Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20

a certain amount of trouble, and SO he ap-
portions Il for all the days and years of our
| life Alas for the policy of gathering II all
up for one day or year, Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel all the cargo IN
tended for the entire caravan. ] never look
at my memorandum-book to see what en-
gagements 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 shadowsi The cup is already dis
tasteful, why halloo to disaster far distant to
come, and wiring out more gall into the bit
terness? Are we such champions that,
having won the belt in former encounters,
we can go forth to challenge all the future!
Here are business men just able to man
age affairs as they now are. They can pay
their 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
your money safe, Sufficient unto the day
if the evil thereof" Do not worry about
notes that are far from due. Do not pile up
on Your counting desk the financial anX-
ieties of the next twenty years. The God
who has taken care of your worldly occupa-
tiOE. 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 mightier than the Vaccinations of
stock gam DlerS, or the plots of political
demdgogues, or the red right arm of revo-
luton, 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 are both
ering themselves about future pleurisies and
rheumatismS and neuralgiaS and fevers.
Their cycSight is feeble. and they are wor
ried lest they entirely lose it. Their hear
ing is indistinct. and they are alarmed lest
they become entirely deaf They felt chilly
to-day. and are expecting an attack of ty-
phoid. They have been troubled for weeks
with some pcrpleXing malady, and dread
becoming lifelong invalids. 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 a cake of ice to cool off. Be pru-
dent and then be confident. Some Of the
sickest people have been the most useful.
II was so with PaysOu, who died deaths
daily. and Rooert Hall, who used TO stop in
the midst of his sermon and lie down on the
sofa 10 rest. and then 90 on again. Theo-
dore Frelinghuysen had a great horror of
dying till the time came. and then went
peacefully. Take care OF the present and
let the future look out for itself ''Suff-
cient unto the day is the evil thereof"
Again: The habit of borrowing misfor
tune is wrong. because il units US for it
when il actually does come. We cannot al
ways have smooth sailing. Life'S path will
sometimes tumble among declivities, and
mount Il steep and be thorn-pierccd. Judas
VIII kiss our cheek and then sell US for
thirty pieces of silver. Human Scorn will
try to cruelty US between two thieves. We
will hear the iron gate of the sepulcher
creak and grind as it shuts in our kindred.
4t.ty FNt. h
by forcbodines They who fight imaginary
woes will come, out Of breath, into conflict
with the armed disasters of the future.
Their ammunition viii have been wasted
long before they come under the guns of
real misfortune. Boys, III attempting to
jump wall. sometimes go so far back in
order TO get impetus, that when they come
up they are exhausted: and these long
races in order to get spring enough to vault
trouble, bring US up at last to the dreadful
reality with our strength gone.
Finally; the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because it is unbeliet. God has
promised TO take care OF us. The Bible
blooms with assurances. Your hunger viii
be fed your sickness will be alleviated.
YOUR SORROWS WILL BE HEALED.
God will sandal your feet, and smooth
ycLr path, and along by frowning crag and
opening grave sound the voices of victory
and good cheer The summer clouds that
seem thunder-charged really carry in
their bosom harvests of wheat, and shocks
OF corn, and vineyards purplng for the
wine-presS. The wrathful wave will kiss
the feet Of the great storm-walker. Our
great Joshua Will command, and above your
soul the sun of prosperity will stand still.
Bleak and wave struck Patmos shall have
apocalyptic vision, and you shall hear the
cry of the elders, and the sweep of wings,
and trumpetS of salvation, and the voice of
HaIlelujah unto God for ever
Your way may wind along dangerous
brIdle-paths, and amid VOLTS howl and the
scream of the yulture, but the way still
winds upward till angels guard it, and trees
of life overarch it, and thrones line it, and
crystalline fountains leap on it, and the
pathway ends al gates that are pearl, and
streets thar are gold, and temples that
are always open, and hills that quake with
perpetual song. and 4 city mingling forever
Sabbath and jubilee, and triumph ana cor
onatIon.
Let pleasure chant her siren song,
lis not the song for me;
To weeping il will trn eer long,
For this is heaven : decree.
But there's a song the ransomed sing,
To Jesus, their exalted king.
With joyful heart and tongue,
on. that the song for me.
Courage. my brother. The father does
not give his son at school enough money TO
last him several years, but, as the bills for
tuition and board. and clothing and books
come in, pays them. So God will not give
YOU grace all At once for the future. but will
meet all your eXigencies as they come
Through earnest prayer, trust him. Put
everything in Gods hands and leave it
there. Large interest money to pay will
soon eat up farm, store, an estate, and
the interest on borrowed troubles will
swamp any body. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof -
Cal