The southern argus., 1891-08-20

ne would StcaI SOmeLnlng,
1t 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, fall
ing in the shower, dashing against the
rocks 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 a cross to gaze upon,
and Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think it bad sign
to be iubilant, and their work of self
examination is hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
a new jack knife. hacking everything
he comes across, so their self examina-
ton is a religious cutting to pieces of
the greenest things they can lay their
hands on. They imagine they are do
ing Gods service when they are going
about borrowing trouble, and borrow
| ing it at thirty per cent, which is al
ways a sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because the present is sutfi-
GENTLY taxed with trial. God sees that
we all need a certain amount of trouble
| and SO He apportions it for all the days
and years Of our life Alas for the pol
lev Of gathering it up for one day or
one year. Cruel thing to put upon the
back Of one camel all the cargo intend
ed for the entire caravan. I never
looked at my memorandum book to
see what engagements and duties are
far 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 cham
pions that, having won the belt in
former encounters, we can go forth to
challenge all the future?
Here are business men Just able to
can pay their rent and meet their notes
and manage affairs as they now are,
but what if there should come 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 worldly occupa-
ton, 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 gam
blcrs, or the plots of political dcma-
gogues, or the red right arm of revolu-
ton, and the darkness will fly and the
storm fall dead at his feet.
So there are persons in feeble health,
and they arc worried about the future
They make out very we'll now, but
they are bothering themselves about
future plcurisies, and rheumatisms, and
neuralgias and fevers. Their cyesight
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 to-day and are expecting an at
tack Of typhoid. They have been
troubled for weeks with some
pcrplcxing malady, and dread be-
coming 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 ut eleven
O'clock at night, or sit down on a cake
Of ice to cool off. Be prudent and then
be confident. Some of the sickcst peo-
pie 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 Frclinghuysen had
a great horror of dying until the time
came, and then went peacefully. Take
care Of the present and let the future
take care Of itself. Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof"
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.
LIES path will sometimes tumble
among dcclivities, and mount a steep,
and be thorn-pierced. Judas will kiss
our check, and then 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 scpulchre
creak and grind as it shuts in our kin
dred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by orcbodings.
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 q wall, sometimes
60 so far back in order to get impetus,
that when they come up they are ex-
haustcd; and these long races in order
III rct Snrinp enough to vault trouble