The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-11-16

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prav for those who veN and mlsreprssent
and tantalifc u. You may he very popu'
lar in the city or neighhorhood where YOU
live. hut | warrant n You are IN active
HE there are those who wish YOU the OPP
p,,ite of wishing You we'll Are YOU ten'
eyolents They say it j. ON your part
matter of personal display. Are YOU eio'
ouent or learueds They declare YOU are
overratel and that what YOU say or wrte
Is oi no importance. DO You try To hi'Ne
Yourself effective m church or hosW'al OF
board OF directors They eau You oi.
6cious. Are You well dressed lheN say
Won are proud Docs false report start
,n the community against your character
They believe II all and add another stcfE
4, the fabrication. Some OF them pretend
IN he friends. but they have the cuiges
an r,ady for -fhphaE the Temanite,
R,ldad the Shuhite. Zophar the Naamath'
tie. Now. PRAY for them. on YOU
saw, Il cannot DO that. l Thought YOU
could not But YOU Will grow IN grace un-
Ill YOU can do it as easily and As WEI. aS
did job pray for his exa,sperators' You
ought 10 pitV them. for dctamers ana de'
tractors and the envious and Jealous are
not happv. They hurt themselves more
than they hurt YOU Better be the pur'
sued than the pursue Rettcr bc the m.
FAINT Christ than llcrod the rohher oi
the bethlehem cradles You want To
he a better man. You want to hc bet.
ter woman. Then scale this height ot
triumphant prayer. and YOU VIII be ten
times more of a Christian than YOU ever
have been.
You people who weigh over 900 pounds
avoirdupois had better never lose your
temprr for AT such times apoplcNy is no.
far of. Get the cOuiposc ot Job IN the
text. and Il will help YOU IN business d'
rections PRAYING for all offenders, YOU
win have more nerve for large uudertak.
ings. YOU will have better balanced
Judgment: YOU will waste no valuable time
IN irving To get even with your cnemcs'
Try this height oi prayer for your an
tago.list to-day, and II YOU tai try IL TO-
morrow. Keep on until YOU aecoapilSh
1t. and | should not wonder #, IN addition
Ia the moral and religious strength It
,,ves Won. il should add a hundred per
cent to your worldly prosperity job Nlh'
10. "The Lord gave job twice as much az
hc had before
What we all need il 60 get out OF our
selves and ~ TO helping others. whether
! friends or foes As beautiful an instance
/ of how this can hc done ! found last
| summer in London in the person OF Flor
cnce Nightingale, the heroine ol hospitals
! and of battlcdclds when there were no
! hospitals The lounge on which she hes
prostrate is a throne OF power and.
! though she has passed into the eighties
| she trains nurses for slclhcds, and her IN.
iluence is now felt among the wounded
| i'm South Africa. while her memory is iull
| of the story ot Balaklava, SeVastopol ana
| Inksrman. where England and France
| aud Russia grapplcd. 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
sccrated her life her classic aua'nments'
! her social position, her brliiiant person
alty. Her whole life for others, and her
face shows il. | think 80 much OF heaven
IL TO be found IN no other human coun
tcnance. Tcnnyson's Charge of the Lght
! Brigade" ~ not more thrilling to inc than
| the womnnly bravery and Hacrihce thht
took care OF those who were shot from
the saddles of the Immortal six hun
dred"
Nv text cnthrones prayer and gives Il
a sccptcr 10 wave over our temporal ana
| eternal life Under God ~ cured job and
| fixed up his finances and restored hl'
| home and made him 80 robust of health
that he uvcd fourteen decades. But,
| some one says. Il do not believe m
| prayer for friends and foes, because ! dc
not think that God ~ going To change the
laws of nature because we ask HIM so tc
do" Neither do | think that God Wi
change the law of nature at our request
but / am sure that He answers prayer
through natural law.
A business man may be in difficulty IN
! cXtricablc- mortgages against him fore
closing. goods 10 be sold for some reason
become unsalablc new invention IN ma
| chincry making the old machinery ot ht
factory worthless, all kinds oi CONNER
cial troubles pounclnR upon HIM at once
Most business men have At least once
ia their lives been put ~ such agonHini
crisis. hut the harricd merchant or manu-
faclurcr gets out of II. Creditors become
lcnicnt. the wheels that were made use
less for making one kind OF fabric turI
out 10 be good for making another styl'
Of fabric, the stock Of goods that coul'
not be sold comes into unexpected dc
mand. and whereas all things were agans
hIm all things are now for him.
No law Of nature ~ broken and no las
Of trade Prayer may have given lho
cxtricatIon God, by making law, doc
not tie HIS own hands with IT. ~ yo'
are free 10 do what you are asked 10 30
is not God just ~ free, or are you mightl
cr than your Maker;
What an opportunity ~ prayer WIN
not oftonor use II praying Tor oursclNc
and, like job, praying for othcrsf w Nha
better work would wc do, what bette
lives would we live what better hope
would We entertain, IT we multiplied an'
intensified our prayers
Some one asked soldier ~ StOucwal
jackson the secret OF the great general
influence over his men Does your gen
oral abuse YOU swear az YOU, 10 make yol
march," swear" replied the soldier
No! Ewcll does the swearing, stone
wall does the praying. When Stonewal
wants W. 10 march he looks at us soberly
lust as IT hc were sorry for ~, and say'
Men. we have got 10 make a long march
We always know when there ~ gong q
be- a long march and right smart lighting
for Etoncwall ~ powerful on prayer Jus
before "A biz fight" When ftOnrwaI
jackson was asked the meaning pt ~
passage instant ~ prayer be SAID: i
YOU will not mistake and think ] am sci
ting myself up a. a. example, which
am not, / will give an illustration irof
my own habit ! have ~ fixed the hnbi
Of prayer m my mind that ! never raise
glass Of water 10 my lips without a m'
mcrt's asking of GOd's blessing, ] ncyc
seal letter without a bret sending q
my thoughts hcaveDward; ] never chang
my classes ~ the section room withou
"a minutes petition for the cadets who =
| out and those who come in.
, Now, II God has during these remark
shown ss the uses, the importance, VA
1 | blessrdness % prayer, suppose We try
do what job did when be prayed for h
, | cgasperators. Many ~ M az the begif
nng Of this subject felt that while "
4 could pray for ourselves and pray 4,
+. those who were kind 70 us We never coul
p reach the high point of religious exp
{ r.cnce m which we could pray for tho'
b. who annoy us and make us feel worse u
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