Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-08-21

signs. So some men treat God; not as
father, but stranger, and act sus-
piciously of him, as though they were
afraid he would steal something.
1t is high time you began to thank
God for the present blessing. Thank
him for your children, happy, buoy
ant, and bounding Praise him for
your home, with its fountain of song
and laughter. Adore him for morn
ing light and evening shadow.
Praise him for fresh, cool water,
5ubbling 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 "A cross to gaze upon,
and Savior TO deliver.
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 1t all up for
one day or year! Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel all the
cargo intended for the emit caravan.
never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements and duties
are ahead. Let every week bear its
own burdens.
The shadows of to-day are thick
enough; why implore the presence of
other shadows? The cup is already dis
tasteful; why halloo to disasters far dis
tant 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 10
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 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
this financial anXieties of the
next twenty years. The God who
has taken care of your worldly occupa-
tion, 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 pc itical demagogues, 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, bit 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 il. Their hearing is indis-
tinct and they are alarmed lest they
become entirely deaf They felt chilly
to-day, and are expecting en- attack
of typhoid. They have been
troubled for weeks with some per-
picking malady, and dread be-
coming lifelong invalids. Take care
of your health now, and trust God for
the future. Be not guilty of the bias
phemy of asking him 10 take care OF
yoi while you sleep with your windows
tight down, or eat chicken-salad at
eleven o'clock at night, or sit down ON
cake of ice to cool off. Be prudent
and then be confident. Some
of the siclSest people have
been the most useful 1t 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 60 on
again. Theodore Frelinghuysen had
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"
Your way may wind along danger
Gus bride paths, and amid VOLTS howl
and the scream of the vulture, but the
way still winds upward till angels
guard it, and trees of life overarch it,
and thrones line it, and crystalline
fountains leap on it, and the pathway
ends at gates that are pearl, and
streets that are gold, and temples that
are always open, and hills that quake
with perpetual song, and city ming
ling for ever Sabbath, aud jubilee, and
triumph and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song,
IT'S not the song for me:
To W. e2ing 1t will turn e'er long,
For this is he aven's decree;
.
To Jesus their exalted king,
With joyful heart and tongue;
Oh, that's the song for me!
Courage, my brother! The father
does not give TO his son at school
enough money to last him several
years, but, as the bills for tuition
and board, and clothing and books
como in, pays them. So God will not
give you grace all at once for the
future, but will meet all your ex.
igencies as they come. Through earn
est prayer, trust him. Put everything
in Gods hand, and leave it there.
Large interest money to pay will soon
eat up farm, store, an estate, and
the interest on borrowed troubles will
swamp anybody. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof"
'Sohsny Get Your Guns
That old etvnOlOU1ca1 absurditv