The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-21

toward him, as though they were afraid /.
he would steal something.
1t Is high time you began TO thank |
God for present blessings Thank Him l
FOR your children, happy, buoyant and
bounding. Praise Him for your home, I.
with its fountain OF song and laughter /
Adore Him for morning light and even |
ing shadow. Praise Him for freHhs cool /
water, bubbling from the rock, leaping
ia the cascade soaring In the mist, 1ali-
ing in the shower, dashing against the
rocks and clapplng 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 q
Bible to read, and cross to gaze upon,
and a Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think 10 a 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 jack knife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their self examine
tion is n religious cutting TO pieces of
the greenest things they can lay their
hands on They imagine they are do
ing Gods service when they are going
about borrowing trouble. and borrow
ing 1t at thirty per cent, which IS ale
ways sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because the present is sutii-
we all need certain amount of trouble
and so He aPPortious il for all the days
and years of our life. Alas for the pol
icY Of gathering IL up for one day or
one year! Cruel thing to put upon the
back of one camel all the cargo intend
ed for the entire caravan. I never
looked 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 tho presence of
other shadows? The cup is already dis
tasteful, why halloo to disasters far dis
taut to come and wiring out more gall
into the bitterucsS2 Are we such cham
PiOHs that having won the belt in
former encounters, we can 60 forth 20
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 q 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 worry about
notes that urc far from due.
Do not pile mp on your
counting desk the financial anxietics Of
the next twenty years The God who
has taken care of your worldly oCCupa-
tiou, guarding your store from the
torch of the incendiary and the key of
the burglar, will be as faithful ia 1891
as in 1851. Gods hand is mightier
han the Vaccinations of stock gam
blcrs, or the plots of political donna
| gogues, or the red right arm of rcvolu-
ton, and the darkness viii fly and the
storm fall dead at his feet.
So there are persons in feeble health,
and they are worried about the future
/ They make ont very we'll now but
/ they arc bothcring themselves about
future picurisies, and rheumatisns, and
ueuraigias and fevcrs. Their cyesight
| is feeble, and they are worried lest
/ they entirely lose it, Their hearing is
| indistiuct and they arc alarmed lest
/ they become entirely deaf They felt
chilly to-day and are expecting an at
tack of typhoid. They have been
troubled for weeks with some
/ perplcNiEg malady, and dread be-
coming lifelong invalids- Take care Of
/ your health now, and trust God for the
I 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 eleven
! o'clock at night, or sit down on cake
| of ice to cool of. BE prudent and then
/ be confident. Some of the siclccst pco-
/ pie have been the most useful 1t was
/ so with PHyson, who died deaths daily,
/ aud Robert Hall, who used 20 stop in
] the midst of his sermon, and lie down
| on the pulpi sofa TO rest, and then 60
] on again Theodore Ercllughuysen had
/ a great horror of dying until the time
/ came, and then went peacefully. Take
| care of the present aud let tile future
] take care of itself 'Suhicicnt unto
/ the day is the evil thereof"
! Again: The habit of borrowing mis-
| fortune is wrong, because It units as
{ q HHH ~
J cannot always have smooth sailing.
/ Lies path viii sometimes tumble
/ among dCclivities, and mount a steep,
I and be thorn-pierced- Judas will kiss
| our check and then sell MS for thirty
pieces Of silver. Human scorn viii try
/ to cruelty us between two thieves. We
/ viii hear the iron gate OF the sepulchre
| crealS and grind as IL shuts In our kin
| drcd. but we cannot get ready FOR
! these things by fore bodinRs-
! They who fight imaginary woes will
| come, out of breath, into conflict with
/ the armed disasters OF the future
/ Their ANN uuition Will have been
! wasted long before they come under
[ the guns of real misfortune Boys, in
] attempting 70 jump a WALL sometimes
/ 20 so far back in order 70 get impetus
/ that when they come mp they are eE-
/ hausted; and these long races in order
/ TO get spring enough 70 vault trouble.
/ bring us up at last 20 The dreadful
/ reality with our strength gone
/ Finally: The habit of borrowing
4 trouble is wrong. because it is uu ubelief
/ God has promised 20 take care of us
/ The Bible blooms with assurances
! Your hunger will be fed your sickness
{ viii bc alleviatedi your sorrovs viii be
l healed God viii sandal your feet, and
| smooth your path ami along by frown-
| ing cTag and opening grave sound the
/ voices of victory and good cheer. The
/ summer clouds that seem thunder