Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-09-10

afraid he would steal something.
1t is high time you began to thank
God for the present blessing. Thank
him for your children, happy, buoy
ant, and bounding. Praise him for
your home. with its fountain of song
and laughter. Adore him for morn.
ing light and evening shadow.
Praise him for fresh, cool water,
bubbltng from the rock, leaping
in the cascade, soaring in the mist,
falling in the shower, dashing against
the rock and clapping it's hands in TIE
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 Q
Bible to read, and a cross to gaze upon,
and Savior 10 deliver.
Again: The habit of borrowing
trouble IS wrong, because the present
is sufficiently 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 1t all up for
one day or year! Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel oil the
cargo intended for the emit e caravan.
never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements and duties
are 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
champions that, having won the belt
in former encounters, we can 60 forth
to challenge all the future?
Here are business men just able to
manage affairs rs 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 q
panic? Go tomorrow and write on
your day-book, on your ledger, on you,
money safe, Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof" Do not worry about
notes that ore far from due. Do not
pile up on your counting desk
the financial unXieties 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
in 1881. Gods hand is mightier than
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the plots of pc itical demagogues, or
the red right arm of revolution, and
the darkness will fly and the storm fall
dead ut 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 neur-
nlgias and fcvers. Their cycsight Is
feeble, and they arc worried lest they
entirely lose it. Their hearing is indis-
tinct and they are alarmed lest they
become entirely deaf. They felt chilly
to-day, and are expecting an attack
of typhoid. They have been
troubled for weeks with some per-
picking malady, and dread be-
coming lifelong invalds. Take care
of your health now, and trust God for
the future. Be not guilty of the bias.
| phcmy of asking him to take care OF
you while you sleep with your windows
! tight down. or cat chicken salad at
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 sickest people 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 or
the pulpit sofa to rest, and then go or
again. Theodore Frelinghuysen had q
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
Your way may wind along danger
Gus bridle-paths, and amid VOLTS how
and the scream of the vulture, but the
way still winds upward till angel.
guard it, and trees of life overarch it
and thrones line it, and crystallin.
fountains leap on it, and the pathway
ends at gates that are pearl, ane
streets that are gold. and temples thai
are always open, and hills that quake
with perpetual song, and a city ming
ling for ever Sabbath, and jubilee, ant
triumph and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song
It's not the song for me:
To W, eping it will turn e'er long,
For this is h, nven's decree;
but there's a song the ransomed sing.
| To Jesus their exalted king,
With joyful heart and tongue;
Oh, that's the song for me!
Courage, my brother! The fathe
does not give to his son at schoo
enough money to last him severa
years, but. as the bills for tuition
and board, and clothing and book
come in, pays them. So God will no
give you grace all Mt once for tn
future. but will meet all your OK
igencies as they come. Through earn
est PRAYER, trust him. Put everything
in Gods hand. and leave it there
Large interest money to pay will 500
eat up farm, store, an estate, an
the interest on borrowed troubles viii
swamp anybody. Sufficient unto tn
day is the evil thereof"
Rev. Robert COllycr.
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