The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-07-09
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different bands are only different 4;
machinery, SO go into your III II
strange things. Here is one provid
inc won one way and another II
,vav Pint these are different par
machinery by which He will adva
everlasting and present well being.
Now Won know that second n
ana third and fourth mortgage
worth nothing, It is the first mort
is n good investment. | have to
that every Christian man has ilr
gage on every trial, and on every
and il must make payment OF ett
vantage to his soul. How many wol 4
it would take out of your heart "
lieyed that fully. You buy goods a
the price will go up, but you arn
and frown for tear the price VIII
You do not buy the goods using y yO
discretion in the matter, and then ga
Lord, l have done the best could.
nit this whole transaction into my
That is what religion is good Tor q
good for nothing. =
There are two things, says an old pi
YOU ought not TO fret ahout-nrst,
that you can help, and second, things
YOU cannot help. II you can help
why do you not apply the remedy!
cannot help them, you might as well
der first as last. My dear brethren,
sit any longer moping about your }
Do not sit looking SO despondingly
YOUR stock of unsuitable goods. L
think that God is going to allow y
Christian man, to do business alonef
is the controlling partner in every flrm
although your debtofs may abscon,
though your securities may fail, altf
your store may burn, God Will. out
innuity OF results, choose for you the
best results.
Do not have any idea that you can
step the limit that God has laid dow
your prosperity. You will never get
inch beyond it God has decided how
prosperity you can stand honorably ane
ploy usefully and control righteously;
at the end OF the year you will have ju
many dollars and cents. just so much v
robe. Just 50 much furniture, just so n
bonds and mortgages. and nothing more
will give you 800 for every penny you
beyond that. God has looked over your
He knows what is best for You, and he is
ing to bless you in time, and bless you
eternity, and He will do 1t in the best W
Your little child says: "Papa, l wish
would let me have that knife" IN
you say, 'it Is sharp knife and
will cut Yourself" He says. II must hi
it," "But you cannot have it" you rel
He gets angry and red in the face, and S
he will have it; but you say he snail not b
it. Are you not kind in keeping it from b
50 God treats His children, | say, 81 W
Heavenly Father, to get that." God says, ="
my child" say must have II. God 50
L., r ~, nd {
II will have it" God says, "You shall
have it," and l do not get 1t. IL He not k
and loving and the best of Fathers? Do .
tell me there is no rule and regulation
these things? Tell that to the men who
lieve in no God and no Bible. Tell IT not
me,
a man of large business concludes to
our OF his store. leaving much of his invC
ments in the business. and he says to
sons: "Now, 1 am going to leave this bl
ness in your haiids. Perhaps l may &C
back in little while. aud perhaps l
While am gone you will please to look II
affairs" After awhile the father comes b
and finds everything at loose ends, and
whole business seems to be going wrong.
says: al am goin2 to take possession OF
business-you know | never fully SURF
derrd it--and henceforth consider yoursel
" Is lie net right in doing
lts saves the business The Lord seems
let us 20 on in life. guided by our own sk
and we make miserable work OF it. {
comes down to our shop, or our store,
SAYS: Things are going wrong. | come
take charge. am Master and know W
Is best, aud proclaim my authority
are merely subordinates. II is like boy
school with long sum that be cannot
He has been working ut it for hours, maxi
figures here and rubbing out figures tho
aud it is all miXeI up. ana the teacher, 10y
ing over the boys shoulder, knows that
cannot get out of it, and cleaning the slf
srys, "Begiu again" Just so God does
us. Our affairs get into au inextricable
ln!lament. and He rubs everything out
-ays "Begin again. Is He not wise d
loving In 50 doinc2
| think the trouble is that there is SO la
4 difference between the divine and TIL
man estimate as to what is enough. liz
hear OF peop'e striving for that whicl
enough, but / never heard of any one v
ha enough. What God calls enough
mau man call too little. What man C
enough God says Is too much. The diff
sncH bntN seu n poor man aud rich ma
only the difference in banks. The rich II
puts his money in the Washington bank
the Central bank, or the Metropolitan ba
or some other bauG OF that character. wi
t 9 poor man comes up and makes his
vcstments in the bank OF HIM who rams
Ihs quarries, all the mines, all the gold.
the earth, all heaven. Do you think y
eau fail when he is backed up like that?
YOU may have seen map Gil whicl
described, with re ink, the travels Of
chill iren of l. al through the desert 10
PROMISE land. You see how they took
and that direction. crossed that river
went through the sea. Do you know
has made map of your life With paths IL
ing up TO this river and across that :
But, blessed be God, the path always co
"ut At the promise land. Mark that! n
that!
Thcre is II man who says, THAT doc.r
raunot be true. because things do go so V
wrong" l reply it Is no Inconsistency
the part of God, but lack Of understand
on our part. l hear that men are max
very fine shawls in some factory. l g
on the first floor aud see only the raw
terials, AMI ask. "Are these the shaw
have heard about,' mo-" says the ma
tacturer. $50 up to the next floor" au
20 up. aud there | begin to see the des
But the man says: "Do not stop here.
up to the top floor of the factory and
will see the idea fully carried out" l dc
and having come to the top, see the C
pIete pattern of an exquisite shawl. s.
our life, stan ling down on low leve
Christian experience we do not underst
Gods dealings. He tets US to 90 up hig
h;
we advance until we stand at the very
sof heaven, and there see Gods i1ea
wrought out-a perfect idea of mercy
love, of kindness. And we say, "Just
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