The Penn's Grove record., 1889-01-26

of all. he said: "No Compromise; III
take one hundred cents on the dollar,
and l can afford TO walt" Well. Che
wheel turned, and after o while that
man yasin a crisis Of business, and he
sent out his agent to compromise. and
the agent said to the merchants: "Wn
Won take fifty cents OF the dollarY'i
@No.n "Will you take anythingp',
aWe,l take one hundred cents on the
dollar. No compromise" And the
man who wrote that inscription over
his counting-house door died In destitu-
ton, Oh, we want more Of the kind
ness of the Gospel and the spirit Of love
in our business enterprisesl How many
Young men have found in the religion
Of Jesus Christ a practical help2 How
many there are in this house to-day who
could testify out Of their own expert
ence. that godliness Is profitable for the
life that now isl There were times In
their business career when they went
here for help, and there for help, and
wonder for help, and got no help until
they knelt before the Lord crying for
His deliyerance, and the Lord rescued
them.
In a bank not far from our great met
polis-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 a result. He knew he had not
taken one farthing from that bank, but
somehow, for some reason. inscrutable
then. the accounts W uldn't balance.
The time rolled on, and the morning Of
the day when the books should pass un-
der 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 MENTAL ANGUISH,
and be said: so Lord, ! have done
right; 1 have preserved my integrity,
but here l am about to be overthrown,
unless thou shOuldst come to my rescue.
Lord. deliver me-" And for nj hour
he continued the prayer before God. and
then he rose and went to an old bl0tter
that he had forgotten all about. He
opened it, and there lay o sheet OF
figures which he only needed to add to
another line Of figures -some line OF
figures he had forgotten, and knew not
where lie had laid them-and. the ac-
counts were balanced, and the Lord de-
livered him. You are an infidel II you
do not believe it. The Lord delivered
him. God answered his prayer as He
will answer your prayer, U man Of BUSH
ness, in every crisis, when you come to
Him.
Now, if this be so, then / am persuade
ed, 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 go forth and make the
religion of Jesus Christ a practical
affair every day OF your business life,
and all this year, beginning now; and
tomorrow morning putting into practi-
cal effect this holy religion, and demon
strating that ~godliness is profitable
here as well as hereafter?
How can you get along without this
religion? Is your physical health 80
good you don't want this
DIVINE TONIC?
II your mind so clear, so vast, 80 COM
prehensive, that you do not want this
divine inspiration? Is your worldly
business 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 OF
worldly troublep And if what / have
said this morning Is true, then you see
what a fatal blunder it Is when a man
adjourns TO llfe's expiration the uses of
religion. A man who postp0nes relig-
ion 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 q
whole lifetime unalleviated and uncom-
.fortedp 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 floodsr Can
you. without being encased In the mail
of Gods eternal help, 60 forth amid the
assault Of all hell's sharpshooterss
CAN You WALK ALONE
across these crumbling graves and amid
these gaping earthquakes? Can you,
waterlogged and mast-shivered, outlive
the gale? 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
pents crushed under cart-wheels, drag
ging their mauled bodies under the
rocks to die; so these men have fallen
under tho wheel Of awful calamity,
crushed here, destroyed forever, while a
vast multitude of others have taken the
religion Of Jesus Christ into everyday
life. and first, in practical business
agairs, and secondly, on the throne Of
heavenly triumph, have illustrated,
while angels looked on and a universe
approved, the glorious truth that Sod
illness IS profitable unto all things, hav-
ing the promise of the life which now is
as well as Of that which is to Gomez