The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-08-19

were afraid He would steal something.
It is high time you began TO thank
God for present blessings Thank Him
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. bubbling 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 is bad sign
10 be jubilant, and their work of self
examination is hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
new jack-knife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their sci elf-examina-
tion is religious cutting to pieces Of
the greenest things they can lay their
hands on. They imagine they are doing
Gods service when they are going about
borrowing trouble, and borrowing 1t at
80 per cent, which is always 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 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. never
look at my memorandum book to see
what engagements and duties are far
ahead. Let every week bear its own
burdens. h
The shadows of to-day are thick
enough, why implore the presence Of
other shadows? The cup is already
distasteful, why halloo 70 disasters far
distant to come and wiring out more gall
into bitterness? Are we such champions
that having won the belt in former en-
counters, we can go forth TO challenge
oil the future?
Here are business men just able to
manage affairs rs they now arc. They
can pay their rent, and meet their notes,
and manage affairs as they now are,
but what II there should come a 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 financial
anxieties OF the next twenty years. The
God who has taken care OF your world
ly 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 maehinations of stock gam
blers. or the plots Of political dena-
gogues, or the red right arm OF revolu-
ton, and the darkness will fiy and the
storm fall dead at his feet f{
SO there are persons in feeble health
and they are worried about the future.
They make ont very web now, but they
are bothering themselves about future
pleurisies, and rheumatisms, and ncu-
ralgias, and fevers. Their eycsight is
feeble, and they are worried lest they
entirely lose It. Their hearing is in
distinct and they are alarmed lest they
become entirely def. They felt chilly
to-day, and are expecting au attack OF
typhoid They have been troubled for
weeks with some perplexing malady,
and dread becoming lifelong inva-
lids Take care of your health now,
and trust God for the future BE
not guilty Of the blasphemy of ask
ing 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 a cake OF ice to
cool off. BE prudent and then be con-
fident Some Of the sicscst people have
been the most useful. il was so with
Payson, 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 90 on
again. Theodore FrelinghuyscD had a
great horror Of dying till the time
came, aud then went peacefully. Take
care of the present. and let the fnture
look out for itself "Suficicat unto the
day is the evil there f."
Again. Tho habit OF borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong, because II unf;s us
for II when It actually does come. We
can not always have smooth sailing.
Life's path win sometimes tamble
among declivities. and mount steep,
and be thorn-piercel Judas will kiss
our cheek, and then sell rs for thirty
pieces OF silver Human scorn will try
10 cruelty us betwpcntwo tiiicveE We
will hear the iroa gs,. Of the scpuleher
creak and gr nd as IL shuts in our KIN
dred Eut we can not Iet ready for
these things l~ forebodInj;s They who
tght i;nannd,y w1es will cone. out OF
breath into cohfitt with the armed dis
asters OF the future. Their ammunition
will have been wasted long before they
come under thegnn OF real misfortune.
Boys, in attem. .yile 20 jump q wall,
sometimes 20 10 far tack IL or,.er to get
impetus, that when they come up they
are exhausted: aud these long RACES In
order to got sp-ing clons1 10 vault
trouble, bring ps Mt last to the dread
full reality with our strength zone
Finally: the habit o. borrowing trou-
BILE is wrong, hccatsc !; is nnoc icf.
God has prom ~ 10 take care ofus.
The Bible blooms With assNranceS
Yorr hungcr will be fell; yoii- sie,siiess
will be allevt.t'd; your sorrows will bc