The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-03

SenoXes. and George Peabodys, So will
come redistribution, and the crooked
will be made atraight.
Mind this: Godnever yet undertook n
failure. The old book which is worth
all other books put together, makes it
plain thai God has undertaken to regu-
late this world by gospel inf fences, and
If He has the power He Will do what He
says He'will, and no one who amounts
TO anything will deny His power. God
has said hundred times II WILL" but
never once has nd cannot" We may
with our tack-hammers pound away, try
lug to mend and improve and stfai .hten
the financial condition of the word. and
be disappointed in the result, because
our arm is too weak and the hammer we
weld too small, but the most defiant dill
flculty will flatten and disappear when
God with hammer made Of. summer
thundcrbolts strikes IT., saving. "Thc
crooked shall be made straight
In your business concerns there are in-
luences perplexing. Your affairs may
seem all right TO outsiders. for business
firms do not advertise their private
troubles, but where one firm has every
thing just as they want it there are
hundred firms at their wits end what to
do with that partner who draws more
than his share of the profits. or with that
stockholder who comes in just often
enough to upset things, or with that dis
appearance of funds which you cannot
account for, although you have suspicious
you cannot mention, or with that invest
ment which was made contrary to your
| judgment because there was determi-
nation to push It through, or because
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without any prospect of eNtrication.
The tronblc is putting Il wrinkle on your
forehead that ought not to appear there
lor ten years yet, and YOU will he forty
years old when YOU ought to be only
thirty, or sixty when YOU ought to bc
fifty or seventy when you ought to be
only sixty, Stop worrying. Either bysst!e
dissolution of that firm, or by re-adiust-
ing matters you will be brought safe V
through if you Fut yOLr trust in God.
| When commercial houses fail The suS-
peusion is advertised, but o. the tens of
| thousands oimcn. who are every day eN-
tricated no public mention is made. Yes
tcrday was Saturday and l warrant thnt
at the windows of banks, and in count
ing-rooms of stores and on every street
of every city, God appeared for the de-
l!verance OF good men, as certainly rs
when with His right foot lie trod Lake
s'-''I"". int" plncidity and made Daniel
: ~ rssi@e- among I've lions as though they
had been house dogs asleep Oh a rug fc-
fore winters fire. Throw Yourself on
the promise CT the text. Or hundred
other texts meaning about the same
thing.
never yet asked God to do anything
ht,t ii ~ Il
the cases where my prayer his not been
answered, | have found out atterward
that it was best not to have been an
swered IN my way. But none Of us have
tested the tull power of prayer. 1t is a
force very like some of the forces OF ma
turc, that were in existence but not en-
ploycd. For ages electricity was
thought good for nothing but to burn
barns, and kill people with fell strokes.
The lightning rod on the top OF houses
was the spear with which the world
charged on the thund erstorm, as much
as TO say, you dare to come this way
twill hurl you into the ground" But
4 now, electricity lightens homes, and
I churches, and cities, and Christcndom,
-ha4d. moves rail cars, and he is rash man
who mentions anything as impossible TO
this natural energy. so The power, OF
Fur power, 1t was any power at all.
But that has been changed, and men
begin TO use it in some things. and the
time will come when it will be used in
all things, and there will be a Bible in
every counting room. and supplicaton
Twill ascend from every commercial cs-
tablishment, and when business firms
arc formed the question will not only he
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one put i'll Of capital, the question will
DC asked: do you know how to pray?"
Mightler agent than any natural force
yet developed will be tins Gospel elec-
tricity, flashing heavenward for help,
flashing earthward with Divine response.
God in business life. God in agricultural
life. God in mechanical life. God in ar
t!stic life. God in every kind Of life. Your
rellglo for the most past is hung up so
high you cannot reach it. 1t is hung up
on the cloudy raiters of the sky where
you expect to snatch it up as you finally 90
through for heavenly residence. Oh, have
your religion within easy reach now! Re-
ligion is not for heaven, but for this world.
! Once IN heaven, we will need no PRAYER.
for we shall have everything we want.
We Will need no repentance, for we shall
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shall have no need of comfort, for there
VIII be no trouble. The Chalstian re-
ligion is not for heaven where everything
is all right, but for this world where so
many things are all wrong.
Washington -Alston, whose name You
recOa nize as that Of a great American
painter, was reduced to extreme poverty,
and one day got on his knees and asked
for loaf of bread for himself and lis
starving family. While he was bowed in
that prayer there was knock at the
door and man came i'm and said: "How
about your painting, the Angel Uriel.'
that received the prize at the roy. acad-
cmy? Has it been sold?" NO" sad
AllstOn. ''IIow much do you want for
20 Allston replied: Il am done fixing
price for l cannot tell" "Wlll four
hundred pounds be enongh?" asked the
stranger. ''Why that is more than l
asked" said Allston. The 400 pounds,
go, ,OCO were paid and the purchaser IN
trOduced himself as Marnuis Of Stafford