Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-13

one day or year. Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel all the car
60 intended for the entire caravan.
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 today
are thick enough. why implore the
presence of other shadows? The cup is
already distasteful. Why halloo 60 dis
asters far distant to come aud 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 future?
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 my
investments should fail: Go tomorrow
aud write on your daybook or on your
ledger or on your money safe, "Suffi-
Gent 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 anNieties
of the next 20 years. The God who has
taken care OF your worldly occupation,
guarding your store from the torch of
the incendiary and the key of the bur
giar, viii be as faithful in 1910 as in
1901. Gods hand is mightler than the
Vaccinations of stock gamblers or the
plots of political demagogues or the
red right arm of revolution, and the
darkness viii fly 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 well now, but
they are bothering themselves about
future pleurisies and rheumatisms and
neuralgias and fevers. Their cyesight
Is feeble. and they are worried lest
they entirely lose it. Their hearing is
indistinct. and they are alarmed lest
they become entirely deaf. They felt
chilly today and are expecting an at
tack of typhoid. They have been trou-
bled for weeks with some perplexing
malady and dread becoming lifelong in
valids. Take care Of your health now
and trust God for the future. Be not
guilty of the blaspbemy 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 prudent and then be confident.
Some of the sickest people have been
the most useful. 1t was so with Pay
son, who died deaths daily, and Rob-
ert Hall, who used TO stop In the midst
of his sermon and lie down on the pull
pit sofa to rest and then so on again.
Theodore Frelinghuysen had 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"
Tborns In LIES Path.
Again. the habit of borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong because il units us
for II when it actually does come. We
cannot always have smooth sailing
Life's path will sometimes tumble
among declivities and mount a steep
and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss
our cheek and then sell Us for 80
pieces Of silver. Human scorn will try
10 cruelty us between two thieves. We
will hear the iron gate of the sepulcher
creak and grind as II shuts In our kin
dred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by forebodings. They who
fight imaginary woes will come out of
breath Into conflict with the armed dis.
asters of the future. Their ammuni-
ton will have been wasted long before
they come under the guns OF real mis-
fortune. Boys In attempting to jump n
wall sometimes go so far back In order
to get impetus that when they come up
they are exhausted, and these long
races in order to get spring enough TO
vault trouble bring us up ut 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 Bihlc blooms with assurances,
Your hunger will be fed. your sickness
viii be alleviated, your sorrows will be
healed. God will sandal your feet and
smooth your path. and along by frown-
Ing crag and opening grave sound the
voices OF victory and good cheer. The
summer clouds that seem thunder
really carry In their bosom
harvests of wheat and shocks OF corn
aud 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 still. Bleak and wave struck
Patmos shall have apocalyptic vision,
and you shall hear the cry OF elders
and the sweep OF wings and trumpets
OF salvation and the voice OF hallelu-
iah unto God forever.
Have Courage and Faith In God.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bride paths and amid VOLTS howl and
the scream Of the vulture, but the way
sun winds upward till angels guard It.
and trees of life overarch II, and
thrones line 1t, and crystalline foun.
tains leap on it, and the pathway ends
at gates that are pearl, and streets that
are gold. and temples that are always
open, and hills that quake with per
petual song, and city mingling for
ever Sabbath and jubilee and triumph
and coronation.
Let pleasure cbnnt her siren song;
lis not the song for me.
To weeping IL will turn ere long,
For this Is heavens decree.
But there's song the ransomed sing
To Jesus. their exalted King
With joyful heart and tongue
Oh, that's the song for mel
Courage. my brother! The father
does not give TO his son at school
enough money to last him several
years. but as the bills for tuition and
board and clothing and books come in
pays them. So God will not give you
grace all at once for the future. but
viii meet all your exigencies as they
come. Through earnest prayer trust
him. People ascribe the success of a
certain line of steamers TO business
skill and know not the fact that when
that line of steamers started the wife
OF the proprietor 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 will soon eat up
q farm. q store, an estate. and the inter
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