The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-26

force very like some of the forces of
nature, that were in existence but not
employed. For ages electricity was
thought good for nothing but to burn
barns and kill people with fell stroke.
The lightning rod on top of houses was
the spear with which the world charged
on the thunder storm, as much as to
say; IF you dare to come this way I
will hurl you into the ground" But
now electricity lightcns homes. and
churches, and cites. and Christendom,
and moves rail cars. and he is q rash
man who mentions any thing as inpos-
sible to this natural energy.
So the power Of prayer was to the
world rather frightful power, If it was
any power at all But that has been
changed, and men begin to use it in
some things, and the time will come
when it will be used in all things. and
there will be Bible in every counting
room and supplication will ascend from
every commercial establishment, and
when business firms are formed the
question will not only be asked as to
how much this one and that one put in
of capital, but the question will be
asked: DO you know how to pray?"
yet developed will be this gospel elee-
tricity. flashing heavenwatd for help
flashing earthward with divine re-
Spouse. God in business life God in
agricultural life. God in mechanical
life. God in artistic life. God in every
kind of life.
Washington Allston whose name you
recognize as that OF a great American
ty, and one day got on his knees and
asked for loaf of bread for himself and
his starving family. While he was
bowed in that prayer there was a knock
at the door ana a 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- slow much do
you want for it?" Allston replied: 81
am done fixing price for can not get
it" ''Will e4O0 be enough?" asked the
stranger. why, that is more than ]
asked" said Allston- The e400 (So, 0OO)
were paid and the purchaser introduced
himself as Marquis of Stafford, who
thereafter was one of the most liberal
patrons of the rescued artist 20, that
all Just happened soi'' Did it? Tell
| that to some ignorant man, some be-
nighted woman, who has never read
the promise: Call upon me in the day
of trouble, / 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 1 do
Take the most uncertain thing on earth
tho weather. The Bible distinctly
says that prayer controls tho weather
James v. and xviii: elijah was a mar
subject to like passions as we are, anG
he prayed earnestly that it might no
rain. and it rained not on the earth TO
the space of three years and six months
and he prayed again and the heaven!
gave rain" Do you say that was tbs
weather of olden time? There havV
been instances in modern times just a.
marvellous There is not Christian
ship captain but could give you in
stances of divine interference with tn,
weather in answer to prayer 1t ha
been my good fortune to know mani
ship captains They are in all our ser
vices They leave their vessels on Sun
day morning and join US in worship
Whenever l have heard them testify i
has nightly confirmed me in what
knew before, that God answers praye
concerning the weather.
John Easter was many years ago al
evangelist in Virginia A large out
} door meeting was being held in tina
State. Many thousands had assemblies
in the open air and heavy storm cloud
began to gather. There was no shelte
to which the multitudes could retreat
The rain had already reached the ad
} joining folds when John Easter erie
out: 'Bre thren, be still while call VI
: on God to stay the storm till the gospe
is preached to this multi. tude." The
{ he knelt and prayed that the audienc
, might be spared from the rain and tina
r after they had gone to their homes thei
: might come refreshing showers. BE-
D hold the clouds parted as they cam
: near and passed to either side of tn
4 crowd and then closed again, leavin
a the place dry where the audience ha
Q assembled, and the next day the pos
l poned showers came upon the groun
that had been the day before omitted
: Do you say it only happened so?
: can not see what you keep your Bible
Q for, and the God you worship is not m
. God Your God is an autocrat and II
: is so far off and so far up that the worl
Q can not touch Him and His throne is a
o eternal iceberg. My God is n fathe
5 here and now, and father will give h
b child what he asks for If it is best fC
s him to have it. Pray about every thin
Q that concerns you, seculiarities as we
j as spiritualities- Take to God all yoJ
i annoyances and perplexitiesL tn
& crooked shall be made straight
$ 1t is remarkable how many crooke
\ things are in the providence of God b.
i ing made straight About thirty yea
y ago our National affairs were as crooke
t as depraved American politics and ba
Il men and Satan could make them. Fro
the top of Maine to the foot of Florid
J. the Nation was red with wrath 1t WI
g wrangle and fight all the way through
n and one OF the mildest things that til
/ North and South promised each otht
: was assassination During this sun
?: mer have travelled through New Yorl
It and Ohio, and Illinois, and Indiana, an
n Minnesota, and Kansas, and Nebrask
@ and Missouri and Texas, and Louisiana
Il and Georgia, and North and Sout
d Carolina and Virginia, ead Pennsy
b vania, and 1 have shaken hand
n with tens of thousands of peopl
It and talked with men of all Sc
i tons and degrees. and have to te
e you it is all peace. and in all the Stat.
\ of the Union you could not now marshi
It q military company of hundred SO
4 diers to fight against the United Stat
Government unless You got your me
k out of the penitentiary. Did the CO
h rupt and gangrened political parties
{ this work of rectification and pacific
+ ton? Mol It was by Divine interpos
ton that the crooked has been MAD
t straight