The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-22


I OF -ha machinery 50 60 into your life
I and see strange -l-uEs. Here is one prov
] l-t nee pulling you one way and another
U i1 another way. But these are t.nereist
Z parts OF one machinery bT which DE Viii
( advance your everlasting AMI present
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Nov y5u know that a second mortgage.
and d tlird and fourth mortgage are Of
Ten worth nothing u IS the urst mort
sage that IS s10d Investment / have 20
tell Tol mat every Christian man has a
: ErSr mortgage on every trial. and on eF-
! cry disaster and % must MAKE payne NJ
~ eternal advantage 70 ais soul How
many W0Tr-ments it would take Out Of
your heart. u you believed that fully
j on buy goods and hope the price VIII 60
/ up. but you are in a fret and frown
for fear the price VIII 90 down You 90
n0- buy the goods using your best dis
erection in the matter and then say; %,
Lord. I have done the best I could; i
commit this whole transaction into my
hands, That is what religion IS good Tor
or % is good for nothing.
Inere are Two things, says an Ola pro
verb, you ought not TO fret about trst,
talnEs tnat you can help; ana second,
Things Wricl you cannot help II you can
help them, why 10 you not apply the rem
ely. II you cannot help tlemt you
might as well surrender FIRST as last. Ny
dear brethren. do not sit any longer mop
ING ABOUT your Logger. DO not sit .o 3.,i-i
SO desp1Edlng upon your STOCK OF lnsal-
able goods. Do you think that God is go
lng 20 allow you. a Christian man, 70 40
business al0ne2 God IS the controlling
partner IN every firm: and. although your
Old Dt0rs may abscond, although your Sc
curites may fail although your store
may burn, God will out OF an innnity OF
results, choose for you the very best re-
suits
DO not have any idea that you can over
step the limit that God has laid down for
your prosperity. You viii never get one
inch beyond 81. God has decided how
much prosperity YOU can stand honora5ly,
and employ usefully, and control right
ecusly. and at the end Of the year you
Will have Just so many dollars anu cents,
JUST so much wardrobe, just so much
furniture. just so many bonds ana mort
cages. and nothing more. / VIII give you
one hundred dollars for every penny you
get beyond that. God has looked over
your hfe He knows what is best for
YOU. and he Is going 10 bless you iu time,
and bless you for eternity, and he Will do
4 IN the best way. You little child says.
Papa, l wish you would let me have that
knife No you say, iii Is a sharp
knife and you VIII cut yourself" He says
4 must have it," But you cannot have
it," you reply. He gets angry and red in
the face, and says he viii have it, but
you say he shall not have IL. Are you not
treats his children. 1 say. Il wish. heav-
emily Father. 10 get that" God says, NO,
my child" i say. ~ must have it, God
and say Il will have it," God says, You
shall not have it," and / do not get IL. Is
he not kind and loving and the best Of
and regulation in these things2 Tel that
to the men who believe in no God and no
Bible. Tell ii not to mel
A man of large business concludes 70
20 ont of his store. leaving much of his
inves tments in the business, and he says
10 his sons, Now. / am going to leave
this business in your hands Perhaps
I may come back in "a little while, and
perhaps not. While ] am gone you VIII
please TO look after affairs After
awhile the father comes back and finds
everything at loose ends, and the whole
business seems TO be going wrong He
says. Il am going to take POSSESSION or
this business-yOu know never fully
surrendered IL and henceforth consider
yourselves subOrdinates." Is he not
right In doing it2 He saves the bust
ness. The Lord seems to let US go on IN
life guided by our own skill, and We
make miserable work of It. God comes
down 70 our shop, or our store, and says,
Things are going wrong, l come TO take
charge. / am master, and ! know what
is best, and l proclaim my authority
We are merely subOrdinates. 1t Is ike
a boy at school with long sum that he
cannot do. He has been working at. II
for hours, making figures here, and rub
bling out figures there, and 1t Is all mixed
up; and the teacher. looking over the
boys shoulder, knows that he cannot
get out of II. and, cleaning the slate, says,
Begin again" Just so God does to US.
Our affairs get into an ineXtricable en-
tanglement, and he rubs everything Out
and says. Begin again." Is he not wise
and loving in so doing?
/ think the trouble is, that there is so
large a difference between the Divine and
the human estimate as to what Is enough.
/ have heard of people striving for that
which is enough, but / never heard of any
one 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 poor man and
rich man is only the difference in banks.
The rich man puts his money in the Wash
ington Bank or the Central Bank or the
Metropolitan bank, or some other bank of
that character, while the poor man comes
up and makes his investments In the bank
Of him who runs all the quarries, all the
mines, all the gold, all the eartn, an hea-
ven. DO you think a man can fail when
he is backed up like that?
You may have seen a map on
the travels of the children Of
Israel through the desert to the
promised land. You see how they took this
and that direction, crossed the river and
went through the sea. Do you know God
has made u map of your life with paths
leading up to this bitterness and that sue
cess, through this river and across that
sea2 but, blessed be God, the path always
comes out at the promised land. Mark that!
Mark that!
that seem to be but accidents in our life
are under the divine supervision. We
sometimes seem to be going helmless and
other trade; if had not gone there this
summer; if I had lived in some other
house" Y on have no right to say that.
Every tear you wept, every step you have
taken, every burden you have carried, is
under divine inspection and that event
which startled your whole household with
horror God met with perfect placidity, be-
cause he knew it was for your good. 1t
was part of great plan projected long
ago. In eternity, when you come 10 reck-
on up your mercies, you will point to that
affection as one of your greatest bless
ings.
God has a strange way with us. Joseph
found his way TO the prime minister 5
chair by being pushed into pit; and to
many a Christian down is up. The wheat
must be failed; the quarry must be blast
ed; the diamond must be ground; the
Christian must be afflicted; and that sin
gle event, which you supposed stood en-
tirely alone, was q connecting link be-
tween two great chains, one chain reach
ing through all eternity past and the 9TH
er chain reaching through all eternity
future-so small an event fastening two
eternities together.
A missionary, coming from India to the
United States, stopped at St. Helena
while the vessel was taking water. He had
his little child with him. They walked
along by an embankment and a rock Il
that moment became loosened, and falling
instantly. killed the child. Was ii an acct
dent? Was IL a surprise to God? Had he
allowed his servant, after a life of conse-
Grafton, to come 10 such a trial? Not such
is my a raO n q4f ~, f,a