The Progress., 1896-06-27

and however lowly the portals, IS as
near Gods heart as az ALEXANDRA OF
KremlIn. Prove it, you say. Proverbs !
3: SO. "Fe bIesseth the hatitaton q
the Just
remark further that God aTran&fs
all our friendships. You were driven
to the wall. You found man just at
that crisis v :.5 sympathized with yon /
and helped you. You say, How lucky
I was~ There was nc luck about Il. |
God sent that friend just as certainly
as he sent the angel 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 u%l'-
orous, it is only to bring out the Vaiue
Of those who remain. If some dle, II j.
only that they may stand at the out
posts of heaven to greet you al your
COM" +
r. mark again, that God puts down
the init to our temporal prosperity
The world of finance seems 10 nave
no God in it. You cannot tell where Il
man will land. The atfluent fall; the
poor rise. The ingenious fail; the ls-
norant succeed. An enterprise opening
grandly, shuts in bankruptcy, Wnl'e
out of the peat dug up from some NE"
England marsh the millionaire oullus
his fortune The poor man THINKS II
| is chance that keeps him down; me
rich man thinks it is chance when
hoists him; and they are both wrong
It is so hard to realize that God rules
the money market, and has hook III
the nose of the stock gambler, ana lh"'
all the commercial revolutions or the
world shall result in the very best lor
Gods dear children.
MY brethren, do'not kick against the
Divine allotments. God KNOWS JUST
how much money it is best for you 10
lose. You never gain unless 1t IS pest
for YOU to gain. You go up when 1t Is
best for you to go up. and go do"n
when il is best for you TO go gown
Prove it, you say. I will. Rom. 8
% "Au things work together for GOOD
to them that love God You 60 inte
factory, and you see twenty or thr'S
wheels, and they are going IN dl1ereh
, directions. This band is rolling OF
this way. and another band anothe
, way; one down and another up lo'
G say. What confusion in factory!
Oh no all these different bands ar
. only different parts of the machinery
6 So | go into your life and see strans
- things. Here is one providence pull
Q ing you in one way and another III al
, other way. But these are diner
ent parts of enc machinery by Whic
he will advance your everlasting an
present well-being.
! Now YOU know that a second nor
# gage and third and fourth mortgage
are often worth nothing. 1t is "a
IS first mortgage that is a good lnVes
n ment. | have to tell you that ever
y Christian man has a first morigas
# on every trial, and on every dlsaste
ID and it must make payment oil etern
10 advantage to his soul. How maj
;e vorrimerts it would take out CT yo'
# heart. if you believed that fully. lt
,e buy goods and hope the price Will
70 I'M. but you are in fret and . hoW
ir for fear the price wiz! go down. II
10 do not buy the goods using sou' be
O. discretion ir the matter, and then Sd
II 20 Lord, / naTs zone the best l coui
II T commit this whole transaction ID
- Thv hands" That is what religion
at good f.. ct i is good for nothing.
lir T. man of large business coDcludes
at on ont of his store, leaving much