Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-11-16

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You people who weigh over 200 pounds
avoirdupois had better never lose your
temper, for at such times apoplexy is noe
far off Get the eauipose OF JOB in the
text, and it will help you IN business oil
rections. Praying for all offenders, you
will have more nerve for large undertak;;
ings; you will have "a 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 TAIL try IT TO-
morrow. Keep on until you accomplish
it. and should not wonder if, IN addition
to the moral and religious strength IL
gives YOU, it should add hundred per
cent to your worldly prosperity job XIII,
10, "The Lord gave JOB twice as much as
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
encc Nightingale, the heroine OF hospitals
and of battlefelds when there, were no
hospitals. The lounge on which she neg
PROSTATE is throne OF power. ana,
though she has passed into the eighties,
she trains nurses for sickbeds. and her IN,
fluence is now felt among the wounded
in South Africa, while her memory Is fuli
of the story OF Balaklava, Sevastopol ana
Inkerman. where England and France
and Russia grappled. She told: me 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 work she con-
secrated her life. her classic attainments'
her social. position. her brilliant person.
atty. Her whole life for others, and her
face shows it, J think so much OF heaven
is TO be found in no other human eouh,
tenance. Tennyson's Charge of the Light
Brigade" Is not more thrilling to me than
the womanly bravery and sacrihce that
took care OF those who were shot from
the saddles Of the Immortal SIX hun
dred.'
Nv text enthrOnes prayer and gives IT
a scepter to wave over our temporal ana
eternal life. Under God it cured Job and
fixed up his finances and restored his
home and made him so robust OF health
that he nved 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 10
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, allopathie,
or homeopathic, or hydropathic, or ecIec'
tic but has some time been surprised that
what was thought to be fatal disease
suddenly relaxes its craps OF the patient,
and he RECEIVERS. Not one law OF nature
has been fractured. Prayer may have
given the sudden turn to that illness
A business man may be in difficulty IN
extricable- against him fore
closing, goods to be sold for some reason
become unstable, new invention in ma
chinery making the old machinery OF his
factory worthless, all kinds of CONNER
cal troubles bouncing upon him at once.
Most business men have at least once
in their lives been put in such agonizing
crisis. but the harried merchant or manu-
facturer gets out of it. Creditors become
lenient. the wheels that were made use
less for making one kind of fabric turn
out to be 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
What an opportunity is prayer! Why
not oftener use it praying for ourselves
and, like job; praying for others What
better work would we do, what better
lives would we live, what better hopes
would we entertain; If we multiplied, and
intensified our prayers.
Some one asked soldier OF Stonewali
Jackson the secret of the great generals
influence over his men. docs your gen.
eral abuse you, swear at you, to make you
march," Swear" replied the soldier.
mo! Ewell does the swearing; Stone
wall does the praying. When Stonewall
wants us to march he looks at us soberly,
lust as if he were sorry for us, and says,
Men. we have got to make a long march,
We always know when there is going to
be a long march and right smart fighting,
for Stonewall is powerful on payer just
before big fight" When Stonewall
Jackson was asked the meaning of the
instant in prayer" ne ta'd: III
YOU will not mistake and think am set
ting myself up as an example, which L
am not, | will give an illustration from
nv own habit. / have so fixed the habit
of prayer in my mind that never raise a
glass of water to my lips without q mo-
1nent's asking of Gods blessing; i never
seal a letter without brief sending OF
nv thoughts heavenward; / never change
INV classes in the section room without
q minutes petition for the cadets who 60
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
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 us we never could
reach the high point of religious expe-
rience in which we could pray for those
who annoy us and make us feel worse in
stead of feeling better. That was a 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
iidst 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
,ceptres Of heavenly dominion. Mean
while take the bitterness from their soul
and make them soon think as well of us
rs now they think evil. Spare their bodies
rom pain and their households from be-
After all the misunderstood
ngs and controversies of this life are over
may we keep with them eternal jubilee
in the mansions on the hill, and as Thou
iidst turn the captivity of Job when he
nad prayed for those who badly used him,
md health came to his body and prosper
ty to his estate, now that we have by
Thy grace been able to make supplica-
ion for our antagonists, cure our dis
Eases, if we are i'll, and restore our estate,
f it has been scattered; and awaken glad
ness in our bomesteads, if they have been
oereft; and turn the captivity of our phys |
cal pain or financial misfortune or mem
al distress, and Thine shall be the king |
lom and the power and glory forever and
,ver Amen