Connecticut western news., 1902-03-20
g Story of a Merchant.


 our life matter of vast importance,
 glorifed by Christian principle.
 The Story of a Merchant.
 In New York city there was a mer-
 chant, hard in bis 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 conjunc- ton of evil circumstances-and all the other merchants were willing to con-
 promise-they would take 75 cents on
 the dollar or 50 cents or 20 cents-com-
 ing to this man last of all, he said: No compromise. I'll take 100 cents on the
 dollar, and can afford to wait" We'll, the wheel turned, and after awhile that man was in a crisis of business, and he sent out his agent to compro- mise, and the agent said to the mer-
 chants, Twill you take 50 cents on the
 dollar?" "No." will you take any
 thing?' "We'll take 100 cents on the
 dollar No compromise" And the man
 who wrote that inscription over his
 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 wonder 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
 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:
 70 Lord, have done right. have pre-
 served my integrity. but here I am about to be overthrown unless thou
 shouldst 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 blotter 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 1t 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 ItH Now, if this be so, then I 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 farmer in California with 15,0O0 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 a practical af fair every day of your business life | and all this year, beginning now, and
 tomorrow morning putting into prac- tical effect this holy religion and dem-
 onstrating that godliness is profitable here as we'll as hereafterf
 How can you get along without this | religion2 Is your physical health so good you do not want this divine tonic Is your mind so clear, so vast, so com prehensive, that you do not want this divine inspiration? 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 trouble7 And if what have said Is true then you see what a fatal blunder 1t is when a 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 a whole life time unalleviated and uncomfortedf You want religion today in the training ! of that child. You will want religion 1 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 hoods1 Can you, without I being incased In the mail of Gods eter- ! nal help, go forth amid the assault of I alone across these crumbling graves \ and amid these gaping earthquakes? Can you, waterlogged and mast shiv- \ cred, outlive the galef Oh, how many there have been who, postponing the l religion of Jesus Christ, have plunged 1 into mistakes they never could correct, 1 although they lived sixty years after, and like serpents crushed under cart 1 wheels dragging their mauled bodies | under the rocks to die. So these men have fallen under the wheel of awful \ calamity, while a vast multitude of l others have taken the religion of Jesus
 Christ into everyday life and, first, in I practical business affairs, and, second, l on the throne of heavenly triumph,
 have illustrated, while angels looked on
 and a universe approved, the glorious l truth that "godliness is profitable unto
 all things, having the promise of the l life which now Is as well as of that ] which Is to come"
 [Copyright, 1909. Louis Klopsch. ". IT California HumminE Bird.
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