The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-03

ranged the place for our dwelling
What particular city or town, street Q
house you shall live in seems to be
, mere matter of accident. You go on
to hunt for a house, and you happe
to pass up certain street, and happel
to see a sign, and you select thathouse
Was it all happening so? Oh, mol CO.
guideth you in every step. He foresay
the future. He knew all your circum
stances, and he selected just that on
house as better for you than any of tn
10000 habitations in the city. GU
house, however humble the roof ant
however lowly the portals, as as neal
Gods heart as an ALEXANDRIA or krem
lin. Prove it, you say. Proverbs, ILL
80. "He blesseth the habitation of the
just"
Iremark further that God arranges
all our friendships. You were driven
to the wall. You found man just at
that crisis who sympathized with you
and helped you. You say: slow lucky
| l wasW There was no luck about it.
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
traiterous, it is only to bring out the
value of those who remain. If some
die, it is only that they 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 gentle
lips to tell of resurrection. Oh. we
are compassed by body-guard of
friends Every man, if he has be-
haved himself well, is surrounded by
three circles of friends-those of the
outer circle wishing him well; those in
the next circle willing to help him;
while close up to his heart are few
who would die for him. God pity the
wretch who has not any friends.
remark again that God puts down
,he limit to our temporal prosperity.
rhe world of fiance seems to have no |
Tod in it. You can not tell where a |
nan will land. The affluent fall; the
DOOR rise. The ingenious fail; the ig-
GRANT succeed An enterprise open
ng grandly shuts in bankruptcy, while
nut of the peat dug up from some New
England marsh the millionaire builds
lis fortune. The poor man thinks it
) chance that keeps him down; the
ich man thinks it is chance which
oists him; and they are both wrong.
t is hard to realize that God rules the
honey market, and has hook in the
ose OF the stock gambler, and that
II the commercial revolutit MS of the
'orld shall result in the very best for
DDS dear children.
My brethren, do not kick against the
Irvine allotments. God knows just
ow much money it is best for you to
'se. You never gain unless it is best
'r you to gain. You go up when it is
est for you to go up, and go down
hen it is best for you to go down.
rove it, you say. 1 will. Rom, viii,
J: "All things work together for good
} them that love God" You go into ;
factory and see 90 or 30 wheels, and
ley are going in different directions. {
his band is rolling off this way, and ;
lother band another way; one down {
Id another up. You say, what con- ]
Ision in factory!" Oh, no! all these
fferent bands are only different parts
the machinery. So go into your I
fe and sec strange things. Here is ]
he providence pulling you one way
i'd another in another way. But these
e different parts of one machinery ]
7 which He will advance your ever &
sting and present well-being.
Now you know that second mort I
Ige, and a third and fourth mort '
lge, are often worth nothing. 1t is
e first mortgage that is good in
stment. 1 have to tell you that v
cry Christian man has first mort v
Ige on every trial, and on every dis r
ter, and it must make payment of y
ernal advantage to his soul. How p
any worriments it would take out of y
ur heart if you believed that fully. y
'u buy goods and hope the price o
III go up, but you are in fret and
own for fear the price will go down. t
IN do not buy the goods using your d
st discretion in the matter, and p
en- say: 20, Lord, have done the t
st 1 could; l commit this whole t
ansaction into Thy hands!" That is A
hat religion is good for or it is good il
r nothing. O
There are two things, says an old Il