Connecticut western news., 1897-07-29
twice about the weather, and 1 believe


 France. do not believe it. The parallel
 does not run. They have no Sabbath,
 TO Bible, no God in France. We have
 I'll these defenses fer our American peo- | Ile, and public opinion is such that if the people in this country attempt
 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
 rages and riot and murder for the sake If getting bread. But all this lugubros- !, ity of tone and face keeps people down.
 Now will make a contract. If the peo-
 pie of the United States for one week
 will talk cheerfully, will open all the
 manufactories, will give employment 1 to all the unocoupied men and women, 1 l will make lively market for your | real estate that is eating you up with taxes, l will stop the long processions ! on the way to the poorhouse and the penitentiary and will spread plenti- ful table from Maine to California and l from Oregon to Sandy Heck, and the ! whole land shall carol and thunder with 1 national jubilee. But says some one, 1T will take that contract, but we can't 1 affect the whole natiCn." My hearers l and readers, representing as you do all
 professions, all trades and all occupa- l tions, if you should resolve never again | to utter dolorous word about the mon- | ey markets, but by manner and by voice and by wit and caricature and, above | all, by faith in God to try to scatter this national gloom, do you not believe l 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
 corn crop, and he will sweep you with floods, and he will devour you with | grasshoppers, and he will burn your | city. If you men in comfortable circum- | stances keep on complaining, God will | give you something to complain about. | Mark thatl
 | The Best Investment.
 | The second prescription for the alle- | viation of financial distresses is proper | Christian investment. God demands of | every individual state and nation cer-
 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 10000 ways which he can employ | The reason many of you are cramped in business is because you have never l learned the lesson of Christian gener- osity. You employ an agent. You give l him a reasonable salary, and, 10, you | find out that he is appropriating your | funds besides the salary. What do you do? Discharge him. We'll. 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 us. He will turn us | over to financial disasters and take the trust away from us. The reason that | great multitudes are not prospered in 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 in full sympathy with the man who
 was to be baptized by immersion, and l some one said, "You had better leave your pocketbook out; it will get wet I"
 "No," said he; "I want to go down l under the wave with everything 1 want to consecrate my property and all | to God" And so he was baptized. What | we want in this country is more bap- tized pocketbooks
 I had relative whose business seemed to be failing. Here loss, and
 there loss, and everything was bother | ing, perplexing and annoying him. He
 sat down one day and said: "God must | have a controversy with me about some l thing. I believe I haven't given enough to the cause of Christ" And there and
 then he took ont his checkbook and wrote a large check for a missionary so 1 ciety. He told me: "That was the turn l ing point in my business. Ever since l then have been prosperous. From that | very day--aye, from that very hour-I
 saw the change" And, sure enough, he went on, 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 super
 abundance, God may or he may not re-
 spond with a blessing, but if man I give until he feels it, if man give un- | til it fntches the blood. if man give
 until his selfishness cringes and twists
 and covers under it, he will get not | only spiritual profit, but he will get | paid back in hard cash or in convertible 1 securities. We often see. men who are
 tight listed who seem to get along with
 their investments very proftably, not | withstanding all their parsimony. But l wait. Suddenly in that mans history
 everything goes wrong. His health
 fails, or his reason is dethroned, or a 1 domestic curse smites him, or mid
 night shadow of some kind drops upon
 his soul and upon his business. What
 is the matter? God is punishing him
 for his small heartedness He tried to
 cheat God, and God worsted him. So
 that one of the recipes for the cure of
 individual and national finances is 1 more generosity. Where you bestowed
 $1 on the cause of Christ give
 $2. God loves to be trusted, and he is
 very apt 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 a great
 while gets a purchaser, and the bond
 that was not worth more than 50 cents
 on dollar goes to par, and the opening
 of q new street doubles the value of his
 house, or in any way of million God
 blesses him.
 l Christian Generosity.
 Once the man finds out that secret
 and he goes on to fortune. There are
 men whom I have known who for ten . | uaara have henn irving tn nav Gnd