Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-09-25

ever you are in trouble call on me, and
I will help you. You can have my
money, and you can have my influence.
Here is my hand in pledge for it"
How much would you worry about
business? Why, you would say, 'Tn
do the best l can, and then I'll depend
on my friends generosity for the
rest
Now, more than that is promised to
every Christian business man. God
says to him: Il own New York and
London and ST. Petersburg and Picking,
and Australia and California are mine.
[ can foresee a panic hundred years.
I have all the resources Of the uni
verse, and am your fast friend. When
you get in business trouble or any 9th
er trouble, call on me, and l will help.
Here is my hand in pledge of ON
nipotent deliverance." How much
should that man worry? Not much.
What lion will dare to put his paw on
that Daniel? Is there not rest in this!
Is there not an eternal vacation In
this? "Oh," you say, 'here is a man
who asked God for blessing in GER
tain enterprise, and he lost $1,000 in
1t! Explain that"
1 will. Yonder is a factory, and one
wheel is going north and the other
wheel is going south, and one wheel
plays laterally and the other plays
vertically. I go to the manufacturer
and say: go manufacturer, your ma
chinery is a contradiction! Why do
you not make all the wheels go one
way? "Well," he says, II made them
to go in opposite directions on pur-
pose, and they produce the right re-
suit. You go down stairs and examine
the carpets we are turning out in this
establishment and you will see." l go
down on the other floor, and I see the
carpets, and I am obliged to confess
that, though the wheels in that factory
go in opposite directions, they turn out
a beautiful result, and while I am
standing there looking at the exquisite
fabric an old Scripture passage comes
into my mind, "All things work to-
gether for good to them who love Cod
Is there not a tonic in that? Is there
not longevity in that?
Removes Corrodins Care.
Suppose a man is all the time wor-
ried about his reputation? One man
SAYS he lies, another says he is stupid,
another says he is dishonest, and half
a dozen printing establishments at
tack him, and he is in a great state OF
excitement and worry and fume ana
cannot sleep, but religion comes to
him and says: ''Man, God is on your
side. He will take care of your repu-
tation. If God be for you, who can be
against you" How much should that
man worry about his reputation? Not
much. If that broker who some years
ago in Wall street, after he had lost
money, sat down and wrote a fare
we'll letter to his wife before he blew
his brains outfit, instead of taking out
of his pocket a pistol, he had taken out
a we'll read New Testament, there
would have been one less suicide.
O nervous and feverish people of the
world, try this almighty sedative! You
will live % years longer under its
soothing power. 1t is not choral that
you want or morphine that you want.
It is the gospel Of Jesus Christ. with
long life will satisfy him."
Again, practical religion is friend
of longevity in the fact that it removes
oil cOrroding care about a future ex-
istence. Every man wants to know
what is to become of him. If you get
on board a rail train, you want to
know at what depot it is going to stop.
If you get on board a ship, you want
to know into what harbor it is going
to run. And if you should tell me you
have no interest in what is to be your
future destiny I would, in as polite a
way as I know how, tell you l did not
believe you. Before l had this matter
settled with reference to my future
existence the question almost worried
me into ruined health. The anxieties
men have upon this subject put to-
gether would make martyrdom. This
is a state of awful unhealthiness.
There are people who fret themselves
to death for fear of dying. 1 want to
take the strain off your nerves and
the depression off your soul, and I
make two or three experiments. EX-
pertinent first: When you go out of this
world, it does not make any difference
whether you have been good or bad,
whether you believed truth or error,
you will go straight to glory. elm
possible" you say. my common sense
as well as my religion teaches that the
bad and the good cannot live together
forever. You give me no comfort in
that experiment" Experiment the Sec
ond: When you leave this world, you
will go into an intermediate state,
where you can get converted and pre-
pared for heaven. Impossible" you
say. CAS- the tree falleth, so must it
lie, and 1 cannot postpone to an inter-
mediate state reformation which ought
to have been effected in this state"
Experiment the third: There is no fu-