The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-07-02

trouble comes to your heart there will
be sympathizers;; when death comes,
there WILDE gentle fingers to close the
eyes and fold the hands and gentle
lips to tell of resurrection. Oh, we
are comprised by a body guard of
friends! Every man, if he has behaved
himself well, is surrounded by three
circles Of friends--those Of the outer
circle wishing him we'll; those in the
next circle willing to help him; while
close up to his heart are a few who
would die for him. God pity the
wretch who has not any friends! 4
I remark again that God puts down
the limit of our temporal prosperity.
The world Of finance seems to have no
God in it. You cannot tell where "a
man will land. The affluent fall; the
poor rise. The ingenious fail; the ig.
norant succeed An enterprise opening
grandly, shuts in bankruptcy, while
out Of the peat dug up from some
New England. marsh the millionaire
builds his fortune. The poor man
thinks it is chance that keeps him
down; the rich man thinks it is chance
which hoists him; and they are both
wrong. It is hard to realize that God
rules the money market, and has a
hook in the nose of the stock gambler.
and that all the commercial revolutions
of the world shall result in the very
best for Gods children.
My brethren, do not kick against the
divine allotments. God knows just
how much money it is best for you to
lose You never gain unless it is best
for you to, gain. You go up when it is
best for you to go up, and down when
it is best for you to go down. a Prove it,
you say. will, Romans, viii: %, cali
things work together for good to them
that love God" You go into a factory
and you see twenty or thirty wheels,
and they are going in a different direc-
tons. This band is rolling off this
way, and another band another way;
one down and another up. You say,
what confusion in a factoryn' Oh,
no! all these different bands are only
different parts Of the machinery. So
I go into your life and see strange
things. Here is one providence pulling
you one way, and another in another
way. But these are different parts OF
one machinery by which He will adj
vance your everlasting and present
well-being.
Now you know that a second mort
gage and third and fourth mortgage
are often worth nothing, 1t is the first
mortgage that is a good investment.
I have to tell you that every Christian
man has first mortgage on every trial,
and Oh every disaster, and, it must
must make a payment of eternal adj
vantage to his soul How many wor-
riments it would take out of your
heart if you believed that fully. You
buy goods and hope the price will go
up, but you are in a fret and a frown
for fear the price will go down. You
do not buy the goods using your best
discretion in the matter, and then say,
ooh, Lord, I have done the best
could; commit this whole transa ction
into Thy >hands!'' That is what relig-
ion is good for or it is good for moth
ing. .*-..< .,..
There are two things, says an old
pfoverb, you ought not to fret about:
First, things that you can help; land,
second, things which you cannot help.
If you can help them, why do you not
apply the remedy? If you cannot help
them you might as we'll surrender first
as last. My dear brethren, do not sit
longer moping about your ledger. Do
not sit looking so dependent upon
your stock Of unstable goods. Do you
think that God is going to allow you,
q Christian man, to do business alone!
God is the controlling partner in every
firm; and, although your debtors may
abscond although your securities may
fail, although your store may burn,
God will, out Of an infinity of results,
choose you the very best results
Do you have any idea that you can
oyerstep the limit that God has laid
down for your prosperity? You Will
never get one inch beyond it. GOD
has decided how much prosperity you
can stand honorably, and employ USE
fully. and control righteously; and at
the end of the year you will have Just
So many dollars and cents, just SO
Jnuch wardrobe, just SO much furhi-
turc. just SO many bonds and mort
cages. and nothing more. | will give
YOU one hundred dollars for every
| penny YOU get beyond that. God has
looked over your life. IIe knows What
| is best for YOU, and He is going tic
| bless you in time. and bless you FOL
| eternity; and he will do it in the best
! way. Your little child says. Papa,
wish YOU would let me have that
| knife.'' ''No.'' you say. lit is a SHARP
knife and you will cut yourself" He
says, 81 must have it, .'But you can
not have it, you reply. He gets
! angry and red in the face, and he
says he will have it; but you say he
Shall not have it. Are you not kind il
keeping it from him? SO God treats
his children. I say, II wish, Heavenly
Father, to get that God says, NO
my cbild.'' I say, Il must have it,
God says, tYou5 cannot have it, J
get angry and say. Il will have it,
] God says, You shall not have it" ant
! do not get it. Is He not kind enc
loving and the best of Fathers? Dr.
you tell HE there is no rule and r.gu
lation in these things? Fell that Il
the men who believe in no God and n.
| Bible. Tell it not to me!
A man of large business concludes
to so out of his store, leaving mucl
OF his investments in the business
and lie says to- his sons. Now, I IN
gong to leave this business in YOU
hands. Perhaps I may come back; il
a little while, and perhaps not. Will
i ain gone you will please to loOl
after affairs After awhile the fathe
comes back and finds everything Il
i loose ends. and the whole bushes
seems TO ge going wrong. He says