The Progress., 1897-07-31

ing. God Will blast your harVests' anu eeS
how Won Will get along without corn
crop. and I've Will sweep Yon win iioous'
and be viii t.cvour you with grassirpl'ers'
and he Will burn your city II you ileh
in comfortable circumstances Keep on com
plaining, God will give you s"'he'hihs ~
complain about Mark that.
Christian Investment.
The second prescription Tor the "lie|ia'
ton of fra ncial distresses Is proper Shfis
tan investments God demands OF every
individual state and nation certain pro
nor,ion of their income. We are parsl'
,nonious, We keep back from COO tha'
which belong: to him, and when we Keep
hack ANYTHING from God he takes "hat
we keep hack, and be takes more. ne
takes 1t by storm. by sickness, by pahk
ruptcy, by any one OF the ten thoos"n II"
ways which he can employ. 1he reason
many of you are cramped IN business is
because YOU have never learned the lesson
of Christian generosity You employ an
agent. You give him reasonable SALARY,
and. 10. YOU find out that he n appropri-
ating your funds, besides the salary. "hat
do YOU doe Discharge him. Well, we are
Gods agents. He puts in our hands Ger
tain moneys. Part is to be ours; part
is to be his Suppose we take all, WHAT
then. He will discharge us; be Will turn
frust 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 re-
ceive: administer literally and you shall
have more to administer. l am In 1uli
sympathy with the man who was to be
baptized by immersion, and some one
| said, "You had better leave your pocket.
nS n
| he, Il want to go down under the wave
| with every thing. l want to consecrate
nv property and all to God" And SO he
| was haptiZed What we want In this
country is more baptized pocketbooks.
had relative whose business seemed
| to be failing. Here a loss and there loss
and everything was bothering, perplex1ng
and annoying him. He sat down one day
and said: ICED must have n controversy
with me :,kout something. / believe ]
| haven't given enough to the cause Of
| Christ And there and then he took out
his cbeckbook and wrote a large check for
q missionary society. He told me: That
was the turning point in my business.
Ever since then l have been prosperous.
From that very day, aye, from that very
hour, / saw the change" And, sure
enough, he went on, and he gathered a
| fortune
can make in this world is in the cause OF
Christ. If Il man give from u supera bund-
ance, God may or he may not respond with
blessing. but if man give until he feels
it. if a man give until it fetches the blood,
if man give until his selfshness 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 convert
bile securities. We often see men who are
| tu,f tc1 hn evQt al xxyffH
their investments very profitably, notwith
standing all their parsimony. But wait
Suddenly " that mans history every
thing goes rong. His health fails or hi
{ reason is dcthroned. or domestic curse
{ smites him. or a midnight shadow of some
| kind drops upon his soul and upon hi
/, business What Is the matter God j!
Furnishing him for his small beartedness
| He tried to cheat God, and God worste6
him. So that one of the recipes for tn,
cure of individual and national finances Il
: more generosity. Where you bestowed 6
4, c.so