Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-09-21

| '"sh, "u' " Is permanently damaging to all
who indulge in it.
~ Is very easy TO talk, says nv friend
| win load upon his shoulders. but taking
docs hoi pay notes at the bank. and keen
cre1liorS easy, aud provide for ones family j
GRANTED aud now will you be kind enough
10 'oiI me now many notes You ever paid a,
BANK and how much provision yon eve,
made for your family by "mugging" owe,
yonr troubles out Of business hours ? |
your retort is good for anything, mine is
lou never accomplished one good thing il
your lille ny making yourself and others un
happy through constant dwelling upor
trouole when not engaged in active effort
TO eXtrIcate yourself from it. You neveI
ga'ncu single iuch of progress by dwell
lug upon mlScarriages in business which you
could not avoid. All your absorption, al
your sad reflection all your misgivings about
tne iulure, all your care beyond the exer'
else your best ability in in action, has not
only been utterly useless, but it has injured
the comfort OF all around you destroyed the
peace OF your life, cheated you out of the
reward OF your labor, aud made q smaller
harder, meauer man out of you. If any
good result could be secured by carving
| the burden OF your business into all yonr
life, then there would be some aDolopy for
it but you know that no such result can
be secured. ut is very easy to talk y INV
friend persists in saying, "but one cannot
always command oue'S mind, in such mat
ter as this" Did you ever try Have YOU
ever Systematically tried to do this D.? Is it
your regular aim, after you have dscharg
ed the business of the day, to throw off care
until the next days business is undortaken2
No? Tnen how do you know whether it is
easy or not
| believe it is in the power Of every man,
who has not to long abused himself. to Law
aside every night his pack Of mental care
aud anxiety, aud enter into life. Not on
y this, bat | believe that it is absolutely
essential to his business success that he do
this A man who dwels constantly upon
the dark side Of his afflirs, and is troubled
and gloomy in his apprchsnSious concerning
the futue, becomes a weak and timid man
disqualified in many essential respects for
the WORK Of his life H. mind needs rest
and reyWiication. Suppose an ass were to
themselves Suppose the burden which We
place upon him during the day were kept
lashed TO his back at uight, SO that he must
bear it, ethor standing or lying, IF duty
as vel! as on. How long would he he
worth anything for labor? The ilustra-
trstion IS opposite in every pnrticulaF If
the mind is 10 he kept fit for bu,iDess, it is
AT regular periods TO be kept on. uf busi-
ness. A great multitude Of business fail.
ures are attributable, | have no doubt, TO
the damaging and deuiIiatng effect of car
ryiug tle burden Of business between bust
ness hours Men become in q measure sick
and insane by dwelling upon their affairs,
when they should be receiving rest and re.
Ireshmmt.
Agnu men who nsiat upou keeping their
packs upon their shoulders, prac.
TALLY deny the existence Of the provi.
dcDcc of Being superior to themsel.
yes, and dominant in all human affairs. If
| were to say to Que of these men ''you
do not belie1c in Providence at all, he
would accuse me of harsh judgement, and
feel Injured by it but it is certainly legiti.
mate for me to ask him what evidence he
gives Of his belief All, indeed profess to
believe in Providence, in IL certain general
way. The popular idea is very foggy upon
the matter. We somehow imagine that
God knows everything in general and moth,
ing in articuur-that He takes his inter
est in, supervision Of, and controlling inau-
-ence over matters at large, with an imperi-
al disregard of detaS-that He mouldS
with a majestic hand the character and des
tiny of nations, but never condeScends to
NEEDLE with the small and insignificant af-
fairs of individuals. Providence 10 this
view, would seem to be very much like
certain longs used in blacksmith's shop,
whose jaws do not wholly cloSe-conveuient
for handling large pieces Of iron, but ihca'
pable Of graSping a uail. Or, Providence
like great general, who only directs the
movements Of large bodies OF men, deals on'
ly with the officers, and never thinks Of so
small thing as looking after the blanket
of u private soldier, or dressing wounded
finger.
1t is very easy to perceive that such
Providence as this has no practical value in
everyday individual life. Very evidently
it is not the Providence which numbers the
hairs Of mems heads, and without whose no.
tice not a sparrow falls to the ground. One
is Providence made by men who under
take to measure God by themselves the
other is the Providence revealed in the Bi-
BILE. God exercises special providence.
which reaches to the minutest affairs of the
most insignificant muu, or we are all in
condition of essential orphannge, A special
providence denied aud prayer becomes
mockery, devotion q deceit, and the sense
of individual responsibility slavery to Su'
perstitious idea Now | do not pretend to
address myself to men who do not believe
in PRAYER know men well enough to know
that there are very few of them who do not
believe in prayer, aud that there are very
few of them who do not, particularly in mo-
ments of danger, pray. Deep down under
the thickest crusts Of depraVity there lies
the conviction, always ready to rise in pain
fol emergencies, that God takes cOgnizance
of eyerV man, aud is able 10 help him
Smooth away the idea of Providence as We
may, into an unmeanng generality, the
time comes, in every mans life, when he
recognizes lhe fact that God is dealing with
him and be may as well recognize tue fact
all the time as when he is driven 10 feel
that he has no help in himself
So, if there be special Providence, 1t Is