News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-08-20

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 a
Bible to read, and a cross to gaze upon,
and Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think it bad sign
| to be jubilant, and their work of self
examination is a hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like a boy with
a new jackknife, hacking everything he
comes across, SO their self examination
is a religious cutting to pieces of the
greenest things they can lay their hands
on. They imagine they are doing God s
service when they go about borrowing
trouble, and borrowing it at 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 suffi-
GENTLY 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 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. l 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 today are thick
enough. Why implore the presence of
other shadows2 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 future2
Here are business men just able to
manage 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 is
the evil thereof" Do not worry about
notes that are far from due Do not
pile up on your counting desk the
financial 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 bis 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 rheumatisms, 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 an attack of
typhoid. 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 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 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