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

per's Task flaming in Charles Wes-
ley's hymns and rushing with arch
angelic splendor through Millions
Paradise Lost Is it possible that
religion which builds such indestruct-
ible monuments ana which lifts its en-
sign on the highest promontories of
worldly power can have any effect up
on mans intellect but elevation?
Now. / commend godliness as the
best mental discipline better than
bellies lettres to purify the taste. better
than mathematics to- harness the mind
to all intricacy and elaboration, better
than logic to marshal the intellectual
forces for onset and victory 1t will go
with Hugh Miller and show him the
footprints OF the Creator in the red
sandstone. It will go with the astron-
omCr on the great heights where God
shepherds the great flock OF worlds
that wander on the hills of heaven,
answering his voice as he calls them
ali by their names.
AgCin | remark that goGliness Is
profitable for ones disposition. Lord
Ashley. before he went into a great
battle was heard to offer this prayer:
20 Lord, / shall be very busy to-day!
!, If | forget thee, forget me not" With
such {; Christian disposition as that a
man IS Independent of all circum
stances Religion has tanned the Wild
est natures It has turned fretfulness
into gratitude, dependency into good
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ungovernable and uncompromising
have been made pliable and concilia-
tory. Good resolution, reformatory
effort, will not effect the change. 1t
takes a mightier arm and mightier
hand to bend evil habits than the hand
that bent the bow of Ulysses, and it
takes a stronger lasso than ever held
the buffalo on the prairie.
A man cannot go forth with any hui
man weapons and conteEd successfully
against these Titans armed with up
torn mountains. But you have known
men into whose spirit the infuepce OF
the gospel of Christ came until their
disposition was entirely changed.
oh" says some one, 81 have a rough.
can't do anything for me-" Do you
know that Martin Luther and Robert
Newton and Richard Baxter had i'm
petuous and all consuming natures, yet
the grace of God turned them into the
mightiest usefulness? manufactur
er cares but very little for stream
that slowly runs through the meadow.
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rock to rock and rushes with mad en-
ergy through the valley and out toward
the sea. Along that river you will find
fiuttering shuttles and grinding mill
and flashing water wheel. And a ma
ture the swiftest, the most rugged and
the most tremendous-tha is the ma
ture God turns into greatest useful
ness. Oh, how many that have been
pugnacious and hard to please and
irascible and 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 of God and have
found out that "godliness is profitable
for the life that now is as well as for
the lie u COllle.
Now. religion will hinder your bust
ness if 1t be a bad business or if it be
a good business wrongly conducted. If
you tell lies behind the counter, If you
Use false weights and measures, IL you
rut sand in sugar and beet juice in
Vinegar and lard in butter and sell for
one thing that which is another thing
then religion will interfere with that
business. but lawful business, law
| fully conducted, will find the religion
of the Lord Jesus Christ its mightiest
auxiliary.
Religion will give an equipoise of
spirit. 1t will keep you from ebulli-
tions of temper, and you know a great
many fine businesses have been blown
to atoms by bad temper. 1t will keep
you from worriment about frequent
loss; it will keep you Industrious and
prompt; it will keep you back from
squandering and from dissipation; 1t
will give you kindness Of spirit which
will be easily distinguished from that
mere store courtesy which shakes
hands violently with you, asking about
the health of your family, when there
is no anxiety to know whether your
child is well or sick, but the anxiety is
to know how many dozen cambric
pocket handkerchiefs you will take and
pay cash down. 1t will prepare you for
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