The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-12


Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think it bad sign to
be jubilant, and their work of self exam
ination is hewing down of their brighter
experiences. Like a boy with a new jack
! knife, hacking everything he comes across,
so their self examination is religious cut
ting to pieces 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 bor-
! rowing it at thirty per cent, which is al
ways sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
| is wrong because the present is sufficient
ly taxed with trial. God sees that we all
need certain amount of trouble, and so
he apportions it for all the days and years
of our life. Alas for the policy of gather
ing 1T all up for one day or yeari Cruel
thing to put upon the back of one camel
all the cargo intended for the entire cara
van. | never look at my memorandum
book to see what engagements and duties
are far ahead. Let every week bear its
own burdens
WHY BRING NEW SORROWS?
The shadows of today are thick enough
why implore the presence of other shad-
ows? 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 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 man
age affairs as they now are, but what if
there should come a panic? Go tomorrow
and write on your daybook, 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
nile on PO1nfincy L bo fin oI
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 mightier 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 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
bothering themselves about future pleuri-
sizes and rheumatisms and neuralgias and
fevers. Their eyesight is feeble, and they
are worried lest they entirely lose it. Their
hearing is indistinct, and they are alarmed
lest they become entirely deaf. They felt
chilly today, and are expecting an attack
of typoid- They have been troubled for
weeks with some perplexing 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 cake of ice to cool off. Be pru-
dent and then be confident. Some of the
sckest people have been the most useful.
1t was so with Payson, 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 go on
again. Theodore 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. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof
RoBS US OF WHAT STRENGTH WE HAVE
Again, the habit of borrowing misfor-
tune 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 a steep and be thorn pierced
Judas will 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
But we cannot get ready for these things
by forebodings. They who fight imaginary
woes will come, out of breath, into conflict
with the armed disasters of the future.
Their ammunition will have been wasted
long before they come under the guns of
real misfortune. Boys in 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 unbelief. God has
promised to take care of us The Bible
blooms with assurances. Your hunger
Will be fed; your sickness will be allevi-
ated; your sorrows will be healed. God
will sandal your feet and smooth your
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 purpling 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 Halielujah unto God for ever.
PLACE YOUR TRUST IN GOD.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bride paths and amid VOLTS howl and the
scream of the vulture, 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 at gates that are pearl,
and streets that are gold, and temples that
are always open, and hills that quake with
perpetual song, and city mingling for
ever Sabbath and jubilee and triumph
and coronation
Let pleasure chant her siref. aong,
'Tis not the song for me;