The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-15

try without having his neck stretched.
From our cradle to our grave there
is path all marked out. Each event
in our life is connected with every
other event in our life. Our losses may
be the most direct road to our gain.
Our defeat and our victory are twin
brothers The whole direction OF your
life was changed by something which
at the time Seemed to you trihing
while some occurrence which seemed
tremendous affected you but little
Gods plans are magnificent beyond all
comprehension. He molds us, and turns
and directs us, and we know it not.
Thousands of years are to him as the
fight of shuttle. The most terrific
occurrence does not make God tremble.
The most triumphant achievement
does not lift him into rapture. That
one great thought of God goes out
through the centuries, and nations
rise and fall, and eras pass, and the
world changes, but God still keeps the
undivided mastery, linking event to
event and century to century. To
God they are all one event, one
history, one plan, one develop
ment, one system. Great and mar
velous are thy works, Lord God
Almighty! l was years ago in New Or
leans at the exposition rooms, when
telegram was sent to the president OF
the United States, at Washington, and
we waited some Is or 60 minutes, and
then the presidents answer came back
and then the presiding officer waved
his handkerchief, and the signal was
sent to Washington that we were
ready to have the machinery of the eX
position started, and the president put
his finger on the electric button, and
instantly the great Corliss wheel be-
| gan to omove-rumbling rumbling, roll
ing, rolling, 1t was overwhelming, and
$4,000 people clapped and shouted.
Just one finger at Washington started
that vast machinery, hundreds and
hundreds of miles away, and thought
then, as think now, that men some
times touch influences that respond in
the far distance, 40 years from now, 80
years from now, 1000 years from now
Il, 100000 years from now-one touch
sounding through the ages.
We also learn from this story the
propriety of laying up for the future.
During the seven years of plenty,
Joseph prepared for the famine, and
when it came he had crowded store
house. The life of most men in a
worldly respect is divided into years Of
plenty and famine. 1t is seldom that
any man passes through life without at
least seven years of plenty. During
those seven years your business bears
rich harvest. You scarcely know
where all the money comes from, it
comes SO fast. Every bargain you
make seems to turn into gold. You
contract few bad debts. You are as
tonished with large dividends. You
invest more and more capital. You
wonder how men can be content with
small business, gathering in only 8
few hundred dollars while you real
your thousands. Those are the sever
years of plenty. Now, Joseph has tim'
to prepare for the threatened famine
for to almost every man there do com'
seven years of famine. You will b,
sick, you will be unfortunate, you viii
be defrauded, there will be hard times
you will be disappointed, and Il yo1
have no storehouse upon which to fal
back, you may be famine-struck.
We have no admiration for this de
nying ones self all personal comfor
and luxury for the mere pleasure o
boarding up; this grasping, graspinl
for the mere pleasure of seeing ho'
large pile you can geti this Away
being poor because as soon as dolla
comes in it is sent out to see if it cal
find another dollar so that it can carr.
it home on it's back. We have con
tempt for all those things, but there i
an intelligent and noble minded fore
cast which we love to see in men VIII
have families and kindred depending
upon them for the blessings of educa
tion and home. God sends us to tn
insects for lesson, which while the
do not stint themselves in the presen
do not forget their duty to forecast tn
!, future. go to the ant, thou sluggaro
consider her ways and be wise; whic
having no guide, overseer or ruler
provideth her meat in the summer an
gathereth her food in the harvest"
Now, there are two ways of layin
! up money. One of these is to put it i
stock and deposit it in bank, and il
, vest it on bond and mortgage. Th
/ other way to lay up money is giving
away. He is the safest who make
! both of these investments. There al
in this house men who, if they los
! every dollar they have in the worlt
) would be millionaires for eternity
, They made the spiritual investmen
, but the man who devotes none of h
, gains to the cause of Christ and look
, only for his own comfort and luxury
not safe, care not how the money
invested. He acts as the rose If
! should say: 81 will hold my breatl
= and none shall have snatch of fr;
GRANGE from me until next week; the
will set all the garden ahoat with m
!. aroma" OF course the rose, refusin
to breathe, died. But after all, la
up treasures in Heaven. They nevC
> depreciate in value. You may fe'
safe now with your 81, 900 or $1,000 {
y $40, 900 or $40, 900 income, but what wi
' such an income be worth after yc
!. are dead? Others will getit. Perhal
: some of them will quarrel about it b
! fore you are buried. They will be {
!, impatient to get hold of the will, the
= will think you should be buried or