Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-08-22
Has God been hard with thee, that

a lie fuil OIL caleluityf II your fatner
or brother come into your bank where
gold and silver are lying about, you do
not watch them, for you know they
are honest but If an entire stranger
/ come by the safe, you keep your eye
on him. for you do not know his de-
signs So some men treat tiod: not as
II father. but IL stranger. and act sus-
picionsly toward him, as thougl they
were afraid he would steal something.
1t is high time you began 10 thank
God for present blessing Thank him
for 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, ieapng
in the cascade. soaring in tile mist,
1 falling in the shower. daslling against
!; the rock and sciappiIg itsllandsssin tile
tempest. Love him for tile grass that
I 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 cross to gaze upon,
and Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think it bad sign
to be jubilant. and their work OF sell
examination is liewing down of their
brighter experiences Like boy with
a new jackknife. hacking everything he
comes across, SO their self examination
is religions cutting to pieces of the
greenest things they can lag their hands
on. They imagine they are doing Gods
service when they go about borrowing
trouble. and borrowing it Mt thirty per
cent, which is always sure precursor
of bankruptcy.
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY.
Again. the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because the present is sufEl-
GENTLY taxed with trial. God sees that
we al need a certain amount OF trouble,
and 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 tile cargo intended for
the entire caravan. ! never look at
my memorandum book to see what en-
gagements and duties are far ahead.
Let every week bear IT'S own burdens.
The shadows of today are thick
enough Why iluplore 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 flat, having won the
belt in former encounters. we can 60
forth to challenge I'll the futnre2
Here are business men Just able to
manage affairs as they now are. They
can pay tlleir rent and meet their
notes. and manage affairs, as they now
are, but what if there should come a
panic2 Go tomorrow and write on
your day book, on your ledger, on yonl
money safe. Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof" Do not worry about
financial anxeties of the next twenty
years. Tie God who has taken care OF
your worldly occupation. guarding your
store from the torch of the inccndiary
and the key of the burglar, will be as
faithful in 1891 MS i'll 1881. Gods hand
is migl,tier than the Vaccinations OF
stock gamblers. or the plots of political
.demagogues. or the red right arm OF
revolution. and the darkness will fly
and the storm fall dead ut lis feet.
So there are persons in feeble health,
and they are worried about the future.
They make out very well now, but they
are bothering themselves about future
pleurisies. and rheuinatislns. and neu-
ralgias and fevers. Their eyesight is
feeble, and they are worried lest they
entirely lose it. Their hearing is indis-
tinct and they are alarmed lest they be-
come entirely deaf. They felt chilly
today, and are expecting I'm attack OF
typhoid. They have been troubled for
weeks with some perplexing malady,
and dread becoming lifelong invallds.
Take care of your health now, and
trust God for the future. BE not
guilty of the blasphemy OF asking him
to take care Of you while you sleep
with your windows tight down, or eat
chicken salad at II o'clock at night
or sit down on Il cake of ice to cool Oft.
Be prudent and then be confident
Some of the sickest people have been
the most useful. 1t was SO with Pay
son, who died deaths daily, and Robert
Hall, who used to stop in the midst OF
his sermon, and lie down on the pulpit
sofa to rest, and then 20 on ag;in.
Theodore Frelhighuysen had great
horror of dying till the tine came, and
then went peacefully. Take care OF
the present, and let the future look out
for itself. Sufficient unto the day Is
the evil thereof
1T UNITS US FOR REAL TRIALS.
Again, the habit of borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong because it units US
for it when it actually does come. We
cannot always have smooth sailing.
Life's path will sometimes tumble
among declivities, and mount steep.
and be thorn pierced. Judas will Kiss
our clieek and then sell us for thirty
pieces of silver. Human scorn will try
to cruelty us between two thieves we
vii, hear the iron gate of the seruichei.
creak and grind as it shuts in our kin
dred, But we cannot get ready to'
these things by forebodings.
They who tight imaginary woes will
come. out of breath. into conflict with
the armed disasters OF the future.
Their ammunition will have been vast
ed long before they come under the
guns of real misfortune. Boys in at
tempting to jump a wall sometimes &C
so far back in order to get impetus that