Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-17

Of our life. Alas for the policy Of gather
ing II all up for one day or yearl 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 soRRoWsi
The shadows of today are thick enough
why implore the presence Of other shnd-
owsP The cup is already distasteful, why
halloo TO disasters far distant to come and
wiring out more gall into the bitternessi
Are we such champions that, having won
the belt in former encounters, we can go
forth TO challenge all the futureP
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 II
there should come panic2 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
occupation, guarding your store from the
torch of the incendiary and the key Of the
burglar, will be as faithful in 1901 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
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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 a cake of ice to cool off. Be pru.
dent 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 Frelinghuysen had
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"
RODS US OF WHAT STRENGTH WE Rave.
Again, the habit of borrowing misfor
tune is wrong because 1t units us for 1t
when it actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing Iife's path
will sometimes tumble among declivities
and mount Il 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 us 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 a 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
varlt trouble bring us up at last to the
reality with our strength gone.
Finally, the habit of borrowing trouble
Is wrong because it is unbelef. 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
Rpocalyptic vision, and you shall hear the
cry of the elders, and the sweep Of wings,
and trlmpets Of salvation, and the voice
Of Hallelujah 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 1t,
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
song, and a city mingling for
ever Sabbath and jubilee and triumph |
and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song,
'Tis not the song for me;
To weeping 1t will turn e'er long,
For this is heavens decree.
But there's II song the ransomed sing,
To Jesus, their exalted king,
With joyful heart and tongue,
Oh, that's the song for mel
Courage, my brotherl The father does |
not give to his son Mt 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 |
pot give you grace all Mt once for the |
future, but will meet all your exigencies |
rs they come. Through earnest prayer,
trust him. Put everything in Gods hand,
and leave it there. Large interest money |
TO pay will soon eat up farm, store, AZ |
estate, and the interest on borrowed |
troubles will swamp anybody. Sufficient |
unto the day is the evil thereof"
Pope, who was an epicure, would lie in |
bed for days, Mt Lord Bolingbrook's, I'M |