The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-15


text. and it win help you in business dl-
rections. Praying for all offenders, you
will have more nerve Tor large undertak.
inps; YOU will have better balanced
Judgment: YOU will waste no valuable time
in trying TO get even with your enemies.
Try this height of prayer for your an
tagonist to-day, and if you fail try 1t TO-
morrow. Keep on until you accomplish
it. and | should not wonder if, in addition
TO the moral and religious strength it
gives you, it should add n hundred per
cent to your worldly prosperity. job Slii,
TO- The Lord gave job twice as much ms
he had before"
What we all need is to get out Of our.
selves and go to helping others, whether
friends or foes. AS beautiful an instance
of how this can be done | found last
summer in London in the person OF Flor
ence nightingale. the heroine of hospitals
and of battlcfelds when there were no
hospitals The lounge on which she lies
PROSTATE il throne of power. and,
though she has passed into the eighties,
she trains nurses for sicllbeds. and her in
fuencc is now felt among the wounded
in South Africa. while her memory is full
OF the story of Balaklava, Sevastopol and
lnkerman. where England and Frarac
and Russia grappled. She told INC that
she had not been happy until she under
took to alleviate suffering and that since
she began that work she had never seen
an unhappy day. To that worl; she con-
secrated her life her classic Cttaiuments,
her social position. her brilliant person
ality. Her whole lie for others, and her
face shows it. | think so much OF heaven
is TO I've found in no other human coun-
tenancc Tennyson's "Charge of the Light
Brigade is not more thrilling TO me than
the womanly bravery and sacrifice that
took care of those who were shot from
the saddles OF the Immortal sis hun
dred"
My text enthroncs prayer and gives il
scepter 60 wave over our temporal and
eternal life. Under God ii cured job and
fixed up his finances and restored his
home and made him so robust of health
that he lived fourteen decades. But"
some one says. II do not believe in
prayer for friends and foes, because | do
not think that God is going to change the
laws of nature because we ask Him so to
do" Neither do | think that God will
change the law Of nature at our request,
but | am sure that He answers prayer
through natural law.
Not % physician Of any skill. allopathic,
or homeopathic. or hydropathic, or cclcc.
tic, but has some time been surprised that
what was thought to be a fatal disease
suddenly relaXes its craps OF the patient,
anu lt lANbNtAHs 4NoL Nllt law VI INlult
has been fractured Prayer may have
given tho sudden turn to that illness.
\ business man may be in difficulty in
cXtrcable-mortgages against him fore
closing, goods TO bc sold for some reason
become nsalable. new invention in ma
chinery making the old machinery Of his
factory worthless, all kinds OF CONNER
cial troubles pomcng upon him at once.
Most business men have at least once
l....r L.
crisis, but the harried merchant or manu-.
iacturer gets out OF IT, Creditors become
lenient, the wheels that were made use.
less for making one kind OF fabric turn
ont to he good for making another style
OF fabric, the stock of goods that could
not be sold comes into unexpected de.
mand. and whereas all things were against
hun all things are now for him.
What an opportunity is prayer! Why
not oftener use 1t praying for ourselves
and, like job, praying for othersy What
better work would we do, what better
lives would we live, what better hopes
would we entertain ii we multiplied and
intensified our prayers
Some one asked a soldier of Stonowall
jackson the secret of the great generals
influence over his men. Does your gen
eral abuse you, swear at you to make you
march, Swear" replied the soldier.
NO! iWtll uOcS lnc swearing, stone
wall does the praying. When Stonewall
wants us to march he looks at us soberly,
Just as ii he We're sorry for us, and says,
Men, we have got to make a long march,
We always know when there is going to
be long march and right smart fighting,
for Stonewall is powerful on prayer just
before big fight" When Stoncwall
jackson was asked the meaning OF the
passage instant in prayer he said: IF
you will not mistake and think | am set
ting myself up as an example, which
am not, | will give an illustration from
my own habit ] have so fixed the habit
of prayer in my mind that | never raise n
glass of water to my lips without a mo.
ment's asking OF Gods blessing; | never
seal n letter without a brief sending Of
my thoughts heavenward; | never change
my classes in the section room without
minutes petition for the cadets who go
out and those who come in
Now, if God has during these remarks
shown us the uses, the Importance, the
blessedness of prayer, suppose we try to
do what Job did when he prayed for his
eXasperators. Many of us at the begin
ming OF this subject felt that while we
could pray for ourselves and pray for
those who were kind to MS we never could
reach the high point of religious eXpe-
riencc in which we could pray fol those
who annoy us and make us feel worse in
stead of feeling better. That was n Mat
terhorn, that was an Alp. to the top of
which we feared we could never climb,
but we thank God that by His omnipo-
tent grace we have reached that height
at last. Let us pray! Oh Christ, who
didst pray for Thine assassins, we now
pray for those who despitefully use us and
say all manner of evil against us. For
their eternal salvation we supplicate.
When time is no more, may they reign on
thrones and wear coronets and sway
sceptres of heavenly dominion. Mean
while take the bitterness from their soul
and make them soon think as well of us
as now they think evil. Spare their bodies
from pain and their households from be-
reavemont. After all the misunderstand-
ings and controversies of this life are over
may we keep with them eternal Jubilee
in the mansions on the hill, and as Thou
didst turn the captivity of job when he
had prayed for those who badly used him,
and health came to his body and prosper.
ity TO his estate, now that we have by
Thy grace been able to make supplica.
ton for our antagonists, cure our dis
eases, If we are ill, and restore our estate,
if it has been scattered; and awaken glad
ness in our homesteads, if they have been
bereit and turn the captivity of our phys
zeal pain or financial misfortune or mem-
tai distress. and Thine shall be the king.
dom and the power and glory forever and
ever. Amenl
PROMIAEMT DEODI +