Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-07

| businesses have been blown to atoms by
| bad temper-it viii keep you from woFri-
ment about frequent loss, it viii keep
you industrious and prompt, it viii keep
/ you back from squandering and
! dissipation, it viii giTe you a kindness of
Split which viii be easily dis
tinguish ed from that mere store courtesy
which shakes hands violently with you,
| asking about the health of your family
! when there is no anxiety TO know whether
| your child is wen OF sick, but the anxiety
! is to knew how many dozen cambria
| pocket handkerehiefs you viii take and
pay cash down. 1t will prepare you for
Isthe practical duties of everyday life. L
! do not mean to say that religion viii
make us financially rich, but l do say
| that it will give us, it Will assure us of
! comfortable snstenance at the start a
| comfortable subsistence all the way
I through, and it viii help us to direct the
bank, to manage the traffic, to conduct
all cur business matters, and to make the
most insignificant affair of our life
matter of vast Importance gloTified by
| Christian principle.
| Ia New York city there was a merchant
| hard in his dealings with his fellows, who
had written over his banking house or
his counting house room: "No compro-
mise. Then when some
MERCHANT GOT IN A CRISIS
and went down-no fault of his, bat
conjunction of evil eircHmstances-and
all the other merchants were willing to
eomproInise-they would take 70 cents on
the 81, or 80 cents, or 20 eents-comiug
to this man last of all, he said: No
compromise; IN take 100 cents on the
81 and / can afford to wait - Well, the
wheel turned and after while that man
was in crisis of business, and he sent
out his agents to compromise, and the
agents said to the merchants: VIII
you take 80 cents on the SIP" 'No. -
81 Will you take anything?'' Gwen
take 100 cents ON the 81. No compro-
mise - And the man who wrote that
| inscription over his couuting-house door
died i'll restitution. Oh, we want more
of the Kindness of the Gospel
and the spirit of love i'll
our business enterprises! How many
young men have fonud i'll the religion OF
Jesus Christ a practical help? How many
there are iii this house to-day who could
testify out of their own experience that
Goodness is profitable for the life that
now is. There were times in their bust
ness career when they went here for help,
and there for help, and yonder for hely,
and got no help until they knelt before
the Lord crying for his deliveFance, and
+. the Lord rescued them.
In a bank not far from our great met
repolis--a village bank-an officer could
not balance his accounts. He had worked
at them day after day, night after night,
and he was sick nigh unto death as re-
suit. He knew he had not taken one
farthing from that bank, but somehow
for some reason inscrutable then, the ac-
counts wouldn t balance. The time
rolled on and the morning of the day
when the books should pass under the
inspection of the other officers arrived.
and he felt himself
IN AWFUL PERIL.
conscious of his own integrity but unable
to prove that integrity. That morning
he went to the bank early, and he knelt
down before God and told the whole story
OF his mental anguish, and he said: go
Lord, have done right; l have pre-
served my integrity, but here / am about
to be Overthrown unless Thou should
come to my rescue. Lord, deliver me. -
And for one hour he continued the PRAYER
before God, and then he rose and went
to an old blotter that he had forgotten all
about. He opened it, and there lay
sheet of figures which he only needed to
of figures he had forgotten, and knew
not where he had laid them-and the
accounts were balanced, and the Lord
delivered him. You are an infidel
if you do not believe it. The Lord
delivered him God answered his prayer
as he will answer your prayer, O man of
business, in every crisis when you come
to Him Now. if this be so, then I am
persuaded, as you are, of the fact that
the vast majority of Christians do not
fully test the value of their religion.
They are like farmer in California with
Is 900 acres of good wheat land culturing
only quarter Of an acre: Why doeyou
not go forth and make the religion of |
Jesus Christ practical affair every day
of your business life and all this year,
beginning now, and Tomorrow morning
putting into practical effect this holy re-
ligion and demonstrating in your life that
Goodness is profitable here as well as
hereafter?
How can You get along without this re-
ligion? Is your physical health so good |
you do not want
THIS DIVINE TONIC?
Is your mind so clear, so vast, so COM
prehensive that you do not want this di- |
vine inspiration? Is your worldly bust
Ness SO thoroughly SSIdDiiSneu JDdJ you |
have no use for that religion which has
been the help and deliyeranee of tens Of |
thousands of men in crises of worldly |
trouble? And if what I have said this |
morning is true, then you see what a
fatal blunder it is when a man adjonrns |
to LIES expiration the uses of religion
\ man who postpones religion 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 lifetime I'M
alIeviated and uncontrolled? You want |
religion to-day in the training of that |
child. You Will want religion tomorrow |
in dealing with that Western, customer. |
You wanted religion yesterday to |
curb your temper. Is Your arm |
strong enough to beat your way |
through the Hoods? Can You without |
being encased IN the mail of God IS eter- |
nal help go forth amid the assault of all |
hell's sharpshooters. Can you walk |
alone across these crumbling graves and |
amid these gaping earthquakes? Can |
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