Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-22

yours, iucT6dSeS III tpe same r8IlO LOT tne
next fifty years, there will be a condition
of society paradiaio. We are going &c
nave a multiplication of William E.
Dodges, and Peter Coopers, and James
Senoxes, aud George Peabodys. So will
come redistribution, and the crooked
will be made straight.
Mind this; God never yet undertook q
failure. The old book which Is worth all
other books put together, makes it plain
that God has undertaken to regulate
this world by
GOSPEL INFLUENCES,
and il 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 a hundred times 81 will u but
never once has said al cannot We
may with our tack hammers pound away -,
trying to mend and improve and
straighten the financial condition of the
world and be disappointed in the result,
because our arm is too weak and the
hammer we WELD too small, but the
most defiant difficulty will flatten and
disappear when God with a hammer
made of summer thunderbolts strikes it,
saying, "The crooked shall be made
s~traight.'
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 everything just as they want it, there
are a hundred firms at their wit IS end,
what to do with that partner who draws
more than his share of the profits, or
with that stakeholder who co res in just
often enough TO upset things, or with
that disappearance of funds which you
cannot account for, although you have
suspicious you cannot mention, or with
that investment which was made con
trary to your judgment because there
was q determination to push it through,
or because you are going behind mouth
by non without any prospect of eXtri-
cation. The trouble is putting a wrinkle
on your forehead that ought not to ap-
pear 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 fifty, or seventy when you ought 10 be
only sixty.
sTOP WORRYING.
Either by the dissolution of that firm, or
by re-adjusting matters you will be
brought safely through if you put you
trust in God. When commercial houses
fail the suspension is advertised, but of
the tens of thousands of men who are
every day extricated no public mention
is made Yesterday was Saturday and l
warrant that at the windows of banks,
and in counting rooms of stores and on
every street of every city God appeared
for the deliverance of good men as GER
tainiy as when with Els 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 a rug
before a winters fire. Throw yourself
or the promise of the text, or a hundred
other texts meaning about the same
thing.
never vet asked God to do anything
but he did it, if it were best, and in all
cases where my prayer has not been an
swered l have found out afterward that
it was best not to have been answered in
my way. But none of us nave tested the
full power of prayer. 1t is a force very
like some of the forces of nature that
were IN existence but not employed. For
ages electricity was thought good for
nothing but to burn barns and kill people
with fell stroke. The lightning rod on
the top of houses was the spear with
which the world charged on the thunder
as N UGH as to say: "If you dare
to come this way 1 will hurl you into the
But now electricity lightens
homes and churches and cities and
ChristenIom, and moves rail cars: and
he is a rash man who mentions anything
as impossible to this natural energy. So
the
POWER OF PRAYR
was to The world rather a frightful
nouer IL IL uoc N nonar Mt oil D.
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 q Bible in every
counting-room and supplicad don will as
ceud from every commercial establish
ment, and when busines firms are
formed the question will not only be
asked as to how much this one aud tina
oue put in of capital, but the question
will be asked: "Do you know how to
Mightier agent than any natu-
raj force yet developed will be this gos-
pei electricity, flashing heavenward for
help, flashing earthward with divine re-
God in business life, God in
agricultural life. God in meohanI-
cal life. God in artistic life. God
IN every kind of life. Your
for 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 expect to snatch 1t up as you finally
20 through for heavenly residence. Oh,
nave your religion within easy reach now!
Religion is not for heaven, but for this
Once in heaven, we will need
prayer, for we shall have everything
We want. We will need no repentance
Tor we shall have forever got rid Of our
iins. We shall have no need of comfort,
will be,no trouble. The Christian
is not for heaven where every
hing is all right, but for this world
where so many things are all wrong.
GREAT AMERICAN PAINTER.
Washington Allston, whose name you
'ecognise as that of a great American
PAINTER, was reduced to extreme pow
,rty and one day got on his knees and
for a loaf of bread for himself and
lis starving family. While he was bowed
n that prayer there was a knock at the
loor and a man came in and said: "How
lbout your painting, the Angel Uriel,
hat received the prize at the royal
Has 1t been sold2' "No,'
aid Allston. elbow much do you want
or it!' Allston replied: 81 am done
king a price for l annot get it,
'Will f40o be enough?" asked the
tranger. "Why, that ia more thar 1
Isked, said Allston. The f400 $4,000
we're paid and the purchaser introduced