Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-07

the dollar. and ! can afford to wait"
Well the wheel turned, and after
awhile that man was in crisis OF
business, and he sent out his agent TO
compromise ana the agent SAID to the
merchants, "Will you take 80 cents on
the dollar?" No win you take
anything" Wen take 100 cents on
the dollar No compromise" And the
man who wrote that inscription over
his counting house door died in desti-
tuition. Oh, we want more OF the kind
ness OF the gospel and the spirit of
love in our business euterprises How
many young men have found in the
religion of Jesus Christ a practical
help? How many there are to-day who
could testify out OF their own expert
ence that godliness is profitable for
the life that now isl There were times
in their business career wnen they
went here for help and there for help
and yonder for help and got no help
until they lSnelt before the Lord cry
ing for his deliverance, and the Lord
rescued them.
In a 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 he had not TAX
en- one farthing from that bank, but
somehow. for some reason, inscrutabie
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 Of
ficers arrived, and he felt himself in
awful peril, conscious of his own in
tegrity, but unable to prove that in
tegrity. That morning he went to the
bank early, and he knelt down before
God and told the whole story of men
tai anguish, and he said: 20 Lord.
have done right, | have preserved my
integrity, but here / am about to be
overthrown unless thou shouldst come
to my rescue. Lord, deliver me-" And
for one hour he continued the prayer
before God, and then he arose ami
went to an old blotter that he had for
gotten all about. He opened 1t, and
there lay a sheet of figures which he
only needed to add to another line of
fgures-some line of figures he had
forgotten and knew not where he h21
laid them-and the accounts were
balanced, and the Lord delivered him.
You are an infidel if you do not be-
lieve it. The Lord delivered him
God answered his prayer, as he will
answer your prayer, oh, mar of busi-
ness, in every crisis when you come to
him.
Now, II this be so, then | 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 culturing only a quarter Of an
acre. Why do you not go forth and
make the religion of Jesus Christ
practical affair every day of your bust
ness life and all this year, beginning
now, and tomorrow morning 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
religion? 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 inspiration? Is your
worldly business so thoroughly estab-
! lished 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 1t is when &
man adjourns to life's expiration the
uses of religion. A man who post
pones 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 COM
pensate him for a whole lifetime un-
alleviated and uncontrolled? You
want religion to-day in the training OF
that child. You will want religion to-
morrow in dealing with that customer
| You wanted religion yesterday to curb
| your temper Is your arm strong
enough to beat your way through the
floods? Can you, without being in
cased in the mail Of Gods eternal
| help, go forth amid the assault of all
helPs sharpshooters? Can you walk
alone across these crumbling graves
and amid these gaping earthquakes? :?
Can you, waterlogged and mast shiv-
cred, outlive the gale? oh, how many
| tnara have bean who nOstnOninP the