The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-20

Good resolution, retormatory effort, viii
not effect the change 1t takes a mightier
arm and mightier hand to bend evil hab.
its than the hand that bent the bow of
Ulysses, and it takes stronger lasso than
ever held the buffalo on the prairie.
A manufacturer cares but very little for
stream that slowly runs through the
meadow; but values a torrent that leaps
from rock to rock and rushes with mad
energy through the valley and out toward
the sea. Along that river you will find
futtering shuttles and grinding mill and
flashing water wheel. And a nature the
swiftest, the most rugged and the most
tremondous-that is the nature that God
turns into greatest usefulness.
Religion win give an equipoise of spirit.
1t will keep you from ebullitions of tenn
per, and you know great many fine busi-
nesses have been blown to atoms by bad
temper: 1t will keep you from worriment
about frequent loss; it will keep you back
from squandering and from dissipation;
1t will give you kindness OF spirit which
will be easily distinguished from that mere
store courtesy which shakes hands violent.
ly with you, asking about the health OF
your family. when there is no anxiety to
know whether your child is well or sick,
but the anxiety is to know how many
dozen cambria pocket handkerchiefs you
will take and pay cash down. 1t will pre-
pare you for the practical duties OF every
day life.
In New York City there was a merchant,
hard in his dealings with his fellows, who
had written over his banking house or his
counting house room, mo compromise"
Then when some merchant got in a crisis
and went down-no fault of his, but con-
junction of evil circumstances-and all the
other merchants were willing to compro-
mise-they would take seventy-five cents
on the dollar OF fifty cents or twenty cents
70 lasf Of all ha
mo compromise. I'll take 100 cents on the
dollar, and l can afford to wait" We'll,
the wheel turned, and after awhile that
man was in crisis of business, and he sent
out his agent to compromise, and the agent
said to the merchants, will you take
fifty cents on the dollar: No. "Wil
you take anything~ "We'il take 100 cents
on the dollar. No compromise" And the
man who wrote that inscription over his
counting house door died in destitution.
Oh, we want more OF the kindness OF the
gospel and the spirit of love in our business
enterprises!
How many young men have found in the
religion OF Jesus Christ a practical help?
How many there are to-day who could tes-
tify out Of their own experience that god.
illness is profitable for the life that now isl
There were times in their business career
when they went here for help and there
for help and yonder for help and got no
help until they knelt before the Lord cry
ing for His deliverance, and the Lord res.
cued them.
In bank not far from New York-a
village bank-an officer could not balance
his accounts He had worked at them day
after day. night after night. and he was
sick nigh unto death as a result. He knew
that he had not talyn one farthing from
that bank. but somehow, for some reason,
inscrutable then, the accounts would not
balance. The time rolled on and the morn
ing of the day when the books should pass
under the inspection OF the other officers
arrived, and he felt himself in awful peril,
conscious OF his own integrity, but unable
to prove that integrity. That morning he
went to the bank early, and he knelt down
before God and told the whole story OF
mental anguish, and he said: 30 Lord,
have done right, | have preserved my in
tegrity, but here | am about to be over
thrown unless Thou shouldst come to my
rescue. Lord, deliver me-" And for one
hour ne continued the prayer before God,
and then he arose and went to an old blot
ter that he had forgotten all about. He
opened it, and there lay a sheet of figures
which he only needed to add to another
line of tigures-some line of figures he had
forgotten and knew not where he had laid
then-and the accounts were balanced, and
the Lord delivered him. You are an inf
del if you do not believe it. The Lord de.
livered him. God answered his prayer as
He will answer your prayer, oh, man OF
business. in every crisis when you come to
Him.
Now, if this be so, then am persuaded,
as you are of the fact that the vast major
ity of Christians do not fully test the value
OF their religion. They are like farmer
in California with 1900 acres OF good
wheat land and cu,turing only quarter OF
an acre.
Why do you not go forth and make the
religion Of Jesus Christ a practical affair
every day of your business life and all this
year, beginning now, and tomorrow morn.
ing putting into practical effect this holy
religion and demonstrating that godliness
is profitable here as well as hereafter
How can you get along without this re-
ligion? Is your physical health so good you
do not want this divine tonic? Is your
mind so clear, so vast, so comprehensive,
that you do not want this divine inspira'
tion? is your worldly business so thor.
oughly established that you have no use
for that religion which has been the help
Dnd delverance of tens OF thousands OF
men in crises OF worldly troubleg And ii
what have said is true then you see what
a fatal blunder it is when man adjourns
to life's expiration the uses OF religion. A
man who postpones religion to sixty years
of age gets religion fifty years too late. He
may get into the kingdom OF God by final
repentance, but what can compensate him
for whole lifetime unalleviated and I'm.
eomforted? You want religion to-day in
the training of that child. You will want
religion tomorrow in dealing with that
customer. You wanted religion yesterday
to curb your temper Is your arm strong
enough 10 beat your way through the
floods? Can you. without being incased in
the mail of Gods eternal help, 60 forth
amid the assault of all hell's sharpshoot
ers? Can you walk alone across these
crumbling graves and amid these gaping
earthquakes? Can you, waterlogged and
mast shiyered, outlive the gale? Oh, how
many there have been who, postponing the
religion OF Jesus Christ, have plunged into
mistakes they could never correct, although
they lived sixty years after, and like ser
pents crushed under cart wheels draggine
their mduled bodies under the rocks to die
So these men have fallen under the whee
OF awful calamity, while a vast multitude
OF others have taken the religion of Jesui
Christ into everyday life, and, first, IL
practical business affairs, and second, or
the throne of heavenly triumph, have illus
trated while angels looked on and uni
verse approved, the glorious truth thai
"godliness IS profitable unto all things
having the promise of the life which now il
as well as Of that which is to come"
copyright. 1909. L. Klopsch.l
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