Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-08-04

mea whom i lave known VINO for ten
wears have been trying % pay God
/ $1,000. They have never been able to
| get it paid, for just as they were taxi
| ing out from one fold Of their pocket.
BOOK bill, mys.eriously somehow in
some other fold OF their poc<etbools
there came a larger bill You tell mo
that Christian generosity pays in the
world 20 come. | tell YOU II pays
now, pays in hard cash pays in gov
eminent securities. You do not be-
lieve II? An, that is what keeps YOU
back knew you did not believe IL
he whole world aud Christendom Il.
70 be reconstructed on this subject.
and as YOU are "a part OF Christendorl
let the work begin in your own soul.
But says some one, Il don't bcl..y,
IN that theory; because have been
| generous, and / have been LOSING
money Tor ten years Then God pre-
paid you that Is all What bccam, ~
the money you made in other DAYS?
on say To your son: Now. will give
| you 500 every year "a long as YOU
I'VE. After awhile you say: well.
my son, you prove yourself so
worthy OF my onfidence /
Will just give you $50, 900 in a
single lump And you give il TO him
| and he starts of. In two or three.
years he does not complain against
you: Father is net taking care of me
! ought to have 500 wear" You
prepaid your son, and he does not
complain. There are thousands of ma
now who can this year get just enough
10 supply our wants; but did not God
provide for rs in the past, and has He
not again and again and npain paid
us IN advance? In other words, trust
Ell you all along trusted you more
than you had right 70 ask? Strike.
then, balance for God. Econo-
mize in anything rather than in your
Christian charities. There is not more
than one out of three hundred of Won
VINO ever give enough to do YOU anv
good, and when some cause OF Chris
tianlty some missionary socictv or BIZ
bic society or church organization
comes along and gets anything from
you what do you say? You say. "Ihave
been bled, and there never was "A more
significant figure Of speech than that
used IN common plrlancc. Yes. YOU
have been bei, and YOU ar.
spiritually emaciu.ci, when if YOU had
been courageous enough to go through
your property and say: That belongs
To God and this belongs to God. and
the other things belong to God. and
no more dared To appropriate tito your
own use than some thing that belonged
To your nclghbor, instead of being bled
to death by charities you would nave
been reinvigoratcd and recupcrated.
COZ Will keep many of YOU cramped in
money matters until the dav of YOUR
death unless You swing out into larger
gencrositics.
People quote as Joke what is =
divine promise: Cast thy bread upon
the waters and it will return to thee
after many days" What did God mean
by that? There is an illusion there.
In Egypt, when they SOW the corn II
Is at time when the Nile il
Overlooking its banks and they SOW
the seed corn on the waters. and
as the Nile begins to recede this
seed corn strikes in the earth
and comes M harvest, and that is the
aIIuslon 1t seems as il they arc
throwing the corn away on the waters.
out after awhile they gather it up IN a
harvest Now says God in his word:
cast tiny bread upon the waters, and
1t shall come back to thee after many
days 1t may seem TO YOU that YOU
are throwing it away on charities. but
1T will yield harvest of green and
goId-a harvest on earth and a harvest
IN Heaven. II men could appreciate
that and act on that we would have
no more trouble about Individual or
national finances.