Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-08-19

| Many Christians think it bad sign
| to be jubilant and their work OF self eX-
animation is hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like a boy with a
new jack-knife, 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
service when they go about borrowing
trouble, and borrowing it at so 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 or year! 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 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
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
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 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.
are bothering themselves about future
pleursies, 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 invalds.
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 IL o'clock at night, or sit down on a
cake Of ice to cool off. Be prudent and
then be confident. Some of the slckest
people have been the most useful. It
was so with Passon, 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
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"
Again, the habit of borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong because it units us for
it when it actually does come. We can
not always have smooth sailing. Lies
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
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
fore bOdingS
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 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
full 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
VIII be led; Your Sickness alleVlateQ; your
SORROWS will be healed. God will sandal
your feet and smooth your path, and
along by frowning crag and opening
grave sonnd the voices of victory and
good cheer.
The summer clouds that seem thunder
charged really carry in their bosom
harvests of wheat and shocks Of corn,
and vineyards purplng 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 saliva
ton, and the voice Of Hallelujah unto
God forever.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bride paths, and amid VOLTS howl and
the scream of the yulture. 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