Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-22


who draws more than his share Of the
profits, or with that stakeholder who comes
in just often enough to upset things, OF
with that disappearance of funds which
you cannot account for, although you have
suspicious you cannot mention; or with
that investment which was made contrary
to your Judgment because there was de-
/ termination TO push it through, or because
you are going behind month by month
without any prospect of extrication. The
trouble is putting a wrinkle on your fore
| head that ought not to appear there fort ten
years yet, and you win be 40 years old
when you ought to be only 30, or co when
you ought to be 50, or 20 when you ought
to be only 60. Stop worrying; either by
the dissolution of that firm or by readiust-
! ing matters you will be brought safely
through if you put your trust in God.
! When commercial houses fail the sus-
pension is advertised, but of the tens of
thousands of men who are every day ex.
treated no public mention is made Yes
ttrday was Saturday, and warrant that
I'll the windows of banks, and in counting
rooms Of stores, and on every street Of
erery city, God appeared for the deliver
ance of good men rs certainly as when
with his right foot he trod Lake Galilee
into placidity, and made Daniel as safe
among the lions as though they had been
house dogs asleep on rug before a win
| ter's fire. Throw yourself on the promise
of the text, or hundred other texts mean
ing about the same thing.
never yet asked God to do anything but
he did it if it were best, and in all the
cases where my prayer has not been an
swered have found out afterward that it
was best not to have been answered in my
way. But none of us has tested the
full power of prayer. 1t is force very like
some of the forces of nature that were in
existence, but not employed. For ages
electricity was thought good for nothing
bat to burn barns and kill people with one
fell stroke. The lightning rod on the top
Of houses was the spear with which the
world charged on the thunder storm, as
much as to say, "If you dare to come this
way | will htrl yoa into the ground"
But now electricity lightens homes and
churches and cities and Christendom and
moves rail cars, and he is rash man who
mentions anything as impossible to this
natural energy.
SO the power of prayer was to the world
rather frghtfGl power, if it was any
power at all But that has been changed
and men begin to use it in some things, and
the time win come when it win be used in
all things, and there will be Bible in
every counting room, and supplicGtion will
ascend from every commercial establish
ment and when business firms are formed
the question will not only he asked as to
how much this one and that one put in of
capital, but the question will he asked,
"Do you know how to pray"
GOD IN EVERYTHING.
Mightier agent than any natural force
yet developed will lie this gospel electricity,
flashing heavenward for help flashing
earthward 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
for the most part is hung up so high you
cannot reach it. 1t is hung up on tn,
cloudy rafters of the SKY, where You eXpec
to snatch it mp rs you finally 90 through
for heavenly residence Oh, have your IT
ligion within easy reach nowl Religion t.
not for heaven, but f r This world Once
in heaven we will ned no prayer, for we
shall have everything we want. We VIII
need no repentance, for we shall have for
ever got rid of our sinl. We shall have no
need of comfort, foe there win he no
trouble. The Christian religion is not fol
Heaven where everything is all right, but
for this world, where so many things are all
wrong.
Washington a llston, whose name you
recognize as that of a great American
painter, wits reduced to extreme poverty,
and one day got on his knees and asked for
Il loaf Of bread for himself and his starv
ing family. While be was bowed in that
prayer there was II knock Mt the door and
Il man came in and sud; "Ilow about your
painting, the Angel Uricl, that received
the prize ut tho royal academy? Has il
been soldy" NO" said Allston, GLOW
much do you want for ity" Allston re
piled: 81 am done fixing price for | can,
not get it." "Will four hundred pounds
he cnoughY" asked the stranger. "Why, |
that is more than asked" said AllstOn.
The four hundred pounds two thousand |
dollals) were paid, and tho purchaser in.
troduccd himself as Marquis of Stafford,
who thereafter was orc of the most liberal |
patrons Of the rescued artist. "Oh that |
all just happened sol' Did it? Tell that |
to some ignorant man, some benightcd |
woman, who has never read the promise, |
Call upon me in the day Of trouble, Twill |
deliver thee or that other promise, "The |
crooked shall be made straight"
"Wcll," says one, ''you don't apply this |
in every directior,." Yes, do. Take the |
most uncertain thing on earth-the wealth. |
er The Bible distinctly says that prayer |
controls the weather. Jumesv, II, IS: eli |
as was II man subject to like passions us
we are, and he prayed earnestly that it |
might not rains and it rained not on the |
earth Ly the space Of three years and six |
months. And he prayed again. and the |
heaven gave rain" Do you say that was |
the weather of olden timeY There have been |
instances in modern times just MS marvel. |
GUS. There's not u Christian ship captain |
but could give you instances of divine in.
reference with the weather in answer to |
prayer.
1t has been my good fortune to know
many ship captains. They are in all our
services. They leave their vessels on Sun.
day mornings and join us in worship. |
warrant there are enough of them present
this morning to take awhole fleet in safety
across the Atlantic. Whenever | have
heard them testify it has nightly con,
firmed me in what knew before, that God
answers prayer concerning the weather
And there have been cyclones that started
up from the Caribbean sen, sweeping down
every sail, and every smokcstack, and every |
mast in their course, which in answer to
specific petition have been diverted and
made to curve around some particular ship,
leaving that in calm waters, and then re-
sumlng their original path OF destruction.
The weather probabilities again and again
have announced n tempest, and we were
all ready for it, but to the surprise of most
people the next day we saw the announce
ment that the atmospheric fury had
changed its course. The probability is it