The Progress., 1897-07-31

rays in hard cash, pays IN government
securities You do not believe it. Al.
that is what keeps you back. l knew yc-
aid not believe it. The whole world and
Christendom Is to be reconstructed on this
subject, and as You are a part Of Chrisicn
dom, let the work begin in your own soul
..But." SAYS some one, II don't believe
that theory, because I have been generous
and I have been losing money for ten
years. Then God prepaid You, that is all
What became of the money that you made
In other days:
You say to your son, ''Now ! will give
YOU $500 every year as long as you live.
After awhile you say, well, my son. You
proye yourself SO worthy of my conldei.cs
I will just give you $50, in II single
lump" And you give 1t to him, and he
starts of. In two or three yenrs he does
not complain against you: 81 Father is MI
taking care Of me. I ought to have $500
year" You prepaid your son, and la
does not complain. There are thonsauGa
of Us DOW who can this year get jass
enough to supply our wants, but did not
God provide for US in the past, and has La
not again and again and again paid us Ii
advance-in other words, trusted yon 81
along, trusted you more than you had
tight to ask Strike, then, Il balance H..
God. Economic in anything rather than
more than one out of 800 Of you who ey,f
give enough to do you any good, ana who's
some oause of Christianity, some mission
airy society or Bible society or church "r
SANITATION, comes along and gets anything
from you what do you say: You say,
have been bled,' and there never Was
more significant figure of speech than tii..i
used in common parlance. Ies, you h... !.
been bled, and you are spiritually emaciat-
ho6
enough to go through your property and
say, "That belongs to God, and this be.
longs to God, and the other thing belongs
to God" and no more dared to approlri.
ate 1t to your own use than something
that belonged to your neighbor, instead OF
being bled to death by charities You would
have been reinvigorated and recuperated
and built up for time and for eternity
God will keep many of you cramped n
money matters until the day OF your death
unless you swing out into larger generosi'
ties.
A Divine Promise.
People quote as joke what is a divine
promise, sCast thy bread upon the watera
and 1t will return to thee after man!
days. What did God mean by thais
There is an allusion there In Egypt
when they sow the corn 1t Is ut The
when the Nile is overhowing its banks and
they SOW the SEED corn Oh Ibe Ndeeis, "''
as the Nile begins to recede this seed cora
strikes in the earth and comes up bar
vest, and that is the allusion- 1t seems as
| If they are throwing the corn away on tha
! waters, but after awhile they gather IL up
| In q harvest. Now says God in his WORD,
Cast thy bread upon the waters ana J.
shall come back to thee after many days
1t may seem to you that you are throwing
1t away on charities, but it will yield
harvest of green and gold-a harvest on
earth and q harvest in heaven III men
could appreciate that and act on that, VIZ
would have no more trouble about andi
| vidual or national finances.
Prescription the third, for the cure .
all our individual and national nnanc'a
distresses-a great spiritual awakening
1t is no mere theory. The merchants o
this country were positively dement's.
with the monetary excitement IN 100.
There never before nor since has oeeE suo1
q state of financial depression as there wv ~,
aS that time A reyiyal came, and 0UU,VVs