Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-17

fgHTIill IIlHi IuAilitrH Naht VIII
day rattle the broken window sash with
tempest and sweep the Goals from the
hearth. and pour hunger into the bread
tray that a man fed by him who owns
all the haryests should expect TO starve;
that one whom God loves and sur
rounds with benediction, and attends
with angelic escort, and hovers over
with more than motherly fondness
should be looking for heritage oftears
Has God been hard with thee, that
thou shouldst be foreboding1 Has he
stinted thy board7 Has he covered
thee with ragsl Has he spread traps
for thy feet. and CALLED thy cup, and
rasped thy soul, and wrecked thee with
storm, and thundered upon thee with
life full of calan1ityi II your father
or brother come into your bank where
gold and silver are lying about, you do
not watch them, for you know they
are honest but II 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
father. but stranger, and act sus-
piciously toward him, as though they
we're afraid he would steal something.
1t 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 its fountain of song and laughter.
Adore him for morning light and even
ing shadow. Praise him for fresh, cool
water, bubbIing from the rock, leaping
In the cascade, soaring in the mist,
falling in the shower, dashing against
the rock 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 a
Bible to read, and cross to gaze upon,
and Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think it bad sign
to be jubilant, and their work OF self
examination is hewing down Of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
a new jackknife, 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 borrowing it at thirty per
cent, which Is always a sure precursor
of bankruptcy.
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY.
Again. the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because the present is sufii-
ciently taxed with trial. God sees that
we all need certain amount OF trouble,
and so lac apportions it for all the days
and years of our life Alas for the policy
OF gathering It all up for one day OF
year, Cruel thing to put upon the back
of one camel all the cargo intended fol
the entire caravan, never look al
my memorandum book to see what en-
gagements and duties are far ahead.
Let every week bear its own burdens.
The shadows of today are thick
enough Why implore the presence o.
other shadows9 The cup Is already
distasteful. Why halloo to disasters
far distant TO come and wiring out
more gall into the bitterness2 Are we
such champions that, having won the
belt In former encounters, we can gc
forth TO challenge all the future2
Here are business men just able tc
manage affairs as they now are. They
can pay their rent, and meet thelI
notes, and manage affairs, as they now
are, but what II there should come O
panic7 Go tomorrow and write on
your day book, ON your ledger, on YOU
money safe, Sufficient unto the day Il
the evil thereof" Do not worry about
notes that are far from due. Do moi
pile up on your counting desk the
financial anxieties of the next twenty
years. The God who has taken care o
your worldly occupation, guarding you
store from the torch OF the incendiary
and the key Of the burglar, will be a
faithful In 1891 ms In 1881. Gods hand
Is mighter than the Vaccinations O
stock gamblers, or the plots of politica
demagogues, or the red right arm o.
revolution, and the darkness will fiJ
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
pleurisles, and rheumRtisms, and neu
ralgias and fevers. Their eyesight u
feeble, and they are worried lest the!
entirely lose IT, Their hearing Is indis
tinct and they are alarmed lest they be
come entirely deaf They felt chill!
today, and are expecting an attack o
typhoid. They have been troubled TO
weeks with some perplexing malady
and dread becoming lifelong invalids.
Take caro- OF your health now, an'
trust God for the future, BE mo-
guilty Of tho blasphemy Of asking hin
TO take care OF you while you sleeI
with your windows tight down, or ca
chicken salad at II o'clock at night
or SIT down ON a cake of ice 10 cool off
, BE prudent and then be confident
Some Of the slckest people have bee1
the most useful II was SO with Pay
son, who died deaths daily, and Rober
/ Hail. who used TO stop In the midst o
his sermon, and lie down on the pulpl
sofa 10 rest, and then go on again
Theodore FrelinghuySen had grea
horror of dying till the time came ans
then went peacefully. Take care o
the present, and let tho future look on
Tor Itself. Sufficient unto the day
the evil thereof"