Connecticut western news., 1890-09-24

toward helping the unfortunate, not more by charities than by helping strug- gling people into lucrative business, and the man who has amassed enough and surplus will say, '"There is young merchant without any capital; l will start him on Fulton street," and there is young mechanic who has no means of his own, and I will put him on a career of prosperity" and 'there is farmer with too big 8 mort gage on his land, and will help him lift the encumbrance." The fact is that if the kindliness and generosity mani fested by moneyed men toward the struggling during the last fifty years in- creases in the same ratio for the next fifty years there will be condition of society paradisiac. We are going to have a multiplication of William E. Dodges and Peter Coopers and James Lenoxes and George Peabodys So will come redistribution, and the crooked will be made straight.
 Mind this: God never yet undertook a 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 infu- ences, 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 'I will, " but never once has said ''I cannot" We may with our tack ham, mers pound away, trying to mend and improve and straighten the financial condition of the world, and be disap- pointed in the result, because our arm is too weak and the hammer we wield too small; but the most defiant difh- culty will fatten and disappear when God with a hammer made of summer thunderbolts strikes 1t, saying, '"The crooked shall be made straight"
 PROVIDENCE NEVER ERRs.
 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 it wants it there are a 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 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 determination to push 1t through, or because you are going behind month by month, without any prospect of ex- trication. The trouble is putting a 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 only fifty, or seventy when you ought to be only sixty. Stop worrying; either by the dissolution of that firm or by readjust- 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 extricated no public mention is made Yesterday was Saturday, and Iawarrant 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 cer- tainly as when with his right foot he trod Lake Galilee into placidity, and made Daniel as safe among the lions az though they had been house dogs asleep on rug before winters fire. Throw yourself on the text, or hundred other texts meaning about the same thing.
 A ADVERTISEMENTS GOD.
 Inever yet asked God to do anything but he did 1t, if 1t 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 has tested the full power of prayer. It 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 one fell stroke. The lightning rod on the top of houses was the spear with which the world charged on the thunderstorm, as much as to say, 'If you dare to come this way will hurl you into the ground" But now electricity Hghtena homes and churches and cities and Christendom, and moves rail cars, and he is rkshsman who 1pentions any. thing as impossible to this natural energy.
 So the power of prayer was to the world rather fightful 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 will come when it will be used in all things, and there will be Bible in every counting room and supplication will ascend from every commercial establishment, and when business firms are formed the question will not only be asked as to how much this ono and that one put in of capital, but the question will be asked, Do you know how to prayl 2 Mightier agent than any natural force yet developed will be this Gospel cleo tricity flashing heavenward for help, flashing earthward with divine re- sponse. 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. It Is hung up on the cloudy rafters of