Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-21

waves in the forest. Thank Him for
Bible to read, and a cross to gaze upon,
and a Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think it bad sign
10 be .ubilant, and their work of self en-
animation is u hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
new iack-knife, hacking everything he
comes across so their self examination
is a religious cutting to pieces of the
greenest things they can lay their hands
on. They imagine they are doing Gods
service when they go about borrowing
trouble, and borrowiugi it 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 a 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 oryear! Cruel thing to put upon
the back of one camel all the cargo in
tended for the entire caravan. I never
look at my memorandum book to see
what engagements and duties are far
ahead. Let every week bear it's 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
distant 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
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 panic?
Go tomorrow and. write in 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
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 gamblers, or the
plots OF political demagogues, or the red
right arm of revolution, and the dark
ness 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 rheumatisms, and neu-
ralgias and fevers. Their eyesight is
feeble, and they are worried lest they en-
tirely lose it. Their hearing is indis-
tinct and they are alarmed lest they be-
come entirely deaf. They felt chilly to-
day, and are expecting an attack of ty-
phoid. 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
} windows tight down, or eat chicken salad
, at II O'Clock at nj ght or sit down on a
: cake of ice to cool off. Be prudent and
7 then be confident. Some of the slckest
} people have been the most useful. 1t
was so with Passon, who died deaths
daily and Robert Hall, who used to stop
, in the midst of his sermon, and lie down
r on the pulpit sofa to rest, and then GO
/ 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
r look out for itself. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof"
l Again, the habit of borrowing mis-.
: fortune is wrong because it units US for
l it when it actually does come. We can
: not always have smooth sailing. Life's
: path will sometimes tumble among de-
clivities, and mount steep, and be
, thorn pierced. Judas will kiss our cheek
and then sell us for thirty pieces of sill
, yer. Human scorn will try to cruelty
| Haf1 fyxyn M will lno
the iron gate of the sepulcher creak and
grind as it shuts in our kindred. But
we cannot get ready for these things by
t forebodings.
} They who fight imaginary woes will
l 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 go 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 dread
l full reality with our strength gone.
9 Finally, the habit of borrowing trouble
+ is wrong because it is unbelief. God has
S promised to take care of us. The Bible
Y blooms with assurances. Your hunger
! will be fed; your sickness alleVlated; your
f 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
g The summer clouds that seem thunder
i charged really carry in their bosom
f harvests of wheat, and shocks of corn,
t and vineyards purpling for the wine
$ press. The wrathful wave will kiss the
S feet of the great storm walker Oul
1 great Joshua will command, and above
g your soul the sun of prosperity will stand
r still. Bleak and wave struck Patmos
/ shall have apocalyptic vision, and yol
S shall hear the cry of the elders, and the
Il sweep Of wings, and trumpets of saliva
: ton, and the voice Of Hallelujah unto
!, God forever
Y Your way may wind along dangerou:
: bride paths, and amid VOLTS howl anG
the scream OF the vulture, but the way
t still winds upward till angels guard it
9 and trees of life overarch it, and thrones
e line it, and crystalline fountains leap or
y it, and the pathway ends at gates thai
y are pearl, and streets that are gold, ane