Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-27

"Ihe Greatest Curiosity"
Brethren, we will take two verses OF the
| Fitty-htth psalm. Let US listen to the dis
cusslon preyerfullv Obi for the power OF
| prayer on the preacher tonight aud on the
| Norl, so that every heart may be touched
ana every conscience moved.
O. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He
will sustain thee He snail never suffer tue
righteous to be moved He hath delivered
my soul in peace from the battle that was
against me, tor there were many with me
Cast thy burden upon the Lord. | sup
pose the greatest curiosity this world could
| present to mortal gaze would be an unbur
! dened human heart, O heart perfectly free
| from all care. all anxiety, and all troubls
and all disappointment
! -Four thousand years ago man of Col
said that man il born unto trouble as the
| parks fly upward. Just as naturally as the
sparks ascend from the burning wood, SC
naturally is man born unto trouble.
after all, my brethren, it is not the part
| of philosopher to sit down and number his
| troubles, and weigh his troubles, and meas
ure his troubles, but it Is the part of phi
! losopher, first, TO classify his troubles, and
then know what to do with each class Now
| there are what we denominate real troubles.
| and then there are wnat we call imaginary
troubles, Poor human nature, how weak,
! how frail it isl We are always looking
around fer something we're never going t.
see. We're always expecting something
! that's never going to happen. We're always
! going out TO meet something that isn't com
| ing. Poor human nature.
Nov it is wlss at this stage of the discus
| sion for us to stop ami consider the tive
classes. That is all important All troubles
and all burdens may be classified un1er
these two general hea imaginary trouble
ami real trouble | can illustrate faster
! than can brlng ii out any other way. I'll
show what | mean by imaginary trouble
by this illustrat,on:
"You've seen a mother-one Of these good
kind OF mothers indulgent to her Chill iren-
aud belonging to that family of which she
@as the niotner there was a nobl3. gentle
! horse; he was widely known in the commu-
nifty tor his gentleness and was called odd
joan The old horse fairly loved the chll
| dren in his equine way. Why they could
! GO down in the lot and fairly CLIMB all over
him without fear of being hurt. They
could play about ON the green ard about
/ hi m and old John would walk around them,
aud it seemed rs If when he put bis hooi
down he shook it as though to make sure
that none of the little fellows were under
it when he put it down. Really, Old
John loved the children. He was sensible
old horse. He was more sensible in some
"One Gay the mother, in answer to the
children's desire, sail: You may hitch VI
old John and drive out to Mrs. So-and SOS
bur, chillren, he sure AMI come back by 4
o'clocG.' The children assente to the propo
sision, hitcned up old John and drove away
Bye-and bye the clock struck four. The
mother listened to the clock, and when shs
! saw the hands point to 4 she went to tins
door and looked, and when sne didn't see tbs
chil1ren she said, Why, those children were
to back by 4 O'clock, aud they never de
caived me before. [ wonder what's the
matter with them. I'm satisfied SO nethine
has happened She waits five minut,s, and
then she. looked out OF the window and
said, 'Oh, how foolish | was Tor letting
those children drive that horse off | re
member now that the other day when
drove old John down the road he took fear
full fright, and | said then, Those children
shall never drive that horse again Their
again it hasn't been more than two weeks
since | had that terrible presentiment that
that horse was going to run away and xii
every child had
ooh! wife, said the husband, that was
something you eat. There is nothing il
presentiments' She then said: Il wan
you to get your hat right away and go am
LOOK after those children. Iknow every on
of them is killed by this time oh! hush.
said husband; they'll be here directly
'Husbapd,' she ssid, III you don'5go righ
away I'll go myself and he knows wha
that means, AMI be moves out,z and he JUS
about gets to the bottom step of the from
porch, ami about the time his foot striae
the pavement here comes old John jogging
up, with all the children safe, and mother
looks out the door and she sees the children
with their faces all aiight with joy at thei1
visit, and old John sanding There, ss faith
full as life, and she walks of into her room
and she buries her face in her hands ant
says. Obi what goose I've been.' Breth
ren, she was, too.
"The worried brain, fevered look Ant
nervous tread of many man in this tow
tel too plainly that there's a man that
been working out the problems Of life up t.
], 2 and 8 O'clock, instead of being asleep.
like the idea of that fellow who, when
man was walking about in the room over
head the hotel, AMI he collin' go tc
upstairs and said the occupant of the room
Look here, my friend, can't 60 to sleel
with you pacing up AMI down tne flor al
night. What's the matter with youF why,
said the fellow, Il owe $40, 900 and it's du
tomorrow, an l have doue my best but
can't get the money! Have You done YOU
best inquired the fellow from below. YES
I've done my very BEST replied the man
Well, then, you 20 and get in that bed an
go to Sleep and let the other fellow do tn
walking. He's the one to b5 troI bled now
THAT'S my doctrine brethren. Whel
I've done my best the other fellow can d
the walking from that tins oni When Pv
done my best I'm going to be like the felloT
in Chicago heard or. The fellow broke
went bankrupt for $4,000, and anothe
fellow stopped him on the street and wante
to condole with him, and the man said
Friend, you needn't sympathize with me
it's my creditors that need your sympathy
I'm going to be scrupuious and do my best
bu5 at the same tims When I've done m
best | am going to bed at night and III
going to sleep then.
"a homemade trouble machine Eve
see one2 They're something like the old
fashioned looms the sisters used to work i
the old times. I've seen the old sisters weay
ing with them; they hal shuttle in bot
hands. a broche in their mouth, and the
| were everlastingly trea1ing with their feet
why, they had to work all over, throug
= AMI through. Eve seen many an old siste
start her trouble machine and work it a.
over from head to foot as hard as she coul
go it! What's the use of doing that9
Just think of sister asking the Lord
put out the fire in her housa and the houS
: amt even ON fire yeti The Lord amt goin
7 TO bother about putting out a fire when til
fire hasn't started yet. It's all tomfooler
] to 60 to the Lord with borrowed trouble
AMI asking him to relieve you. Ii the wo
t is at the door shut the door in his face; an
, if the calf is a going to eat up the GRIM
stone, why let him eat it, You can geS
new one! This everlasting ding dong an
D worry over nothingi Looking for somethin
$ that's never going TO happenl Expectin
something thapI never transpirel Everlas
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