Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-20

into the bitterness? Arc 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
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 q
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
pile up on your counting desk
the financial anXieties of the
next twenty years. The God who
has taken care of your worldly occupa-
ton, 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 po itical demagogues, or
the red right arm of revolution, and
the darkness will fly and the storm fan
dead at his feet.
SO there are persons in feeble health,
and they are worried about the future.
They make ont very well now, but they
are bothering themselves about future
pleurisies, and rheumatisms, and neur-
algias 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
become entirely deaf. They felt chilly
to-day, and are expecting an attack
of typhoid. They have been
troubled for weeks with some per-
picking malady, and dread be-
coming lifelong invalids. Take care
of your health now, and trust God for
the future. BE not guilty of the bias
phemy of asking him TO take care Of
you while you sleep with your windows
tight down, or eat chicken-salad at
eleven o'clock at night or sit down ON
a 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
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 Frelinghuyscn 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 | nto
the day is the evil thereof"
Again: The habit of borrowing mis-.
fortune is wrong, because it units us
for 1t when it actually does come.
We cannot always have smooth sailing.
Lies path will sometimes tumble
among declivities, and mount steep.
and be thorned 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 crcak and
grind as it shuts in our kim
dred. 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 attempt
ing 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 unbe-
lief. God has promised to take care Of
us. The Bible blooms with assurances.
Your hunger will be fed; your sickness
will be alleviated; 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-chargcd really carry IN
their bosom harvests of wheat,
and shocks of corn, and Vineyards pur.
ping 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
apocalyptic vision, and you shall hear
the cry of the elders, and the sweep OF
wings, the trumpets of salvation, and
the voice of Hallelujah unto God for.
ever.
Your way may wind along danger.
Gus bride paths, and amid VOLTS howl
and the scream of the vulture, but the
way still winds upward till angel,
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 q city ming
ling for ever Sabbath, and jubilee, and
triumph and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song,
IT'S not the song for me:
To w cpIng IT will turn e'er long,
Fer this is h aycn's decree;
But there's a song the ransomed sing,
To Jesus their exalted king,
With joyful heart and tongue;
Oh, that's the song for me!
Courage, my brother! The father
does not give TO 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 ex.
igencies as they come. Through earn
e: t PRAYER, trust him. Put everything
in Gods hand, and leave it there.
Large interest money to pay will soon
eat up a farm, store, an estate, and
the interest on borrowed troubles will
swamp anybody. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof"