The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-26

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| do not believe the people of this country
| Will ever commit ourages and riot and
! murder for the sake Of getting bread
| But all this lugubUosty of tone and face
! keeps people down Now / viii make a
contract If the people Of the United
! States for one week viii talk cheerfully. l
! VIII open all the manufactures l will
give employment TO all the unOccupied
! men and women; / viii make a lively mar
| ket for your real estate that is eating you
! up with taxes; 1 will stop the long process
| sions on the way TO the pOor-house and
| the penitentiarY, and 1 win spread plen-
! uful table from Maine to California and
| from oregon 10 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 af-
! feet the whole nation" My hearers and
readers, representing as you do all pro-
| fessions, all trades, and all occupations,
! if you should resolve never again to utter
a dolorous word about the money mar
| kets, 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 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 comfortable circumstances do not
| stop complaining, God will blast your har-
vests and see how you will get along
without corn crop; and he will sweep
| you with floods; and he viii deVour you
with grasshOppers; and he win burn your
city. If you men in comfortable circum-
stances keep on complaining, God will
give you something to complain about
Mark that!
The second prescription for the allevia-
ton of financial distresses is proper Chris
tan investment. God demands of every
individual, state and nation a certain
proportion of their income. We are par
simOniOuS! 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 sickness, by
bankruptcy, by any one of the ten thou
sand ways which he can employ The
reason many of you are cramped i'm bus
mess is because you have never learned
the lesson of Christian generosity. YoN
employ an agent. You give him a rea-
sonable salary, and To- you find out that
he is appropriating your funds besides the
salary What do you do? Discharge
him. Well, we are Gods agents He
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 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 with
| holding from God that which belongs to
him. The rule is, give and you will re-
ceive; administer literally 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, Il want to go down under the waves
with everything. l want to consecrate
my property and all to God" And so he
was baptized. What We want in this
country is more baptized pocketbooks.
had relative whose business seemed
TO be falling. Here a loss and there a
loss, and everything was bothering, per-
picking, and annoying him. He sat down
one day, and said: God must have a
controversy with me about something. l
believe l haven't given enough to the
cause of Christ" And there and then he
took out his check book and wrote large
check for a missionary society He told
! me- That was the turning point in my
business. Ever stree then l have been
prosperous. From that very day, aye.
from that very hour l saw the change"
gathered fortune. The only safe invest
ment that a man can make in this world
is in the cause OF Christ. If a man give
from superabundanCe. God may or he
may not respond with a Blessing; but # a
man give until he feels it, if a man give
until 1t fetches the blood If a man give
until his sehshncss Nriuges and twists and
| covers under IL, he viii get not only spiri-
| tual profit, but he will get paid back IN
| hard cash or in convertible securities. We
| often see men who are tight-hsted who
| seem TO get along with their investments
very probably. Notwithstanding all their
parsimOny But wait. suddenly in that
mans history everything goes wrong. His
health fails, or his reason is dethroned.
or a domestic curse smites him. or a mid
night shadow of some kind drops upon
| his soul and upon his business. What is
| the matter? God Is Furnishing 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 ma
| tional 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 apt TO trust back again. lie
| says. That man knows how TO handle
money; he shall have more money 70
| 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
!
\ street doubles the value OF his house or
| in any way OF a million God hesses him.
once the man finds out that secret, and
] ne goes on to fortune. There are men
/ whom / have known who for ten years
| have been trying 10 pay God $1,000. They
| have never been able TO get Il paid, for
! Just as they were taking Out from one
| fold OF their pocketbook "a bill mystic
| riously somehow In some other fold OF
| their pocketbook there came a larger bill
| You tell me that Christian generosity pays
| IN the world TO come / tell you a pays
now. pays In hard cash, pays in govern
| ment securities. You do not believe e.?
| Al that Ia what keeps you back / know
! YOU did not believe il. The whole world
and Christendom IL 20 be reconstructed
| on this subject. and as you are "A part
| Of Christendom. let the work begin In your
own soul but" says some one 81 don't
| believe that theory; because ] have been
| generous and l have been losing money
| for ten years" Then God prepaid YOU
| that a. all What became OF the money
I that you made In other days? You say
/ TO your sons NOW, ! Will give you $3.50
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