Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-22

rasped thy soul, and wrecked thee with
storm, and Numbered upon thee q life
full OF calamity? II your father or
brother come into your bank where
gold and silver are lying about, you 90
not watch them, for you know they are
honest; but II an entire stranger come
by the safe, you keep your eye. on MN,
for YOU do not know his designs. 30
some men treat God; not as tatner,
but stranger, and act suspiciously TO,
ward Him, rs 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 nome,
with It's fountain OF song and laughter.
Adore Him for morning light and eve
ming shadow. Praise Him for fresh,
cool water, bubbling from the rock,
leaping in the cascade. soaring in the
mist, falling in the shower, dashlng
against the rocks and clapping It's
hands in the tempest Love him LOT
the grass that cushions the earth, ana
the clolds 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 II a bad sign
10 be iubilant ana their work OF sell
examination is o hewing down OF their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
a new jack knife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their sell examin-
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
sure pre- cursor OF bankruptcy.
Again, the habit OF borrowing trouble
is wrong because the present Is suifi-
GENTLY taxed with trial. God sees that
we all need certain amount OF trouble
and SO He apportions 1t for all the days
and wears OF our life. Alas for the
policy of gathering it all up for one
dav 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
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 implCre the presence OF
other shadows? The cup is already dis
tasteful, why halloo to disasters far dis.
tant to come and wiring out smore gall
into the bitterness? Are we such cham
pions that, having won the belt in for
mer encounters, we can go forth to
challenge all 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 II 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
OCCUPATION, 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
blers. 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 we'll 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 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 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 IL o'clock at night, or sit down
on cake OF ice to cool of. Be prudent
and then be confident. Some OF the
sickest people have been the most use
full. It was so with Payson, 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 go on again. Theodore Freling-
huysen had 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. "Suf-
ficie1t unto the day is the evil tn ereof.'
Again: The habit OF borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong because 1t units US
for 1t when it actually does come. We
can not always have smooth sailing.
Lies path will sometimes tumble
among declivities. and 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