Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-17

III tne CASCADE, soaring IN Tue mist, TALL
ing in the shower, dashing against the
rock and clapping its hands in the temp
est. Love him for the grass that cush-
ions the earth, and the clouds that cur
tain the sky, and the foliage that
waves in the forest. Thank him for a
Bible to read, and cross to gaze upon,
and Savior to deliver.
Nj w Christians think it bad sign
to be jubilant, and their work of self
examination is hewlng down of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
new jack knife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their self-examina-
ton 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 it at thirty per cent,
which is always a 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 q certain amount OF
trouble, and so he 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 upon the back OF one camel all the
cargo intended for the entire caravan.
I never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements and duties
are far ahead. Let every week bear It's
own burdens.
The shadows of to-day are thick
enough. why imDlore 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 champions that, having won
the belt in former encounters, we can
90 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 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 up on your counting-desk the tinan-
cial 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 faith
full in 1891 as In 1881. Gods hand is
mightier than the Vaccinations Of stock
gamblers, or the plots Of political dema-
gogueS, or the red right arm OF revolu-
tion, 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
pleurisieS, and rheumatisms, and neur
algias 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 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 eleven |
o'clock at night, or sit down on a cake
Of ice to cool off. Be prudent and then
be confident. Some of the sickest peo-
pie have been the most useful 1t was
20 with Payson, who died deaths daily
and Robert Hall, who used TO stop III
the midst Of his sermon, and lie down
On the pulpit sofa to rest. and then go
IN again. Theodore Frelinghuysen had
4 great horror Of dying till the time
,ame, and then went peacefully. Take
care of the present, and let the future
ook out for itself. "Suffcientunto the
lay is the evil thereof"
Again: The habit of borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong, because 1t units us |
for it when it actually does come. We |
cannot always have smooth sailing. |
Lies path will sometimes tumble |
among declivitieS, and mount a steep,
and be thorn-pierced. Judas will kiss
our cheek, and then sell us for thirty
pieces of silver. Human scorn will try |
TO cruelty us between two thieves. we |
will hear the iron gate of the sepulchre
creak and grind as it shuts in our kim
dred. But we cannot get ready Tor
these things by forebodings. They who
fight imaginary woes will come, out of
breath, into conflict with the armed dis
asterS OF the future. Their ammuni-
ton will have been wasted long before
they come under the guns of real mis-
fortune. Boys, in attempting to Jump
a wall, sometimes go 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
healed. God will sandal your feet, and
smooth your path, and along by frown-