Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-21

capable OF making ntercesslon lot peop.e
who had come to you in dav OF trouble
and said: Good for you You ought to
be chastised. You are being taken IN
hand by eternal justice. If You had be-
haved yourself Alright, you, would not
have been sick or persecnted or impover-
friend you would not have felt like JOB
when he prayed for his friends. but more
like Job when he cursed the day OF his
nativity.
You people who weigh over 200 pounds
avoirdupois had better never lose your
temper, for at such times apopIeXy IS not
far off Get the equipose of job IN the
text. and it will help You in business d.
rections. Praying for all offenders, you
| will have more nerve for large undertak-
ings: 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 Keen 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 vour worldly prosperity JOB KIN.
! 10. "The Lord gave Job twice as much as
| he han before.
What we all need is to get out OF cur
selves and 90 to helping Others whether
| friends or foes. As beautiful an instance
of how this can be done L found las, 1ast
summer in London in the person OF FLOR
| ence Nightingale. the heroine OF hospitals
| and of battlefieIds when there were no
| hosritals. The lounge on which she hes
| prostrate is a throne of power anu'
! though she has passed into the eighties
| she trains nurses for sickbeds. and her IN.
huence is now felt among the wounded
| in South Africa while her memory Is fuii
of the story OF Balaklava. Sevastopol and
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
ality Her whole life for others, and her
face shows it. ] think so much OF heaven
is to be found in no other human Gonn-
! tenance. Tennysons 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 six hun
dred.'
| Ny text enthrones prayer and gives 1T
eternal life. Under God it cured Job and
fixed up his finances and restored his
| home and made him robust of health
that he nved fourteen decades But,
some says, Il 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 a physician of any skill, allopathic,
or homeopathic, or hydropathic, or ec!ec-
tic, but has some time been surprised that
what was thought to be a fatal disease
suddenly relaxes its craps OF the patient
and he recovers Not one law of nature
| haan fractnra1 have
given the sudden turn to that Illness.
A business man may be in difficulty in
| extricable-mortgages 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
cial troubles pouncing upon HIM at once.
! Most business men have at least once
in their lives been put in such agonlZlng
crisis, but the harried merchant or manu-
facturer gets out of it. Creditors become
enient, 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
him ali things are now. for him.
What an opportunity Is prayer. Why
not oftener use it praying for ourselves
and, iee Job, praying for others: What
better work would we do, what better
lives would we live, what better hopes
woulC entertain, If We multiplied and
intensified our prayers.
Some one asked a soldier of Stonewall
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! Ewell does the swearing; Stone
wall does the praying. When Stonewal
wants us to march he looks at us sobery,
just 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 long march and right smart fighting.
for Stonewall is powerful on prayer Just
before a big fight" When Stonewall
jackson was asked the meaning of the
passage instant in prayer" he said: III
you will not mistake and think l am set
ting myself up an example, which |
am not, l will give an illustration from
my own habit. l have so fixed the habit
of prayer in my mind that l never raise a
glass of water to my lips without mo
ments asking of Gods blessing; | never
seal letter without brief sending OF
my thoughts heavenward; l never change
my classes in the section room without
a 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 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 could pray for those
who annoy us and make us feel worse IN
stead of feeling better That was 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 assassns, We now
pray for those who despitefully use us and
say all manner of evil against us. For
their eternal salvation we, suppiicate.
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-
reavemCnt. After all the misunderstand-
ings and controversies of this life are over
may we keep with them eternal jnbilse
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 bv
Thy grace been able to make s,.nr';.a-
ton for our antagonists, cure our Gis-
cases. II we are Ill, and restore our estate
If 1t has been scattered; and awaken CAD
pess IN our homesteads. if they have been
bereft; and turn the captivity of our ,avs-
ical PAIN or financial misfortune or nc ~
tai Distress and Thine shall be the. kim
fiom and the mower and glory forever and
ever. A1:cr
A man with good conscience can
! sleep to the music of the storm.
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