The Grit-advocate., 1900-08-10
as large a store and as great busi-
ness as he can manage.

as large store and as great busi-
ness as he can manage.
Need of Divine Support.
To feel right and do right under all
this pressure requires martyr grace,
requires divine support. requires ce-
lestial reinforcement. Yet there are
tens of thousands of such men getting
splendidly through. They see others
going up and themselves going down,
but they keep their patience and their
courage and their Christian consist
eency, and after awhile their success
will come. There is generally retribu-
tion in some form for greediness. The
owners Of the big business will die,
and their boys will get possession of
the business. and with cigar in their
mouths, and full to the chins with the
best liquor, and behind pair Of
spanking bays, they will pass every
thing on the turnpike road to tenn
poral and eternal perdition. Then the
business will break up and the smaller
dealers will have fair opportunity. Or
the spirit OF contentment and right
feeling will take possession of the
large firm, as recently with a famous
business house, and the firm will say:
I'VE have enough money for all our
needs and the needs OF our children
Now let us dissolve business and make
way for other men in the same line"
Instead Of being startled at a solitary
instance of magnanimity, 1t will be-
come common thing. l know of
scores of great business houses that
lave had their opportunity of vast ac-
emulation and who ought to quit.
But perhaps for all the days Of this
generation the struggle of small
houses to keep alive under the over
shadowing pressure Of great houses
will continue; therefore, taking things
as they are, you will be wise to pre-
serve your faith and throw over all
the counters and shelves and casks the
measuring line of divine right. And
the Lord said unto me, Amos, what
seest thou? And l said, A plumb
line"
The Only Religion.
want you to notice this fact, that
when a man gives up the straight up
and down religion of the Bible for auy
new tangled religion. it is generally to
suit his sins. Yon first hear of his
change of religion. and then you hear
of some swindle he has practiced in
special mining stock, telling some one
if he will put in $4,000 he can take
out 100000; or he has sacrificed his
integrity or plunged into irremediable
Wor.u..-.css. His sins are So u.l.I
he has to broaden his religion, and he
becomes as broad as temptation, as
broad as the souls darkness, as broad
as hell. They want religion that
will allow them to keep their sins
and then at death say to them, We'll
done, good and faithful servant" and
that tells them. "All is we'll. for there
Is no hell" What a glorious heaven
they hold before US! Come, let us 20
In and see it. There are Herod and
all the babes he massacred. There are
Charles Guiteau and Robespierre, the
feeder of the French guillotine, and all
the liars, thieves, house burners, gar
roters, pickpockets and libertines Of all
the centuries. They have all got crowns
and thrones and harps and scepters,
and when they chant they sing,
Thanksgiving and honor and glory
and power to the broad religion that
lets us all into heaven without re-
pentance and without faith in those
humiliating dogmas Of ecclesiastical
old fogyism.'