The Forrest City times., 1890-09-27

cation will ascend from every commercial
 establishment, and when business Hrms arc
 formed the question will not only b asked
 as to how much this one and that one put
 In of capital. but the question will ba
 asked: ''Do you know how to pfayi"
 highticr agent than any 4Htural force yet
 developed will be this gospel electricity,
 flashing hcavcnward for help, flashing earthward with divine response. Cod in
 business life. God In agricultural. God In
 mechanical life. God In artistic life. God
 In every kind of life. Your religion for tho most part Is hung up so high you cap- not reach 1t. IL is hung up on tho cloudy
 rafters of the sky where you expect to , snatch 1t up as you finally go through for
 heavenly residence. Oh. have your religion
 within easy reach now, Religion Is not for heaven. but for this world. Once in heaven
 wc will need no prayer for we shall have everything we want. We will need no TO- pentance for we shall have forever sot 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 namo you painter, was reduced to extreme poverty, and one day got on his knees and asked for loaf of bread for himself and starving family. While he was bowed in that prayer there was knock at the door and . man came in ard said: .'How about your the prize at the royal academyf Has 1t been soidl" ''No:" said Allston. "How much do you want for itl" Ailston replied: Il am done fixing price for 1 canhot get it !"
 "Wiil four hundred pounds be enoughl" asked the stranger. .sWhy. that is moro than asked" said Allston. The four hundred pounds, two thousand dollars) auA hA x,~A~ himself as Marquis of Stafford. who there- after was one of the most liberal patrons of the rescued artist. "Oh, that all just hap pened so!'' Did itf Tell that to some Ignorant man. some bcnightcd woman, who has never read tho promise: ''Call upon mo in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee" or that other promise: ''The crooked
 Well" says one, you don't apply this In every direction" Yes, do. Take the most uncertain thing on earth--the weather. The bibic distinctly says that prayer controls the weather James 9th and 18th: "E1iJah was . man subject to passions like we arc. and he prayed earn. estly that 1t might not rain. and 1t rained not on the earth for the space of three years and six months; and hs prayed
 again and the heavens gave rain" Do you say that was the weather of olden timer Therc have been instances in modern times just As marvellous. There's not a christian ship captain but could give you instances of divine interference with the weather in answer to prayer. It has been my good fortune to know many ship captains. They
 arc in all our services. They leave their vessels on Sunday mornings and join us In
 worship. warrant there are enough of them present this morning to take . whole fleet in safety across the Atlantic. When ever I have heard them testify, 1t has
 nfuhttlY firm Q1 mi n what | knNw
 fore, 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 smoke stack 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 proba-
 bilities again and again havo announced Q tempest and we were all ready for 1t, butte
 the surprise of most people. tho next day
 we saw the announcement that the atmos-
 pheric fury had changed its course. The
 probability is it struck prayer and glanced of. If Elijah's prayer affected the
 weather of Palestine for A2 months, should think somebody now might have a prayer
 that would affect 1t for couple of days.
 John Easter was many years ago an evan.
 gelist in Virginia. X large out door meet
 lits WAs Otiuk htiu III tuNt StAtS. MhnN thousands had assembled in the open air
 and heavy storm clouds began to gather
 There was no shelter to which the multi.
 tudes could retreat. Tho rain had already reached the adjoining fields, when Johf
 Easter cried out: "Brethren. be still whil,
 l call upon God to stay the storm till the Gospel is preached to this multitude" Thor
 he knelt and prayed that the audience
 might be spared from the rain. and thas
 after they had zone to their homes then might come refreshing showers, Behold
 the crowds parted as they came near anc
 passed to either side of the crowd, and ther closed again. leaving the place dry where the audience had assembled. and the mex, day the postponed showers came upon tht ground that had been the day before omit tod Do you say 1t only happened sos Cannot see what you keep your Bibles for, and the God you worship is not my God
 Your God is an autocrat. and He is so ia, of and SD high up that the world cannot, touch Him, and His throne k an eternal Ice
 berg. My God is a father. here and now
 and n father will give his child what he asks for. If it Is best for him to have 1t. Pray
 about everything that concerns you, sccu- larities as well as sprtualities. Take t God all your annoyances and perplcxitics
 The crooked shall be made straight. Some
 n senera But not in "q parsicuar : tnss ns started everything under certain laws and then let 1t take care of Itself, as an engineer might start his locomotive on an iron rail road track and then jump of. What would happen to such locomotive is what would long ago have happened to our world if God had started it md afterward allowed 1t tc look out for itself. There is no such thing as q general providence. IL is . particular providence. God has no general care for a
 forest. IL Is q care of every cell of every leaf and root in that forest God has nc general nf fhR Ia u ra nf every drop of water in the liquid ma agnitudc. God has no general care for the human race. it is n care of every individual of that race and of every item of individual history. l preach Him, n God of infinitesimals. an every day God. \ God responsive. and one breath of earnest prayer. though that breath should not be strong enough to make can de flicker. Will absorb more of the divine attention thanif the archaneel standing at the foot of tho throne should flap both wings.
 It Is remarkable how many crooked things arc in the providence of God being made straight. About thirty years ago our na- tional afairs.werc as crooked as depraved American politics and bad men and Satan could make them. From the top of Maine to tho foot of Florida the nation was red with wrath. IL was wrangle and fight all tho way through. and one of the mildest things that the north and the south prom ised each other was assassination. During this summer have travelled through New York. and Ohio, and Illinois. and Indiana, and Minnesota. and Kansas, and Nebraska, and Missouri. and Texas. and Louisiana, and Georgia. and North and south Carolina, and Virginia and Pennsylvania, and have shaken hands sith tens of thousands of peo- pie, and talked with men of all sections and degrees. and l have to tell you 1t Is all peace. and In ali the states of tho union you could not now marshal military company of one hundred soldiers to light against the United States government, unless you got your men out of tho penitentiary. Did the corrupt and gangrvncd political parties do this work of rcctihcation and pacihcationy No' it was by Divine Interpretation that tho crooked has been made straight.
 On the second of December, 1881, Louis Bonaparto rode down tho Champs Etysee of Paris. and under the hoofs of his horse republic was trampled as the rider went 10 take x throne IL was the outrage of the century. For nineteen long years the wrnnr iriumuhcd The will of one man who 1 'anted to remain emperor kept down na- Ion who wanted republic. But septem- 'er. 1870. arrived. and sedan unrolled its rimson scroll. The emperor surreuders Al nna