The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-21

oou ioi pr Nfit bicsoiiiSs lH'thh liih
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, bubhling 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 cross to gaze upon.
and Saviour TO deliver
Many Christians think it q bad sign
to be jubilant, and their work of self
examination Is hewing down of their
brighter experiences, Like boy with
a new jackknife, hacking everything he
comes across, SO their self examination
is religious cutting to pieces of the
greenest things they can lay their hands
on. They imagine they are doing Gods
service when they so about borrowing
trouble, and borrowing it at thirty per
cent, which is always n sure precursor
Of bankruptcy
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY.
Again the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because the present is sufil
GENTLY taxed with trial. God sees that
we all need a certain amount of trouble
and so he apportions it for ~ the days
and years of our life Alas iof ,Ae policy
of gathering it all up for one day or
yearl Cruel thing TO put upon the back
of one camel all the cargo intended for
the entire caravan never look at
my memorandum book to see what en-
gagemcnts and duties are far ahead
Let every week bear its own burdens.
The shadows of today are thick
enough, Why implore the presence of
other shadowsi The cup is already
distasteful, Why halloo to disasters
far distant to come and wiring out
more gall into the bitterness Are we
such champions that, having won the
belt in former encounters, we can go
forth to challenge all the future2
Here are business men inst able to
manage affairs rs they now are They
can pay their rent, and meet their
notes. and manage affairs, us they now
are, but what if there should come a
panic2 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 up on your counting desk the
financial anyietes 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 1891 rs in 1881 Gods hand
is mighticr than the Vaccinations of
stock gamblers, or the plots of political
denagogues, 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 make ont very well now, but they
are bothering themselves about future
pleurisies, and rheumatisms, and neu-
ralgias and fevers. Their eyesight is
feeble, and they are worried lest they
entirely lose it. Their hearing is indis,
tinct and they are alarmed lest they be-
come entirely deaf. They felt chilly
today, and are expecting an attack of
typhoid. 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 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 Pay
son, 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 Frelnghuysen had a 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"
TT UNITS US FOR REAL TRIALS
Again, the habit of borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong because it units us
for it when it actually does come. We
cannot always have smooth sailing.
Lies path will sometimes tumble
and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss
our cheek and then sell us for thirty
pieces of silver. Human scom will try
to cruelty us between two thieves, We
will hear the iron gate of the sepulcher
creak and grind as il shuts in our kin.
dred 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 vast,
ed long before they come under the
guns of real misfortune. Boys in at
tempting to jump wall sometimes go
50 far back in order TO get impetus that
when they come up they are exhaust
ed; 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 trou-
bic 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
healed 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 summer clouds that seem thun-
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