Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-11
SRelieiolrs Department.
ssAS THY DAY so SHALL THY
STRENGTH BE-"

How apt we are to borrow trouble
to look forward to the cares and ankle
ties Of the morrow, instead Of remem-
bering the blessed promise, "As thy
day so shall thy strength be-" One step
at time, and but one, should the earn
est, trusting, Christian, ever think of
taking; for this is all God requires of
His children, and all upon which we
can rely, for His help to guide and di-
rect US Alright.
Another reason for combining our
thoughts to present time is, that we es-
cape the WEAKNESS and dependency,
which creeps over us in view of the ev-
er-recurring trials and struggles of the
Christian life, which is aptly compared
to warfare. 1t shuts them all out of
the mind, save those which end at the
nightfall.
If we have cross to bear, surely we
can bear that cross for one day. If we
are sOrely beset by the annoyances and
vexations of the work on our hands,
surely we can endure them patiently
while the day lasts. If we are wearied
by the struggle of manifold temptations,
we are not further and unnecessarily
wearied, by the thought that they are
to return tomorrow and the next day,
aud through, perhaps, many future
years Of life. And this further and
really needless borrowing of tronble, is
the most fatiguing element in them. A
little longer endurance, and the night
comes 1t is an encouraging and in
spiriting thought.
We can imagine the effect upon US Of
knowing that we had but one day to
live. AS Christians, putting out Of
view all that might appall US with the
consciousness that we were unprepared
for the last great change, the effect
would be to make every burden light
and every trial comparatively easy
The cheering thought that they wer'
the last, would send new strength int
the heart to bear them while, indeed
with our might would we do what on
hands found'to do. We could not thinl
Of rest that day-we should not need ii
The night Of death would give US all th
repOse we could ask, And such. com
paritively, would be the effect of livin
each day as though it were the last
The night does come-the longest da
has an end-and with it does also come
or may come, an end to labor and care
A blessed Sleep to weary eyes and ach
ing hearts
Temptations leave us for season an
await the morning light. The MORO
dawns upon spirits invigorated and n
newed, and as ready for duty as the
were the day before-a day which W;
passed in safety. If with the morrow
dawn, fresh trials come, they will fiji
US endued with strength to bear ther
IL is, indeed, blessed assurance
those who thus live GAS thy day
shall thy strength be"
On the other hand, they who live al
labor on without break, save tn
which the night and darkness. neces'
tates-whOse thoughts are ever Outru
ming the work Of their hands, and ovt
leaping all the barriers and divisions
time which God has mercifully erect
along their paths-who. mind neitt
day, nor night, nor summer, nor whit
nor seed time, nor harvest-what d.
and tedious mOnotony is theirs. III
cannot measure their spiritual progr
they lose sight of themselves as tr
ellers over a stretch of desert land.
There IS no encouragement to sue
life. 1t has no goal but the grave ;
even that goes out of sight like ev
distant object, gazed after from d
and broken level. And this is not
worst The future, to such persons
always peOpled with spectral trials
terrors.
They cannot bear what thus co
upon them. And why not? Simply
cause they overload their strength '
the needless burdens of the fut
These burdens have not yet come arOr
even if they are to come. Leave {
where they are, as God mercifully lie
them. They will come one by one,
not as we have forced them, altoge
upon our already burdened spirit,
with them will come the blessed az
ance, "As thy day so shall thy sire
be."-JoSie Keen. IN the N. y. Oh
en-.
SIN PUT AwAY.-"Blessed is
man to whom the Lord will not i'm