The Chanute times., 1902-03-21

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 spiris or
love in our business enterprise! 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 owa expert
ence that godllness is profitable for
the life that now is! There were times
in their business career when they
went here for help and there for help
and yonder for help and got no help
until they knelt before the Lord cry
ing for his deliverance, and the Lord
rescued them.
in bank not far from New York
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 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
fcers 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
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tai anguish, and he said: 80 Lord,
have done right, l 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 and
went to an old blotter that he had for
gotten all about He opened it, and
there lay sheet of figures which he
only needed to add to another line of
| figures-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 busi-
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 $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 a
practical affair every day of your busl-
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 estaD-
/ lished that you have no use for that
religion which has been the help and
| deliyerance of tens of thousands OF
men in crises of worldly trouble? And
| if what | have said is true then you
see what fatal blunder it is when g
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 for 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
hell's 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
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. So
these men have fallen under the wheel
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 the
promise of the life which now is as
well as of that which is to come"
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