The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-30

nnH1n ~ND serve it. Many do
REV TALhAeE- n~otrealize it "And
now men see not the bright light
which is in the clouds" In other
words, there are a hundred men look
ing for storm where there is one man
looking for sunshine. My object will
be to get you and myself into the de-
liRhtful habit of making the best OF
everything
You NAV have wondered at the sta
tistics that in India, in the year 1875,
there were over 10, 900 people slain by
wild beasts, and that in the year 1879
there were in India ove 90, 900 people
destroyed by wild animals. But there
is a monster in our own land which is
year by year destroying more than
that. 1t is the old bear of melancholy,
and with gospel weapons l propose to
chase it back to it's midnight caverns-
l mean to do two sums-a sum in sub
straction and a sum in additions
subtraction from your days of depres-
sion and an addition to your days of
Joy. If God will help me l will COM
pei you to see the bright light that
there is in the clouds, and compel you
to make the best of everything.
In the first place, you ought to make
the very best of all your financial mis-
fortunes. During the panic a few
years g you all lost money. Some Of
you lost it in most unaccountable ways.
For the question. "How many thou
sands of dollars shall L put aside this
year," you substituted the question.
How shall 1 pay my butcher, and
baker, and clothier, and landlord?"
You had the sensation of rowing hard
with two oars, and yet all the time
going down STREAM.
You did not say much about it be-
cause it vas not polite to speak of
financial embarrassment; but your wife
knew. Less variety of wardrobe, more
economy at the table, self-denial in art
and tapestry. Compression; retrench-
ment Who did not feel the necessity
of it? My friend, did you make the
best of this? Are you aware of how
narrow an escap you made? Suppose
you had reached the fortune toward
which you were rapidly going? What
then7 You would have been as proud
rs Lucifer.
How few men have succeeded large
ly in q financial sense and yet main
tanned their simplicity and religious
conservation. Not one man out of a
hundred. There are glorious excep-
tions, but the general rule is that in
proportion as a man gets well off for
this world he gets poorly off for the
next. He loses his sense of dependence
on God. He gets a d~istaste for prayer
meeting. With plenty of bank stocks
and plenty of government securities,
what does that man know of the
prayer, 'tGive me this day my daily
bread?" How few men largely sue.
cessful in this world are bringing
souls to Christ, or showing self-denial
for others, or are eminent for piety?
You can count them all upon your
eight fingers and two thumbs.
One Of the old covetous souls, when
he was sick, and sick unto death, used
t. have a basin brought ina basin
filled with gold, and his only amuse-
ment and the only relief he got for
his infamed hands was running them
down through the gold and turning it
up in the basin. Oh. what infstua-
ton and what destroying power money
has for many q man! Now, you were
sailing at 80 knots the hour toward
these worthless of worldliness-what a
mercy it was, that honest d~efalcationI
same divine hand that crushed
your storehouse, your bank, your Of
fee, your insurance company, lifted
you out of destruction. The day you
suspended in business made
your fortune for eternity.
"Oh," you say, II could get along
very well myself, but l am SO disap-
that ! cannot leave a compe-
tence for my children" Ny brother.
A. -- -- 49, t.
going to save your soul will save your
children. With the anticipation of
large fortune. how much industry
your children have?-without
habit of industry there is no
The young man would say:
"Well, there's no need of my working;
my father will soon step ont and then
have just what I"want." You can
not hide from him how much you are
You think you are hiding it,
knows all about it. He a tell
You almost to a dollar. Perhaps he
has been to the county office and
searched the records of deeds and
mortgages, and he has added it all up,
and he has made an estimate of how
you will probably stay in this
and is not as much worried
lDoub IOuL oAANA Az
Of breath as you are. The only for.
worth anything that You can
give your child IL the fortune you put
in his head and heart, OF all the
young men who started life with S40,-
BOO capital, how many turned ont well?
do not know half a dozen,
The best inheritance a young man can
have is the feeling that he has to fight
lis own battle, and that life Is a strug-
lie into which he must throw body,
mind and soul, or be disgracefully
Where are the burial places
# men who started life with a f~ortuneP
of them in a potter's field; some
n the suicides grave. But few of
,hese men reached 35 years of ags,
they drank. they smoked, they gam
,led. In them the beast destroyed the
IAN. Son Of them lived long enough
o get their fortunes and go through
hem. The vast majority of them did
lot live long enough to get their i'm
Ieritance. From the gin shop or house
4 infamy they were brought home to
heir fathers house, and in a delirium
,egan to pick off loathsome reptiles
rom the embroidered pillow and to
ight back imaginary devils. And
hen they were laid out in a highly
Upholstered parlor, the casket covered
With flowers by indulgent parents
overs suggestive of = resurrection
With no hope.
"IIOw hardly shall they that have
iches enter into the kingdom of God!'
1t is easier for a camel to go through
needles eye than for q rich man TO
inter- the kingdom of Heaven" What
-Oes that mean? 1t means hat the
blessing God ever bestowed
pom you was TO take your money
way from o Let me here say, in
do not put much stress on the
of this world. You cannot
axe them along with you. At any
ate, you cannot take them more than
wo or three miles; you will have to
them at the cemetery. Attila
.ad three collins. So fond was he of
his life that he decreed that first he
hould be buried IN q coffin of gold.
that then that should be inclosed