Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28

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 shadows?
The cup Is already distasteful, why halloo to
disasters far distant TO come and wiring out
! more gall into bitterness: Are we such
champions that, having won the belt in
former encounters we can go forth to chal-
/ lenge all the futures
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 il there
should come a panic? Go tomorrow and
! write on your dayOook, 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 I'D
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 touch of the
incendiary and the key of the burglar, will
! be as faithful in 1891 as in 1881. Gods hand
Is m1ghtler than the Vaccinations OF stock
gamblers. or the plots of political dema-
gogues. or the red right arm of revolution
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 pleursies and
rheumatisms and neuralgias and fevers
ried lest they entirely lose it. Their hearing
. indistiEct, and they are alarmed lest they
become entirely deaf. They felt chilly CO.
day, and are expecting an attack Of typhoid
They have been troubled for weeks with
some perpiexing MALAY. and dread becom-
ing 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
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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 Free
hnghuysen had great horror of dying till
the time came and then went peacefully.
lake care OF the present an let the future
look out for itself. Sufficient unto the day
IS the evil thereof"
Again, the habit of borrowing misfortune
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
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 o. 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 disas-
ters 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 prom
lsed 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 charged really carry in |
their bosom harvests of wheat, and shocks
or 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 saliva
ton, and the voice of HaIlelujah unto God
for ever.
die paths and amid VOLTS howl and thu
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 tie
pathway ends at gates that are pearl, and
streets that are gold, and temples that are
always open, and hills that quake with per-
petual song and a city mingling forever
Sabbath and jubilee and triumph and coro-
nation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song,
Ills not the song for me;
To weeping 1t will turn e'er long,
For this is heavens decree.
Blu. there's song the ransomed sing,
To Jesus, their exalted king,
With joyful heart and tongue,
Oh. that 8 the song for me!
Courage, my brother! The father does
not give to his son at school enough money
20 last him several years, but, the bills for
tuition and board and clothing and books
come in, pays them. So God will not give
YOU grace all al once for the future, but will
meet all your exigencies as they come.
Through earnest prayer, trust Him. Put
in Gods hand, and leave it there.
Large interest money to pay will soon eat up
/ farm, store, an estate, and the interest
IN borrowed troubles will swamp any body.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"