Connecticut western news., 1901-09-12

new jackknife hacking everything he comes across, so their self examina- tion 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 1t at 30 per cent, which is always a sure precursor of bankruptcy.
 Sufficient Unto the Day.
 Again. the habit of borrowing trouble Is wrong because the present Is sufh- ciently taxed with trial. God sees that we all need certain amount of trou- ble, 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 all the car go 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 own burdens. The shadows of today are thick enough. Why implore, the presence of other shadows? The cup is already distasteful. Why halloo to dis asters 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 future?
 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 tomorrow and write on your daybook or on your ledger or on your money safe, "Sufi- cient unto the day is the evil thereof" Do not worry about notes that are far from due. Do not pile up on your counting desk the financial anxieties of the next 20 years. The God who has taken care of your worldly occupation. guarding your store from the torch of the incendiary and the key of the bur. glar, will be as faithful in 1910 as IF 1901. Gods hand is mightier than the machinations of stock gamblers or the plots of political demagogues or the red right arm of revolution, and the darkness will fly and the storm fall dead at his feet. ..." e.=.
 So there are 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 rheumatisms and neuralgias and levers. Their eyesight Is feeble. and they are worried lest they entirely lose it. Their hearing is indistinct. and they are alarmed lest they become entirely deaf. They felt chilly today and are expecting an at tack of typhoid. They have been trou- bled for weeks With some perplexing malady and dread becoming lifelong in valids. 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 II o'clock at night or sit down on cake of ice to cool off. Be prudent and then be confident. Some of the sickest people have been the most useful. It was so with Pay son, who died deaths daily, and Rob ert Hall, who used to stop in the midst of his sermon and lie down on the pull pit sofa to rest and then go on again. Theodore Frelinghuysen had 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"
 Thorns In Life's Path.
 Again, the habit of borrowing mis- fortune is wrong because 1t units us for 1t when it actually does come. We cannot always have smooth sailing Life's path will sometimes tumble among declivities and mount a steep and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss our cheek and then sell us for 30 pieces of silver. Human scorn will try to cruelty us between two thieves. We will hear the iron gate of the sepulcher creak and grind as 1t shuts In our kin dred But we cannot get ready for these things by forebodings. They who fight imaginary woes will come out of breath into conflict with the armed dis asters of the future. Their ammuni- hon will have been wasted long before they come under the guns of real mis- fortune. Boys in attempting to jump a wall sometimes go so far back in order to get impetus that when they come up they are exhausted, and these long races In order to get spring enough to vault trouble bring us up at last to the dreadful reality with our strength gone.
 Finally, the habit of borrowing trouble is wrong because 1t Is unbelief. God has promised to take care of us. The Bible blooms with assurances. Your hunger will be fed, your sickness will be alleviated, your sorrows will be healed. God will sandal your feet and smooth your path, and along by frown- ing crag and opening grave sound the voices of victory and good cheer. The summer clouds that seem thunder charged really carry In their bosom haryests 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 command and above your soul the sun of prosperity will stand still. Bleak and wave struck Patmos shall have apocalyptic vision, and you shall hear the cry of elders and the sweep of wings and trumpets of salvation and the voice of hallelu- hh unto God forever. Have Courage and Faith In God. Your way may wind along dangerous | bridle paths and amid wolfs howl and | the scream of the yulture, but the way
 still winds upward till angels guard it, |
 thrones lLne it, and crystalline foun- | tains leap on 1t, and the pathway'ends | at gates that are pearl, and streets that
 are gold, and temples that are always | open, and. hills that quake with per | petual song, and city mingling for | ever Sabbath and jubilee and triumph | and coronation.
 Let pleasure chant her siren song;
 'Iis not the song for me.
 | To weeping 1t will turn long.
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