The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-07-24

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buttons 90 che world shall result ln She very
best i0r Gods dear children.
Sly brethren 40 not Kick against the divine
a.loimenfa. God knows luHi h1W much
money ia d. best Tor sou to Jose. Gou never
gain unless q + best for you 90 gain You
80 up when it O. lesi iOr sou 90 So up and
~ down when % o. best ior sou 90 go down.
Prove q. you say i will. Romans VIII. ~,
"All thiurf work together Tor good to them
thar i0ve God. You SO into factory and
you see ~ OF So wheels, ana they are going
81 different directions, This hand IL rolling
on this way and another band another way;
one down aud another un. You say, "What
confusion ln factory" on. mel all these
different bands are only different parts OF the
machinery. So 60 into your lie and see
strange things Here Is one providence rull-
ing yon one way and another n another
way. But these are different parts OF ono
machinery by which 10 will advance your
everlasting and present we'll being.
Now you know that a second MORTGAGE,
and third and fourth MORTGAGE are often
worth nothing. Il ls the 0rst mortgage that
ls good Investment I havn 10 toll you
that every Christian man has first mort-
gage OF every trial, and on every disaster,
and Il must make q payment Of eternal Rd-
vantage 10 his soul How many wouimons
It would take out q your heart n you be-
Ieyed that fully You buy goods and hope
the price viii 80 up, but you ars In fret
and frOWn for tear the price viii 80 down.
You DO not buy the goods usng your best
discretion In the matter, and then say. "Oh,
Lord, have done the best could. COM
NIT this whole transaction into Thy handsl'
Ihat y what religion is good Tor or It Is
good for nothing
There are two things, says an old proverh.
you ought not 20 fret About-nrst. things
that you can help, and 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 well surren-
der first as last. Ny dear brethren, do not
cit any longer moping about your ledger.
Do not sit looking SO despondingly upon
your stock Of unstable goods Do you
think that God Is going TO allow you, a
Christian man, 10 do business alone2 God
Is the controlling partner In every firm, and
although your debtoG may abscond, al
though your securities NAV fail, although
your store may burn, God WILL out OF IN
inhnity OF results, choose for you the very
best results.
Do not have any idea that you can over
step 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 en-
ploy useiully and control righteously; and
az the end Of the year you will have Just so
many dollars and cents. Just SO much ward
robe. just so much furniture, just so many
bonds and mortgages. and nothing more. 1
will give you 800 for every penny you get
beyond that. God has looked over your life.
He knows what Is best for you, and he Is go
ing TO bless you Ia time, and bless YOU for
eternity; and He will do Il IN the best way.
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would let me have that knife" "NO,"
you say, sit Is a sharp knife and you
will cut yourself" He says, II must have
il" "But you cannot have IT," you reply.
He gets angry and red In the face, and says
he will have II; but you say he shall not have
1t. Are you not kind In keeping IL from him2
| SO God treats His children, / say, 81 wish,
Heavenly Father, to get that" God says, ''No,
| my child" say, Il must have it," God says,
you cannot have it." get angry and say,
| II will have It." God says, "You shall not
| have it," and / DO notget it. is He not kind
| and loving and the best Of Fathers2 Do you
| tell me there is no rule and regulation in
| these things2 Tell that TO the men who be-
| lIeve in no God and no Bible. Tell It not to
| me!
A man Of large business concludes to GO
| our OF his store. leaving much Of his invest
| ments in the business, and he says to bis
sons: NOW, l am going to leave this busi-
ness in your hands. Perhaps l may come
back in a little while. and perhaps not
While am gone you will please to look aftei
| affairs" After awhile the father comes bach
and finds everything at loose ends, and th'
whole business seems 10 be going wrong. H,
| says: 81 am going to take possession Of thi,
! business-you know 1 never fully surren
dered tt-and henceforth consider yourselves
subordinates." Is he not right in doing Ii
He saves the business. The Lord seems t
let US 90 on In life guided by our own skill
and we make miserable work OF it. Coz
comes down to our shop, or our store, ant
says: Things are going wrong. / come Il
take charge. am Master and know wha
is best, aud proclaim my authority" w
are merely suborllnates. 1t Is like boy q
school with a long sum that ne cannot dc
He has been working at 1t for hours, makinl
figures here and rubbing out figures there
and it is all mixed up, and the teacher, look
ing over the boys shoulder, knows that b
cannot get out Of 1t, and cleaning the slate
says, "Begiu again." just so God does t
US. Our affairs got into an inextricable ca
Engagement, and He rubs everything out an
says. "Beein agnin!" Is He not wise an
loving In so doing?
think the trouble Is that there isso larg
a difference between the divine and the hu
man estimate is 10 what Is enough. NAY
heard Of people striving for that which
enough, but / never heard of any one VIII
had enough. What God calls enough 70
man man call too little. What man cal
enough God says is too much. The differ
ence between poor man and rich man
only the difference In banks. The rich ma
puts his money In the Washington bank. {
the Central bank, or the Metropolitan banE
or some other bank of that character. whit
the poor man comes up and makes his il
vestments in the bank OF Him who runs a
the quarries, all the mines, all the gold. a
the earth, all heaven. Do you think Il ma
can fail when he is backed up like that?
You may have seen a map on which
described with red ink, the travels Of Il
children OF ISRAEL through the desert to Il
! promised land. You see how they took tn
! and that direction, crossed that river al
/ went through the sea. Do you know GC
! has made a map Of your life With paths lea
! ing up to this river and across that Sc
But, blessed be God, the path always com
out at the promised land. Mark that. Ma
, that!
i remark again that all those things tn
> seem to be but accidents In our life are und
! the divine supervision. We sometimes see
: to be going helmless and anehorless. Y,
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