The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-05-16
ONE CENT.
REV. PowICK's SERMON.
A Sure Remedy for Mental and Spiritual
Ills.

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A Sure Remedy for Mental and Spiritual
IA Sure and Simple Cure for the B,ues''
was the subject of Sunday mornings dis
course at the Methodist Episcopal church.
The remedy proposed lie prescribed in
Phil. iv, 6-7; BE careful for nothing but
in everything by prayer and duplication
with thanksgiving let your requests be
made known unto God, and the peace of
God which passeth all understanding shall
keep your hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus" The meaning of this exhortation
is not that we should be absolutely careless,
but that we are not to be so anxious as to
worry and fret about things we cannot
help. No man would sink under the
troubles of to-day we're he sure that to-
morrow would not bring more. 1t is the
everlasting worry about trials which we
fear may come that is killing men and
women. Multitudes are living, not in the
present, but in the future or in the past.
They pine over departed joys or brighten
over anticipated sorrows. They contemn
the flowers that bloom at their feet because
they are not so fragrant as those they
gathered in by-gone days or else they
trample them under their feet in quest of
more beautiful ones they expect to find
just beyond. Others again look on and
admire but fear to pluck them lest some
rude blast wither them. We live in q
world Of uncertainty and sorrow. MAN is
born unto trouble as the sparks fly up
ward" We are creatures of q moment,
here to-day and gone tomorrow. Sick
ness and pain, poverty and bereavement
are stalking abroad, and who knows how
soon one or another may enter his homer
We cannot help thinking about these
things. 1t is natural that we should worry
about them. And when God hedges our
way in and we see ne way of escape we
are very likely to give.way to dependency.
We ask "What shall we do ?" We feel as
though we must do something if it is only
to make believe we are solving the problem.
Human grief must find an outlet. Pent
up feelings must express themselves at
~length-even though it be only in a sullen
fit of the blues. Paul says pray. Men
ought always to pray and not to faint"
4NObuluB bhhb II ShphDlO VI ShusihB q hChIb~
ache is too insignificant to pray about,
I'm everything pray" Not only pray but
~supplicate. Like the Saviour pray yet
more earnestly" ASK, seek, knock.
Mix thanksgiving with your prayer" If
you look around you will find something
to be thankful for, Paul was in prison and
liable to execution at any moment when he
wrote these words and we have hardly
come to that yet. If God clothes the grass
of the field and cares for the birds of the
air will He not much more clolhe and care
for you, 20 ye of little faith2' If He
spared not His own Son but delivered Him
up for us all will He not also with Him
freely give us all things 2' Your heavenly
Father knoweth hat ye have need of all
these things, And if you seek first the
kingdom Of God all these things shall be
added unto you" Not that God has
promised to give us all we ask for. Jesus
prayed to have this cup pass away" and
Paul besought the Lord thrice that ''the
thorn in the flesh might depart from him.
and both these requests were denied-and
the servant is not above his Lord. What
then 2 Why should l pray ? To a v you
from the blues. THE peace of God which
passeth all understanding shall keep your
mind and heart" You shall be reconciled
to your lot and made satisfied in spite of it.
Like Moses you shall be enabled to ZEN
dure as seeing Him who is invisible"
Although God may not answer the prayer
in the form in which 1t is offered He will
answer and supply the need that prompts it.