The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-18

dered upon thee with lie 1u1 Oh
calamity?
If your father or brother come into
your bank where gold and silver are
living about, you do not watch 1hen.
Tor YOU know they are honest, but II
ar 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 father, but
a stranger. and act susplclously to"
ward Him. 1t 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 its fountain OF
song and laughter. Adore Him for
morning light and evening shadow.
Praise Him for fresh, cool water buo-
bling from the rock, leapiug in the
cascade, soaring in the mist, falling
in the shower, dashing agains1 the
rock and clapping its 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 a Bible to read and Saviour to
deliver.
Many Christians think it bad sign
to be jubilart, and their work of self
examination is hewing down Of theic
brighter experiences. Like boy with
a new jackknife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their self-exanir.a-
tion is a religious cutting to pieces OF
the gceenest things they can lay their
hands on. They imagine they are Co
ing Gods service when they are going
about borrowing trouble, and borrow
ing it at 80 per cent, which IS always
sure precursor Of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trou'
bic is wrong because the present is SUI
fcientIy taxed with trial. God sees
that we all need a certain amount Of
trouble, and so he appoEtions & for all
the days and years Of our life. Also
for the policy of gathering it al up for
one day or year! Cruel thing to put
upon the back Of one camel all the
cargo intended for the entire caravan.
I never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements and dutles
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 distasteful. Why halloo to
disasters far distant to come and
wiring out more gall il 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 panic should come and
nv 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
~ 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
mightier than the Vaccinations Of
stock gamblers or the plots Of political
demagogues OF 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 fu-
ture. They make out very veil now,
but they are bothering themselves
about future pleurisies and rherna-
tisms and neuralgias and levers. Their
eyesight is feeble, and they are wor-
rte6 unless they entirely loseit. Their
hearing is in6istinct. 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 perplexing nalady and dread be-
coming lifelong invaGds. 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 cake
Of ioe to cool off. Be prudent, and
ther be confident. Some Of the sickest
psopls have been the most useful. It
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 Ere
had a great horror Of dying
till the time came and then went peace
fully. Take care of the present, and
let the future look out for itself. "Suf-
6cient 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
cannot always have smooth sailing.
Lies path will sometimes tumble
among declirities and mount a steep
and be thorn pierced. Judas will hiss
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 it shuts in our
kindred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by forbocings. They who
fight imaginary foes Will come out of
breath into conflict with the armed dis
esters Of the future. Their anmuni-
ton will have been wasted long before
they come under the guns of real mis-
fortune. Boys IN attempting to jump
g wall sometimes go SO far back in or
der to sc: impetus that when they
come up they are exhausted, and these
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