The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-23

these Titans armed with upt0rn noun whose spirit Hr the hfs Influence o of the Gospel of Christ came until their disposition vas entirely changed. So 1t was with two merchants in New York; They were very antagonistic. They had done all they could to injure each other. They were in /the same line of business. One of the merchants was converted to God. Hav- ing been converted, he asked the Lord to teach him how to bear himself toward that bushes antagonist, and he was am- pressed with the fact that 1t was his duty when a customer asked for certain kinds of goods which he had not, but which he knew his opponent had. to re- commend him to go to that store. sup pose that Is about the hardest thing a man could do. but. being thoroughly con- verted t8 God. he resolved to do that very thing, and. being asked for 9 certain lind of goods which he had not, he said. You go to such and such a store. and you will get it." After awhile merchant No. found these customers coming, so sent. and he found also that merchant No. l the same religion. Now they are good friends and good neighbOrs, the grace or God entirely changing their dispositions.
 ''Oh." says some one. '1 have rough. can't do anything for me-" Do you know that Martin Luther and Robert Newton and Richard Baxter had impetuous ana all consuming natures. yet the grace or NiOQ IHeuu lHtO tAC AaA6hbiSSs ocS" fulness? A manufacturer cares but very little for a stream that slowly runs through the meadow. but values a tor. rsfit that leaps from rock to rock and lev H and out toward the sea. Along that river you will find fluttertng shutties and grinding mill and flashing water wheel. And a nature the swiftest, the most rug nature God turns into greatest usefulness. Oh. how many that have been pugnacious and hard to please and irasciblt anu more bothered about the mote in their neighbor's eye than about the beamlike ship timber in their own eye who have been entirely changed by the grace or God and have found out that "godiiness is profitable for the life that now Is as well as for the life to come"
 Religion in Business.
 Again I remark that religion is good for worldly business. l know the gem eral theory Is the more business the less religion. the more religion the less -busi- ness. Not so, thought pr. Hans i'll ms when he says: ''He grew in grace the last six years of his life more than at any time in his life. During those SIX years he had more business crowding him the more worldly business man has the more opportunity to serve God. Does re- ligion exhilarate or retard worldly pusl- ness? is the practical question Tor you to dlScuSS. DOeS AidHSs AhS AAOi gage. over the farm Is 1t bad debt on the ledger? Is 1t a lien against the estate? Does 1t crowd the door through written on the subject as experts regard the which the customers come 1or oroao' cloths and silks?
 Now, religion will hinder your business If it be a bad business or If 1t be good business wrongly conducted. If you tell lies behind the counter, If you use false weights and measures. if you put sand in sugar and beet juice in vinegar ana lard in butter and sei! TOT one tnins that which is another thing. then religion will interfere with that business, but a lawful business. lawfully conducted. will find the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ its mightiest auxiliary.
 Religion will give an eQuipose of spirit It will keep you from ebullitfons of tenn per, and you know a great many fine bus inessss have been biownito atoms by bad temper. It will keep you from worriment about frequent loss: 1t will keep you hack from souandering and from dissipa- uon: 1t will give you a kindness of spirit which will be easily distinguished from that mere store courtesy which shakes the health of your family, when there is no anxiety to know whether your child Is well or sick, but the anxiety Is 10 know how many dozen camprtc pocket handkerchiefs you will take ana pay scasn down, It will prepare you for the prac- teal duties of everyday life. l do not mean to say that religion will make ds financially rich, but do say that 1t WI, give us. 1t will asure us of a comfort able sustenance at the start, comrorts, able subsistence all the way through. and it will help us to direct the bank. 10 manage the traffic, to conduct all our pns- mess matters and to make the most III, significant affair of our life a matter of vast importance glorified by Christian principle.
 The Story of 8 Merchant.
 In New York City there was mer- chant hard in his dealings. with his fel- lows, who had written over his banking house or his counting room NO coinprot in a crisis and went down-no fauit or his, hut a conjuncture of evil circun- stances-and all the other merchants were wiling to comprSmiset5hcey 5c cepts weur nr 20 cents-coming to this man last or all he said: No compromise. I'll take lo cents on the dollar, and l can aHoro to await" We'll. the wheel turned, and ar. fer awhile that man was in a crisis of business and he sent out his agent 10 compromise, and the agents said 10 tne merchants "Wi you ,y take % teHa een's snyn on thing" wen take 100 cents on the dol lar No compromise" And the man Wno wrote that inscription over his counting house door died in destitution: on. we want more of the kindness oi tne Gospe'
 
 terprises. How many young men nave found in the religion of Jesus Christ practical help? How many there are to- day who could testify out of their own experience that godliness is prohtaole for the life that now is! There were times In their business career when tney went here for help and there for heip and wonder for help and got no help until they knelt before the Lord crying TOT his deliverance, and the Lord rescued them.
 In bank not far from New York-a village bank--an officer could nor balance his accounts. He had worked at tnsan day after day. night after night, and ne was sick nigh unto death as result. He knew he had not taken one farthing from the bank. but somehow, for some reason, inscrutabe then, the accounts would rot balance. The time rolled on and the morning of tine day when the books should pass under the inspection of the other officers arrived, and he felt him. self in awful peril, conscious Of ms own integrity, 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 mental anguish, and he said: 70 Lord, l have done right I have preserved mY integ- rity, but here I am about to be over thrown unless Thou shouldst come to my rescue Lord deliver me-" And for one hour he continued the prayer before God: and then he arose and went to an old blotter that he had forgotten all apout: He opened 1t, and there lay sheet or 6Rllres which he only needed to add 10 another line of figures-some line Of hg- tunes he had forgotten and knew not where he had laid them-and the accounts were balanced, and the Lord delivered him. You are an infidel 1T you do not believe it. The Lord delivered him. God an- smvuarad his nraver as He will answer