The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-03


Scnoxcs. and George Pcabodys, so VIII
come redistribution, and the crooked
will be made atralght.
Mind this: Godncver yet undertook
failure. The old book which is worth
all other books put together, makes IL
plain thai God has undertaken to reSu-
late this world by gospel inf ,enccs, ana
if He has the power He VIII do what lie
saws He'will, aud no one who amounts
TO anything will deny His power. God
has said q hundred times II will" but
never once has nd Il cannot we may
with our tack-hammers pound away, try
ing to mend and improve and stfai !htcn
the financial condti of the wor. d. and
In .Isat,f,ofnto,i IN tnc result, DcSiusc
our arm is too weak and the :iammcr we
weld too small, brt the most defiant dill
ilculty will flattcn and disappear when
God with hammer made ol summer
thundcrbolts strikes IT, sayin". "Thc
crooked shall be made straight
In your business concerns there are in-
fluenccs perplcXng. Your affairs may
seem all right TO outsiders. for business
firms do not advertise their private
troubles, but where one firm has every
thing Just rs they want it there are Il
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 dis
appearance of funds which you cannot
account for, although you have suspicious
you cannot mention, or with that invest
ment which was made contrary to your
judgment because there was dctcrml-
nation TO push it through, w because
| hnh hN
without any prospect of cNtrication.
The trouble is !uttny Il wrinkle on vCur
forehead that ought not TO appear there
.or ten years vet, and YOU will hc forty
wears old when YOU ought to be only
thirty, or sixty when YOU ought to lie
fifty or seventy when you ought To be
only sixty, stop worrying. Either by.t c
dissolution of that firm. or by rc-adiuSt-
ing matters you will he brought safe V
through if you rut yOLr trEst in God.
| When commercial houses fail the SuS-
pension is advertised. but o. the tens of
| thousands OimCn. who are every day cN-
tricatcd no public mention Is made. GcS-
tcrday was Saturday and warrant That
at the windows OF banks. and IN count
inm-roomS of stores and on every street
of every city, God appeared for the de-
lvcrancc OF good men, as certainly rs
when with His right foot Ec trod Lake
"-"nce, int" plncidity and made Daniel
: l&S-SalG -amonM TIC lions as though they
had bccu house dog, aslseY on n rug tr-
fore Il winters fire. Throw Yourself on
} the promise ct the text. or Il hundred
other texts meaning about the same
: thing.
:. never vet asked God to do anything
but He did il, If it were best, and in all
the cases where my prayer E,,s not been
. answered, have found out atcrwavd
: that it was best not to have been an
swercd IN my way. But none us have
tested the iull power of prayer. 1t is Il
force very like some of the forces OF ma
turc, that were in existence hut not en-
ploycd. For ages electricity was
thought good for nothing but to burn
barns. and kill people with fell strokes.
The lightning rod on the top OF houses
was the spear with which the world
charged on the thundrrstor,n, as imii, Il
as 70 say, 'Ifyou dare TO come this way
I'Mill hurl you INTO the ground" But
> now. electricity lightcus homes, and
i churches, and cities, and Christcndom,
,at;Hld moves rail cars, and he is rash man
who mentions anything rs impossible to
this natural energy. so tle. uower, OF
m power, If If f f ITS ;rrTy power ut All.
But that has been changed, and mcii
begin TO use it i'll sOinc things. and the
time Will come when it will be used in
all things. and there will be 4 Bible in
every countin" room. and supplication
w;ll ascend from every commercial cS-
tablishmcnt. and when business firms
are formed the question will not only Hc
rs kpl nS to how much this one and tlnt