Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-02-19

| Now, more than that is promised to
every Christian business man. God
| saws to him: Il own New York and
| London and st. Petersburg and Picking,
| and Australia and California are mine.
I can fC zee a panic 1000 years.
have all re resources of the universe,
and l am your fast friend. When you
get in business trouble or any other
| trouble, cali on me, and l will help.
Here is my hand in pledge of omnipo-
tent deliyerance." 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?
God Is Present.
"Oh," you say, ''here is a man who
asked God for blessing in a certain
enterprise, and he lost $1,000 in it. Elk
plain that" l will. Yonder is a fac
tory, and one wheel is going north and
the other wheel is going south, and one
wheel plays literally and the other
plays vertically. L go to the manufac-
turer, and [ say: ooh, manufacturer,
your machinery is contradiction.
Why do you not make all the wheels
go one Way?' "Well," he saws. 81
made them to go in opposite directions
on purpose, and they produce the right
result. You go down stairs and ex-
anime the carpets we are turning out
in this establishment and you will see"
L go down on the other floor, and l see
the carpets, and l am obliged to con-
fess that though the wheels in that
factory go in opposite directions they
am standing there looking at the ex-
quisite fabric an old Scripture passage
comes into my mind--"All things work
together for good to them who love
God" Is there not rest in that? Is
there not tonic in that? Is there not
longevity in that?
Suppose man is all the time worried
about his reputation. One man says he
lies, another says he is stupid, another
says he is dishonest, and half a dozen
printing establishments attack him.
and he is in a great state of excite
ment and worry and fume and cannot
sleep, but religion comes to him and
says: "Man, God is on your side; he
will take care of your reputation. If
God be for you, who can be against
your 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 farewell
letter to his wife before he blew his
brains out; if instead Of taking out Of
his pocket pistol he had taken out a
well read New Testament, there would
have been one less suicide. Oh, nervous
.ich Of 0rI1
this almighty sedative! You will live
25 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 l satisfy him"
Again, practical religion is a friend
IF longevity in the fact that it re-
moves all corroding care about a flu
ture existence. 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 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 l would in as po
lite a way as l know how tell you |
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 together would make a martyr
DOM This is a state of awful un-
healthiness. There are people who fret
themselves to death for fear of dying.
Death the Preface.
I want to take the strain off your
nerves and the depression off your
soul, and l make two or three expert
ments. Experiment the first: When
you go out of this world, it does not
make any difference whether you have
been good or bad or whether you be-
lieved truth or error. You will go
straight to glory. Impossible" 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 comfort in that expert
ment." Experiment the second: When
you leave this world, you will go into
an intermediate state, where you can
get converted and prepared for heaven.
Impossible" you say. CAS- the tree
falleth SO it must lie, and l cannot
postpone to an intermediate state that
reformation which ought to have been
effected in this state" Experiment
the third: There is no future world.
When a man dies, that is the last of
him. Do not worry about what you
are to do in another state of being, you
will not do anything. Impossible"
you say. "There is something that
tells me that death is not the appendix,
but the preface. There is something
that tells me that on this side Of the