The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-13

escort and hovers over with more
than motherly fondness should be
looking for a heritage of tearsl Has
God been hard with thee that thou
shouldst be foreboding? Has He
stinted thy board? Has He covered
thee with rags? Has He spread
traps for thy feet, and CALLED thy
cup, and rasped thy soul, and
wrecked thee with storm, and thun-
dered upon thee with life full of
calamity?
If 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 il
an entire stranger come by the safe
you keep your eye on him, for you
do not know his designs. So some
men treat God; not as father, but
stranger, and act suspiciously to-
ward Him. 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 evening shadow.
Praise Him for fresh, cool water bub-
bling 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 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 a Saviour to
deliver.
Many Christ ians think it a bad sign
to be jubilant, and their work of self
examination is a hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
new jackknife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their self-eXamina-
ton is religious cutting TO pieces of
the greenest things they can lay their
hands on. They imagine they are do
ing Gods service when they are going
about borrowing trouble, and borrow
ing IT at 30 per cent, which is always
A sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trou-
BILE is wrong because the present is suf-
| ticiently 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. Also
for the policy of gathering il all up for
one day or year! Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel all the
cargo intended for the entire caravan.
| never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements and duties
are far 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 distasteful. Why halloo to
| disasters far distant to come and
wiring out more gall in the bitterness?
Are we such champions that. having
won the belt in former encounters, we
can go forth to challenge all the flu
ture?
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 are,
but how If panic should come and
my investments should fail? Go to-
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