The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-28


threw away their religion before they did
their morality. III man on n White Star
line steamer, bound for Liverpool, in mid
Atlantic jumps overheard and Is drowned.
is that anything against the White star
Ines capacity to take the man across ths
oceanp And II u man jumps over the gun
vale OF his religion and goes down never
to rise, Is that any reason for your bellev-
ing that religion has no capacity to take
the man clear through? In the one ease,
II he had kept to the steamer HIS body
would have been saved: in the other case,
II he had kept to his religion his morals
would have been saved.
There are aged people who would have
been dead twenty-five years ago but for
the defenses and the equipoise OF religion.
You have no more natural resistance than
hundreds Of people who lie in the GENE.
teries, to-day SLAIN by their own vices. The
doctors made their case as kind and
pleasant as they could, and it was called
congestion OF the brain or something else.
but the snakes and the blue flies thar
seemed to crawl over the pillow In the sighe
OF the delirious patient showed what was
the matter with him. You, the ngei
Christian man, walked along ny that nm
happy one until you camc to the golden
pillar OF a Christian life. You wont to tho
right; he wont to the left. That Is all she
difference between you. II this religion Is
Il protest against all forms OF dissipation,
then It is MI ilustrious friend OF longevity.
"With long life will | satisfy him.
Again, religion Is friend Of longevity
in the fact that It takas tho worry out OF
our temporaities. Ii Is not work thnt kills
men; It is worry. When n man becomes "A
genuine Christian, he makes over to God
not only his affections, but his family bt4
business, his reputation, bis body, his mind
his soul, everything. Industrious he will
be, but never worrying, because God Is
managing his affairs. How can he worry
about business when in answer TO his pray
4 all. 4. 4
selY And II he gaiu, that Is best and IL he
lose, that Ia best.
Suppose you had q supernatural nei oh
Dor who came In and said "Slr. want
you to call on me In every eXigency lam
your fast friend. | could fall back on S90-
900, 000 l can foresce II panic ten years. I
hold the controlling stock in thirty of the
best monetary institutions OF New York.
Whenever you are In trouble call on me.
and l 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, "l'll do the best I
can, and then III depend on my friends
generosity for the rest
Now, more than that is promised to every
Christian business man. God says TO him:
81 own New YORK and London and st.
Petersburg and Pekn. and Australia aud
/ California are mine. l can foresee panic
II hundred years. have all the resources
When You get in business trouble or any
! other trouble, call on Me, and / will help.
] Here is My hand in pledge OF omnipoteut
deliverunce. 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 vaca-
tion in this? "Oh, you say, "hero is man
who asked God Tor u blessing In Il certain
enterprise, and he lost $4,000 in it! Explain
/ that"
,,,I l.
wheel is going north. and the other wheel
is going south, and one wheel plays
laterally and the other plays vertically
90 to the manufacturer md | say; 80
manufacturer, your machinery is II con-
tradction Why do you not make all tho
wheels go one way" well "'he suys "I
made them to 60 IN opposite directions on
purpose, and they produce the right re-
suit. You go down stairs and examine
the carpets we are turning cut in this
establishment and you will see." | go
down on the other floor, and / see tho
carpets, and l am Obliged to confess that,
though the wheels In that factory go ia
opposite directions, they turn out beauti-
ful result, and while | am standing there
looking ut the exquisite fabric an OLD
Scripture pussage comes into my mind
IAN things work together for good to
them who love God" Is there not II tonic
in that? Is there not longevity in that2
suppose n man l. all tho tmo worried
lies, another man says he is stupid, an
other says he Is dishonest, and half dozen
printing establishments attack him. aud he
is in great state Of excitement and worry
and fume and cannot sleep, but religion
comes to him and says: "Mun. God Is on
your side, He will take care of your repu-
tation. II God be for you, who can be
against your How much should that man
worry about his reputation? Not much
II that broker WHO some years ago in Wall
street, after he had lost money, sat down
and wrote a farewell letter to his wife be-
fore he blew his brains out-if. instead OF
taking out OF his pocket II pistol, he had
taken out well read New Testament
there would have been one less suicide.
nervous and feverlsh people OF tho
world, try this almighty sedative! You will
live twenty-five years longer under its
soothing power. 1t Is not chloral that you
want or morphine that you want. 1t is the
gospel of Jesus Christ "With long life
will satisfy him. "
Again, practical religion Is friend OF
longevity in the fact that 1t removes all cor
roding care about u future existence.
Every man wants to know what is to be.
Before had this matter settled with refer
ence to my future existence the question
almost worried me into ruined health. The
anxieties men have upon this subject put
| together would make n martyrdom. This
is state OF awful unhealthiness. There
nre people who fret themselves to death
Tor rear OF dying. L want TO take the
strain off your nerves and the de-
preston of your soul, and make
two or turee experiments. Expert
ment first: When you so out OF this
world, 1t does not make any difference
whether you have been good or bad.
whether You believed truth or error, you
will go straight to glory. "Impossib e."
/ YOU say. MY common sense as we'll as
my religion teaches that the bad and the
good cannot live together forever. You
give me no 3omfort in that experiment"
| Experiment the second: When you leave
this world, you will go into an intermediate
state, where you can get converted and
prepared for heaven. "Impossble," you
say. "As the tree faleth, so must it
| lie, and / chanot postpone to an inter
mediate state reformation which ought
to have been effected in this state" Expert
ment the thirdi There is no future world.
When a man dies, that is the last OF him.
Do not worry about what YOU arn to do in
another state OF being. You will not do
anything. impossible, you say. "rhere
is something that tells me that death is not
the appendix, but the preface TO life.
There is something that tells me that on
this side of the grave l only get started
and that shall go on forever My power
TO think says 'forever;' my affections say
'iorever; my capacity to enjoy or suffer,
forever"
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