The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-09-25
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your counting desk the financial anxieties
of the next twenty years. The God who
has taken care of your worldly, occupa-
of the incendiary and the key of the bur
giar. will be as faithful in 1910 as in 1901.
Gods hand is mightier than the machina:.
ations of stock gamblers or the plots OF
political demagogues or the red right arm
of revolution, and the darkness will hy
and the storm fall dead at His feet.
So there are persons in feeble health,
and they are worried about the future.
They make out very we'll now, but they
are bothering themselves about future
pleurisies and rheumatisms and neural
gias and fevers. Their eyesight is feeble,
and they. are worried lest they entirely lose
are alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf They felt chilly to-day and are ex-
pecting an attack of typhoid. They have
been troubled for weeks with some per-
picking malady and dread becoming life
long 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 o'clock at night or sit
down on cake of ice to cool off. Be pru.
dent and then be confident. Some of the
sickest people have been the most useful
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 Frelinghuysen had q
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 misfor-
tune is wrong because it units US for it
when it actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing. Life's path
will sometimes tumble among declivities
and mount steep and be thorn pierced.
Judas will kiss our cheek and then sell us
will try to cruelty US between two thieves.
We will hear the iron gate of the sepul-
cher creak and grind as it shuts in our
kindred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by forebodings. They who
fight imaginary woes win come out of
breath into conflict with the armed dis
asters of the future. Their ammunition
will have been wasted long before they
come under the guns of real misfortune.
Boys in attempting to jump wall some
times go 80 far back in order to get impe-
tus Chat when they come up they are ex-
hausted, 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 it is unbelief. God has
promised to take care of us: The Bible
blooms with assurances. Your hunger
will be fed, your sickness will be ale
waited, your sorrows will be healed. God
will sandal your feet and smooth your
path. and 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 command and above your soul
the sun of prosperity will stand stiIl.
Bleak and wave struck Palmos shall have
apocaiyptc vision, and you shall hear the
cry of elders and the sweep of wings and
trumpets of salvation and the voice of hal
leluiah unto God forever.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bride 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 gold, and tenn.
pies that are always open, and hills that
quake with perpetual song and city
min2lng forever Sabbath and jubilee and
triumph and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song;
'Tis not the song for me.
To weeping it will turn ere long,
For this is heavens decree.
But there's song the ransomcd sing
To Jesus, their exalted King,
With joyful heart and tongue.
Oh, that's the song for me!
Courage, ny brother! the father does
not give to his son at school enough money
to last him several years, but as Che bills
for tuition and board and clothing and
books come in pays them. So God will not
/ give you grace all ct once for the future,
but will meet all your eXigencies as they
| come Through earnest prayer trust Him.
People ascribe the success Of certain
| line of steamers to business skill. and
know not the fact that when that line OF
steamers started the wife of the proprie-
| tor passed the whole of each day when a
steamer sailed in prayer to God for its
| safety and the success of the line. Put
everything in Gods hands and leave it
there. Large interest money to pay vii!
soon eat up farm. store, an estate and
the interest on borrowed troubles will
swamp anybody. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof"