The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-08-21

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day rattle the broken window sash with
tempest and sweep the Goals from the
hearth, and pour hunger into the bread
tray; that man fed by him who owns
all the harvests should expect to starve
that one whom God loves and sur
rounds with benediction, and attends
with angelic escort, and hovers over
with more than lnotherly fondness,
should be looking for a heritage of tears
Has God been hard with thee, that
thou shouldst be forebodings Has he
stinted thy board9 Has he covered
thee with ragsa Has he spread traps
for thy feet. and CALLED thy cup, and
rasped thy soul, and wrecked thee with
storm, and Numbered upon thee with
a life full of calamity9 If your father
or brother come into your bank where
gold and silver are lying about. you 40
not watch them, for you know they
are honest; but If an entire stranger
come by the safe, you keep your eye
on him, for you do not know his de-
signs. So some men treat God; not as
a father. but a stranger, and act sls'
piciously toward him, as though they
were afraid he would steal something.
1t is high time you began to thank
God for present blessing. Thank him
for your children, happy, buoyant and
bounding. Praise him for your home,
with it's fountain of song and laughter.
Adore him for morning light and even
ing shadow Praise him for fresh. cool
water, bubbing 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 a
Bible to read. and cross to gaze upon.
and Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think it a 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 a religious cutting to pieces of the
greenest things they can lay their hands
on. They imagine they are doing Gods
service when they 60 about borrowing
trouble, and borrowing it at thirty per
cent, which is always sure precursor
of bankruptcy.
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY.
Again. the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because the present is suffi-
GENTLY taxed with trial. God sees that
we all need 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
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-
gagements and duties are far ahead.
Let every week bear it's own burdens.
The shadows of today are thick
enough. Why implore 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 go
forth to challenge all the future?
Here are business men just able to
affairs as they now are. They
thoir
notes, and manage affairs, as 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
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 gamblers, or the plots of political
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 out 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-
5inct and they are alarmed lest they be-
come entirely deaf. They felt chilly.
-oday, and are expecting an attack of
typhoid They have been troubled for
weeks with some perplexing malady,
md dread becoming lifelong invalids
Take care of your health now, and
rust God for the future. Be not
guilty of the blasphemy of asking him
@ 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 a cake of ice to cool off.
Be prudent and then be confident.