The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-06-25

on this way and another band another way;
one down and another up. You say, "what
confusion in a factoryl" Oh, mol all these
different bands are only different parts OF the
SO 90 into your life and see
strange things. Here Is one providence pull
ing you ono way aud another In another
way. But these are different parts OF one
machinery by which lie will advance your
everlasting and present we'll being.
Now you know that second mortgage,
and third and fourth mortgage are often
worth nothing. IL Is the first mortgage that
IL good investment. I have TO tell you
that every Christian man has n first mort
gage on every trial. and on every disaster.
and II must make n payment OF eternal ad-
vantage TO his soul. How many worrimcnts
II would take out NJ your heart " you be-
lieved that fully. You buy goods and hope
the price will go up. but you are in fret
and a frovn for tear the price will go down.
You do not buy the goods using your best
discretion in the matter, and then say. "0b,
Lord, j have done the best could. I COM
NIT this whole transaction into Thy hands"
That Is what religion is good tor or II is
good for nothing.
There are twothines, says an old proverb.
YOU ought not TO fret about--nrst. things
that you can help, aud second, things which
YOU cannot help. II you can help them.
why do you not apply the remedy II you
cannot help them, you might as we'll surren-
der first as last. My dear brethren, do not
sit any longer moping about your ledger.
DO not sit looking so despondingly upon
your stock Of unstable goods. Do you
think that God il going to allow you. =
Christian man. TO do business nloneI God
Is the controlling partner IN every firm. and
although your debtors may abscond. al
though your securities NAV fail, although
your store may burn. God WILL out OF an
inhnity OF results, choose for you the very
best results.
Do not have any idea that you can over
step the limit thar God has laid down for
your prosperity. You will never get one
inch beyond II. God has decided how much
prosperity you can stand honorably and en-
plOy useiully and control righteously; and
at the end OF the year you will have just 30
many dollars and cents. Just so much ward
robe. just 80 much furniture, just so many
bonds and mortgages. and nothing more. 1
will give you 500 for every penny you get
beyond that. God has looked over your life
He knows what Is best fer you. and he H. go
ing to bless You In time, and bless you for
eternity; and He will do IL In the best way.
Your little child says "papl. wish you
would let me have that knife" NO."
you say, "it Is u sharp knife and you
Will cut yourself H. says. IL must have
L.. "But you cannot have It," you reply.
Ho gets angry and red In tho face, aud says
he will have It, but you say he snail not have
IL. Are you not kind in keeping IL from him2
SO God treats His children. / say. III wish,
Heavenly Father,to gctthat." Got says. "No,
my child say,"l must havcit.' God says,
You cannot have It," get angry and say,
81 will have IT. God saws, "You shall not
have it:' and 10 not get Il. Is lie not kind
and loving and the beat oi Fathers2 Do you
tell me there is no rule and regulation In
these things2 Toll tha, TO the men who be-
lievc In no God and no Bible. Tell It not TO
mel
A man Of large business concludes TO go
our OF his store. leaving much OF his invest
mcnts in the business. aud he says 10 his
sons "Now, am going to leave this busi-
meas I'm your hands Perhaps | may come
back in little while, aud perhaps not
While am gone YOU will please TO look after
affairs After awhile the father comcs back
ana tlnds everything at loose ends and the
whole business seems to be- going wrong. lie
says; 81 am going H. take possession ot this
husiness-yOu know | never fully surren-
drred it-and hcnceiorth consider yourselves
subordinates. l. he not right IN doing II?
He saves the business. The Lord seems TO
let us go on in life. guided by our own skill.
ana we make miserable work of it, God
comes down TO our shop, or our store, and
says: "Things are going wrong. | come 90
take charge. am Master and know what
Is best, aud lsproc4A An mv-apthority.' We
. ~, TsrG!gm j. IN addition 10 'lpn.p- her.g'
.yo It up; aud Tong sum that he cannot do %
4.JAsAg. 81 Working at II iut hours. maxim,
figures here and rubbing out figures there.
and II Is all mixed iup. ANA the teacher. loo k
lnS over the boys shoulder. knows that he
cannot get out of II, and cleaning the slate
says, Begin again" Jus, so God does TO
Us. Our affairs get into an inextricahlo en-
Engagement, and lie rubs everything out and
says, Begin again. Is lie not wise anI
loving in SO doing?
think the trouble is that there Is so large
difference between the divine and th, hui
man estimate Is u what Is enough have
heari OF people striving for that which IL
enough, but never heart OF any ons who
had enough. What God calls enough for
man man call too little. What man calls
enough God says is too much. The differ
ence letWe2l p9o- man guia rich man is
only the difference In banks Thr rich man
puts his money In the Washington hank. or
the Central bank, or tn" MrtrDpOlitlu bank,
or some other bank Of that character, wnile
the poor man comes up and makes his in
yestments In the bank oi HIN who runs all
the quarries, all tho mines, all tho gold. all
the earth all heaven. Do you thi"E q nan
can fail when he is backed up Ike that?
1Ou may have seen q map on which Is
described, with red ink, the travels Of the
children Of lS'a'l through the desert 10 the
promised land. You see how they took this
and that direction, crossed thar river and
went through the sea. Do YOU know God
has made map Of your lifo with paths lead
ing up TO this river AMI across that sca2
But, blessed be God, the pa'h always comes
out ~ the promised land. Mark that Mark
that!
There IL man who says, THAT doctrine
cannot be true. because things do 90 SO very
wrong" reply It Is no Inconsistency on
the part OF God, but lack of understanding
on our part. | hear that men are maying
very line shawIs in some factory go in
on the first floor and see only the raw ma
terials, and ask, ''Aro these tho shawls
have heard about'' NO." says the manu-
facturer. $50 up TO the next floor" aud |
90 up, and there | begin to see tho design.
But the man says "DO not stop hero. Go
up to the top floor OF the factory and YOU
will see the idea fully carried out" DO so,
and having come TO the top, see the COM
plete pattern Of an exquisite shawl. So in
our life, standing down on low level OF
Christian experience we do not understand
Gods dealings. He tells Us TO 90 up higher
and higher until we begin TO understand
the divine meaning with ragDnpt to ng mud