The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-15

character, and after their cruel cam
palgn was ended by sublime effort Of
SOU, which this day uphold for imi-
tat'on, he triumphed in prayer for his
tantallzers. In all history there is
nothing equal to it except the memoir
arie importation by Christ for his enc
mles No wonder that after that
prayer OF Job was once uttered a thrill
OF recovery shot through every nerve
ana vein Of his tortured body and
every passion Of his great soul. and
God answered it by adding nearly a
century and half to his lifetime and
Whltened the hills with f1ocks Of sheep,
ana nlled the air with the lowing of
cattle. and Weakened the silent nursery
OF MS home with the swift feet and
the laughing voices of childhood
seven sons and three daughters cele-
grated Tor their beauty, the daughters
10 fehne the sons. the sons to defend
the daughters. There is nothing that
pays SO well as prayer. and the more
dlmcult that prayer to make the
greater the reward for making it.
Sselessness OF Anger.
Nothlng is so unhealthy as to get
mad. 1t is shock to the whole
physical organization as we'll as to,
Your mental and moral condition. Il
is no unusual thing for people to drop
down dead in fit of anger. You peo-
pie who weigh over 200 pounds avoir-
dupois had better never lose your tenn
per, for at such times apoplexy is not
far off. Get the equipoise of Job in
the text, and it will help you in bust
ness directions. Praying for all Offend
ers, you will have more nerve for large
undertakings; 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 antagonist today, and
II you fail try it tomorrow. Keep on
until you accomplish it., and l should
not wonder if, in addition to the moral
and religious strength it 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
ourselves and go to helping others,
whether friends or foes. AS beautiful
an instance of how this can be done I
found last summer in London in the
person of Florence Nightingale, the
heroine of hospitals and of battlefields
when there were no hospitals. The
lounge on which she lies PROSTATE is
a throne of power, and, though she
has passed into the eighties, she trains
nurses for sick beds, and her influence
is now felt among the wounded in
South Africa, while her memory is full
OF the story of Ba1ak1ava, Sevastopol
and lnkerman, where England and
France and Russia grappled. She told
me that she had not been happy until
she undertook to alleviate suffering.
and that since she began her work she
mad never seen an unhappy day To
that work she consecrated her life, her
classic attainments, her social position,
her brilliant personality. Her whole
life for others. and her face shows it.
think SO much of heaven is to be
found in no other human countenance.
Tennyson's Charge Of the Light Bril-
gade" 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 six
hundred"
The Efficacy of Prayer.
MY text enthrones prayer and gives
it scepter to wave over our temporal
and eternal life Under God it cured
Job and fixed up his finances and re-
stored his home and made him so
robust OF health that he lived IA de-
cades. 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 to do So"
Neither do think that God will
change the law of nature at our re-
quest, but am sure that he answers
prayer through natural law. Not a
physician of any skill, allopathic or
homeopathic or hydropathic or eclec-
tic, but has some time been surprised
that what was thought to be a fatal
disease suddenly relaxes its grasp 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 inextricable-
mortgages against him foreclosing,
goods to be sold for some reason be-
come unstable, new invention in ma
chlnery making the old machinery of
MS factory worthless, all kinds of com
mercial 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 manufacturer gets out of
1t. Creditors become more lenient, the
wheels that were made useless 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 him all things are now for
him. No law Of nature is broken and
no law of trade. Prayer may have
given that extrication. God, by max
ing law, does not tie his own hands
with it. If you are free to do what
you are asked to do, is not God just
as free. or are you mightier than your
Maker?
Respiration of the Soul.
Prayer is what some one has called
the slender nerve that moYeth the