The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-26

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all our friendships You were driven
to the wall You found q man just at
that crisis who sympathized with you
and helped you. You say: "HOw
lucky l wasI' There was no luck
about it God sent that friend just
as certainly as He sent the angels to
strengthen Christ Your domestic
friends, your business friends, your
Christian friends, God sent them to
bless you. and if any of them have
proved traitorous, 1t is only to bring
some die, it is only that they may
stand at the outposts OF Heaven TO
greet you at your coming.
You always will have friends, warm
hearted friends, magnanimous friends;
and when sickness comes to your
dwelling, there will be watchers: when
trouble comes to your heart, there will
be sympathizers; when death comes.
there will be gentle fingers to close
the eyes and fold the hands, and gen.
tie lips TO tell of a resurrection. Oh,
we are compassed by body guard OF
friendsl 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!
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
man will land. The afiuent fall; the
poor rise. The ingeuius fail; the ig-
norant succeed. An enterprise open
ing 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 HOSTS him; and they are both
wrong 1t is so hard to realize that
God rules the money market, and has
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.
NV 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 up and go down when
it is best for you to go down. Prove
it, you say. 1 will. Romans, viii:2s:
''All things work together for good to
them that love God"
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gage, and a third and fourth mortgage,
are often worth nothing. 1t is the
first mortgage that is a good invest
ment have to tell you that every
Christian man has first mortgage on
every trial, and on every disaster, and
it must make a payment of eternal
advantage to his soul How many
worriments would it take out of your
heart, if you believed that fully. You
buy goods and hope that 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, aud then
say: 20, Lord. l have done the best
could; commit this whole transaction
into Thy hands," That is what reli-
gion is good for or is it good for moth
ing.
There are two things, SAYS an old
proverb. 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 remedy? If you cannot help
them, you might as we'll surrender first
as last My dear brethren, do not sit
any longer, moping about your ledger
! Do not sit looking so Responding upon
your stock of unstable goods. Do
you think that God is going to allow
you, a Christian man, to do business
alone? God is the controlling partner
in every firm; and, although your debt
ors may abscond, although your Sc
curities may fall, although your store
may burn, God will, out of an infinity
of results, choose for you the very best
results
Do not have any idea that you can
overstep 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 honoraUly, and employ usefully,
and control righteously; and at 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 moth
ing more will give you 500 for ev-
cry penny you get beyond that God
has looked over your life. He knows
what is best for you. and He is going
TO bless you in time and bless you for
eternity; and He will do it in the best
way.
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 Per-
haps / may come back in a little while,
and perhaps not While am gone you
will please to look after affairs"
Af;er awhile the father comes back
and finds everything at loose ends, and
the whole business seems to be going
wrong. He says: II am going to take
possession of this business-you know