The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03
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y | ing more. Will BlVo you vAoO 49,
It every penny you get beyond that. God
n has looked over your life. He knows
n what is Jest for you, and He is going
J. to bless you in time, and bless you for
d eternity; and He will do 1t in the best
v way. Your little child says: Papa,
+ wish you would let me have that knife. :"
Q "No," you say, sit is sharp knife
Q and you will cut yourself" He says:
r II must have it." "But you can not
have it," you reply. He gets angry
r 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.
II say: II wish, Heavenly Father, to
J get that" God says: mo, my child"
say: II must have it," God says:
! "You can not have it." / get angry
and say: II will have it." God says:
"You shall not have it, and l do not
get it. Is He not kind and loving, and
the best of fathers? Do not tell me
there is no rule and regulation in these
things? Tell that to the men who be-
lieves in no God and no Bible. Tell 1T
not to me?
A man of large business concludes to
go out of his store, leaving much OF his
investments in the business and he
says to his sons: "Now, am going to
leave this business in your hands
Perhaps may come back in a little
white, andperhaps not. While am gone
you will please to look after affairs"
| After awhile the father comes back
and finds everything at loose ends, and
the whole business seems to be going |
wrong. He says: lam going to take
possession of this business--you know |
never fully surrendered it; and hence
forth consider yourselves subordi-
Mates" Is he not right in doing it? He
saves the business The Lord seems to
let us go in life, guided by our
own skill, and we make misera-
BILE work of it. God comes
down to our shop, or our
store says: ''Things are going wrong,
l come to take charge. I am Master,
and know what is best, and pro-
claim my authority" We are merely
subordinates. 1t is like a boy at school
with long sum he can not do. He
has been working at it for hours,
making figures here and rubbing out
figures there, and it is all mixed up;
and the teacher, looking over the boys
shoulder, knows that he can not get
out of it, and, cleaning the slate, says:
Begin again." Just so God does to
us. Our affairs get into an inextrica-
BILE ENHANCEMENT, and He rubs every
thing out and says: Begin again!" Is
He not wise and loving in SO doing?
1 think the trouble is that there is
SO large a difference between the Di-
vine and the human estimate as to
what is enough. have heard of peo-
pie striving for that which is enough,
but never heard of any one who had
enough. What God calls enough for
man, man calls too little. What man
calls enough, God says is too much.
The difference between poor man
and rich man is only the difference ,
in banks. The rich man puts his :
money in the Washington bank, or the
Central bank, or the Metropolitan
bank, or some other bank of that char
acter, while the poor man comes up
and makes his investments in the bank !.
Of him who runs ali the quarries,
Ill the mines, all the gold, all the :
earth, all Heaven. Do you think :,
man can fail when he is backed up like
hat?
/ remark again, that all those things
that seem to be but accidents in our y
life are under the Divine supervision. 7
We sometimes seem to be going helm> !,
ess and anchorless. You say: IF !
lad some other trade; if l had not Il
rome there this summer; if had lived u
n some other house" You have no G
light to say that. Every tear you G,
vept, every step you have taken, every u
burden you have carried, is under IL
Divine inspection, and that event u
which startled your whole household
With horror God met with perfect n
,lacidity, because He knew il was for
our good. 1t was part of great plan a.
projected long ago. In eternity, when u
'ou come to reckon up your mercies,
'ou will point to that affection as one u
# your greatest blessings. c.
Some of you may be disappointed Sc
his summer-vacations are apt to be di
appointments-but whatever your e.
and worriments, know W
hat mans heart deviseth his way. re
hat the Lord directeth his steps" cy
Isk these aged men in this church 81
it is not so. 1t has been SO in my in
wn life. One summer started for in
he Adirondacks. but my plans were so
hanged that landed in Liverpool. I
tudied law and got into the minis ~,
ry. resolved to go as a missionary ~,
. China. and 1 stayed in the ~