The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-09-14

uou peen hard with thee TINT tho,
shouidst be fo~reboding? Has He
stlnted thy board? Has He covered
.nee WIN rags? Has He spread
'raps Tor thy feet, and CALLED thv
cup and rasped thy soul. and
wrecked thee with storm, and tbun-
dered upon thee with a life full of
calamity?
II your father or brother come into
your bank where gold and silvor Nv
lylng about, you do not watch them
Tor you know they are honest. but If
an entire stranger com by the safe
you keep your eye on him, for Won
40 not know his designs. So some
men treat God; not as a father hut
d s'r"nser' n act suspiciously to-
ward HIM. 1t is high time you began
10 thank God for present blessing.
lhank Him for your children. bonny
ouoyant and bounding. Praise Him
ior your nome, with it's fountain of
song and laughter. Adore Him for
morning light and evening shadow
iraise Him for fresh, cool water bub-
oiihg from the rock, leaping in the
cascade, soaring in the mist, falling
IN the shower. dashing against the
rock and clapping its hands in the
Love Him for the grass that
CUSHIONS the earth and the clouds
'nat curtain the sky and the foliage
that waves in the forest. Thank Him
1or a Bible to read and a Saviour to
deliver.
Many Christians think it a bad sign
10 be Jubilant, and their work of self
examination is a hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like a bow with
a new Jackknife, hacking everything
ne comes across, so their self-examipa-
tloh is a religious cutting to pieces of
the greenest things they can Law their
hands on. They imagine they are do
ing GODS service when they are going
about borrowing trouble, and borrow
ing IL at 81 per cent, which is always
a sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trou-
bic is wrong because the present is suf-
hciently taxed with trial. God sees
that we all need a certain amount of
trouble, and so he apportions it for all
the Gays 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 at 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 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 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
full in 1910 as in 1901. Gods hand is
mightir than the Vaccinations of
stock gamblers or the plots of political
demagogues or the right arm of revo-
luton, 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 flu
ture. They make out very well now,
but they are bothering themselves
about future pleurisies and rheuma-
tisms and %neuralgias and fevers. Their
eyesight is feeble, and they are wor-
ried unless they entirely lose it. Their
hearing is indistinct, and they are
alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf. They feel chilly to-day and are
expecting an attack of typhoid. They
have been troubled for weeks with
some pe%rpleXing malady and dread be-
coming lifelong invalids. Take care
of your health now and trust God for
the future. Be not guilty of the bias
phemy 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 a cake
of ice to cool off. Be prudent, and
then be confident. Some of the sickest
people have been the most useful. 1t
was so with Payson. who died deaths
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 Free
~linghuysen had a great horror of dying
till the time came and then went peace
fully. Take car of the present, and
let the future look out for itself. "Suf-
fcient unto the day is the evil there
Of"
Again, the habit of borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong because it units us
for it when it actually does come. We