Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-05-31

accepted idea. do not believe word
| of it. The vast multitude of these
business men are toiling on for others
To educate their children. to put wing
of protection over their households, to
have something left so when they pass
out of this life their wives and chill
dren will not have. to go to the poor
house-that is the way translate this
| energy in the street and store-the
| vast majority of that energy. Grip
Gouge & Co do not do all the business
Some of us remember when the Cen
trail America was coming home from
California it was wrecked. President
Arthur's father-in-law was the heroic
captain of that ship, and went down
with most of the passengers. Some of
them got off into the life boats but
there was young man returning from
California who had bag of gold in
his hand and as the last boat showed
off from the ship that was to go down,
that young man shouted to comrade
in the boat, Here, John, catch this
gold; there are three thousand dollars;
take it home to my old mother, it will
make her comfortable in her last
DAYS" Grip, Gouge & Co do not do
! all the business of the world.
All. my friend, do you say that God
does not care anything about your
worldly business? l tell you God
knows more about it than you do. He
knows all your perplexities; he knows
what mortgaged is about to foreclose;
he knows what note you can not pay;
he knows what unsaleable goods you
have on your shelves; he knows all
your trials, from the day you took
hold of the first yard-stick down to
that sale of the last yard of ribbon,
and the God who helped David to be
king, and who helped Daniel to be
prime minister, and who helped Have
lock to be a soldier, will help you to
discharge all your duties. He is going
to see you through. When loss comes,
and you find your property going, just
take this book and put it down by
your ledger and read of the eternal
possessions that will come to you
through our Lord Jesus Christ. And
when your business partner betrays
you and your friends turn against you,
just take the insulting letter, put it
down on the table, put your Bible be-
side the insulting letter, and then read
of the friendship of him who "sticketh
closer than brother"
A Young accountant in New York
city got his accounts entangled. He
knew he was honest, and yet he could
not make his accounts come out right,
and he toiled at them dav and night
until he was nearly frenzied 1t
seemed by those books that something
had been misappropriated, and he
knew before God he was honest. The
last day came He knew if he could
not make his accounts come out right,
he would go into disgrace and go into
Punishment from the business estab-
lishment He went over there very
early, before there was any body in the
! place. and he knelt down at the desk
and said: oh Lord, thou knowest
! have tried to be honest, but can not
make these things come out right!
Help me to-day-help me this morn
| ing" The young man arose, and
hardly knowing why he did so, opened
"a book that lay on the desk, and there
was leaf containing line of figures
which explained everything. In
other words, he cast his burden upon
the Lord, and the Lord sustained him.
! Young man, do you hear that?
Oh, yes, God has sympathy with
anybody that is in any kind of toll!
He knows how heavy is the hold of
! bricks that the workman carries up
the ladder on the wall; he hears. the
pickaxe of the miner down in the coal
shaft; he knows how strong the tenn
pest strikes the sailor at the mas thead;
he sees the factory girl among the spin
dies, and knows how her arms ache;
he sees the sewing woman in the
fourth story and knows how few
pence she gets for making a garment;
and louder than all the din and roar
of the city comes the voice of a sym
pathetic God: Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shai sustain thee.
Then there are a great many who
abuse upon them. Sometimes society
gets a grudge against a man. All his
motives are misinterpreted and all his
good deeds are 1epreciated. With
more virtue thar come of the honored
and applauded, he runs only against
raillery and sharp criticism. When
a man begins to go down, he has not
only the force of natural gravitation,
but a hundred hands to help him in the
precipitation Men are prosecuted fol-
their virtues and their successes Ger
manieus sad he had just as many
bitter antagonists as he had adorn
ments. The character sometimes is sc
lustrovs that the weak eyes of envy
and jealousy can not bear to lool
at it
1t was their integrity that pu
Joseph in the pit, and Daniel in TIT
den, and Shad7aeh in the fire, ant
, sent John the Evangelist to desolat,
Patmos, and Calvin to the castle o
persecution, and John Huss to the
stake, and Korah after Moses, ant
Saul after David, and Herod afte
: Christ BE sure if you have anything
to do for church or state, and yol
attempt it with all your soul, tn
lightning will strike you.
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