Connecticut western news., 1891-08-20


 gold and silver are lying about, you do 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 stranger and act sus piciously toward him. as though they were afraid he would steal something.
 It 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, bubbling from the rock, teapina h ea.s s. e-sertsae. se,srrns ID the mist, falling in the shower, dashing against the rock aud 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 1t bad sign to be jubilant, and their work of self examination is a hewing down of their brighter experiences. Like boy with new jackknife, hacking everything he comes across, so their self examination is religious cutting to pieces of the greenest things they can lay their hands on. They imagine they are doing Gods xrl,o,, khox, ok ion trouble, and borrowing it at thirty per cent, which is always a sure precursor of bankruptcy .... st...
 SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY.
 Again, the habit of borrowing trouble is wrong because the present is suffi- ciently 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 t,put upon the back of one camel all the c:,rgo intended for the entire caravan. l never look at my memorandum book to see what on gagements and duties are far ahead Let every week bear its own burdens.
 The shadows of today are thick enough. Why implors the presence of other shadowsf The cup is already distasteful. Why halloo to disasters far distant to come and wiring out more gall into the bitternessa Are we such champions that, having won the belt in former encounters. we can go forth to challenge all the future9 Here are business men just able to manage affairs as they now are. They can pay their rent, aud meet their 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 financial 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 machinations 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 we'll now, but they are bothering themselves about future pleurisies and rheulnatisns. and neu ralgias and levers 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 today, and are expecting an attack oi 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 II 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 people have been the most useful It was so with Pay son, 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 go on again Theodore Frelinghuysen had great horror of dying till the time calne and then went peacefully. Take care of the present. and let the future look out for itself Sufficient unto the day i> he evil thereof"
 TT uNFITs US FOR RIAL TRIALS
 Again, the habit of borrowing mis fortune is wrong because it units us for it when it actually does come. We cannot always have smooth sailing Life's 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 w. will hear the iron gate of the sepuicher creak and grind as it shuts in our kin dred. 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 vast. ed long before they come under tle guns of re"l misfortune Boys in at tempting t" Iunp a wall sometimes 20 70 faI back in cr,lcr to get impetus that whom they come up they are exhaust ed, 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.