The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-08-02

bread tray, and nakedness shivers for
lack of clothes and fire. When | hear
man in canting TRADE against money
"a Christian man-as though it had no
possible use on earth and he had no in
terest in it, come almost to think that
the heaven that would be appropriate
for him, would be an everlasting poor
house /! While, my friends, we do ad-
NIT there is such thing as a lawful
use OF money-a profitable use of money
let US recognize also the fact, that
money cannot satisfy mans soul, that
it cannot glitter in the dark valley,
that it cannot pay our fare across the
Jordan of death, that it cannot unlock
the gate of heaven.
There are men in all occupations who
seem to act as though they thought
pack of bonds and mortgages could be
traded off for title to Heaven, and as
though gold would be lawful tender
in that place where it is so common
that they make pavements out of it.
Salvation by Christ is the only saliva
ton. Treasures in Heaven are the
only incorruptible treasures. Have you
ever ciphered out in the rule of loss
and gain the sum: ''What shall it
profit man if he gain the whole world
and lose his soul?' However fine your
apparel, the winds of death will fiut-
ter it like rags. Homespun and
threadbare coat have sometimes been
the shadow of coming robes made
white in the blood of the Lamb. The
Pearl of Great Price is worth more
than any gem you can bring from the
ocean, than Australian or Brazilian
mines strung in one carcanet. Seek
after God; find his Righteousness, and
all shall be well here; all shall be well
hereafter.
But | must have a word with those
who. during the present commercial
calamities, have lost heavily, or per-
haps lost all their estate. If man
lose his property at thirty or forty
years of age, it is only sharp disci-
pine generally, by which later he
comes to larger success 1t is all folly
for man to sit down in mid-life dis
couraged. Tie marshals of Napoleon
came to their commander and said:
"We have lost the battle, and we are
being cut to pieces" Napoleon took
his watch from his pocket and said: sit
is only two o'clock in the afternoon.
You have lost that battle, but we have
time enough to win another. Charge
upon the foe." Though the meridian
of life has passed with you, and you
have been routed in many a conflict,
give not up in Encouragement. There
are victories yet for you to gain. But
sometimes monetary disaster comes to a
man when there is something in his age,
or something in his health, or some
thing in his surroundings, which makes
him know well that he will never get
up again. In 1851 it was estimated that
for many years previous to that time
annually there had been 80, 900 failures
in the United States. Many of those
persons never recovered from the mis-
fortune. But let me give a word of com
fort in passing The sheriff may sell
you out of many things, but there are
some things of which he cannot sell
you out. He cannot sell out your
health. He cannot sell out your Bible
He cannot sell out your God. He can
not sell out your heaven! You have
more than you have lost. Sons anG
daughters of God, children of an eter
nal and ALLOWING Father, mourn no
when your property goes. The world Il
yours, and death is yours, and immor
, tality is yours, and thrones of imperia
grandeur are yours, and rivers of glad
ness are yours, and shining mansion
are yours, and God is yours. The eterna
/ God has sworn it, and every time 20,
/ doubt it, you charge the King of HEAVIER
, and earth with perjury. Instead o
5 complaining how hard you have it, G,
, home, take up your Bible full of prom
| Uses, get down on your knees befor
God and thank Him for what you have
> instead of spending so much time il
: complaining about what you have not
3: Some of you remember the ship
: wreck of the Central America. Thi
: noble steamer had think, about fiv
: hundred passengers aboard. Suddenl
: the storm came, and the surges tram
, pied the decks and swung into tn
. matches, and there went up hundred
| voiced death-shriek The foam on tn
r jaw of the wave. The pitching of tn
e steamer as though it were leaping
S mountain. The dismal flare of the sig
n nal rockets. The long cough of tn
| s@oo,x. ,~,,~1, Tho b;Sc rf tho avfi,
e guished furnaces. The walking of Go
. on the wave! The steamer went nc
e down without a struggle. AS tn
: passengers stationed themselves i
1 rows, to bale out the vesse
: bark to the thump of the buckets a
F men unused to toll, with blistere
f hands and strained muscle, tug fc
: their lives. There is a sail seen agains
Y the sky. The flash of the distress GU
), sounded, its voice is heard not, for it
r choked in the louder booming of til
e sea. A few passengers escaped, br
n the steamer gave one great lurch an
n was gone So there are some men VIII
/! sail on prosperously in life, Ais wei
f all's we'll But at last. some fnanci;
T. disaster comes euroclydon. Dow
o they go! the bottom of this comnerci;
h sea strewn with shattered hulks. 81
r because your property goes, do not l,
It your soul go. Though all else perisl
h save that for l have to tell you of
5, more stupendous shipwreck than tn;
e which l have just mentioned. &C
e launched this world 5000 years ago.