The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-09-18

that thou ShOuldSt be fore bOding? has
He stinted thy board? Has lie covered
thee with rags? Has He spread traps
for thy feet, and CALLED thy cup and
rasped thy soul, and wrecked thee with
storm. and Numbered upon thee with
a life full of calamity? If your father
or brother come into your bank where
gold and silver are lying about you do
not watch them, for you know they are
honest; but if an entire stranger come
by the safe You keep your eye on him,
for you do not know his designs SO
some men treat God; not as father,
but a stranger, and act suspiciously
toward Him, as though they were
afraid He would steal something.
It is high time you began TO thank
God for present blessing. Thank Him
for your children-happy, buoyant and
bounding. Praise Him for your home,
with its fountain of song and laughter.
Adore Him for morning light and even
ing shadow. Praise Him for fresh,
cool water, bubbling from the rock,
leaping in the cascade, soaring in the
mist, falling in the shower, dashing
against 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 Bible to read, and n cross to gaze
upon and Saviour to read.
Many Christians think it n bad sign
to be iubilant, and their work of self-ex-
animation is hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
a new jack-knife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their self-eXamina-
ton is religious cutting to pieces of
the grcenest things they can lay their
hands on. They imagine they are doing
Gods service when they are going
about borrowing trouble, and borrow
ing it at so per cent, which is always
sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again: The habit of borrowing
trouble is wrong, because the present
is sufficiently taxed with trial. God
sees that we all need a certain amount
of trouble, so lie 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
d
cargo intended for the entire caravan.
never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements 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 the bitterness? Are we such
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 are now. They
can pay their rent, and meet the notes,
and manage affairs as they now are,
but what if there should come a panic?
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 WORK. about
notes that are far from due. Do not
pile upon your counting desk the finan-
cial anXietes of the next twenty years.
The God who has taken care of your
worldly occupation, guarding your store /
from the torch of the inccndiary and
the key of The burglar, will be as faithful
in 1891 as in 1881, Gods hand is might
Ter than the Vaccinations Of stock
gamblers, or the plots of political dem
agogues, or the red right arm of revolu-
ton, and the darkness will fly and the
storm fall dead ut 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
bothcring themselves about future
plcurisics, and rhcumatiSms, and neu-
ralgias and fcvcrs. Their eycsight is
feeble, and they are worried lest they
entirely lose il. Their hearing is in
distinct 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 pcrplcxing 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 sicl>est people |
have been the most useful 1t was so /
with Payson, who died deaths daily, 7
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 |
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