The Penn's Grove record., 1901-09-13
traps for thy feet sSsnd CALLED thy cup and
rasped tnE@-som and wrecked 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 if an entire
stranger come by the safe you keep your
eye on him, for You do not know his de-
signs, So SOM men treat God not as a
father, but a stranger, and act suspi-
ciously toward Him. 1t is high time you
began to thank God for present blessing;
thank Him for your children, happy buoy
ant and bounding; praise Him for your
home, with its fountain of song and
laughter; adore Him for morning light
cool water bubbling from the rock, leap
ing in the cascade, soaring in the mist,
falling in the shower, dashing against the
rocks and clapping its hands in the tenn
pest; love Him for the grass that cushions
the earth and the clouds that curtain the
sky and the foliage that waves in the for
est; thank Him for a Bible to read and a
Saviour to deliver.
Many Christians think it a bad sign to
be jubilant, and their work of self-exam-
ination is a hewing down of their brighter
experiences, Like a boy with a new jack
knife hacking everything he comes across,
SO their determination is a religious
cutting to pieces of the greenest things
they can lay their hands on. They i'm
agine they are doing Gods service when
they are going about borrowing trouble.
and borrowing it at thirty per cent,
winch Is always a sure precursor of bank
ruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because the present is sufficiently
taxed with trial. God sees that we ali
need a certain amount of trouble. and so
He apportions it for all the DAYS and vears
OF our life. Alas for the policy of gather
ing 1t all up for one day or year! Cruel
thing to put upon the back Of one camel
all the cargo intended for the entire cara.
van, l 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 dis.
tasteful. Why halloo to disasters far dis.
tant to come and wiring out more call in
the bitterness? Are we such champions
that, having won the belt in former en-
the future?
Here are business men Just able to mon-
age 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 tomorrow and write on
your daybook or on your ledger or on your
money sdle oullclent unto the day Is the
evil thereof" Do not worry about not
that are far from due. DO not bile m 5n
your counting desk the financial anxisties
OF the next twenty years, The God who
has taken care of your worldly occupo.
ton, guarding your store from the torch
of the ineendiary and the KEY of the bDr.
glar, will be as faithful in 1910 as in lg5j
GODS hand is mlghtler than the machiua-
atoms of stock gamblers or the plots of
political demagogues or the red right arm
OF revolution, and the darkness viii dI
and the storm fall dead at His feet.
So there are persons in feeble be,,th
and they are worried about the future
They make out very well now. hut tbs,
are bothering themselves about f,t1v,l
pleurisies and rheumatisms and nemrai
gas and feyers. Their eyesight is fecbie
and they are worried lest they entirely ias s,
it. Their hearing is ind%istinet. and tbe,,
are alarmed lest they become entireIyy