The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-24

already passed or such as may be await
ing us. Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof"
Each one of us has Just so much cap
ital-intellectual, moral, spiritual. phys
ical-and no more, to operate with in
the life given us. So much of this as Is
needed in each days work we should
invest, and allow the rest to accumu-
late, wasting none of it, but investing
1t as it is called for by the exigencies
of life. As life goes on we shall have
ample opportunity to invest all our sur
plus of whatever sort, and whatever
we waste, both principal and interest,
will be subtracted from the sum total
at our life's end. If all the time and
all the spiritual and intellectual force
wasted in worrying were summed up,
what grand total would it amount tol
If to this all the time and power lost
by the depressing effect of worrying
upon the vital powers were added, how
would that grand total be swelled!
Hours and days are thrown away in
worrying over the future trouble that
never comes, and the past trouble that
can not be changed; and while we thus
waste our capital of vitality, instead of
providing positive good for ourselves
more things to worry over.
Neither worry nor repentance for sin
will remove in this life all the conse-
| quences of its commission. These one
must bear as well as he may. When we
| confess and forsake sin we are promised
| forgiveness, but we are not promised
| immunity from the results of our trans
gression, at least from some of the re-
| suits in this life, and instead of worry
| ing over this we should rather set our
selves to bearing it with fortitude and
turning it into the nutriment of vir-
| tue" Doubtless Moses repented tax
ing the life of that tyrannical Egyptian,
and we can not doubt but that he was
forgiven, but he spent forty years in
| the desert because of it We know
David repented of the murder of Uriah
and was forgiven, but the .'sword never
departed from his house," and the lives
of his four sons were required for the
one life of Uriah. st. Paul never for
| got that he had once prosecuted the
Church, and was ''more abundant
in labor to establish it because he had
tried to destroy it. The alcohol drunk
ard, the opium drunkard, the glutton, the
debauchee, may never be able to re-
pair the injuries they have done
themselves, their offspring, their fell
lows, by their violations of the laws of
life, but when they have left off their
evil ways and given all that is left of
them to walking in right ways, worry
over the past consumes the strength
they need to live well in the present,
and is purely wasteful. They must be
content to take up the song of life in a
lower key, perhaps in minor key, and
sing it as well as they may. They must
be content to walk along the lower levels
of life and leave the scaling of heights
to those whose vital energies have not
been sapped by indulgence in evil
courses.
1t is necessary that we should take
precautions against evil; that we should
look out and provide for contingencies;
that we should make the ordinary prep
araIfons for what is in the nature of
things likely to come to us, and, having
done this. the next best thing is to
await the coming events with serenity
and presence of mind. Worrying will
only upset us, waste our powers, distort
our mental vision and put US in such q
state of mind as will effectually prevent
the best use of our faculties.-M y.
Tribune.