The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-03
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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 spec cpeti' ION have en- d.
verted and made to curve around some
particular ship, leaving that in cam
icrs, and then resuming their or GIN
path des ,ruction. TIE weather
probabi' ties again have annov ced a
tempest and we were all ready for it, but
TO the surprise of mosS 6eople, the mex;
day we saw the encouragement that the
atmospheric Jury had changed its course.
The n....i,ahn'iy 10 ie struck prayer and
glanced Of. /, Ei;jah's prayer effected
tho weather OF Palestine for lorty-twO
months, l should think somebody now
might haye prayer that would effect t
for acouple OF days.
John Easter was many years ago am
evangelist in Virginia. A large on. do
meeting was being held in that stala.
Many thousands had assembled in the
open air and heavy storm-clouds began
to gather. There was no shelter to
which the multitudes could retreat. The
rain had already reached the adjoining
brethren, be still while call upon God
to stay the storm till the Gospel is
preached to this multitude" Then he
hnelt and prayed that the audience might
be spared from the rain and that after
taey 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, leavIpo the place dry
where the audience had assembled, and
lie next day the postponed showers
came upon the ground that had been tie
day before omitted. Do you say it only
happened SO? L cannot sec what you
keep your bibles tor, and the God you
worship is not my God. Your God is
an au.ocrat, and He is so far off and so
lar up that the world cannot touch Him,
and .iis throne IS an eternal Iceberg. My
Colds father. l:ere aud now. and q father
will give his c;ild what he asks for, if i
is best for him to have It. Pray
about everything that concerns you, Sc.
ularit;es as we'll as srirltua!ities. Take
TO God all youl annoyances and perplcX-
lies. The crooked shall be made
straigh,. Some people talk as though
God controlled things in general but no;
~ particular; that He started everything
under certain laws and let it take care OF
itself, as an engineer might start his lo.
comOIive on an IRON railroad track and
then jump of. What would happen tc
I S;icIa il locomotive IS what would lOHe
80 have happened to our world il GoC
had started it and afterwards allowed il
[" look out for itself, There Is no such
thing as Il general providence. 1t is a
particular providence. God has no gen.
cral care for a forest. 1t is c..re o
every cell, Of every leaf and root in tina,
.orest. God has no general care of the
rean. l. is Il care OF every drop of wa.
~ in the liquid magnitude. God has
30 general care for the human race. II
acare o. every indiv: iual of that race
and of every item of individual history
/ preach Him, God in ipfinitesimals, an
everyday God, 4 Col responsive, anG
ore breath OF earnest pray er, though that
breath should not be strong enough tC
make Il candle :cker. will absorb more
Oh the divine attention than if tne arch
angel starding at the foot of the Throne
, should flap bC,h wings.
1t is remarkable how many crooked
tE.ngs are in the providence of God be-
i.!s made straight. About thirty years
ago our national affairs were as crooked
as depravcd American poliiirssc:" 4 rur
the top of Maine to the foot of Florida
tie nation was red with wrath. it was
wranglc aud fight all the way throur
North and South promised each Other
was assassination. During this SIMMER
| have travelled through New York, anC
C:..o. and Illinois, and Indiana. anC
Minnesota. and Kansas and Nebraska
and Missouri. and Texas, and Louisi.
ana. and Geornia, and North and South
Ca .olina, and Virginia, and Pennsyl
rania. and have shaken hands with tens
OF thousands OF people. aid talked with
men OF all sections and degrees, and
lave to tell you it IS all peace, and in
all the states of the Union you could not
now marshal a military company OF lOO
soldiers to fight against the United States
government, unless you got your men
out Of the penitcntiary. Did the corrupt
and gangrened political parties do this
work Of rectitication and pacification:
No! 1t was by divine interpositlon that
the crooked has been made straight.
On December 2, 1851, Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte rode down the Champs Elysee
of Paris, and under the hoofs of his horse
a Republic was trampled as the rider
went to take throne. 1t was the out
rage OF the century. For nineteen long
years the wrong triumphed. The will of
one man who wanted to remain emperor
kept down a nation who wanted Re-
public. But september, 1870. arrived,
and SeGan unrOlled its crimson scroll.
The emperor surrenders with $4,000
troops, 4l9 field guns, 5000 horses and
10000 muskets. From that day the bal
lot-boX was up and the throne was down.
Free institutions have been bstituted
for an infamous monarchy. Thank God |!
The crooked has been made straight.
But why 90 so far to find fulfilmcnt of
my text. In all our lives there are
crooked things that need to be made
straight, and each hearer or reader will
enumerate for himself or herself. With
one it is delapidated physical health, and
you are saying, "Why cannot | be in
good health when have such Opportuni-
tes and such responsibilities? ?" Alas Tor
tie sick headaches and the rheumatic
iOlntS and the neurolOic thrusts and tbe