The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-03-20
Charles Weslev's hymns and rushing with

archangelc splendor through Milton's
Paradise Lost" The religion of Christ
has hung in studio and in gallery OF art and
in Vatican the best pictures-Titian's "As.
sumption" Raphaeis TRANSPORTATION.
Rubens's Descent From the Cross"
Claudes Burning Bush" and Ange.o's
Last Judgment" Religion has mace tine
hest music of the wor,d-Haydn's "Crea-
ton" Handels Messiah" Mozart's Re
quiem." Is it possible that a religion
which builds such indestructible monu-
ments. and which lifts its ensign on the
hiqhest promoDtore;s OF worldly power
can have any effect upon mans intellect
but elevation?
Religion will give an equipoise of spirit.
1t will keep you from eou!litions OF tenn
per, AID you know {. great many fine bust
resses have been blown TO atoms by bad
temper. 1t will keep you from worriment
about frequent loss: it will keep You back
from squandcring and from dissipation;
i Wills give You kindness o. spirit which
will be easily distinguished from that mere
store courtesy which shakes hands violent
" with You, asking about the health OF
yoar family, when there is DO anxiety TO
know whether your child is well or sick,
but the anxiety is to know how many
dozen cambric pocket handkerchiefs you
will take and pay cash down. 1t will pre-
pare YOU for the practical duties OF every
day life.
do not mean to say that religion will
make us financially rich, but / do say that
it will give US, it will assure US OF, COM
Portable Sustelance at the start, comfort
able subsistence all the way through, and
it will help us to direct the bank, to man.
age the traffic, to conduct all our business
+o ,,ol- na "a
affair of our life a matter OF vast impor-
tance, gioritied by Christian principle.
In New York City there was 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 Crisis
and went down-no fault OF his, but con-
junction of evil circumstances-and all the
other merchants were willing to compco-
mise-they would take seventy-five cents
on the dollar or fifty cents or twenty cents
coming to this man last OF all, he said:
mo compromise. I'll take 100 cents on the
dollar. and l can afford to wait" Well,
the wheel turned, and after awhile that
man was in crisis of business, and ne sent
out his agent to compromise. and the agent
said to the merchants, Will you take
fifty cents on the dollar" No" "Will
you take anything?" We'll take 100 cents
on the dollar. No compromise" And the
man who wrote that inscription over his
counting house door died in destitaton.
On. 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 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 Is!
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 kneit before the Lord cry
ing for His deliverance, and the Lord res
cued them.
In a bank not far from New YoriS-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 result. de knew
that he had not taken one farthIns from
that bank, but somehow, for some reason,
inscrutablc 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 or the other officers
arrived, and he felt himself in awful peril,
conscious of his own integrity, but unable
went to the bank carly, and he knelt down
before God and told the whole story OF
mental anguish, and he said: 20 Lord.
have done right, / have preserved my IL
tegrity, but here l am about to be over
thrown unless Thou shouldst core to my
rescue. Lord, deliver me- And for one
hour he continued the prayer before Cod,
and then he arose and went to an old blot
ter that he had forgotten all about. lie
opened it, and there lay sheet OF figures
which he only needed to add to another
line OF fiCures-scme line OF figures he had
forgotten and knew not where he had laid
;hen-and the accounts were balanced, ard
the Lord delivered him. You are an inf
del if you do not believe it. The Lord de-
live-ed him. God answered his prayer, as
He will answer your prayer, oh, man OF
business, in every crisis when yoa come to
Him.
as YOU are, of the fact that the vast major
ity of Christians do no. fully test the value
of their religion. They are like farmer
in California with $1,000 acres OF good
wheat land and cuituring only quarter OF
an acre.
Why do you not 60 forth and make the
religion of Jesus Christ a practical affair
every day of your business life and all this
year, beginning row, and tomorrow morn
ing putting into practical effect this holy
religion and demonstrating that godliness
is profitable here as we'll 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 go clear, so vast, 50 comprehensive,
that you do not want this divine inspira-
ton? is your worldly business so thor
oughiy established that you, have no use
for that religion which has been the help
and deliverance OF tens of thousands OF
men in crises of worldly trouble? And II
what | have said is true then you see what
a fatal blunder it is when man adjourns
to LIES expiration tie uses of religion. A
man who postponcs religion to sixty years
of age gets religion Fifty years too late. He