The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-07

ficars arrived. and he felt himself IN
awful peril. conscious Of his own Inc
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, I have preserved my
integrity, but here 1 am about to be
overthrown unless thou shouldst come
to my rescue. Lord, deliver me-. Ana
for one hour he continued the prayer
before God, and then he arose anu
went to an old blotter that he had Tor
gotten all about. He opened 1t, and
there lay a sheet Of figures which ne
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 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. man OF pusi-
ness, in every crisis when you come to
him.
Now, if 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 Is 900 acres of good wheat lana
! and culturing only q quarter or 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 goodness is
| profitable here as we'll as hereafter?
How can you get along without this
religion? Is your physical health SO
| good you do not want this olvlne
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 l have said is true then you
see what fatal blunder it is when q
man adjourns to lifes 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 1Or a WnOIe uleIlAlS ia
alleviated and uncontrolled? You
want religion to-day in the training CT
that child. You will want religion to-
morrow in dealing with that customer
You wanted religion yesterday to curr
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
hell's sharpshooters? Can you wals
alone across these crumbling graves
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 plung-
! ed into mistakes they never could cor
rect, although they lived sixty years
after, and like serpents crushed under
cart wheels dragging their mauled
bodies under the rocks to die. Sc
these men have fallen under the whee
of awful calamity, while vast multi
tude of others have taken the religion
of Jesus Christ into everyday life and
first, in practical business affairs, and
second, on the throne of heavenly tri.
umph, have illustrated, while angels
looked on and a universe approved
the glorious truth that "godliness is
profitable unto all things. having tht
promise of the life which now is a.
, well as of that which is to come"