Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-03-21

mean to say that religion will make us
financially rich, but l do say that it
will give US, it will assure US of, a COM
Portable sustenance at the start,
comfortable subsistence all the way
through, and it will help US to direct
the bank, to manage the traffic, to con-
duct all our business matters and to
make the most insignificant affair of
our life a matter of vast Importance,
glorifed by Christian principle.
The story of a Merchant.
In New York city there was a mer-
chant, hard in his dealings with his
fellows, who had written over his
banking house or his counting house
room, ''NO compromise" Then when
some merchant got in a crisis and went
down-no fault of his, but a commune
ton of evil circumstances-and all the
other merchants were willing to COM
promise-they would take 20 cents on
the dollar or 80 cents or 20 cents-cOm-
ing to this man last of all, he said: mo
compromise. I'll take 100 cents on the
the wheel turned, and after awhile
that man was in crisis of business,
and he sent out his agent TO comprO-
mise, and the agent said to the mer-
chants, evil you take 80 cents on the
dollar" mo" evil you take any
thing? "Well take 100 cents on the
dollar. No compromise" And the man
AI,nk Ia
counting house door died in restitution.
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 today who could testify out
Of their own experience that godliness
is profitable for the life that now is!
There were times in their business ca
reer when they went here for help and
there for help and yOnder for help and
got no help until they knelt before the
Lord crying for his deliverance, and
the Lord rescued them.
In a bank not far from New YOrk-a
village bank-an officer could not bal
ance 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 he had not taken one
farthing from that bank, but somehow.
for some reason. inscrutable then, the
accounts would not balance. The time
rolled on and the morning of the day
when the books should pass under the
inspection of the other officers arrived,
and he felt himself in awful peril, con-
sciOus 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:
90 Lord, have done right. have pre-
served my integrity, but here | am
about to be overthrown unless thou
EhOuldst come to my rescue. Lord, de-
liver me-" And for one hour he con-
tinued the prayer before God, and then
he arose and went to an old bIotter
that he had forgotten all about. He
opened it, and there lay a sheet of fig
ures which he only needed to add to
another line of fgures-some line Of
figures he had forgotten and knew not
where he had laid them-and the ac-
counts were balanced, and the Lord
delivered him. You are an infidel if
you do not believe it. The Lord deliv-
cred him. God answered his prayer,
as he will answer your prayer, oh, man
Of business, in every crisis when you
come to him.
Can You Get Along without TIT
Now, if this be so, then l am per-
suaded, as you are, of the fact that the
vast majority of Christians do not fully
test the value of their religion. They
are like a farmer in California with
$4,000 acres Of good wheat land and
,Iulturing only a quarter of an acre.
Why do you not go forth and make the
religion of Jesus Christ a practical af-
fair every day of your business life
and all this year, beginning now, and
tomorrow morning putting into prac-
teal effect this holy religion and DEM
Onstrating that gOdliness is profitable
here as well as hereafter?
How can you get along without this
religion? Is your physical health SO
good you do not want this divine tonic 7
Is your mind SO clear, so vast, so COM
prehensive, that you do not want this
divine inspiratiOng Is your worldly
business so thoroughly 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 if what have
said is true then you see what a fatal
blunder it is when a man adiOurns tC
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 a whole life
time unalleviated and uncontrolled
You want religion today in the training
of that child. You will want religion
tomorrow in dealing with that Gus
toner. You wanted religion yesterday
to curb your temper. Is your arm
strong enough to beat your way
drought the floods? Can you, without
being incased in the mail Of Gods eter
nal help, go forth amid the assault OF
all helPs sharpshoOters? Can you wall
alone across these crumbling grave.
and amid these gaping earthquakes
, Can you, waterlogged and mast shiv
; cred, outlive the gale? Oh how many
/ there have been who, pOstponing the
religion of Jesus Christ, have plunged
into mistakes they never could correct
. although they lived sixty years after
, and like serpents crushed under car
; wheels dragging their mauled bodies
under the rocks to die. So these mel
have fallen under the wheel of awfu
: calamity, while a vast multitude O
; others have taken the religion of Jesu
= Christ into everyday life and, first, il
5 practical business affairs, and, second
on the throne of heavenly triumph
l have illustrated, while angels looked Of
l and universe approved, the gloriou
truth that goodness is profitable unit
all things, having the promise of tn
: life which now is as we'll as of tina
e which is to come"
f Copyright 1902, Louis Klopsch, N. VI
Muscular Christianity,
"At Plevna, Kan" says the Eansa
City Journal, "a joint keeper corner
ed the Rev. W. H. Houston in the posi-
office and Informed the reverend ger