The intelligencer., 1890-09-27

distribution of property. Under the di-
vine blessing good people will get more
alertness and acumen and assiduity.
MANY good people are kept in strait
ened circumstances because they have
been indolent or lacked tho courage to
take honest advantage of circumstances
and we're too stupid to get on. With
tho very same surroundings others
went on to competency. In the
better days to come good men will
have their faculties wakened and will
in consequence rise to larger shares of
prosperity On the other hand estates
wrongfully accumulated will dissolve.
II not the sons, then the grandsons, will
make the money fly and it will gradually
scatter in their hands and become q part
of the general wealth. Then, as to vast
properties righteously gathered-and
there are thousands OF them such es-
tates will contribute toward helping the
unfortunate, not more by charities than
by helping struggling people into lu-
cratiye business, and the man who has
amassed enough and surplus will say:
''There Is q young merchant without
any capital, will start him on Fulton
street." and "there is young mechanic
who has no means of his own, and l will
put him on a career OF prosperity" and
'sthere is farmer with too big a mort
gage on his land, and l will help him
lift the incumbrance. The fact Is that
II the kindliness and generosity mani
tested by moneyed men toward the
struggling during the last fifty years,
increases in the same ratio for the next
ifty years, there will be condition of
society paradisaic.
Mind this. God never yet undertook
| a failure. The old book, which Is worth
all other books put together, makes 1t
plain that God has undertaken to regu-
late this world by Gospel influences and
| II He has the power He will do what
He says He will, and no one who
| amounts to any thing will deny His
| power.
In your business concerns there are
influences 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 1t
| 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 shareholder who comes in
| just often enough to upset things, or
with that disappearance of funds which
| you can not account for, although you
have suspic ons you can not mentlon,
| or with that Investment which was
made contrary to your Judgment because
there was determination to push it
through, or because you are going be-
hind month by month without any
prospect of extrication. The trouble is
putting wrinkle on your forehead that
ought not TO appear there for ten years
yet. and you will be forty years old
when you ought to be only thirty, or
sixty when you ought to be fifty. or
seventy when you ought to be only
sixty. Stop worrying.
Inever yet asked God to do any thing
but He did it, If it were best, and in all
the cases where my prayer has not been
answered, / have found out afterward
that it was best not to have been an
swered in my way. But none OF US have
tested the full power Of prayer. 1t Is Q
force very like some of the forces Of
nature, that were in existence but moi
employed. For ages electricity was
thought good for nothing but to burr
barns and kill people with fell stroke
The lightning rod on top Of houses was
the spear with which the world charged
on the thunder storm, as much as II
say: IF you dare to come this way
will hurl you into the ground" Blu
now electricity lightens homes, an(
churches, and cities and Christendom
and moves rail cars. and he Is rasf
man who mentions any thing as impos
sible to this natural energy.
So the power of prayer was to thu
world rather frightful power. II it wa
any power at all But that has beer
changed, and men begin to use 1t IL
some things, and the time will come
when it will be used in all things ani
there will be Bible in every counting
room and supplication will ascend from
every commercial establishment, anG
when business firms are formed the
question will not only be asked as tt
how much this one and that one put II
of capital, but the question will b,
asked: do you know how to pray?'
Mightier agent than any natural fore,
yet developed win be this gospel cleo
tricity, flashing heavenward for help
flashing earthward with divine re
sponse. God in business life God il
agricultural life. God in mechanica
life. God in artistic life. God in ever,
kind of life.
Washington Allston whose name yo
recognize as that OF q great American
painter, was reduced to extreme power
ty, and one day got on his knees an
asked for loaf of bread for himself an
his starving family. While he wa
bowed in that prayer there was knoc
at the door and.a man came in and said
How about your painting, the 'Ange
, Uriel,' that received the prize at tn
Royal Academy? Has it been soldP
mo-" said Allston. "How much d
you want for it?" Allston replied; "
nm done fixing price for can not &c
} It." ''Will e4OO be enough?' asked tn
stranger. "Why, that is more than
asked" said Allston. The e4OO (S2, ,OOC
: we're paid and the purchaser introdu uce
himself as Marquis OF Stafford, VIII
thereafter was one Of the most libera
patrons OF the rescued artist 80, tha
T all just happened so!'' Did it? Te
that to some ignorant man, some bt
, nighted woman, who has never rea
the promise: Call upon me in the da
of trouble, will deliver thee" or tina
other promise: "The crooked shall b
made straight"
, well" says one, you don't appl
J this in every direction?" Yes, ] d,
Take the most uncertain thing on cart
tho weather. The Bible distinctl
says that prayer controls the weathe
, James v. and xviii: Elijah was ma
subject to like passions as we are, an
he prayed earnestly that 1t might NJ
rain. and it rained not on the earth Il
the space OF three years and six month
and he prayed again and the HEAVIER
gave rain" Do you say that was tn
; weather of olden time? There ha,
been instances in modern times lust ,
+ marvellous There is not Christia
! ship captain but could give you II
, stances OF divine interference with IL
weather in answer to prayer.
John Easter was many years ago O
} evangelist in Virginia. A large on
door meeting was being held in th
State. Many thousands had assemble
IN the open air and heavy storm clout
y *f.<ap to gather. There was no shelf
! s kieh the multitudes could retrea
'lae rim had already reached the a
I l8<t,H2 holds when John Easter cri,
~: i>ft if.leR, be still while 1 call u
. on efsY The storm TIL the gosp
is pie ttb this multitude." The
! he kneikA prayed that the audlen
! might be Spared from the rain and In