Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-06-20

you are IN - fret ana a iruWn Tor fear the
price will 70 down. You do not buy tho
goods using your best discretion in the
matter and then say: "Oh. Lord. have
done the best ! could | commit this whole
transaction into thy hands lha, is what
religion is good for, or it is good for moth
ing
Their, are two things, says AN old PROV
crb. you ought not TO fret about. First,
things that you can help, and second,
things which YOU cannot help If you can
help them, why do you not apply the rem
e,y? II You cannot help them, you might
as well surrender first as last My dear
brethren. do not sit any longer moping
about Your ledger. DO not sit looking 50
dcspnnding upon your stock Of unstable
goods Do You think that God Is going To
allow You. Christian man, Ia do business
alone. God is the controlling partner in
every firm, and although your debtors
may ahscond, although your securities
may fail, although your store may burn
God will, out OF an iniinity Of results
choose for you the very best results
Rule and Regulation.
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
much prosperity you can stand honorahly,
and employ uScfully, and control right
cously, and at the end Of the year You will
have just 50 many dollars and cents. just
- much wardrobe, just 50 much furniture
just 80 many bonds and mortgages and
nothing more will give you 500 for
every penny Won get beyond that. God
has looked over your life He knows
what Is best for you. ana he is going TO
bless you in time. and bless you for cter-
nifty. and he will do it in the hest way.
Your little child says, Papa wish you
would let me have that knife. - No, "
You say. lit is II sharp knife, and you will
cut yourself" lie says. Il must have it ="
Bat You cannot have it., you reply. He
gets angry and red in the face and says he
will have it. but YOU say he shall not have
it Arr you not kind in keeping IL from
him: 80 God treats his children. / say,
IL wish, heavenly Father, u get that"
God says. NO. my child | say. Il must
have it. tod says. You cannot have
1t. ! get angry and say, Il will have it, "
God says. You shall not have it. and l
do not get it, l. he not kind and loving
and the hest of Fathers Do You tell me
there Is no rule and regulation in these
things. Tell that IL the men who believe
me,
\ man Of large business concludes to 90
out Of his store. leaving much Of his in
vcstmcntS In the business and he says 10
his sons Now. l am going 10 leave this
business in your hands. Perhaps l may
come back in little while and perhaps
not. While am gone you will please TO
look after affairs. After awhile the IA
thcr comes hack and finds everything at
loose ends. and the whole business seems
- l,c going wrong. He says +" am going
10 take possession uf this busincsS-you
know ! never fully SURRENDERED it-and
hcnccfnrih consider yourselves subor,li-
mates l. he not right in doing IL: He
saves the business The Lord seems To let
us 90 ON in life guided by our own skill,
and we make miserable work Of il God
comes down 10 our shop or our store and
say>: Things are going wrong. l come
- take charge ! am master. and know
what j. h,'>. and | proclaim my author
ity W. are merely >lbor,linatcs. II is
like boy 1t school with n long sum that
he cannot do He has been working nj it
for hours making figures here and rub
bling ont figures there. and il IS all mixed
up and the teacher looking over the boys
shoulder. knows that he cannot get out of
il. and cleaning the slate says, Begin
again Just - God does To- Us. Our af-
fairs get intnan imxtricahlr ENHANCEMENT,
and he rubS everything ont and says BE
gin again. Is he not wise and loving in
80 doing.
4 Good Backing.
think the trouble i that there is so
large a difference between the divine and
the human estimate rs Ia what is enough
have heard OF people striving for that
which i 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 hotwccn a poor man and
rich man Is only the difference in hanks
The rich man puts his money in the Wash
ington bank. or the Central hank. or the
Metropolitan bank or some other bank OF
that character. while the poor man comes
upand makes his Investments in the hank
of him who runs all the quarrics, all the
mines. all the gold. all the earth. all hcav-
en-. Do you think man can fail when he
l. backed up like that
You may have seen map ON which are
described with red ink the travels of tho
children of Israel through the desert To the
promised land. You see how they took
and went through the sea. Do you know
God has made a map of your life with
paths leading up to this bitterness and
that success, through this river and across
that sea? But, blessed be God, the path
always comes out at the promised land
Mark that Mark that!
remark again that all those things that
seem 10 be but accidents In our life are UNI
der the divine supervision. We sometimes
seem Ia bc going hclmlcss and nnchorlcss
You say. If had some other trade: If l
had not gone there this summer; If had
lived in some other house. You have no
right To say that Every tear you wept,
every step you have taken, every burden
you have carried, is under divine inspec-
tion, and that event which startled your
whole household with horror God met with
perfect placidity, because he knew it was
for your good Ii was part of II great plan
projected long age. In eternity, when You
come 10 reckon up your mcrcics, you will
point TO that aflliction as one of your great
est blessings
God has IA strange way with us. Joseph
found his way Ia the prime minister's
chair by being pushed into n pit, and to
many Christian down Is up. The wheat
must bc failed the quarry must he blast
cu, tnc diamond must Dc ground; the
Christian must be afflicted, and that sin
gle event, which you supposed stood en-
tirely alone, was il connecting link between
two great chains. one chain reaching
through all eternity past and the other
chain reaching through all eternity future
SO small an event fastening two ctcrnitics
together
y missionary coming from India Ia the
United States stopped mt -. Helena while
tlfe vessel was taking water. He had his
little child with him. They walked along
by an cmhankmcnt, and rock at that
moment became looscncd and falling in
stantly killed the child. Was it an acct
dent: Was il IA surprise 10 God: Had he
allowed his servant after "A life Of consecr4l-
ton To- come To- such trial: Not such is
my God. There are no accidents in the
divine mind, though they may seem 80 to
Us. God is good. and by every single Incl
dent of our life, whether it be adverse or
otherwise, before earth and heaven God will
demonstrate his mercy.
hear man say: THAT idea hcllttlcs
God. You bring him down t. such little
things Oh. | have II more thorough ap-
probation Of God IN little things than
have in great things The mother does not