The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-22

account for, although you have suspicion,
YOU cannot mention. or with that invest
ment which was made contrary TO you
Judgment because there was a determine
tion to push it through, or because you are
going behind month by month without any
prospect of extrication. The trouble j:
putting a wrinkle on your forehead that
ought not TO appear there for ten years vet,
aud you will be 40 years old when you
ought to be only 80, or Sd when you ought
10 be so, or 90 when you ought to be only
60 Stop worrying. Either by the dissolu-
ton of that firm, or by re-adjustIng mat
tiers you viii be brought safely through il
you put your trust In God When
commercial houses fail the suspension
is advertised, but of the tens of thous-
ands of men. who are every day ex-
tricated no public mention is made. Yes
terday was Saturday. and / warrant that
at 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 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 winter
fire. Throw yourself on the promise of the
text, or 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 the cases
where my prayer has not been answered, l
have found out afterward that II was best
not to have been answered in my way.
But none of us have tested the full power
of prayer. IL 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
ha r6nn mnCh
say. "lf you dare TO come this way will
hurl YOU into the ground" But now cleo
tricity hghtens homes, and churches, and
cities, and christendom, and moves rail
cars, and he is a rash man who mentions
anything as impossible to this natural
energy. So the power of prayer was to the
world rather 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 and there
will be Bible in every count
ing room, and duplication will
ascend from every commercial establish
ment, and when business firms are formed
the question will not only be asked as to
how much this one and that one put in of
capital, but the question will be asked, do
you know how to prayF' Mightier agent
than any natural force yet developed will
be this gospel electricity flashing heaven
ward for help, flashing earthward with
divine response 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 50 high you cannot
reach it. 1t is hung up on the cloudy
rafters of the sky where you expect to
snatch it up as you finally go through for
heavenly residence. Oh, have your relig-
ion within easy reach now Religion Is not
fa- hytf -,
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, for there will be no trouble.
The christian religion is not for heaven
where everything is all right, but for this
world where so many things are all wrong
Washington Allston, whose name you
recognize as that of a great American
painter, was reduced to extreme poverty,
and one day got on his knees and asked for
a loaf of bread for himself and his starving
family. While he was bowed in that prayer
there was a knock at the door and man
came in and said; How about your paint
ing, the Angel Uriel,' that received the
sold!" NO" said Ailston. ''How much
do you want for iii" Alston re-
piled: 81 am done fixing a price
for cannot get it" "Will four hundred
pounds be enough" asked the strang-
er. why, that is more than l asked"
said Allston. The four hundred pounds,
two thousand dollars were paid and the
purchaser introduced himself as Marquis of
Stafford, who thereafter was one of the
most liberal patrons of the rescued artist.
"Oh, that all just happened sol" Did it?
Tell that to some ignorant man, some be-
nighted woman. who has never read the
promise: Call upon me in the day Of
l. ill a A.
promise: The crooked shall be made
straight"
swell" says one, you don't apply this
most uncertain thing on earth--the weather.
The Bible distinctly gays that prayer con-
trolls the weather. James " and xviii.
"Elijah was man subject to like passions
as we are and he prayed earnestly that it
might not rain, and it rained not on the
earth for the space of three years and six
months; and he prayed again and the
heavens gave RAIN Do you say that was
the weather Of olden times There have
been instances in modern times Just
as marvellous. There's not a chris.
tian ship captain but could give YOU
instances of divine interference with
the weather in answer to prayer. 1t has
been my good fortune to know many ship
captains. They are in all our services.
They leave their vessels on Sunday morn
ings and join US in worship. ] warrant
there are enough of them present this morn
ing TO take whole feet in safety across the
Atlantic. Whenever l have heard them
testify. 1t has nightly confirmed me in
what l knew before, that God answers
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
specific petition have been diverted and
made to curve around some particular
ship, leaving that in calm waters, and then
resuming their original path of destruction.
The weather probabilities again and again
have announced tempest aud we were al
ready for 1t, but to the surprise of most
people, the next day we saw the announce
ment that the atmosphere fury bad changed
its course. The probability is it struck q
prayer and glanced off. If Elijah's prayer
affected the weather of Palestine for forty
two months. l should think somebody now
might have prayer that would affect it for
couple of days
John Easter was many years ago an
evangelist in Virginia. A large outdoor
sneeting was being held in that state. MANY
thousands had assembled in the open air
and heavy storm clouds began to gather.
There was no shelter to which the muliti-
tndes could retreat. The rain had already
xeached the adjoining fields when John
Easter cried out: ttBrethrep ha StiI1 ,,,hiIo