Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-27


experiences Like 10y with new jack
knife, hacking everything he comes across,
so their self examination Is religious cut
ting TO pieces Of the greenest things they
can lay their sands on. They imagine
they are doing Gods service when they are
going about borrowing trouble, and bor~
rowing IL at thirty per cent, which In al
ways a sure precursor Of bankruptcy.
Again, tie habit Of borrowing trouble
Is wrong because the present is sufficient
ly taxed with trial God sees that we all
need a certain amount OF trouble, and SO
he apportions il for all the days and years
of our life. Alas for the policy OF gather
ing 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 cara
van. | ne7er look at my memorandum
book to see what engagements and duties
are far ahead Let every week bear its
own burdens
wHY BRING NEW sORROwsi
The shadows Of today ARE thick enough,
why implo:r the presence of other shad-
owsi The cup is already distaSteiul, why
halloo to disasters far distant to come and
wiring out more cnll into the htternessi
Are we such champions that, having won
the belt in former encounters, we can 20
forth to challenge NIL the iuturet
Here are business Ihpu Just able To man
age affairs as they now are They can pay
their rent, and meet their nuteS and man
age affairs as they now are, but what il
there should come II panic! 10 tomorrow
and write on your daybook, 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 CT 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 az faithful in 1891 as in
1881. Gods hand Is mightier than the
Vaccinations Of stock gamblers, or the
plots Of political 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, but they are
bothering themselves about future pleuri-
sizes and rheumatisms and neuralgias and
fevers. Their eyesight is feeble, and they
are worried lest they entirely lose it. Their
hearing is indistinct. and they are alarmed
lest they become entirely deaf They felt
chilly today, and are expecting an attack
of typoid. 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 II o'clock at night, or sit
down on cake of ice to cool off, Be pru.
dent and then be confident. Some of the
sickest 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 a
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"
RoBs US OF WHAT STRENGTH WE HAVE
Again, the habit of borrowing misfor.
tune is wrong because 1t unfits us tor it
when it actually does come We cannot
always have smooth sailing. Life's path
will sometimes tumble among declivities
and mount steep and be thorn pierced
Judas will kiss our cheek and thcE 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 sepulcher
creak and grind as it shuts in our kindred.
But we cannot get ready for these things
by forebodings. They who fight imaginary
woes will come, out of breath, into conflict
with the armed disasters of the future.
Their ammunition will have been wasted
long before they come under the guns of
real misfortune. Boys in attempting to
jump wall sometimes 60 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 allevi-
ated your sorrows will be healed. God
will sandal your feet and smooth your
path, and along by frowning crag and
opening grave sound the voices of victory
and good cheer. The summer clouds that
seem thunder charged really carry in their
bosom harrests of wheat, and shocks of
corn, and vineyards purpling for the wine
press. The wrathful wave will kiss the
feet of the great storm walker. Our great
Joshua will command, and above your
soul the sun of prosperity will stand STILL
Bleak and wave struck Patmos shall have
apocalyptic vision, and you shall hear the
cry of the elders, and the sweep of wings,
and trumpets of salvation, and the voice
of Hallelujah unto God for ever.
PLACE YOUR TRUST IN GOD
Your way may wind along dangerous
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 a city mingling for
ever Sabbath and jubilee and triumph
and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her, siren song,
Tis not the song for me;
To weeping it will turn e'er long,
For this is heavens decree.
But there's song the ransomed sing.
To Jesus, their exalted king,
With joyful heart and tongue,
Oh, that's the song for mel
Courage, my brotherl The father does
not give to his son at school enough money
to last him several years, but, as the bills
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