Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-25

weather in answer to prayer. It has
been my good fortune to know many
ship captains. They are in all our SER
vices. They leave their vessels on SUM-
day mornings and join US 10 worship.
warrant there are enough of them pres
ent this morning TO take whole fleet in
safety across the Atlantic. Whenever ]
have heard them testify, II has nightly
confirmed me in what knew before, that
God answers prayer concerning the
weather. And there have been cyclones
that started up from the Caribbean sea
sweeping down every sail and every
smokestack and every mast IN their
course, which in answer to specific petit
ton have been diverted aud made to
curve around some particular ship, leav-
ing that in calm waters, and then re-
Stunning their original path of destruc-
ton. The weather probabilities again
and again have announced tempest
and ws were already for it, but to the
surprise, OF most people, the next
day we saw the announcement that the
atmospheric fury had changed its course.
The probability is 1t struck O prayer and
glanced of. If Eliiah's PRAYER affected
the weather of Palestine for forty-two
months, l should think somebody now
might have a prayer that would affect it
for couple of days.
John Easter was many years ago an
evangelist in Virginia. A large out
door meeting was being held in that
state. Many thousands had assembled IN
the open air and heavy storm-clouds be-
gan TO gather. There was no shelter to
which the multitudes could retreat. The
rain had already reached the adjoining
fields when John Easter cried out:
Brethren, be still while l call upon
God to stay the storm till the gospel is
preached to this multitude.
THEN HE KNELT AND PRAYED
that the audience might be spared from
the rain and that after they had gone to
their homes there might come refreshing
showers. Behold the clouds parted as
they came near and passed to either side
OF the crowd and then closed again, leav-
ing the place dry where the audience had
assembled, and the next day the post
poned showers came upon the ground
that had been the day before omitted.
Do you say 1t only happened SO! L cannot
see what you keep your Bibles for, and
the God you worship Is not my God.
Your god Is an autocrat, and he Is so far
off and 80 far up that the world cannot
touch him, and his throne Is an eternal
iceberg. My God is q father, here and
now, and a father will give His child
wha. he asks for, II il is best tor him to
have it. Pray about everything that
concerns you, secularities as we'll as spir-
Qualities. Take to God all your an
noyances and perplexities. The crooked
shall be made straight. Some people
talk as though God controlled things in
general but not in particular; that He
started everything under certain laws
and then let it take care Of itself, Us an
engineer might start his locomotive on
an IRON railroad track and then jump off.
What would happen to such locomotive
Is what would long ago have happened to
our world if God had started it and
afterwards allowed it to look out for
itself. There is no such thing as gen.
eral providence. 1t is Il particular provi-
dence. God has no general care for
forest. 1t Is care of every cell of every
leaf and root in that forest. God has no
general care of the ocean. 1t is care
of every drop of water in the liquid
magnitude. God has no general care
for the human race. 1t is care of
every individual of that race and of
every item of individual history.
preach him, God in infinitesimals, au
every day God,
A GOD RESPONSIVE,
and one breath of earnest prayer though
that breath should not be strong enough
20 make a candle flicker, will absorb
more of the Divine attention than il the
archangel standing at the foot of the
throne should flap both wings.
II ia ramarkabla how many orooked
things are in the providence of God being
made straight. About thirty years ago
our national affairs were as crooked as
depraved American politics and bad met
and Satan could make them. From the
top of Maine TO the foot OF Florida, the
nation was red with wrath. 1t
was wrangle and fight all the
way through, and one of the mild
est things that the North and South
promised each other was assassination.
During this summer I have Travelled
through New York, and Ohio, and Illi-
nois, and Indiana, aud Minnesota, and
Kansas and Nebraska, and Missouri, and
Texas, aud Louisiana, and Georgia, and
North and South Carolina, and Virginia,
and Pennsylvania, and 1 have shaken
hands with tens of thousands of people,
and talked with men of all sections and
degrees, and I have to tell you it is all
peace, and IN all the states of
the Union you could not now
military company of
100 soldiers to fight against the
United States government, unless you
got your men out of the penitentiary.
Did the corrupt and gangrened political
parties do this work of rectIfication and
publication? No! 1t was by divine in
that the crooked has been
made straight.
On the End of December, 1851, Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte rode down the
Champs Elysee of Paris. and under the
hoofs of his horse republic was tram
pied as the rider went to take a throne.
Il was
THE OUTRAGE OF THE CENTURY.
For nineteen long years the wrong tri-
umphed. The will OF one man who
to remain emperor kept down a
nation who wanted a republic. But
September, 1870, arrived, and Sedan
lnrolled its crimson scroll. The en-
1eror surrenders with 49,, 900 troops, 4l9
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