Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-02

He did II If IL were best, and in all the cases
where my prayer has not been answered
have found out afterward that IL was pese
not to have been answered in my way. buO
none of US has tested the ful power Oh pray
ar II Is a force very like some OF the forces
~ nature that were in existence but not en-
ployed. For ages electi lefty was thougnt
good for nothing but TO burn barns anu XIII
,3aonle with one fell stroke. The lightning
rod on the TOP of houses was the spear with
which the world charged on the thunder
storm as much as to say: 'lf you dare TO
come this way / will hurl you into the
ground" But now electricity nghtens
homes and churches and cities ana chrisOeI-
dom. and moves rail cars, and ne Is rash
man who mentions anything as impossible
to this natural energy.
So the power of prayer was 10 the "orlu
rather a frightful power, II IL was any
mower at ALL But that has been changed, ana
men heoin 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 VIII ascend
from every commercial estaonsnneno, anu
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 now
~ nravYn Mightier agent than any natural
force vet developed will be this Gospel cleo
tricity flashing heavenward for help, hash
ing earthward with divine response uod IN
business life. God in agricultural NE zoo
in mechanical life. God IN aftiselc hle' "ou
in every kind of life.
Your religion for the most part is hung up
so high YOU cannot reach it. 1t is hung up
on the cloudy rafters of the sky, where you
expect . snatch it up as you hnally go
through for heavenly residence. On, nave
your religion within easy reach now he
lipion is not for heaven, but for this world
once in heaven we will need no prayer, Tor
we shall have everything we want. we VIII
need no repentance, for we shali nave ioi
aver egot 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 Tor this
world. where so many things are all wrong
Washington Allston, whose name you
recognize as that OF a great American
painter, was reduced to extreme poverty.
and one day got on his knees and asked ior
n loaf of bread for himself and his starving
family. While he was bowed in that prayer
there was n knock at the door, and man
came in and said "How about your paint
inc. the Angel Uriel" that received the
prize at the royal academy Has IL neen
| soldp, "Non said Allston. "How much 40
Won want for itp' Allston replied; II am
| done fixing a price, for l cannot get it,.
"Will four hundred pounds be enoughF
asked the stranger. "Why, that Is more
/ than asked said Allston. The four nun
dred pounds two thousand dollars were
nsid and the purchaser introduced himself
as the MARQUIS of Stafford, who thereafter
was one of the most liberal patrons of the
rescued artist sob, that all just happened
sop Did it? Tell that to some ignorant
man. some benighted woman, who has never
read the promise, "Call upon Me in the day
of trouble. l will deliver thee" or that other
promise, 1.-THE crooked shall be straight
"Well says one, ''you don't apply TINS N
every direction" Yes, do. Take the most
uncertain thing on earth-the weather Inc
Bible distinctly says that prayer controls the
weather James ", IL, Is: "Ellas was
man subject TO like passions as we are, anc
he prayed earnestly that it might not ram
and it rained not on the earth Tor the space
of three years and six months; and he prayed
again and the heavens gave ram. 10 yot
say that was the weather OF olden ume
There have been instances in modern uine
inst as marvellous. There's not Christian
shin CAPTAIN but could give you instances
of divine interference with the weather II
answer to prayer. IL has been my goo
fortune to know many ship captains Ihey
are all in our services. They leave thei
vessels on Sunday mornings and join US II
worship.
| warrant there are enough Of them pres
emit this morning TO take whole neet II
safety across the Atlantic Whenever hav'
heard them testify it has nightly confirmed
me i'm what knew before that God answer
PRAYER concerning the weather. And ther'
have been cyclones that started up from tn
Caribbean Sea, sweeping down every sail an'
every smokestack and every mast IN ther
course. which in answer to specific petltioi
have been diverted and made to curve aroun'
some particular ship, leaving that in cain
T waters, and then resuming their origlna
path of destruction. The weather prona
bilities again and again have announced
! tempest, and we were all ready for IT but z
, the surprise of most people the next day W
| saw the announcement that the atmosphere
fury had changed its course. The probabil
, ity is it struck prayer and glanced on. 1
Eliass prayer affected the weather OF Pales
tine for forty-two months l should thin
somebody now might have prayer tina
would affect it for couple of days.
John Easter was many years age an evan
/ gelist in Virginia. A large outdoor meetin
i was being held in that State. Many thou
! sands had assembled in the open ar, an
heavy storm clouds began TO gather. Their
! was no shelter to which the multitude coul
: retreat. The rain had already reached tn
, adjoining fields when John Easter cried on
T "Brethren, be still while / call upon God
Y STAY the storm till the Gospel is preached
!, this multitude Then he knet and praye
q that the audience might be spared from tn
/ rain. and that after they had gone to thei
n homes there might come refreshing showers
: Behold. the clouds parted as they came nea
a and passed to either side of the crowd an
! then closed again, leaving the place DIR
where the audience had assembled, and Il
i next day the postponed showers came upo
r the ground that had been the day befol
d omitted.
Y Do you say it only happened So cann'
ie see what you keep your Bibles for, and u
u God you worship is not my God. Your &c
i is an autocrat, and he is so far Off and
Il far up that the world cannot touch him, al
- his throne is an eternal iceberg. My God
" a father here and now, and father W
n give his child what he asks for If it is best f
1e him to have it. Pray about everything tn
m concerns you, secularities as well as splrltut
DO tiles Take to God all your annoyances al
m perplexities. The crooked shall be ma
n straight Some people talk as though u
es controlled things in general but not in pc
10 ticular: that He started everything und
certain laws and then let it take care OF
n self, as an engineer might start his LOGON
m tive on an iron railroad track and then Jur
10 off, What would happen to such LOGON
ut tive is what would long ago have happen
it to our world if God had started it and aft
,ir ward allowed it to look out for itself.
ho There is no such thing as a general pro
or dence. It is particular providence. q
en- has no general care for forest. 1t is c;
m of every cell of every leaf and root in I'll