Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-06-25


money market and has hook in tho nose
of the stock gambler, and that all the COM
mcrcal revolutions Of the world shall re-
suit in the very best for God 8 dear chill
drcn.
My brethren, do not kick against the di-
vine allotments. God knows Just how
much money 1t Is best for you to lose. You
never gain unless 1t is best for you to gain
You go up when 1t Is best for you to go up
and go down when 1t Is best for you to go
down. Prove 1t, you say. will-Ro-
mans viii, 2S, "All things work together
for good to them that love God" You go
into factory, and you see 90 or 80 wheels
and thoy arc going in different directions
This band Is rolling off this way and an
other band another way, ono down and an
other up. You say, what confusion in a
factoryr' Oh, no. All these different
bands arc only different parts of the ma
chincry. So go into your life and sec
strange things. Hero is one providence
pulling you one way and another in anoth-
ec way. But these are different parts of
one machinery by which he will advance
your everlasting and present woll being
Now you know that n second mortgage
and a third and fourth mortgage are often
worth nothing. 1t is tho first mortgage
that is good Investment. l hayo to tell
you that every Christian man has first
mortgage on every trial, and on every dis
aster and II must make q payment OF
eternal advantage to HRS soul. How many
worrimcnts it would tako ont Of your heart
If you believed that fully. You buy
goods and hope the price will go up, but
you are in o fret and a frown for fear the
price will go down. You do not buy the
goods using your best discretion in tho
matter and then say: ooh, Lord have
done the best l could. commit this whole
transaction into thy hands" That is what
religion Is good for, or it Is good for moth
ing
There are two things, says an old PROV
erb, 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
edyp 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, Christian man, to do business
alonc9 God Is the controlling partner in
every firm, and, although your debtors
may abscond, although your securities
may fail, although your store may burn,
God WILL out Of an inflnity 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 ono
inch beyond it. God has decided how
much prosperity you can stand honorably
Cal
eously, and at tho end of the year you will
have just so many dollars and cents, just
SO much wardrobe, Just so much furniture
just so many bonds and mortgages and
nothing more. 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 going to
bless you in time, and bless you for ctcr-
nifty, and he will do it in the best way
Your little child says, Papa, wish you
would let me have that knife" NO."
you say, "it is a sharp knife, and you will
cut yourself" He says, II must have it."
but 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. Arc you not kind in keeping it from
him? So God treats his children. say,
81 wish, heavenly Father, to get that"
God says, "No, my child" 1 say, 81 must
have it." God says, "You cannot havo
it." get angry and say 81 will have 1t"
God says, "You shall not have it,, and
do not get it. Is he not kind and loving
and the best of Fathers? Do you tell mo
there is no rule and regulation In these
thingsP Tell that to tho men who believe
in no God and no Bible. Tell 1t not to
me!
A man of large business concludes 70 go
out Of his store leaving much of his in
vestments in the business, and he says to
his sons: Now, am going to leave this
business in your hands Perhaps / may
come back in little while and perhaps
not While ara gone, you will please to
look aftc- affairs." After awhile the IA
Their 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 I never fully surrendered it--and
hcnceforth consider yourselves subordi-
mates. Is he not right in doing it, Ho
saves the business. The Lord seems to let
us go on in life, guided by our own skill,
and we make miserable work OF 1t. God
comes down 20 our shop or our store and
says: "Thnrs arc going wrong. como
to take charge. am master, ami know
what is best, and l proclaim my author.
ity" We are merely subordiDates II is
like boy at school with n long sum that
he cannot do. He hns been working at 1t
for hours, making figures here and rub
bling out figures there, and 1t Is all mixed
up, and tho teacher. looking over the boys
shoulder, knows that he cannot got ont of
1t, and cleaning the slate says, begin
again" just so God does to us. Our af-
fairs get into an incxtricable entanglcmcnt,
and he rubs everything out and says, BE.
gin again" Is he not wise and loving in
so doingS
a Good Backing.
think the trouble Is that there is so
large difference between tho divine and
the human estimate us to what is enough
have heard of people striving for that
which Is enough, but / never heard of any
ono 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 n poor man and a
rich man is only the difference in banks
The rich man puts his money in the Wash
ington bank, or the Central bank or tho
Metropolitan bank or some other bank of
that character, while the poor man comes
upand makes his Investments in the bank
of him who runs all the quarries all the
mines all the gold, all the earth, all heav-
On. Do you think man can fail when no
Is backed up like that?
You may have seen a map on which are
described with red ink the travels of tho
children of Israel through the desert to tho
Drop,iced land Won aoa how thav toolr