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

next nifty years, there VIII be condition
of society paradiaio. We are going 10
have O multiplication of william E.
Dodges. and Peter Coopers, aud james
senoxes, aud 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 1t plain
that God has undertaken to regulate
this world by
GOSPEL INFLUENCES,
and if He has the power He will do what
He says He will, aud no one who amounts
TO anything will deny His power. God
has said q hundred times az will, " but
never once has said "I cannot We
may with our tack hammers pound away :,
trying to mend and improve and
straightsn the financial condition of the
world, and he disappointed in the result,
because our arm is too weak aud the
hammer we WELD too small, but the
most defian. difficulty will tlatten and
disappear when God with a hammer
made of summer thunderbolts strikes it,
saying, 1.-The crooked shall be made
straight.
In your business concerns there are
Influences perplexlng. 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 it, 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 stakeholder who CO les in just
often enough to upset things, or with
that disappearance of funds which you
canuot account for, although you have
uspicions you cannot mention, or with
that investment which was made con-
trary to your judgment because there
was determination to push IL through,
or because you are going behind month
by month without any prospect of eXtri-
cation. The trouble is putting q 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 your
trnst in God. When commercial houses
fail the suspension is advertised, but of
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 md on
every street of every city, God appeared
for the deliverance of good men, as GER
tainly as when with His right foot be trod
lake Galilee into placidity and made
Daniel as safe among the lions as though
they had been house dogs asleep on q rug
before winters fire. Throw yourself
on the promise of the text, or a hundred
other texts meaning about the same
thing.
never yet 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 have tested the
full power of payer. 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 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
storm, as m uch as to say: "If you dare
to come this way l will hurl you into the
ground. - But now electricity lightens
homes and churches and cities and
Christen ION and moves rail cars: and
he is u rash man who mentions anything
as impossible to this natural energy. So
the
POWER OF PRAYER
was to the world rather a frightful
power, IL 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, aud there will be Bible in every
and supplication will as
ceud from every commercial establish
ment, and when business firms are
formed the question will not only be
asked as to how much this one aud that
one put in of capital, but the question
will be asked: "Do you know how TO
pray?' Mightier agent than any natu-
raj force yet developed will be this gos-
pei electricity, flashing heavenward for
help, flashing esrthward with divine re-
spouse. God in business life, God in
agricultural life. God in inechanI-
cal. 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 the CLOUDY raIters OF the SKY WneT6
you expect to snatch it up as you finally
20 through for heavenly residence. Oh,
have your religion within easy reach now!
Religion is not for heaven, but for this |
world. Once in heaven, We will need |
no prayer, for we shall have everything |
we want. We will need no repentance |
for we shall have forever got rid of our |
sins. We shall have no need of comfort, |
will be!no trouble. The Christian |
religion is not for heaven where every |
Thing is all right, but for this world |
where so many things are ell wrong.
A GREAT AMERICAN PAINTER.
Washington Allston, whose name you |
recognise as that of great American !
painter, was reduced to extreme pow
srty, and one day got on his knees and |
asked for loaf of bread for himself and |
his starving family. While he was bowed |
in that prayer there was knock at the
loor and a man came in and said: elbow
about your painting, the Angel Uriel,
that received the prize at the royal
academy? Has 1t been sold?'' NO."
said Allston. CHOW much do you want
Tor it'll" Allston replied: 81 am done
liking price for cannot get it,"
.Will f4o0 be euough?' asked the
stranger. "Why, that is more than 1
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