevs said this
morning il true, then you see what fatal
blunder 1t is when man adjourns to life's
expiration the uses of religion: A man
who pustpdnes rhliaidp to sixty years OF
age gets religion fifty years too late. He
may get into the kingdom of God by final
repentance, but what can compensate
him for a whole life time unalleViated
and uncontrolled? You want religion to-
day in the training OF that child, You
will want religion tomorrow in de alips
with that Western customer, You want.
ed religion yesterday to curb your tenn
per. is your arm strong enough to
beat your way through the Aoods'
Can you, without being ehcased In
ths mail Of Gods eternal help go
forth amid the assault of all hell's
sharpshooters. Can you walk alone
across these trumbling graves and amid
these gaping earthquakes? Can you,
water logged and mast.shivered, outlive
the gates On, how many there have been
who, postponing the religion Of Jesus
Christ, have plunged into mistakes they
never could correct, although they lived
eighty years after, and, like serpents
crushed under cart-wheels, dragging their
mauled bodies under the rocks to die; so
these men have fallen under the wheel Of
awful calamity. crushed here. destroyed
forever, while q vast multitude of others
have taken the religion of Jesus Christ
into every day life, and first, In practical
business affairs, and secondly, on the
throne Of heavenly triumph, have illus
trated, while angels looked ON and uni
verse approved, the glorious truth that
Goodness is profitable unto all things,
having the promise Of the life which now
is as well DIS of that which Is to come.H