The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-30

were willing to conlpromise-they would
take seventy-fve cents on the dollar, or 6teg
cents, or twenty cents-coming to this man
last of all, he said: "No compromise; III
take 100 cents on the dollar, and can afford
10 wait.n Well, the wheel turned, and after
q while that man was in a crisis OF business,
and he sent out his agents to compromise,
and the agents said to the merchants: !:
"Will you take fifty cents on the
dollar7 "No" 'sWil you take any thingF'
"We'u take 100 cents on the dollar. NO
compromise" And the man who wrote
that inscription over his countlng-house
door died in destitution. o, we want moro
Of the kindness Of the gospel and the splrlt
of love in our business enterprises bow
many young mon have found in the religion
of Jesus Christ practical helpf 40"
many are there in this house to-day who
could teftify out Of their own experience
that sodllness 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
crvinp for his deiverance, and the Lord
rescued them.
g
lis-a village bank-sn officer could not osl-
ance his accounts. He had worked ct them
day after day, night after night, and ne was
was sick nigh unto death as q result. he
knew that he had not taken one farthlng
FROM that bank, but somehow, Tor 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 inspection OF the
other officers arrived, and be 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 ne
kpelt down before God and told the whole
story Of his mental anguish, and he said:
| 90 Lord, l have done right; l have
preserved my integrity, but here 1
sm about to be overthrown unless
Thou should come to my rescue. Lord, de-
liver 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 BE opened It, and there lay
sheet Of figures which he only needed TO
add to another line Of fgures-sone line 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 infdel If you do not be. I'VE IT.
Tbe Lord delivered him. God answered his
prayer, as he will answer your prayer, y
man Of business, in every crisis Wnen you
come to him. Now, II this be so, then am
persuaded, as you are, OF the TACT toa9 Ine
vast majority Of Christians do not 1uly test
the value Of their religion. They are ike 3
farmer in California, with fifteen thoussno
acres Of good wheat land, and culturlns
only a quarter Of an acre. Why 90 you nol
60 forth and make tho religion OF Jesus
Christ a practical affair, every day OF your
business life and all this year, beginning
now, and tomorrow morning putting into
practical effect this holy religion and dem
onstrating in your life that godliness l.
profitable here as well as heresfterf
How can you get along without this re-
lgioua Is your physical health so good you
! do not want this divine tonica Is your
mind 50 clear, so vast, so comprehensive
that you do not want this divine Inspiration
Is your worldly business so thoroughly es
tablished that you have no use Tor tnat re-
ligiou which has been the help and deliver
ancs OF tens OF thousands Of men in crises
Of worldly trouble7 Aud if what have
said this morning Is true, then you sex
what 9 fatal blunder it is when man ao
iourns to life's expiration ths uses OF re-
upiop, a man who postpones religion tc
sixty years Of age gets religion fifty years
too late. He may get into the kingdom Of
God by final repen tance, but what can com
peusate him for whole lifetime unallevl
ated and unoomfortedi You want religion
today in the training Of that child. Yor
vii; want religion tomorrow in dealing witt
that western customer. You wanted religion
Yesterday to curb your temper. Is your arm
strong enough to beat your way through the
doodsl Can you without being encased II
the mail Of Gods eternal help 30 forth amie
the assault Of all helps sharpshooterSs Cal
YOU walk alone across these crumblins
graves and amid these gaping earthquakes
Can YOU, waterlogged and mast-shlV
cred, outlive the gsle3 o, how many
there are who, postponing the religion
Of Jesus Christ, have plunged into mistake:
thew never could correct, although they
lived eighty years after, and like serpent:
crushed under cart-wheels, dragging theu
mauled bodies under the rocks to die; 81
these men have fallen under the wheel O.
awful calamity, crushed here, destroyed Tor
ever. while vast multitude CT others have
taken the religion Of Jesus Christ into every
dav life, and first, in practical business af
fairs, and secondly, on the throne OF heaven
ly triumph, have illustrated, while angel'
looked on and universe approved, to-
glorious truth that "Godliness is profitable
unto all things, having the promise Of th'
life which now is as well as Of that which L
to come"