Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-09-26

deny his power God has said a hundred
times. 81 will but never once has said,
81 cannot" We may with our tuck ham
mers pound away, trying TO mend and inn
prove and straighten the financial condi-
ton Of the world, and be disappointed in
the result becnuse our arm is too weak
and the hammer we WELD too small, but
the most defiant difficulty will natten and
disappear when God with hammer made
of summer thundcrbolts strikes it, saying,
"1he crooked shall he made straight"
GODS HELP IN BUSINESS AFFAIRS.
In YOUR business concerns there are in
fuenccs perplcNng. NourHhairs may seem
all right to outsiders, for business firms do
not advertise their private troubles; but
where one hrm has everything just as they
want 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 lust 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 contrary
to your Judgment because there was de-
termination to push it through, or because
YOU are going behind month by month
without any prospect OF eXtrication The
trouble is putting a wrinkle on your fore
head that ought not TO appear there for ten
wears vet and YOU Will be 40 years old
when y,si ought to be only 30, or 60 when
You ought TO he 20, or 20 when you ought
to be only 60 stop worrying; either by
the dissolution Of that firm or by readjust-
Ing matters Won win 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 eX-
TREATED nU public mention is made. Yes
terday was Saturday, and ] warrant that
- the windows of banks, and in counting
rooms of stores and on every street Of
every city, God appeared for the deliver
ance of good men as certainly as when
with his ri1ht foot hc trod Lake Galilce
into placi.ity. and made Daniel rs safe
among the lions as though they had been
house dogs asleep on rug before win
ter's fire. Throw yourself on the promise
of the text or hundred other texts mean
ing about the same thing.
never YET asked God to do anything but
he did it II il were best, and in all the
case, where my prayer has not been an
,wered have found out aftcrward that it
was best rot TO nave been answered in my
way. Bat uoue of us has tested the
fun 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 barus 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 thunder storm. as
much As to say. " If you dare 90 come this
way ] will hurl yOu into the ground.
BuU now ehc'ticl'y IiSiltPuS Monies anu
ch''fcHes ana ol'ieS ana OhIl9'eHu'n an"
moves ran cars anu ne Is " ''sn nun VIZ"
mentions anything rs lllposSlpio 10 'lI9
MAJ 'Ihl energy
30 the power "I PiaNo' was ~ Viz ""'lu
rather IHsH'iuI Pp"Gr' IL IL was any
power "O an N''o 'u'' mas peeii c"'"Sc'',
anu men ".-'H ~ "9'' d. ~ SUM iNsa' an"
lhe uiliie VIII come ""en IL WIN nc Use" III
an uHi"AS' an" ''''0 "i' w i,i"i0 - ~
every counting ROOM an" supllica'loi VIII
"scehu rom every c"'iil'cIo '"l '9'"'''S"
Inehu' ana "N'4 business il ,'''9 ",e i"'''''u
the question WIN ''' 9niy DC 89Aeo as 20
now hIucH ms one ana '''"O one pun III OIL
capital p'' inc '"'91i'h VIII he aSAod'
40 you hh2" now L" pray;
COD IN EVERYTHING.
Mlghter agent than any natural force
YET "eNeiope' VIII ne til' sosI'". elea'rcl'y'
'slinG heavenWard for help flashing
earjh"ard with divine response. GOD IN
business I.ie' COO IN @SncLHulau me.
COD IN mechanical me tod IN artistic me
Goa III every klnu of me. our religion
for inc most part IS hung m so mEh YOU
cannot reach IT, IL is hung up on the
cloudy roIlers Oh thr SKY where YOU expect
to snatch 1t up as You hnuIIy 20 through
1Dr heavenly r@sldence. On have your re-
I4Ion WITHIN easy reach now! telISion is
not Tor heaven, but lor TINS world. once
IN heaven We VIII need no prayer Tor "e
shall nave everything we want We VIII
need no repentance, for We shall have for
ever got rid Of our sins. We shall have uo
need of comfort, for there viii hc no
trouble. The Chriwan religion is not for
heaven, where everything is all right, but
for this world, where 50 many things are all
wrong.
Washington Allston, whose name you
recognize as that Of great American
painter, was reduced to extreme poverty,
and one day got Oh his knees and asked for
l. loaf of bread for himself and his starry
ing family, While lie was bowed in that
prayer there was knock at the door and
man chine in and sad: How about youI
DDiutiDU the ANGEL t'ripl. that TrCCl we'd