News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-17

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| who have been pu9naciouS, and hard tc
please, and iraScible, and more bothered
| about the mote in their neighbours eye than
about the beam like ship timber in their own
eye, who have been entirely changed by the
| grace of God. and have found out that "God-
illness is profitable for the life that now is as
well as for the life which is to Gomez
Again | remark that religion is good for a
mans worldly business. | know the general
| theory is, the more business the less religion,
the more religion the less business Not so,
thought DIR. Hans. in his Biography of a
| Christian Merchant" when he says: He
grew IN grace the last six years OF his life
more than at any time in his life; during
those. six years he had more business crowd
ing MN than at any other time" In other
words, the more worldly business a man has,
the more opportunity to serve God. Docs
religion exhilarate or retard worldly bust
ness: is the the practical question for you to
discuss. Does it hang like a mortgage over
the farm? Is it a bad debt on the ledger! is
it lien against the estate! Does it crowd
the door through which customers come for
broadcloths and silks? Now, religion will
hinder your business if it be a bad business,
or If it be good business wrongfully con-
Quoted. If you tell lies behind the counter,
If you use false weights and measures, if you
put sand i'll sugar, and beet Juice in vinegar,
and lard in butter, and sell for one thing that
which is another thing, then religion will in
tertere with that business; bat a lawful
business, lawfully conducted, will find the
religion of the Lord Jesus Christ its mightiest
auxiliary.
Religion viii give an equipoiSe of spirit, it
viii keep you from ebullitiOnS of temper-and
you know great many fine businesses have
been blown to atoms by bad temper-it will
keep you from wOrriment about frequent loss,
it will keep you Industrious and prompt, it
will keep you back from s4uandering and
dissipation, it will give you a kindness
of spirit which will be easily distinguished
from that mere store courtesy which
shakes hands violently with you, ask
ing about the health of your family when
there is no anxiety to know whether your
child is well or sick! But the anxiety is to
know how many dozen cambria pocket
handkerchiefs you will take and pay cash
down. 1t will prepare YOU for the practical
duties OF everyday life. L do not mean to
say that religion viii make us financially
rich, but | do say that it will give us, it
will assure Us. of n comfortable sustenanca
at the start, a comfortable subsistence all the
way through, and it will help us to direct the
the bank, to manage the traffic, to conduct
all our business matters, and to mako the
most insignificant affair of our life a matter
of vast Importance glori6ed by Christian
principle.
In New York city there was a merchant
hard in his dealings with his fellows, who had
written over his banking house or his count
inZ-house room: mo compromise Then
when some merchant got in a crisis and went
down-no fault of his, but a conjunction of
evil circumstauceS-and all the other mer-
chants were willing to compromise
would take seventy-tive cents on the dollar,
or fifty cents. or twenty cents-cominr to
this man last of all, he said: mo cOmpro-
mise; I'll take one hundred cents on the dol
lar, AMI | can afford to wait" Well, the
wheel turned, and after a while that man
was in crisis or business, and he sent out
his agents to compromise. and the agents
said to the merchants: ''Wil you take fifty
cents on the dolar" ''NO.n "Will you
take anything" ''We1l take one hundred
cents on the dollar. No compromise And
the man who wrote the inscription over his
counting-house died in restitution. Oh,
the Gospel and the spirit of love in
our business enterprises How many young
men have found in the religion of Jesus
Christ practical help2 How many there
are in 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 business career when
they went here for help, and there for help,
and yonder for help, and got no help until
they knelt before the Lord crying for His |
and the Lord rescued them.
In bank not far from our great metrOpo- |
lis-a village bank-an officer could not bal |
ance his accounts. He had worked at them |
day after day, night after night an he was |
sick nigh unto death as result. He knew |
he had not taken one farthing from that |
table then, the accounts 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
% the bank early, and he knelt down before
Tod and tod the Whole story of his mental
and he said: 20 Lord, | have done
light; L have preserved my integrity, but
| about fn ln aTth rO ,1r,1oc
Thou should come to my rescue. Lord de- /!
liver me-" And for one hour he continued |
the prayer before Col, and then he rose and |
went to an old blotter that he had forgotten |
another line OF fietFes-some lire of figures
be had forgotten, and knew not where he
hal laid them-and the accounts were |
b danced, and the Lord delivered MIN. You are |
IN inii,iel if you do not believe it. The Lord |
delivered HIM. Go answered his PRAYER as
tie will answer your prayer, mau of bust
less, in every crisis when you come to Him.
Now, If this be so. then l persuaded, as
you are. of the fact that the vast ma ioritY of |
|nrIstlans do nO6 fully test the value OF the
eHSlon. They are like farmer in Cali |
orn'a, with fifteen thousand acres of good
wheat land and cuituring only a quarter of
m acre. Why do you not go forth and
ma ie the re igion OF Jesus Christ pra teal
itair every day of your business life aud
III this year, e5inning now, and tomorrow
nornlng putting into practical effect this
oIY religion and demonstrating In your life
hat Goodness is profitable here as well as
GREATER
How can you get along without this re-
igions Is your physical health so good you
10 not want this divine tonic! Is your mind
D clear, SO vast, so comprehensive that you
10 not want this divine Inspiration! is your
Worldly business so thoroughly established
hat you have no use for that religion which
las been the help AMI deliverance of tens of
Df " |
rOuble: And if what have sail this morn
NC is true, then you see what fatal blunder
Is when a man dJOurnS to Hfe'S cxp'ra-
ion the uses of religion. A man who post
zones religion TO sixty years of age ge' S re-
iglon fifty years too late. He may get into
he kingdom of God by final repentance but
what can compensate him for
whole lifetime unallev.ated and I'M
omfortedE You want religion to-day |
n the training OF that child. You
will want religion tomorrow in dealing with
hat Western customer. You wanted re-
igiOn yesterday to curb your temper. Is
your al m strong enough to beat your way
Trough the floods: Can YOU without being
ncased in the mail OF Gods eternal help go
orth amid the assault of all helfs sharp
hooters: Can you walk a one across these
graves and anil these gaping
Can you, waterlogGej and mast
lHvered, outive the gale: Oh, how many there
ave been who, postponing the religion of
cStl' CliAtoO nave IllOO Siley
ercOu,dcOrrect although they lived eighty
ears after, aud like serpents crushed under
art wheels, dragging their u1au,ed bodies
nder the rocks to ui3; 50 the Sc men have
allen under the wheel OF awful calamity
rushed here, destroyed forever, while a vast
multitude of others have taken the religion
f Jesus Christ into everyday life, and first,
a practical business affairs, and secondly, |
n the throne of heavenly triumph, lave IL
while angels looket on aud a uni
erse approved, the glorious truth that
'Godliness is profitable unto all things, hav-
ng the promise of the life which now is as
veil as of that which is to come"