The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-27

down; the rich man thinks it is chaDc
which hoists him; and they are bot
wrong. 1t is so hard to realize tina
God rules the honey market, and has
hook in the nose of the stock gambler
and that all the commercial revolution
of the world shall result in the yer,
best for Gods children.
My brethren, do not kick against tn,
divine a~llotInents. God knows Jus
how much money it is best for YOU Il
lose. You never gain unless it is besr
for you to gain. You go up when it i.
best for you to up, and go down wher
it is best for you to go down. Prove
it, you say. l will. Romans, viii:2s
All things work together for good tc
them that love God"
Now you know that n second mort.
gage, and n third and fourth mortgage,
are often worth nothing. 1t is the
first mortgage that is a good invest
ment- l have to tell you that everv
Christian man has a first mortgage on
every trial, and on every disaster, and
1T must make a payment of eternal
advantage to his soul. How mapv
worriments would it take out OF your
heart, if you believed hat 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, and then
say: so, Lord, i have done the best |
could; l commit this whole transaction
into Thy handsi" That is what reIi-
gion is good for or is it good for moth
ing. ,
There arc two things, saws an old
proverb, you ou yht 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 well 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 de bt-
ors may abscond, although your Sc
curities may fall, although your store
may burn, God will, out of an ininitv
Of results, choose for you the very best
Do not have any idea that you can
overstep the limit that God has laid
Town for your prosperity. You will
never get one inch beyond it. God has
how much prosperity you can
honorably, and employ usefuIIy.
nd control righteously; and at the end
II the year you will have Just so manv
dollars and cents, just SO much ward
ODE, just SO much furniture, lust so
bonds and mortgages, and MOTH
ng more L will give you 800 for ev-
ry penny you get beyond that. God
as looked over your life. He knows
that is best for you, and He is going
D bless you in time and bless YOU for
.ternity; and He will do it in the best
A man of large business: concludes to
o out of his store, leaving much of his y,
lvestments in the business, and he
iys to his sons: Now, 1 am going to
ave this business in your hands. Per-
APPS may come back in a little while. ,
nd perhaps not While / am gone Won a
Ill please to loo after affairs"
fter awhile the father comes back :,
Id finds everything at loose ends. and n
le whole business seems to be going :
rong. He says: 81 am going to take +
of this business-you know T
never fully surrendered it; and hence -
nth consider yourselves subordi-
Is he not right in doing it? -
3 v the business. The Lord -
ems to let us go on in life, guided by .,
r own skill, and we make miser. g
lie work of it. God comes down to
r shop, or our store, and saws: ~
are going wrong, L come to -
charge. L am master, and 1 know ~
is best, and 1 proclaim NV au- -
We are merely s~ubordinates.
think the trouble is, that there is >.
large a difference between tie -
Inc and the human estimate as to ~
Iat is enough. 1 have heard of people ce
living for hat which is enough, but va
never heard of any one who had
'ugh. What God calls enough for -
n, man may call too little. What e
n calls enough, God says is too a.
The difference between a poor III
n and a rich man is only the differ ca
e in banks The rich man puts his na
ney in the Washing bank or the -
trail bank or the Metropolitan bank, in
o"hR OF that character, tn,
lie the poor man comes up and or,
~ hho LsCobllCIIS III INC DaQK OF ma
who runs all the quarries, all the for
es, all he gold, all the earth, all to
ven DO you think a man can fail me
n he is backed up like that?
remark, again. that all those things as
3 seem to be but accidents in our Ss,
are under the divine supervision. nro
sometimes seem to be going helm ma
n a~nchorless. You say: If del
some other trade; if | had not gone the
e this summer; if l had lived in Cor
g other house" You have no right voc
~ that Every e you wept, ev- anc
step you have taken, every burden
have carried, is under divine in
tion, and a event which startled
whole household with horror God -
with perfect placidity, because He lets
v it was for you good. 1t was list
OF a great plan projected long diar
In eternity when you come to -
up your mercies, you will point by 6
at affection as one of your great are
blessings. chill
d has a strange way with us. Jo- -
found his way to the prime min one
s chair by being pushed into a pit, l no
to many a Christian down is up. reliI
must be failed; the quarry -
be blasted; the diamond must be ress,
no; the Christian must be af1ict- RICH
nd that single event, which you but
osed stood entirely alone, was a -
link between two great the
is, one chain reaching through all lone
ity past and the other reaching one
Ugh all eternity future-so small weel
fastening two eternities to- -,
u. sand
coming from India to of n
United States, stopped at St. reco.
Ia while the vessel was taking press
:. He had his child with him. Mile
walked along by the embank- =
anu rock at that moment be- frien
loosened, and falling instantly FASH
the child. Was it an accident? indef
t a surprise to GodP Had he al wort
his servant, after a life of con- he nc
ion, to come to such a trial? Not Tit
is my God. There are no acct. 80
III Inc olVlne mind, though they ends
eem so to us. God is good, and No,
cry single incident of our life, calml
Ter it be adverse or otherwise. be- villai
arth and Heaven, God will dem cause
IIe MS mercy. piled.
ar a man say: THAT the idea II
eS God. YOu BRING Him down ala -,