Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-03-21
house door died in destltution

counting house door died In destitution.
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 help7 How many
there are today who could testify out
OF their own experience that goodness
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 yonder for help and
got no help until they knelt before the
Lord crying for his deliverance. and
the Lord rescued them.
In bank not far from New York;
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 a
result He knew he had not taken one
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 I'm awful peril. con-
scious OF bis own Integrity. but unable
to prove that integrity. That morning
he went to the bnnk early. and he knelt
down before God and told the whole
story or mental anguish. and be said:
80 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 oil about. He
opened 10 and there lay a sheet or fig-
ures which he only needed to add to
another line OF 6gures-some line OF
figures he had forgotten and knew not
where he had laid them-and the &C
counts were balanced, and the Lord
delivered him You are an infidel IL
you do not believe 1t. The Lord deliv-
cred him God answered his prayer.
as be will answer your prayer, oh, man
OF business. in every crisis when you
come TO him.
Can You Get Along without Its
Now, II this be 30. then I am per-
suaded, IS you nre. 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 practical az,
fair every day OF your business life
And ell this year, beginning now. and
tomorrow morning putting into prac-
tfcal effect this holy religion and DEM
onstrating that goodness is profitable
here as well as hereafter7
How can you get along without this
religion? IL your physical health SO
good you do not want this divine tonic
IL your mind so clear. 30 vast, 10 COM
prehensive. that you do not want this
divine inspiration7 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 I'm crises OF
worldly trouble7 And il what have
said Is true then you see what q fatal
blunder II Is when a man adjourns to
LIES 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 uncontrolled?
You want religion today in the training
or that child. You will want religion
tomorrow in dealing with that GUS
toner. You wanted religion yesterday
to curb your temper. Is your arm
strong enough 10 beat your way
drought the floods? Can you, without
being incased In the mail Of Gods eter-
nal help, go forth amid the assault OF
all helrs sharpshooters2 Can you walk
alone across these crumbling graves
aud amid these gaping earthquakes?
Can you. waterlogged and mast shiv-
cred. outiive the gale? oh. how many
there have been who. postponing the
religion OF Jesus Christ. have plunged
into mistakes they never could correct,
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 a vast multitude 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 triumph,
have illustrated. while angels looked on
and 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"
Copyright. 1904. Louis Klopsch. N. III