Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-01-13
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help, and yonder for help, and got nc
help until they knelt before the Lord
crying for his deliverance, and the
Lord rescued them.
Ina bank not far from our great
metropolis-a village bank-an officer
could not balance his accounts. he
had worked al them day after day,
night after night, and he was sick
nigh unto death Us a result. He knew
he had not taken one farthing from
that bank, but somehow, for some
reason inscrutable then, the accounts
wouldn't balance. The time rolled on,
and the morning Of the day when the
books should pass under the inspec'
ton OF the other officers arrived, and
he felt himself in awful peril, con.
scious 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: 20 Lord, | have done
right; ! have preserved my integrity,
but here | am about TO be overthrown
unless thou shouldst come to my rescue.
Lord, deliver me-" And for one hour
he continued the prayer before God,
and then he rose and went 10 an old
blotter that he had forgotten all about.
He opened it, and there lay a sheet of
figures which he only needed TO add
to another line Of fgures-some line
of figures he had forgotten, and knew
not where he had laid them-and the
accounts We're balanced, and the Lord
delivered him. You are an infidel if
you do not believe it. The Lord de-
livered him. God answered his prayer
as lac will answer your prayer, o man
Of business. in every crisis when you
come 10 him. Now, if this be so,
then | 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 a
farmer in California, with fifteen
thousand acres Of good wheat land
and culturing only a quarter Of an
acre. Why do you not 60 forth and
make the religion Of Jesus Christ a
practical affair every day of your
business life and all this year, begin
ming now. and tomorrow morning
putting into practical effect this holy
religion and demonstrating in your
life that godliness is profitable here as
well as hereafteri
HOW AND WHY RELIGION Is NDEsPENs-
ABLE.
How al you get along without this
religioni Is your physical health so
good you do not want this divine
tonicl Is your mind so clear, so vast,
so comprehensive that you do not want
this divine inspirationi Is your
worldly business SO thoroughly estab-
lished that you have no use for that
religion which has been the help and
deliverance of tens of thousands OF
men in crises of worldly trouble1 And
If what / have said this morning is
true, then you see what a fatal blunder
it is when a man adjourns TO life's ex.
piration the Uses Of religion. A 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 unalleviatcd and uncomfort.
edl You want religion today in the
training of that child. You will want
religion tomorrow in dealing with
that western customer. You wanted
religion yesterday to curb your EN-
per. Is your arm strong enough 10
beat your way through the hoodsi Can
you without being incased in the mail
of Gods eternal help go forth amid the
assault of all hel's sharpshootersl
Can you walk alone across these
crumbling graves and amid these gap
ing earthquakes Can you, water
logged and mast shivered, outlive the
galei Oh, 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 ser
penis crushed under cart wheels, drag
ging their mauled bodies under the
rocks to die; so these men have fallen
under the wheel of awful calamity,
crushed here, destroyed forever, while
a 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 illustrated,
while angels looked on and a universe
approved, the glorious truth that
Goodness is profitable untoall things,
having the promise of the life which