The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-11-27

will be made straight.
Mind this: God never yet undertook
failure. The old Book, which is worth
all other books put together, makes it
plain that God has undertaken to regu-
late this world by Gospel influences,
and if He has the power He will do
what He says He will, and no one who
amounts to any thing will deny His
power. God has said a hundred times:
II WILL" but never once has said, Il
can not" We may with our tack-ham-
mers pound away, trying to mend and
improve and stra tighten the financial
condition of the would, and be
disappointed in the result, because our
arm is too weak and the hammer we
WELD too small, but the most defiant
difficulty will fiatten and disappear when
| God, with hammer made of summer
thunderbolts, strikes it, saving: The
crooked shall be made straight"
In your business concerns there are
influences perplexing. Your affairs
may seem all right to outsiders, for bus
mess 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
comes in just often enough to upset
things, or with that disappearance of
funds which you can not account for,
although you have suspicious you can
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which was made contrary to your judg-
ment because there was a deter
mination to push it through, or
because you are going behind
month by month without any pros
pect of extrication. The trouble is put
ting wrinkle on your forehead that
ought not to appear there for years yet,
and you will be forty years old when
you ought to be only thirty, or sixty
when you ought be fifty, or seventy
when you ought to be only sixty. Stop
worrying. Either by the dissolution of
that firm, or by readiusting matters,
you will be brought safely through II
you put your trust in God. When com
mercial houses fail the suspension is
advertised, but of the tens of thousands
of men who are every day extricated
no public mention is made. Yester.
day was Saturday, and warrant
that at the windows of banks, and il
counting room of stores and on every
street of every city, God appeared fol
the deliverance of good men, as Ger
tainly as when with His right foot He
trod Lake Galilee into placidity and
made Daniel as safe among the lions a;
| though they had been house dog:
asleep on a rug before winters fire
! text or hundred other texts meaning
about the same thing.
never yet asked God to do any thing
but He did it if it were best, and in all
the cases where my prayer has not beer
answered l have found out afterwarC
that it was best not to have been an
swered In my way. But none of u!
: have tested the full power of prayer
1t is force very like some of the force;
, of nature, that were in existence, bu
not employed. For ages electricity wa.
thought good for nothing but to burr
. barns and kill people with fell stroke
The lightning rods on the tops of house!
was the speer with which the world
charged on the thunderstorm, as muct
as to say: IF you dare come this way
: will hurl you into the ground" Blu
now electricity lightens houses, ant
churches, and cities, and Christendom
and moves rail cars, and he is rasl
| man who mentions any thing as irpos
; sibls to this natural energy.
So the power of prayer was to the
! world rather frightful power if it wa,
any power at all But that has beer
changed and men begin to use it il
, some things, and the time will come
, when it will be used in all things anC
| there will be Bible in every counting
; room, and supplication will ascend
4 from every commercial establishment
: and when business firms are formed thu
3 question will not only be asked as tC
: how much this one and that one put il
3 of capital, but the question will b.
asked: "Do you know how to pray?'
Mightier agent than any natural force
7 yet developed will. be this Gospe
Y electricity, flashing heavenward fol
3 help, flashing earthward with Di
: vine response. God in bust
, ness life. God in agriculture
3 life. God in mechanical life. Coo
> in artistic life. God in every kind o.
life. Your religion for the most part i.
hung up so high you can not reach it
1t is hung up on the cloudy rafters O
= the sky, where you expect to snach il
: up as you finally go through for heav
Q leny residence. Oh, have your religion
: within easy reach now Religion is no
: for Heaven, but for this world. Once il
: Heaven, we will need no prayer for VIC
t shall have every thing we want. We
Q will need no repentance, for we shall
y forever got rid of our sins. We shall
o have no need of comfort, for there viii
e be no trouble. The Christian religion
$ is not for Heaven where every thing i,
Q all right, but for this world where SC
:. many things are all wrong.
:. well, says one, you don't apply
this in every direction Yes, l do
: Take the most uncertain thing on earth
t the weather. The Bible distinctly
$ says that prayer controls the weather.
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