The Newtown bee., 1897-03-12
WE SHOULD BE MINDFUL
of whither we are trending. !

of whither we are trending. You remember the farmer spoken of by Christ. He had been thrifty. He had forecast about the future. He had made provision against the year of drouth. He looked out for his body; he forgot that he had a soul. lie said to himself, ''Thou art 8 successful man.; God said to him, s'Thou art & fool.''
 Our text does not mean that we are to live without plan and definite purpose. You cannot build house without plan, you cannot construct a ship without a model, you do not go to work on tower without having first counted the cost. You vii not sow your fields this spring without some calculation as to the amount of seed required. You have to aim at some thing in order to reach any thing. Men may not always reach that thing for which they set tout; but unless they are willing that their efforts count for nought, their journey must have an obj ective point.
 Now, having cleared the ground by showing what the text does not mean, let us ask what we are to get from the words, "In nothing be anxious" They mean, think: Make provision for the future, take thought about it; hut let it not be the anxious thought that abstracts and pulls in different directions and ravels the mind. Leave the burdens of the morrow to be borne when the nor. row is shere. Leave the pains of the next year to be endured with the strength that is given you then. Do not refrain from embarking upon any undertaking because others have failed. Do not cross the bridge until you come to it. Do not borrow trouble; for, as they say, half of our trouble we borrow and the other half never eomes." remember that when was in the theological seminary, as the responsibilities of the Christian ministry were set before us, and the duties, as we'll as the privileges, of our high calling were impressed on our minds, we young men often said to one another, "Who is sufficient for these things?" But then we thought that all these demands would not come in the first year after we left the seminary, end that the incentive was ever before us of continuous growth in Christian useful ness from year to year. I am of the earnest conviction that if we. devoted all oer energies to living the life of to-day,
 meeting its duties with the full measure of strength that that day supplies, let ting the difficulties of the morrow rest until to-day with it's record was done. we should all of us live more useful and happy lives. There Is always enough of care in the present to occupy all our thought and time. In the fairy-tale of "Alice through the Looking glass;, the White Knight, in starting out on jour- ney, provides himself with articles -
 which he thinks necessary to meet the exigencies that may arise; and 50 he takes a mouse-trap, in case he was troubled by mice at night, a beehive, in case he should come across swarm of bees. That is the common mistake with us all; we load ourselves with too many cares and worries about things which may arise. So many people would do great things, did they not see So many obstacles in the way. That was the trouble with General Mcclellan. He a. ways thought the enemy more than a match for the forces at his command General Grant said that early in his military experience he learned that the enemy were quite as much afraid of him as he was Of them. The best way to