The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-28

4 Many Christians think it a bad sign
to be iubilant, and their work of self
examination is a hewing down on their
i brighter experiences. Like boy with
a new jack-znife, hacking everything
he comes across, SO their se1f-examina-
ton is a religious cutting TO pieces of
the greenest things they can lay their
hands on They imagine they are GO
1 ing about borrowing trouble, and bor-
rowing it at thirty per cent, which is
always a 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 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 yearl Cruel thing TO put
upon the back of one camel all the
cargo intended 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,
Town Burdens FFF% = +tsf ~
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
I gall into the bitterness? Are we such
champions that, having won the belt in
former encounters, we can go forth to
challenge all the future? TFYFa EffHrf
4 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
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panic? Go tomorrow and write on your
day-book, on your ledger, on your
money-safe: Sufficient INTO the day
is the evil thereof Do not wor-
ry about notes that are far from
due Do noS pile upon your
counting desk the financial anxieties of
the next twenty years The God who
has taken care of your worldly occulDa-f
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
4 the Vaccinations of stock gamblers, or
the plots of political demagogues, or
the red right arm of revolution, and the
darkness. viii fly and the storm fall
dead at His feet
/ So there arc persons in feeble health,
and they are worried about the future
! They make out very well now, but they
are bothering themselves about future
pleurisies and rheumatisns and neu-
ralgias and fevers Their eyesight is
feeble, and they. are 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 perplexing rnalady,
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 care of
you while you sleep with your windows
tight down, or eat chicken salad at IL
lio'clocz at night, or sit down ON a cake
of ice to cool off, BE prudent and then
be confident. Some of the sickest peo-
! pie have been the most useful. 1t was
SO with Payscn, 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 Frelinghrty sen 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 il actually does come We
1 can not always have smooth sailing.
Life's path will sometimes tumble
among declivities. and mount steep
I and be thorn-pierced. Judas will kiss
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pieces of silver Human scorn will
try. to cruelty us between two thieves.
! WEI will hear the iron gate of the
/ seppicher creak and grind. as il shuts
in our kindred. But we can not get
ready for these things by forebodings.
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 the real misfortune. Boys
in attempting to jump a wall, some
times go SO far back in order to get
impetus, that when they come Hp they
are exhausted: and these long races in
order to get spring enough to vault
/ trouble, bring us mp at last to the
dreadful reality with our strength gone.
e.. Finally: The habit of borrowing
| trouble is wrong, because it is unbe-
lief. God has promised to take care of
us. The Bible blooms with assurances.
Your hunger will be. ialleviated; your .
sorrows will be healed. God will san
dial your feet, and smoot your path, apd
along by frowning crag and opening
grave sound 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 purpling
for the wine-press- The wrathful wave
will kiss the feet of the great storm
walker. Our great Joshua will COM
mand, and above your soul the sun of
prosperity will stand still. Bleak and
wavc-struck Patmos shall have
apocalyptic vision, and you shall hear
the cry of the elders, and the sweep of
wings. and trumpets of salvation, and
the voice of hallelujah unto God for
| ever.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bridle-paths, and amid VOLTS howl and
the scream of the vulture, 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
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