Milford chronicle., 1896-06-26

, is 50 hard to realize thnt Cod ralcs the
! money market and has "a hook In the nose
Of tho stoc., gambler, and that all the COM
mercial revolutions of the world siriil re
suit in the very best for Gods dear chill
dren.
/. Ny bretllren, DO not kick against the Ill
vine allctnouts. God knows iast how
much money it is best for you ID lee. You
never gain unless it is best for you to gain.
You 20 upwhen il is best for you to go up
and 60 down when it is best Tor y IA to go
[ down. Prove it, you sly. l will-Ro-
mans viii 2s, "All Things work together
FOR good to them that love God" You 80
into factory. and You $50 % or 80 wheels,
and they arc going in different directions.
/ This band is rolling OF this WY, and an
other band another way, oae downaAd an
other up. You say, avn - onfusion in
factoIyr' On, no. An these different
bands arc Only different parts of the ma
chinery SO go into yolr lie and see
I strange things. Here is one providence
| pulling you uueYay and another in anoth-
er way. But these are different parts Of
one machinery by which he will advance
/ your everlasting and present well being.
Now you kno,g int a second mortgage
and u third and fourth mort sage are often
worth nothing 1t is the first mortgage
/ that is a good Investment have to tell
| you that every Christian man has first
mortgage on every trill, ard on every dis
aster and it must make Il Payment of
eternal advantage to his soul. How many
worriments itwOuld take out of your heart
if you believed that July. You buy
! goods ard hope the Price viii go up but
you are in fret and frown for fear the
price will go down. You do not buy tho
goods using your best discretion IL the
matter and then say: "Oh, Lord, have
done the best l could. I commit this VIII le
transaction into thy hands" That iswhat
religion is good for, or it is good for moth
ing
There are two things, says an old prov
erb, you ought not to fret about First,
things that you can help, and second,
things which you cannot help. Ii you can
help them, why do You not apply the rem
edy? II you cannot help them you might
as well surrender first ms last. lily dear
brethren, do not sit any longer moping
about your ledger DO not sit looking so
despondins t2.on your took Of unstable
goods, Do you think that God is going to
allow you, - Christian man, to do business !
aloneg God is the controlling partner in
every firm, and although your debtors !.
may abscond, although your securities
may fail although your store may burIl,
God will, out of AN infnity Of results,
choose for yoa tine very best results.
Rule and Regulation.
Do not have any idea that you can over
step the limit tnat G5d has laid down for
your prosperity You Will never get Q'le
inch beyond it. God has decided how
much prosperity you Gun stand honorahly,
and employ usefully, ana control right
eously, and ut the end CT the year you will
have just SO many dollars and cents Just
so much wardrobe, just 50 much furniture,
Just 50 many bonds ana mortgages and
nothing more. 1 will give you 500 for
every penny you get beyond that Gcd
has looked over your lifc. He knows
what is best for you, and he is going to
bless you in time, and bless you fer eter-
nifty, and he win do it in tine best way.
Your little child says, "Papa, wish you
would let me haze that knife" NO"
you say, sit is u sharp l.aile, and you will
cut yourself" lie says, Il must have it. "
but you cannot have it, - you reply. He
gets angry and red in the face and says he
will have it, but you say he shall not have
it. Are you not kind in keeping it from
him? So God treats his children. 1 say,
II wish, heavenly Father, to get that ="
God says, "NO, my child l say, q" must
have it. God says, You cannot have
it." get angry and say, 81 VII have it. -
God says, "You shall not have it," and I
do not get it. Is he not kind ard loving
and the best Of Fathers? Do you tell NE
there is 10 rule and regulation in these
things? Tell that 70 the men who believe
in no God and no Bible. Tell it not to
mel
A man of large business concludes to go ,
out of his store, leaving much Of his in
vestmcnts i'll the business, and he says to
his sons: "Now, am going to leave this
business in your hands. Perhaps / may
come back in little while and perhaps
not While / am gone, you will please to
look after affairs" After awhile the IA
ther comes back and firds everything at
loose ends, ard the whole business seems
to be going wrong. He says: Il am going
to take possession of this business-yOu !
know 1 never fully surrendered it-and
henceforth consider yourselves subordi-
mates. - Is he not right in doing it? He {
saves the business The Lord seems to let
us go on in life, guided by Our own skill,
and we make miserable work Of it. God
comes down to our shop or our store and !
says: Things are going wrong. l come
10 take charge am master, and / know {
what is best, and I prOcl-iin my author !
ty. )" We are merely sub0rdinatos 1t is 1
like boy at school with long sum that &
be cannot do. He has been working at it Y
or hours, making figures here. and rub
)ing out figures there, ard it Is all mixed q
up, and the teacher, looking over the boys !
shoulder, knows that he cannot get out of I
it, and cleaning the slate says, begin J
again. just 50 God does to Us. Our af- q
airs get into an inextricable ENHANCEMENT, l
D.
yin again" Is he not wise and loving in C
70 doing?
A Good Baelsing.
/ think the trouble is that there is so
argc difference between the divine and a
he human estimate as to what is enough. 4
hive heard Of rcople striving for that |
which is enough, but l never heard OF any a
me who had enough What God calls /
nough for man man calls too little. What q
nan calls enough God says is too much. /
nhe difference between poor man and Q i
ich man is only the difference in banks. !,
The rich man puts his money in the Wash n
ngton bank or the CcHtral bank, or the 4
bank or some other bank of =
hat character while the poor man comes
ID and makes his investments in the bank q,
f him who runs all the quarrics, all the a
mines, all the gold, all the earth, all heav- +
n. Do you think man can TAIL when he !
S backed up like that? r
You may have seen map on which are h
described with red ink the travels Of the a
hildren Of Israel through the desert to the a
Promised land. You see how they tool d
his and that direction, crossed the river "
nd went through the sea- Do you know n
Tod has made a map Of your life with
,aths leading up to this bitterness ard
INV ~
hat scar But blessed be God the path O
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