Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

| peHlliu OARS. InlS Is not the teaching
OF Paul. On the contrary, God gives
His children all things for their COM
fort and pleasure. All things are Gods,
and Christ Is Gods. 1T We are Christ's,
! then all things are yours.
Life is yours. All that this world
contains is yours. The air we breathe,
the wealth of the hills, the goodness
stored upon the eternal ages past. God
| is the creator of all things and we are
| HIS lives These things are ours be-
| cause we have a need and use for
| theln. But there is only one safe way
| upon which He can open up life to
HIS children, and that is that they use
| it Alright.
You know that unfallen man had the
right to enjoy the privilege of Eden's
garden, but when man fell, it's gates
were shut and guarded by the Cher
uolans flaming sword. But now, though
the privilege of all things is restored
to him. ..S:t has overcome.
THESE temporal blessings belong to
Gods children. Everything exists that
1t may be used. There is a law of fit
ness or things. A bird is made to fit
'he AR and to need the air. All the
atmosphere is His to the top of the
i,lshest mountain. 1t is the property of
.l'e oird because of the adjustment of
us nature to it's place. because it is
..iaoe 10 need the air for it's lungs and
lts spreading wings. All things are ours
in the condition of need and use
inns is Gods world, and if we are His
lives 1t belongs to the podlv The tbing,
| COO gives us are for Use NOT ahusa
we must not neglect the OPPORTUNITIES
nor De disobedient to Gods law, but we
must qualify this statement "All things
are yours. provided We are Christ's.'.
lou may nave legal right to YOUR
iahos. nut not moral right in them I'M
less they be lawfully gained A man
cannot live in peace with fraudulent
property about him. David, when the
water OF the we'll of Bethlehem was
A'usht to him, would not drink of il.
out poured 1t out, because he knew it
cost the life blood of his friends to bring
IL 10 him. This is the spirit that should
animate every one towards ill-gotten
sam vi gold and silver gained out of the
savings of the defrauded poor.
Business today needs good men.
honest men. who do not take the back
seat in Christ's work. Wealth is mis-
used If it falls in any other hands.
man has no right to the protection of
trade who goes down town in the morn
ing with his little scheme to get some-
thlng out of nothing. Commerce cannot
dhord 10 tolerate the man who will drive
10 the wall his weaker competitor, who
ooes not permit far and open trade, who
makes corner on the market or en-
beavers to kill trade for the furtherance
OF his own schemes. There are men who
are today placed behind prison bars for
less offenses than these. The flaming
sword guarding the tree of life is turned
against thieves. The man who keeps
'ou commandments up to the enlight-
eminent OF MS conscience is entitled to
Gods inheritance. God can trust the
good man with the worlds wealth be.
cause He knows he will get it fairly
and use it properly. He knows he Will
render thanks to the great giver of all
Things with becoming gratitude; that he
Will consclentiously consecrate a portion
OF his possessions for the Lords work,
An evil man may possess wealth, he
may put it in his bag. lock it in his safe
But does he possess it? Rather does it
not possess him? The great king of ter
rors. and terror of kings comes and sep
arates him from his wealth. OF what
use will it be then? OF what use has
it been to him in the past? "a little
that righteous man hath is better than
the riches of many" The problem of
use of wealth. It is thought by some
that pleasure is denied the Saviour.
The modern world agrees with Beecher,
who said, "The conceptions of religion
is to let every faculty effulge, touched
with Celestial fire." Sometimes pleas,
ures are forbidden. But why? Because
they do not bring happiness. Their end
is misdirected. They destroy happiness.
Put pleasures to the right use and, like
wealth. all will be yours.
The Puritan in his day had his mis-
sion, and it was an imperative one. We
can afford to be wider today. The world
is Gods. Take, then the relation of
science to religion. For years it was
thought that science was at variance
with revealed truth. A great change
has come over the church now. Never
We're church and science and religion in
such harmony as they are today. The
gospel is using science for it's enlarge
ment and the glory of God. We are not
only more and more reaching scientific
conclusions but we are using scientific
methods. One of the greatest triumphs
during the past century is the use of
the scientific spirit in medicine. The
apostle asserts that death is yours. Not
only things present, but are things TO
come. Not only life, but death. Through
Christ we can ever be cOnquerors over
death Since Jesus has come; since His
battle has been fought and won, death
is no longer our enemy, but an open
gate to life and an avenue to eternal
bliss and joy. The important lesson is
then that We be Chrst's. If We are
Chr.st's then We are Gods. All things
are yours in the condition that We are
Christ's.