Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-22


is too weak and the hammer we WELD
too small; but the most defiant dlffi-
Guilty will flatten and disappear when
God with hammer made of summer
thunderbolts strikes it, saying, 1.-The
crooked shall be made straight.
PROVIDENCE NEVER ERRS.
I'm yOur business concerns there are
influences perplexing. Your affairs may
seem all right to outsiders, for business
firms do not advertise their private
troubIes: but where one firm has every
thing just as it wants 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
cannot account for, although you have
suspicious you cannot mention; or with
that investment which was made con-
trary to your Judgment because there
was a determination to push it through,
or because you are going behind month
by month, without any prospect OF ex-
trication. The trouble is putting
wrinkle on your forehead that ought
not to appear there for ten years yet,
and you will be forty years old when
YOU ought to be only thirty, or sixty
when you ought to be only fifty, or
seventy when you ought to be only
sixty. Stop worrying; either by the
dissolution of that firm or by readjust-
ing matters you will be brought safely
through if you put your trust in God.
When commercial houses fail the sus-
pension is advertised, but of the tens
of thousands of menwho are every day
extricated no public mention is made.
Yesterday was Saturday, and warrant
that at the windows of banks, and in
counting rooms of stores, and on every
street of every city God appeared for
the deliverance of good men as GER
tainIy 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 a rug before a winters fire. Throw
yourself on the text, or a hundred other
texts meaning about the same thing.
A MISUNDERSTANDING GOD.
never yet asked God to do anything
but he did it, if it were BEST and in all
the cases where my prayer has not been
answered [ have found out afterward
that it was best not to have been an
swered in my way. But none of us
has tested the full power OF prayer.
Tt is a 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 one fell
stroke. The lightning rod on the tor
of houses was the spear with which the
, world charged on the thunderstorm, as
much as to say, eff you dare to come
this way I will hurl you into the
ground But now electricity Lighters
homes and churches and cities anc
Christendom, and moves rail cars, anc
he is rash man who mentions any
thing as impossible to this natura
, energy.
= So the power of prayer was to thu
. world rather a frightful power, If /
was any power at all. But that ha
= been changed, and men begin to use /
= in some things, and the time will COM
when it will be used in all things, ant
: t,lere will be a Bible in every countln!
room and supplication will ascend from
q every commercial establishment, anc
q when business firms are formed tn
Il question will not only be asked as t
Il how much this one and that one put il
of capital, but the question will b
. asked. DO you know how to pray
. Mightier agent than any natural fore
l yet developed will be this Gospel cleo
% tricity flashing heavenward for helE
9 flashing earthward with divine II
L Spouse. God in business life God
agricultural life. God in mechanics
# life. God in artistic life. God in ever
d kind of life.
It Your religion for the most part
h hung up so high you cannot reach II
J. 1t is hung up on the cloudy rafters c
ID the sky, where you expect to snatch
II up as you finally go through for heaN
"a enIv residence Oh, have your relig1o
10 within easy reach now Religion
II not for heaven, but for this worlt
of Once in heaven we will need no praye
" for we shall have everything we wan
I'd We will need no repentance, for "
es shall have forever got rid of our sin
ba We shall have no need of comfort, II
g, there will be no trouble. The Chr
an tan religion is not for heaven, whe
" everything is all right, but for til
q world, where so many things are {
he wrong.
nd Washington Allston, whose name y
Sc. recognize as that of a great Amerlc;
- no
pi- erty, and one day got on his knees al
asked for loaf of bread for hims'
ct and his starving family. While he W
oy- bowed in that prayer there was kno
see at the door, and man came In a.
on said: 'EHow about your painting, t
to Angel Uriel,' that received the prize
nd the royal academy2 Has it been sole
i'd sENo." said Allston. Chow much
nd Won want for it2" Allston replied,
on. am done fixing a price, for cannot [
SSH it" "Win four hundred pounds
in enough?'' asked the stranger. ''Wl
new that is more than I asked, said
but ston. The four hundred pounds It
AXE thousand dollars) were paid, and
nurchaser introduced himself as
re- MARQUIS of Stafford, who thereafter
the one of the most liberal patrons of
get rescued artist ''Oh, that all just b
du- pened sol" Did it? Tell that to SO
in ignorant man, some benighted WON
hey who has never read the promise, II
age upon me in the day of trouble,
UNI deliver thee, " or that other prom
get ssThe crooked shall be made stralgf
ings PRAYER FOR RAIN OR GOOD Wealth
the ''Well," says one, ''you don't az
will this in every direction" Yes,
will Take the most uncertain thing
, of earth-the weather. The Bible
es- tinctly says that prayer controls
dis weather. James V, II, IS: ELIAS
and a man subject to like passions as we
d it and he prayed earnestly that it M
ands not rain, and it rained not on the eli
eral for the space of three years and
months; and he prayed again and
GUS heavens gave rain" Do you say
ands was the weather of olden time? IL
butte have been instances in modern Il
mob ;,,.+ ,s ,,,arvo1ouS There's not q O.