The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-06-16
BORROWING TROUBLE.
The Predisposition to Carry Unnecessary
Burdena.


Burdens.
Americans are famous for their pre-
disposition to worry. While not ia
nous as athletes, it is well known that
large majority of them are ever ready
to meet trouble half way. Obstacles
and possible troubles that are great
mountains in the future frequently
prove but mole-hills in the present.
The first shadows of possible troubles
are portentious with the direst calami-
ties, and the imaginative lookout
means and shrivels and shrinks, ex-
hausting physical powers that would
much better be used in furling sail and
getting the ship in good order to meet
the coming storm; or, if every thing is
done, then better store up the physical
and spiritual strength necessary to en-
dure the storm and its possible out
comes. Many who claim the faith that
would remove mountains must use the
faith to remove some one 8 else mount
ain, for frequently we see them buried
under the mole-hills of their own diff
culties.
Not that there are not grand souls
who endure; natures that never bow
before any storm except in the spirit of
submission. Such natures do not
worry.
Then there are those who will not ad-
Just themselves to the inevitable condi-
tons tn at surround them. They are con-
tinually seeing how different their lives
would have been if only they had the
other persons opportunity. The secret
of life is not in being the other man, but
in being yourself, getting and giving
every possible opportunity for growth
and strength in your own life. Moth
ing shows more clearly the mental
weakness of a person than the excuse
for deterioration, material or spiritual
that II have not had chance" that
circumstances have been too much
for me-" Circumstances are the waves
in the sea of life; If q man is swamped
by them, it Is evident that he had not
learned how to manage, his life when
these waves were met.
Every one must meet his life under
its own conditions. These may be q
helpful wind, causing one to sail along
in the line of success, or they may be
heavy anchors, apparent drags and
clogs to progress. Il these last must
be borne, is It not visest and best to
carry them as unconciously as possible,
doing the work that comes into the
life that calls the best powers into
play, and not consider results and the
possible. success that this same life
would have if only these apparent
hindrances were not a part of ibe
Resistance to existing conditions tina
one has no power or right to alter il
childish. The tramp has time to sit OF
fence and kick against the thorns b.
the roadside. The man pursuing tn,
same road, but with a purpose, has nj
time to waste, and ignores the thorn
rs far as possible. The more i'm
portant his errand, the more intens
his interest, the less time he has h
notice triffes. 1T is hard for thee. t.
kick against the pricks" The prick
were tho inevitable facts Of Gods rul
ing power. Not all the Pauls in tn
world. fired by the most intense sea
could prevent the triumph of God
purpose in the world.
So with our lives; we can sit dow
and kick against the prieks, or'we ca
so adjust ourselves to them HAT "
make them q part Of our purpose {
working out eternal good.-ehristia
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