Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-07-31

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from the caves of the house. So you
prophesicd falsely Last winter was
coming, ard the people said: 1--WE shall
have unparalleled suffering among the
poor. 1t will be dreadful winter. "
Sure enough, it YVES cold winter, but
there were more large hearted charities
THAN ever before poured out OH the coun-
try. better provision made for the poor.
So that there have been scores of win
tcrs when the poor had Il harder time
tl.an they did last winter. Weather
prophets say we will have frosts this
summer which will kill tho haryests.
Now, let me tell you, you have lied
twice atout tie weather, and | believe
you are lying this time.
Some people are so overborne with
the tlolorousness of the times that they
SLY we shall havo communistic outragcs
in this country such as they had i'll
France. Idonot believe it. The parallel
does net run. They have no Sabbath,
no Bible, 10 God III Franco. We have
all these defenscs for our American peo-
pie, and public opinion is such that if
the people i'll this country attempt a
cutthroat expedition they will land in
Sing Sing or from the gallows go up on
tight rope | do not believe the people
of this country will ever commit out
RACES and riot and murder for the sake
CT getting bread. But all this lugubros-
ity of tone and face keeps people down.
! Now will make contract. If the peo-
plo OF the United States for one week
will tail; chccrfully, will open all tho
manufactures, ] will give employment
to all the unoccupied men and women,
| will make lively market for your
real estate that is eating you up with
taxes, l will stop the long professions
on the way to the poorhouse and the
pcnilentiary and will spread plenti-
full table from Maine TO California and
from Oregon to Sandy Hook, and the
whole land shall carol and thunder with
national jubilee But says some one, Il
will take that contract, but we can't
affect the whole nation" My hearers
and readers, representing as you do all
professions, all trades and all occupa-
tons, if you should resolve never again
to utter il doorous word about the mon-
ey markets, but by tanner and By voice
and by wit and caricature and, above
all, by faith in God 10 try to scatter
this national gloom, do you not believe
the influence would be instantaneous
and widespread? The effect would be
felt around the world. For Gods sake
and for the sake of the poor and for the
sake Of the employed quit growing.
Depend upon It, if you men in comfort
able circumstances do not stop COM
planning, God will blast your harvests
and see how you will get along without
Il corn crop, and he will sweep you with
floods, and he will devour you with
erasshoppers, and he will burn your
city. II you men i'll comfortable circum
stances keep on complaining, God will
give you something to complain about.
Mark thatl
The Best Investment.
The second prescription for the ale
Walton of financial distresses is proper
Christian investment. God demands oi
every individual state and nation GER
tain proportion of their income. We are
parsimonious. We keep back from God
that which belongs to him, and when
we keep back anything from God he
takes what we keep back, and he takes
more. He takes it by storm, by sick
ness, by bankruptcy, by any one of the
$1,000 ways which he can employ.
The reason many of you are cramped IL
business is because you have never
learned the lesson CT Christian gener-
osity. You employ an agent. You give
him reasonable salary, and, 10, you
find out that he is appropriating you1
funds, besides the salary. What do you
do? Discharge him. Well. we are Gods
agents. He puts in our hands certain
moneys Part is to be ours, part is to be
his. Suppose we take all, what then!
He will discharge u.s. He will turn us
over to financial disasters and take tie
trust away from US The reason that
great multitudes are not prospered IL
business is simply because they have
been withholding from God that which
belongs to him. The rule is, give and
you will receive, administer literally
and you shall have more to administer.
am III full sympathy with the man who
was to be Baptized by immersion, and
some one said, You had better leave
your pocketbook cut; it will get wet. "
"No, :" said he; - want to 60 down
under the wave with everything.
want 10 consecrate my property and all
to God. :" And so he was baptized. What
we want in this country is moro bap-
tized pocketbooks
I had relative whose bushes:
seemed to be failing. Here loss, and
tb2re loss, and every thing was bother
ing, perplexing and annoying him. He
sat down ore day ard said: "God must
have controversy with NE about some
thing. believe haven't given enough
to the cause of Christ" And there and
then be tcoll out his checkbook and
wrote large check for missionary so
cicty. He told me: "That was the turn-
ing point i'll MY business. Ever since
then | have been prosperous From that
very day-aye, FROM that very hour
saw the change" And, sure enough,
he went Oil. and he gathered fortune.
The only safe investment that man
can make in this world is in the cause
of Christ. If man give from a super
abundance, God may or he may not re-
spond with Il blessing, but If a man
give until he feels it, if II inan give un-
til it fetches the blood, if man give
until his selnsfncss cringes and twist:
and covers under it, he will get no
only spiritual profit, but he will &C
paid back III hard cash OF in convertible
securities. We often see men who arr
tight listed who seem 70 get along Will
their investments very proftably, not
withstanding all their parsimony. Blu
wait. Suddenly i'll that man's histor!
everything goes wrong. His health
fails, or his reason is dothroned, or
domestic curse smites him, or mid
night shadow of some kind drops upoI
his soul and upon his business. Wha
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