The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-02

mont because there was deter imitation to push 1t through, or bocause you are going behind month by month without any pros- pect of extrications 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 Do only thirty, CT sixty when you ought Do fifty, or seventy when you ought to be only sixty. Stop worrying. Either by tho dissolution of that firm, or by readjusting matters, you will be brought safely through if you put your trust in God When com. mercial houses fail the suspension is advertised, but of tho tens of thousands of men who are every day extricated no public mention is made. Tester day was Saturday, and l warrant that at the windows of banks, and in counting room of stores and on every street of every city, God appeared for the deliyerance of good men, as cer- tainly 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 rug before winters fire. Throw yourself on the promise of the 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 been answered I have found out afterward that it was best not to have been an- swered in my way. But none of us have tested the full power of prayer. It is force very like some of the forces of nature, that were in existence, but not employed. For ages electricity was 1 thought good for nothing but to burn barns and kill people with fell stroke. The lightning rods on tho tops of houses 1 was the speer with which the world charged on the thunderstorm, as much as to say: If you dare come this way 1 will lnirl you into the ground" But
 now electricity lightens houses, and
 churches, and cities, and Christendom,
 and moves rail cars, and he is rash man who mentions any thing as impos- l sible to this natural energy.
 1 So tho power of prayer was to the
 world rather frightful power, if it was any power at all But that has been schanged, and men begin to uge it in some things, and the time will come when it will be used in all things, and
 there will be Bible in evory counting room, and supplicatioh will ascend 1 from every commercial establishment
 and when business firms are formed the question will not only be asked as to I |. .sy, s,,
 of capital but the question will be
 asked: DO you know how to pray?" l Mightier agent than any natural force yet developed will be this Gospel l electricity, flashing heavenward for
 holp, flashing earthward with Di- 1 vine response. God in busi- 1 ness life God in agricultural 1 fife. God in mechanical life. God
 in artistic life. God in every kind of 1 life. Your religion for the most part is
 hung up so high you can not reach it
 1t is hung up on the cloudy rafters of
 the sky, where you expect to snach 1t
 up as you finally go through for heav- 1 leny residence Oh, have your religion 1 within easy reach now Religion is not for Heaven, but for this world. Once in
 Heaven, we will need no prayer for we l shall have every thing we want. We will need no repentance, for we shall I forever got rid of our sins. We shall have no need of comfort, for there will
 be no trouble. The Christian religion 1 is not for Heaven where every thing is
 all right but for this world where so
 many things are all wrong.
 | Washington Aliston, whose name you | recognize as that of great American I painter was reduced to extreme pover- l ty, and one day got on his knees and
 asked for loaf of broad for himself and starving family While he was
 bowed down in that prayer there was a l knock at the door and man came in and said: How about your painting,
 the Angel Uriel that received the prize at the Royal Academy? Has it
 been sold?" No said Allston.
 'IIow much do you want for itP" Allston replied: 'l am dono 1 fixing price, for I can not get it !" | Will four hundred ptunds be enough@ asked the stranger. "Why, that is
 more than I asked" said Allston. The
 four hundred pounds two thousand dol lars) were paid and the purchaser in troduced himself as Mir. Marquis, of Stafford, who thereafter was one of tho
 most liberal patrons of tho rescued artist. "Oh, that all just happened so" Did 1t? Tell that to some ignorantman, some benighted woman, who has never read tho promise: Call upon Me in
 the day of trouble. l will deliver thee, " or that other promise: "The crooked shall be made straight"
 Well" says one, you don't apply
 this in every direction" Yes, l do.
 Take the most uncertain thing on earth
 the weather The Bible distinctly
 says that prayer controls the weather.
 James filth and eighteenth: ''Elijah
 was man subject to like passions as l that it might not rain, and it rained not on tho earth for the space of | threo years and six months; and he | prayed again and the heavens gave rain" Do you say that was the weather of olden time2 There hayo been in- l stances in modern times just as marvel ous. There's not Christian ship
 captain but could give you in- 
 stances of Divine interference with
 the weather in answer 10 prayer.
 It has been my good fortune to know
 many Christian ship captains. They are
 in all our services. They leave their
 vessels on Sunday mornings and join us
 in worship. l warrant there are enough
 of them present this morning to take a whole fleet in safety across tho Atlantic.
 Whenever heard them testify, it has
 nightly confirmed mo in what l knew
 before, that God answers prayer con
 corning tho 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 ia
 answer to specific petition have
 been diverted and made to curve i around some particular ship, leaving ] thai ir calm tvntarg md fhgm rp9ura-