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tersnsuaEicn - push 4 tkrong-h. e. bs.aarse
voa are going h2hiod naoEKh IS nants
,fithout any prospect q sxtriezfson. Tie
troutle l. puftinS 3 wFiakle o. yo4T fore
head thai ought not 70 appear there for ter
vezrs yet. and yoa vii bs a. years old
When yoa ought 70 ts - So 81 o. when
son oukht 70 Be - OF - " aez ycu ought
q be oaly g. stop worrsing. eilher ey
The olsSoluGien Of tbzt arM ~ by ree6jUsG-
ing matters yon viii he brought safely
through u yea put year trusS il God.
when commercial hoases fail the sas-
Dsnsion Is advertised. bnt OF the teDs of
thousands of mea Who src every day sx-
tricsted 40 public .aention IS made. Yes
tsrsiay was Sztar.s ~ aud warrant that
a the Windows CT hanks, and in counting
rooms Il steres, aud OF every street II
every city, Cod sppesred for the deliver
snes q good men - certainiy IS waen
with his right foot he trOd Lake Galiiee
into placdigy, and made Daniel IS safe
smong the lions Is though they had been
hcase dogs asleep On a rug before win
tePs ire Throw Yourself on the promise
sfthe text, or 3 hundred Other texts mean
ing about the same thing.
! never yet asked God 70 do anything but
30 did Il II IL were best, and In al tie
Eases where my prayer hss not been an
sne-e1 have found out afterward that Il
wss best not 70 have been answered n nay
way. Bat none 81 US has tested ths
fall power of prayer IL is 2 forcs very ike
some OF the forces Of nature that were -
existence. but not employed. Ecg ages
electricity was thought good for nothing
but 70 burn baras and kin people With one
teB stroke The lightning rod on the top
of houses was tho spear with which the
worli charged on the thunder storm, IS
much az 70 say. If you dare 70 come this
way ] Will hurl YOU into the ground. -
But now electricity lightens homes and
churches and cities and Christend0m aud
moves rail cars, and he is a rash man who
mentions anything as impossible 10 this
natural energy
So the power Of prayer was 10 the world
rather frightful power, If It was any
power at all But that has been changed,
ara men benin 10 use it in some things, and
the time will come when it will be used IA
al ts,ugs, aud there wiz be Bible in
every counting room, and supplication VIII
ascend from every commercial establish
msnt, and when business firms arc formed
The question will not only ba asked as to
how much this one and that one put in OF
capital, but the question viii be asked.
"Do you know how TO pray;"
GOD II EVERYTHING.
Mightier agent than any aatursl force
vet developed viii be this gospel electricity,
tlashing heavenward for help, flashing
psrthwerd with divine response. God in
business life. God in agricultural life.
God in mechanical life. God in artistic life.
God in every kind Of life. Your religion
fer the most part is hung up so high you
cannot reach it. 1t is hung up on the
cloudy rafters Of the sky, where you expec;
70 snatch il up as YOU finally go through
fsr heavenly residence Oh, have your re
izion within easy reach nowl Religion Is
not for heaven, but for this world. Ooct
shall have everything we want. We Wi
need 10 repentance, for we shall have for
ever got rid Of our sins. We shall have nC
need of comfort, for there viii be NJ
trouble. The Christian religion Is not foi
heaven. where everything is all right. bu
FOR this world, where so many things are al
wrong.
Washington Allston, whose name yoJ
A -serrsr
painter, was reduced TO extreme poverty
and ore Gay got on his knees and asked 70
n loaf cf bread for himself and bis starv
ing family. While be was bowed IN tia
prsyer there was knock at the door an'
a man came in and SAID: How about you
painting. the Angel Uriel,' that receives
the prize at the royal academyt Has
been soldgp mo" said Allston. "Hoy
much do you want for it?" Allston re
Piled: ~ am done fixing price, for car
not get it." ''Will four hundred pound
he enough;" asked the stranger. why
that is more than / asked, said Allstor
The four hundred pounds two thousan
dollars) were paid, and the pure hsser II
troduced himself as Marquis OF Sta1orf
who thereafter was ore Of the most ibera
patrons Of the rescued artist. oh, ths
Ill Just happened sol' DID IL; Tell tia
. to sone ignorant man, somc henighte
woman, who has never read the promis
Call upon me in the day Of trouble, wi
deliver thee" or that other promise. ''Tt
D crooked shall be made straight"
well" 4" says one. you don't apply th
In every direction" Yes, do. Take u
most uncertain thing on earth-thc wsatl
er The Bible distinctly says that pray
+ controls the weather. Jamesv, e, IS. y
z as vas a man subject to like passions
T we are, and be prayed earnestly that
might not rain; and il rained not On u
! earth by the space Of three years and s.
mouths. And he prayed again, and q
2 heaven gave rain" Do you say that w
o the weather 81 oiden tjgnef There have oes
: instances in modern times just as marvG
: Gus. There's not a Christian ship capita
y but could give you instances q oivine
2 terference With the weather n answer
= prayer.
L II has been my good fortune "a kno
many ship captains. They are IN al q
J services They leave their vessels On So
= dey mornings AID JON "a ia worship.
warrant there sre enough Of them prese
= tins morning 20 take 3 sole fsoet Ia tafe
a AGREES fbe Atlsntic. Nheuever / hs
heard tbem testify Sc has nj zbtily co
: frmed ne IN vbss knew before. taat q
answers prayer concerning the weaf h'
And there have been cyclones that starr
I'D from he Caribbean sss. aweeTin & oov
ewsrv sail. and ever sznokextso8z. sud eve
rnast ia their coGrze, which IN answer
sPse.ac petition have hes3 diverted q
p raa5e to curve around sor1s pertieslar sh
leaving that ih cslm waters. s16 thsn
: fuming ts-sr original path q destruetir
The weather probabilities sVain ard sga
i hsve announced = tempest. and re "
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