Newport weekly independent., 1901-09-13


 with regular tread through all the avenus of life and yet tremble at the expected assault of sickness; that a man should sit in his pleasant home. 1 fearful that ruthless want will some day rattle the broken window sash with tempest and sweep the coals from the hearth and pour hunger into the bread tray; that a man fed 1 by Him who owns all the harvests should expect to starve; that one whom God loves and surrounds with | benediction and attends with angelic escort and hovers over with more than motherly fondness should be looking for a heritage of tears! 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 galled thy cup, and rasped thy soul, and wrecked thee with storm, and thun- dered upon thee with a 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 if 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 a father, but a stranger, and act suspiciously to- ward Him. It 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 it's 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, flashing 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 Bible to read and a Saviour to deliver.
 Many Christians think it bad sign to be .iubilant, and their work of self examination is a hewing down of their brighter experiences. Like a boy with new jackknife, hacking everything he comes across, so their self-examina- tion is a 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 sure precursor of bankruptcy.
 Again, the habit of borrowing trou- ble is wrong because the present is suf- ficiently taxed with trial. God sees that we all need a certain amount of trouble, and so he app6rtions it for all the days and years of our life, Also for the policy of gathering it 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. l never look a { my memorandum book to see what engagements and duties are far ahead. Let every week bear it's 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 fu- 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 a panic should come and my investments should fail? Go to- morrow and write on your daybook or on your ledger, on your money safe: Sufficient 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 world ly occupation, guarding your store from the torch of the incendiary and the key of the burglar, will be as faith ful in 1910 as in 1901. Gods hand is mghtier than the machinations of stock gamblers or the plots of political demagOgues or the right arm of revo- lutiOn, and the darkness will fly and the storm fall dead at his feet.
 So there are persons in feeble health, and they are worried about the fu- ture. They make out very well now, but they are bothering themselves about future pleurisies and rheuma- tisms and neuralgias and levers. Their eyesight is feeble, and they are wor- ried unless they entirely lose it. Their hearing is indstinct, and they are alarmed lest they become entirely deaf IheN feel chilly tn-dau and are