The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-30

when we keep back anything from Goa
he takes what we keep back, ana he
takes more. He takes 1t by storm, by
sickness, by bankruptcy, by any one
of the ten thousand ways which ne can
employ. The reason many or you are
cramped in business is because you
have never learned the lesson or Chrls-
tian generosity. You employ an agent
You give him reasonable salary; anu
10! you find out that he is approprlat-
ing your funds besides the salary.
What do you do? Discharge hlm'
Well, we are Gods agents. lie puts
in our hands certain moneys. Part are
to be ours. Part are to be his. Sup
pose we take ALL what then? he VIII
discharge us; he will turn us over 10
financial disasters. and take the trust
away from lis. The reason that great
multitudes are not prospered in Dusl-
ness is simply because they have been
Withholding from God that which be-
longs to him. The rule is, glVe' anu
you will receive. Administer llDerally'
and you shall have more to administer.
l am in full sympathy with the man
who was to be baptized by immersion
and some one said, You had better
leave your pocket book out, it Will get
wet" NO" said he, 81 want to go
down under the wave with everything
| want to consecrate my property anu
all to God" And so he was baptized
L., III. more
baptized pocketbooks.
| had a relative whose business
seemed to be failing. Here loss, ana
there loss, and everything was Doth-
ering, perpexing and annoying MN.
He sat down one day and said, God
must have a controversy with me about
something. | believe | haven't given
enough to the cause of Christ. Ana
there and then he took out his check
book and wrote large check for mis-
sionary society. He told me, "Ihat
was the turning point in my business.
Ever since then | have been prosper
Gus. From that day, aye, from that
very hour, | saw the change And,
sure enough, he went on, and gathered
a fortune The only safe investment
that a man can make in this world is
| in the cause of Christ. If man give
| from a superabundance, God may or
he may not respond with blessing;
/ but if man give until he feels 1t, II
| man give until it fetches the blood.
/ If a man give until his selfishness
| cringes and twists and covers under
| it he will get not only spiritual pro-
! fit, but he will get paid back in hard
cash or in convertible securities. We
often see men who are tight listed who
seem to get along with their invest
ments very profitably, Notwithstanding
all their parsimony. But wait. Sud
denly in that mans history everything
goes wrong. His health fails, or his
reason is dethroned, or a domestic
curse smites him. or a midnight sha-
dow of some kind drops upon his soul
and upon his business. What is the
matter? God is furnishing him for his
small hcartedness. He tried to cheat
: God and God worsted him. So that
one of the recipes for the cure OF in
dividual and national finances is more
generosity. Where you bestowed one
dollar on the cause of Christ, give two.
God loves to be trusted. and he is
very ant to trust back again. He says:
THAT man knows how to handle
money: he shall have more money to
handle" And very soon the property
that was on the market for great
while gets a purchaser, and the bond
that was not worth more than fifty
cents on a dollar goes to par, and the
opening of new street doubles the
value of his house, or in any way of a
million God blesses him.
People quote as a joke what is a di-
vine nromise Cast thy bread upon
the waters. and it will return to thee
after many days" What did God mean
nv that? There is an illusion there. In
Egypt. when they SOW the corn, it is
at a time when the Nile is overlooking
its banks and they SOW the seed corn
on the waters, and as the Nile begins
Tn recede this seed corn strikes in the
earth and comes up harvest and that
is the allusiOn. 1t seems as if they are
throwing the corn away on the waters,
but after a while they gather it up in
a harvest. Now says God in his word:
Cast thy bread upon the waters, and
II shall come back to thee after many
DAVIS" 1t may seem to you that you
are throwing it away on charities; but
! il will yield harvest of green and gold
a harvest on earth and a harvest in
heaven. If men could appreciate that
and act on that, We would have no
more trouble about individual or ma
tiopal finances
Prescription the third for the cure
/ of all our individual and national IL
nancial distresses; great spiritual
awakening. 1t is no more theory. The
merchants of this country were posi-
lively demented with the monetary eX-
| element in 1857. There never before
nor since has been such a state of IL
nancial depression as there was at that
| time. A revival came, and five hundred
| thousand people were born into the
| kingdom of God. What came after the
revival? The grandest financial pros
perity We have ever had in this coun-