The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-09-13

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stinted thy board? Has He covered
thee with rags? Has He spread
| traps for thy feet, and CALLED thy
cup, and rasped thy soul, and
wrecked thee with storm, and thun-
dered upon 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 designs. So some
men treat God; not as a father, but
a stranger, and act suspiciously 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 bub-
bling 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
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 a Saviour to
deliver.
Many Chris tians think it a bad sign
to be jubilant, and their work of self
examination is a hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
a new jackknife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their self-examina-
ton 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 80 per cent, which is always
a sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trou-
BILE 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 apportions 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 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 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 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
lnC MY VI TIC Jul VIII DC as 1dA
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 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 perplexing 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 o1
you while you sleep with your windows
} tight down or eat chicken salad at L
o'clock at night or sit down on cak,
? of ice TO cool off. Be prudent, an6
: then be confident. Some of the sickest
people have been the most useful. II
/ was so with Payson, who died deaths
| daily; and Robert Hall, who used tx
, stop in the midst of his sermon anC
lie down on the pulpit sofa to res
: and then go on again. Theodore Ere
/ linghuysen had great horror of dying
till the time came and then went peace
fully. Take care of the present, anC
, let the future look out for itself. 'Suf
J fcient unto the day is the evil there
! Of"
, Again, the habit of borrowing mis-
l fortune is wrong because it units III
for it when it actually does come. W,
, cannot always have smooth sailing
: Life's path will some etimes tumbi,
| among declivities and mount a steer
{ and be thorn pierced. Judas will kis.
: our cheek and then sell us for 30 pieces
( of silver. Human scorn will try Il
, cruelty us between two thieves. w,
: will hear the iron gate of the sepulchel
? creak and grind as it shuts in ou
: kindred. But we cannot get ready TO
= these things by forbodings. They VIII,
, fight imaginary foes will come out O
breath into conflict with the armed dis
> asters of the future. Their ammuni
, | ton will have been wasted long befor
. they come under the guns of real mis-
fortune. Boys in attempting to jum
I a wall sometimes go so far back in or
$ der 10 get impetus that when the,
e come upthey are exhausted, and thes