The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-28

alton Is 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 borrowing
it at thirty per cent. which is always a
sure pre- cursor OF bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because the present is suffi-
GENTLY taxed with trial. God sees that
we all need a certain amount of trouble
and so He apportious it for all the days
and years of our life. Alas for the
policy of gathering it all up for one
day or one year! Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel all the
cargo intended for the entire caravan.
| never look at my memorandum book
10 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 dis
tasteful. why halloo to disasters far dis
tant to come and wiring out more gall
into the bitterness? Are we such cham
pions that, having won the belt in for
mer encounters. we can go forth to
challenge ali 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 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 are far from due. Do not pile
upon your counting desk the financial
anxieties of the next twenty years. The
God who has taken care of your worldly
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 gam
biers. or the plots of political dema-
gOgues. or the red right arm of revOlu-
ton. 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 make out very well now, but they
are bOthering themselves about future
plrurisies. and rheumatiSInS, and neu-
ralCias and fevers. Their eyesight is
fe eble. and they are worri d lest they
entirely lose It, Their hearing is in
distinct and thev are alarmed lest they
acome entirely deaf. They felt chilly
to day and are expecting an attack OF
typhoid. They have been troubled for
weeks with some perplexing malady,
and dread becoming lifelong iuvalids.
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
tight down, or eat chicken
salad at II o'clock at night. or sit down
IN a cake Of ice to cool off. Be prudent
aud then he confident. Some Of the
Sickest people have been the most use
full. 1t was sd with PaysOu, who died
deaths daily. and Robert Hall, who used
to stop in the midst of his sermons. and
lie down on the pulpit sofa to rest, and
then 90 on again. Theodore Freling-
huysen had a great horror of dying I'M
til the time came, and then went peace
fully. Take care OF the present and
let the future look out for itself. SUI
ficiezt unto the day is the evil thereof
Again: The habit of borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong, because it units us
for il when it actually does come. We
can not always have smooth sailing.
Lies path will sometimes tumble
among decIivities. aud mount step,
and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss
our cheek, and then sell us for thirty
pieces of silver. Human scOrn will try
10 cruelty us between two thieves. We
will hear the iron gate of the sepul-
chre creak and grind as it shuts in our
kindred. But we can not get ready for
these things by foreboiings.
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
Boys, in attempting TO
Jump a wall. sometimes 60 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 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
nealed. God will sandal your feet, and
smooth your path. and along by frown-
ing crag and opening grave sound the
voices OF victory and good cheer. The
clouds that seem thunder
charged really carry in their bosom
haryests of wheat. and shocks of corn,
and vineyards purpling forI 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 wavestruck
Patmos shall have apocalyptic vision.
and YOU shall hear the cry OF the elders
and the sweep of wings. and trumptets
Of salvation. and the voice of Hallelu-
iah unto God forever.
Your way NAV wind along dangerous
bride paths. and amid VOLTS howl and
he scream of the vulture, but the way
still winds upward till angels guard it,
md trees of life overreach il, and
thrones line it. and crystalline foun-
aims leap on it. and the pathway ends
It gates that are pearl, and streets that
Ire gold. and temples that are always
,pen. and hills that quake with perpet-
Ial song. and a city mingling forever
sabbath. and jubilee, and triumph and
Let pleasure chant her siren song,
It's not the song for me:
To weeping il viii turn eer long,
For this is heavens decree
But there's song the ransomed sing,
To Jesus their exalted king;
With joyful heart and tongue,
O. that's the song {, me,
Courage, my brother. The father
loes not give to his son at school
enough money to last him several years,
,ut, as the bills for tuition and board,