Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-22

vices. They leave their vessels on Sun
day mornings and join us in worship. /
warrant there are enough of them pres
ent this morning to take a whole feet in
safety across the Atlantic. whenever l
have heard them testify, it has nightly
Confined me in what l knew bsfore, that
God answers prayer concerning the
weather. And there haYe been cyclones
hat started up from the Caribbean sea
sweeping down every sail and every
smokestack and every mast IN their
course, which in answer to SPECIFIC petit
ton have been diverted and made to
curve around some particular ship, leav-
ing that in calm waters, and then re-
Stunning their original path of destruc-
ton. The weather probabilities again
and again have announced a tempest
and We were already for it, but to the
surprise, OF most people, the next
dny we saw the announcement that the
atmospheric fury had changed its course.
The probability is it struck a prayer and
glanced off. If Elijah's prayer affected
the weather of Palestine for forty-two
months, l should think somebody now
might have a prayer that would affect it
for a couple of days.
John Easter was many years ago an
S'NhrS'SL III fHSihlns "A CO.'S JUL
door meeting was being held in that
state. Many thousands had assembled IN
the open air and heavy storm-clouds be-
gan to gather. There was no shelter to
which the multitudes could retreat. The
rain a already reached the adjoining
fields when John Easter cried out:
'Brethren, be still while l call upon
God to stay the storm till the gospel is
preached to this multitude
THEN HE KNELT AND PRAYED
that the audience might be spared from
the rain and that after they 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 thon closed again, leav-
ing the place dry where the audience had
assembled, n the next day the post
poned showers came Upon the ground
that had been tile day before omitted
Do You say 1t only happened SO? L cannot
see what you keep your Bibles for, and
the God you worship is not my God.
Your god is an autocrat, n he is so far
of and so far up that the world cannot
touch him, and his throne is an eternal
iceberg. My God is q father, here and
now, and a father will give His child
what he asks for, If it is best tor him TO
have 1t. pray about everything that
concerns you, secularities as we'll as spir-
Qualities. Take to God all your an
noyances and perplexities. The crooked
shall be made straight. Some people
talk Is though God controlled things In
general but not in particular; that He
started everything under certain laws
and then let it take care of itself, as an
engineer might start his locomotive on
or IRON railroad track and then jump off.
What would happen to such, a locomotive
is what would long ago have happened to
our world if God had started it and
afterwards allowed it to look out for
itself. There is no such thing as a gen.
ernl providence. 1t is a particular provi-
dence. God has no general care for q
forest. 1t is a care of every cell of every
lea and root in that forest. God has no
general care of the ocean. 1t is a care
of every drop of water In the liquid
magnitude. God has no general care
for the human race. 1t is a care of
every individual of that race and of
every item of individual history. l
preach him a God in infuitesimals, an
everyday Goo,
AGoD RESPONSIVE,
and one breath of earnest prayer though
breath should not be strong enough
20 make a candle flicker, will absorb
more of the Divine attention than if the
a%rchangel standing at the foot of the
throne should flap both wings.
1t is remarkable how many crooked
things are in the providence of God being
made straight. About thirty years ago
our national affairs were as crooked as
depraved American politics and bad men
and Satan could make them. From the
top of ain to the foot of Florida, the
was red with wrath. It
wrangle and fight all the
way through, n one of the mild
est things that the North and South
promised each other was assassination.
this summer 1 have Travelled
through New York, and Ohio, and Illi- |
nois, and Indiana, and Minnesota, and
and Nebraska, and Missouri, and
and Louisiana, n Georgia, and
and South Carolina, and Virginia,
and Pennsylvania, and l have shaken
hands with tens of thousands of people, |
and talked With men of ell sections and
degrees, and I have to tell you it is all
peace, and IN all the states of
the Union you could not now
a military company of
lUu sOlulerS 10 nRnL against the
States government, unless you
got your men out of the p~enitentiary.
the corrupt and gangrened political
do this work of rectlication and
pacifcation? Mol 1t was by divine in
terposition that the crooked has been
straight.
On the End of December, 1851, Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte rode down the
Champs Elysee of Paris, and under the
loofs of his horse a republic was tram
pied as the rider went to take a throne.
t was
H OUTRAGE OF THE CENTURY.
For nineteen long years the wrong tri-
umphed. The will of one man who
to remain emperor kept down a
nation who wanted a republic. But
1870, arrived, and Sedan
its crimson scroll. The en-
,eror s%urrenders with 83, 900 troops, 4l9
ield guns, 5000 horses aud 60 900 IN u.s.
tets. From that day tine ballot box was
Up and the throne was down. Free in
have been substituted for an
monarchy. Thank God! The
crooked has been made straight.
But why go 30 far to find fulflment of
nv text. In all our lives there are
things that need to be made
traight, n each hearer or reader will
for himself or herself. With
ne it is dilapidated physical health, and
on are saying. "Why cannot 1 be in