The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-09-02

fer your children-happy, buoyant and
bounding. Praise Him for your home
with its fountain of song and laughter
Adore Him for morning light and even
ing shadow. Praise Him for fresh,
cool water, bubbling from the rock,
leaping in the cascade, soaring in the
mist, falling in the shower, dashing
against the rock and clapping its hands
in the tempest. Love Him for the grass
that cushions the earth, and the clouds
that curtain the sky and the foliage
that waves in the forest Thank Him
for Bible to read, and a cross to gaze
upon and Saviour to read.
Many Christians think it bad sign
to bejubilant, and their work OF self-ex-
animation is hewing down OF their
brighter experiences Like boy with
new jack-knife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their self-examina-
ton is religious cutting to p'o.es of
the greenest things they can lay their
hands on. They imagine they are doing
Gods service when they are going
about borrowing trouble, and borrow
ing it at 80 per cent, which is always
sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again: The habit of borrowing
trouble is wrong, because the present
is sufficiently taxed with trial. God
sees that we all need certain amount
Of trouble, so He apportions it for all
the days and years of our life. Alas
for the policy of gathering it all up for
one day or year! Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel all the
cargo intended for the entire caravan.
I never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements and duties
are far ahead Let every week bear its
own burdens.
The shadows of to-day are thick
enough, why implore the presence of
other shadows? The cup is already
distasteful, why halloo to disasters far
distant to come, and wiring out more
gall into the bitterness? Are we such
champions that, having won the belt in
former encounters, we can 20 forth to
challenge all the future?
Here are business men Just able to
manage affairs as they are now. They
can pay their rent, and meet the notes,
and manage affairs as they now are,
but what if there should come panic?
Go tomorrow and write on your day
book, on your ledger, on your money
safe, Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof" Do not worry about
notes that are far from due Do not
pile upon your counting desk the finan-
cial anxieties of the next twenty years.
The God who has taken care of your
worldly occupation, guarding your store
from the torch of the incendiary and
the key of the burglar, will be as faithful
in 1891 as in 1881. Gods hand is might.
Ter than the Vaccinations of stock.
gamblers, or the plots OF, political dem
agogues, or the red right arm of revolu
ton, and the darkness will fly and the
storm fall dead at His feet. So there
are persons in feeble health, and they
are worried about the future. They
make out very well now, but they ar,
bothering themselves about futur,
pleurisies, and fheumatisms, AID neu
ralgias and fevers Their eyesight 4
feeble, and they are worried lest thel
entirely lose It Their hearing is in
!, distinct and they are alarmed lest the,
become entirely deaf. They felt chill,
to-day, and are expecting an attack o
typhoid. They have been troubled TO
; weeks with some perplexing malady
, and dread becoming lifelong invalids
Take care of your health now, an,
trust God for the future.
Be not guilty of the blasphemy o
asking Him to take care of you Will
: you sleep with your windows tigh
! down, or eat chicken salad at II o cloc
at night, or sit down on a cake Of ic
4 to cool off. Be prudent and then b
q confident. Some of the sickest peopl
! have been the most useful. 1t was S
! with Payson, who died deaths daily
! and Robert Hall, who used to stop i
9 the midst of his sermon and lie dow
q on the pulpit sofa to rest, and then G
!. On again. Theodore Frelinghuysen ha
,. great horror of dying, till the tim
n came, and then went peacefully. TAX
a care of the present and let the futur
4 look out for itself. Sufficient unto tn
! day is the evil thereof" 1t.e
e Again: The habit of borrowing mi
h fortune is wrong, because it units Z
for it when it actually does come. W
g can not always have smooth sailiny
l. Life's path will sometimes tumbl
It among declivities, and mount stee
e and be thorn-pierced. Judas will XII.
% our cheek and then sell us for thirt
r, pieces of silver. Human scorn will II
g to cruelty US between two thieve
IL We will hear the iron ga
c of the sepulcher creak ar
d grind as it shuts in our kindre
o But we can not get ready for the,
r things by forebodings. Those wi
Vi fight imaginary woes will come, out
a. breath, into conflict with the arm,
e: disasters of the future. Their ANN
in milton will have been wasted long
e; fore they come under the guns of re
rs misfortune. Boys in attempting
ID jump wall sometimes go so far bat
ct in order to get impetus, that when tn,
X come up they are exhausted; and the
s. long races, in order to get spril
ut enough to vault trouble, bring us up
n last to the dreadful reality with O
he strength gone.
err Finally: the habit of borrowil
~ trouble is wrong because it is unbeli,
is God has promised to take care of I
ne The Bible blooms with assurance