Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-04
SERMON ABOUT FRETTING.
Beecher on Medicine, Physical
and Spiritual, for Overweight

and Spiritual, for OverwrOught
Anxiety.
New York World.
Mr.. Beecher preached last Sunday
morning from ]. Peter, v. Z: Casting
all your care upon him for he careth ior
you," and I. John, w., Is: Perfect
love casteth out fear" at Is remark.
able" began Mr.. Beecher, That the
doctrine Of peace was the child OF storm,
and that the noblest utterances on the
subject OF peace have proceeded from
men without home, without favor,
without wealth, place, or any OF those
concomitants which are supposed gen
erally to surround peace-men like the
old legislator, Moses, the prophets, the
early disciples, the apostles,the martyrs,
the storm-cloud driven every whittier
by what the world is pleased to call mis-
fortune. Talk OF the peace which pass
eth understanding to 6e unalterable TO
the end, which Is neither given nor
taken awav, which the world cannot
give by smile nor destroy by frown.
This is the end oil perfect living in per-
feet organizations. Care is t!.e friction
Of the machin.rv; care is the first born
son OF fear, the fear that torments when
it is permitted 10 have its way. The
apostle declares in the spirit Of the true
beneyolence Of God. Il would have you
without carclessness; cast it oil, but II
one says, Il cannot without casting OH
duty; il is care that springs from love
Of conscience, cast it then upon God.
Now, care is the geEius OF Christianity,
or oil the Christian religion. 1t prompts
men TO act in the present with wise
sensibility To the future. Forelooking
may inspire hope and courage as vel as
fear, but iorelooking with fear makes
torment. Men generally prefer to look
out with anxiety, with fever, with ridl-
culous fret. The future, IS as 1t were,an
ocean, and men fish in il. Some catch
Peters fish with pieces OF money IN
their mouths, and some catch devil-hsh.
Ii depends on how man fishes In the
future az TO what he brings 10 his boat.
Tie wav in which man lives has great
deal TO DO with his views Tor the future,
70. there are conditions OF the Dcdy
where there is morbid sensibillty Oh
nerve, and illness renders man sens
tive TO fear. 1t is quite in vain 20 tax
10 a man suffering IRON cerebral moibi-
ditv OF the Jolly oil fear and the necessity
of diminishing care. Men get ont OF or
,,erb excessive industry, from steady
watch, from care, and SO render morbid
the whole nervous system anu LOT the
time being VI i'll draw lear from the future.
The remedy for such men IS neither
Bible nor praVor.book, nor prayer, ana
there is no need to call in the minister.
They need the doctor more than the
minister, unless the minister is doctor
"a we'll. and al! doctors should be NM
listers. All excuses should he avolueu.
Il is Just as dangerous tothlnk 100 mucii
about religion as 10 think too much
of any other subject. Too much Is too
much Of ANYTHING. Some men are born
hopeful; they 80 upon life exactly as a
hunvant boat floats upon the waves. 1t
goes MP when they 20 up, 1t falls when
thew iail, but Is eyermore on The surface.
| have known men bankrupted and they
came up next morning smiling. linen
there are other men whose hope Is at a
minimum. The future is never radiant
10 them. One great fault IS throwing
into the future inilLmed desires. 1t Is
not wTong for men to desire riches. Ger
tainlv il is not wrong TO desire that
which is the principal motive to indus
try. Eut ii this is carried To excess men
bccome mean, detcstable. There are
muititndes of men that never think OF
eniovirc themselves Will" they are
securing riches. They put it oil to the
future and they live in Il perpetual
anxiety aud fret over the acquisition OF
rroperty. Property is very good
Thing, but il never had value that
justified man in sacrificing his happ:-
rrSs or his soul Tor it. How many men
there are suffering care as To how their
children should stand in life, how their
family shon.d stand, and II next year
.hov shall he ia prosperous AS they are
thisp IIow mday persons there are til2t
brood and brood unnecessarily as To the
future 81 their children, fearing that they
no, turn gu; well. lie has told 4 lie;
he is on the way TO the devil W I'll, l
don't believe there ever was chlld that
diI not lie |, is part OF their Inherited
nature, and il is an evil. anu great
evil, ami is to he plucked up by the
roots. |, when 90 into my garden,
never cry and say: "TheIe are so many
weeds, / am never going tn have gar
deu, never, never, never. l dig up the
weeds. and say, Il will have a garden,
And so parents fearful of their children
NAV take courage. Now as to the rem
edy for the evils that grow out OF this
care for the future and first we must
put the direct resistance OF the will
IL makes great difference whether
man danGles his sorrow on his knee or
sparks the sorrow and puts it IT, bed.
II makes great difference whether
man takes poker by the hot end orthe
cold end. There must be 4 vigorous de-
termination that you are not called To
i,v: that all the universe is made Tor
Won. an that Won vii, MT submit YOU
sell To the degra lation and bondage ct
perpetual intrusive fear; that you Will
say, L will hot permit myself to suffer.
The best way OF escaping all these carp,
in, cares is TO trust in the Lord. All
things are for YOU. The great incoming
future, which no man can describe,
shows that all things present all things
vet To come are yours, aud yc are
m riS,'s and Chris. ia Gods"