The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-04-24
..wHY ART THOU CAST DOWN.

| - NH1 AhT THOU CAST DOWNfo
There are some persons of morbid
Imagination, who trouble themselves
about sorrows that have no real exist
cnce. have met with such persons.
l knew person who was always in
clined to imagine himself poor, or about
to be poor, when his circumstances
were very comfortable, and when there
was no human likelihood of his ever
being brought to circumstances of ne
cessity. A little consideration and re-
Fiction might have saved him from
those troubles which through long hab-
it were very distressing to him.
Some persons are making themselves
unhappy because they have an idea that
I. they have a disease of some kind or
other. They tell you their imaginary
symptoms, and ask if they are not
wasting away, when, perhaps, they are
| looking perfectly well and vigorous
they are troubling themselves exclusive
ly with the idea of being under the in
fuence of some disease when they are
perfectly well.
There are some persons who go on
| for weeks and months making them
selves unhappy, because they imagine
somebody has been unkind to them, or
thinks unkindly of them; they have
misinterpreted look or word. There
was no real cause for their sorrow, but
they imagined those things. There are
some persons whose temperament is al
ways leading them to imagine some
thing wrong. think it would be
wiser, before we bring that trouble to
God in special prayer, asking for his
special grace, to correct our'own folly,
to examine ourselves, and to get rid of
those SORROWS, as far as we possibly can,
which are of a merely imaginary kind.
Then again, many of our troubles
have reference to what is future and
may never become actual-not imagin-
airy altogether, but sorrows that may
come to pass hereafter, but also may
not. You are unhappy because ofsome-
thing that may happen in the course Of
your life. An accident may occur; you
may be cast down by some painful dis
ease; some friend may forsake you or
die. Why be cast down? Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof" You
will be cast down if the calamity comes,
but why be cast down if the calamity
has not come -? and if it does not occur,
YOU will have all the sorrow for moth
J ing. Therefore, let US not be cast down
about something that's still distant, and
may never come to pass
Then again, when we ask ourselves,
| What is the matter? we may come to
this conclusion, that that which troubles
us is self-caused and should be self-end-
ed. How many people bring them
selves into difficulties which cause them
great distress, from their carelessness,
| improvidence, and extravaganza! They
spend more in their households, on their
dress, and i'll giving entertainments,
than they have means for. Then there
is, perhaps, trouble with their husbands
or fathers; or perhaps there is difficulty
with their trades-people bills come in,
and there is the fear of exposure, and
trouble arises from inability to pay the
demand which is righteously due. Cor
rect your own fault, and do not carry
that to God, as though it was some
thing he had sent, unless you at the
same time do all you can to avoid the
evil.
Why are we cast down? Perhaps some
are treating us improperly; but it may
be through our own improper conduct
to them. We may have been acting,
and we may be now acting, an injudi-
cious part. We may be manifesting i'll
temper; we may turn people from
sweetness to bitterness, and thus cause
them to act in an irritating and vex-
atious manner to us !; and through our
own improper behavior to them, we
! may, consequently, be in very great
trouble. If we Will examine the mat
ter, we may get rid of our own troubles.
Why art thou cast down? 1t may be
that people are not paying us proper
: respect: they are not showing us the
: honor, the Difference, the submission.
the kindness, and the attention which
they ought to manifest. Perhaps we
may have unreasonable expectations
Some people expect much more from
, others than they have right to expect
|, more tenderness and Difference than
they have right to demand. The cure
for that is to curb our unreasonable ex
pectations. Pursue the inquiry and i
3 will be found that some of the causes
Z of our trouble are contemplate. Some
e body has passed us in the street and die
: not take any notice of us or somebody
!: has made arrangements for party, anC
ought to have invited us. There ar
7 people who make themselves Hnhapp!
: about things as preposterous and ride
ulous as these; they feel themselve
J. grieyously afflicted, whereas, if the.
could examine themselves, they woult
:. often find that the answer to the ques
IS ton, "Why art thou cast down, 0 m,
T soul 2" would be such that they woul'
: be ashamed to repeat it, even in words
a to themselves.-NeIcma Hall.
le Information wanted, of lady WIZ
or gave 3 child three years old to Mrs. Nal
lie lory, in Boston, Mass, in October, 1852
q also left the child ring, on which wa
:. engraved "A. Eugenia, 1882" Any per
e son knowing of her whereabouts, wis
re will address Edward W. Stuart, Kansa
- City, No., will confer on him grea