The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-12

evil thereof. 10 not wUrry apout notes
that are far from due DO not pile up on
your counting desk the financial anxietics
Of the next twenty years. The God who
has taken care of your worldly occupa-
tion, guarding your store from the torch
Of the incendiary and the key OF the bur
glar. viii be MS faithful in 1910 as in 1901.
Gods hand is mighter than the machina-
atons of stock gamblers OF the plots Of
political demagogues or the red right arm
OF revolution, 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 future.
They make. out very we'll now, but they
are bothering themselves about future
pleurisies and rheumatisms and neural
gias and fevers. Their eyesieht il feeble,
nnd 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 ex-
pecting an attack of typhoid. They have
been troubled for weeks with some per.
picking malady and dread becoming life.
long invalids. Take care Of your health
now and trust God for the future. BE
not guilty Of the blasohemy of asking
Him to take care OF you while YOU sleep
with your windows tight down or eat
chicken salad az II o'clock at night or sit
down on cake of ice to cool off. BE pru.
dent and then be confident. Some OF the
siclSest people have been the most useful
It was SO with Payson, who died deaths
daily. aud Robert Hall. who used TO stop
in the midst OF his sermon and lie down
on the pulpit sofa to rest and then 90 on
again. Theodore Frclinghuysen had a
great horror OF dying till the time came.
and then went peacefully. Take care OF
the present and let the future look out fo.
itself. Sufficient uato the day is the evil
thereof"
Again, the habit Of borrowing nisfor.
tune is wrong because it units Us for il
when 1t actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing. LIES path
will sometimes tumble among decIivities
and mount n steep and be thorn pierced.
Judas will kiss our cheek and then sell us
for thirty pieces of silver. Human scorn
will try to cruelty us between two thieves.
We will hear the iron gate of the sepul-
cher creak and grind as il shuts in our
kindred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by forebodings They who
fight imaginary woes win come out of
breath into conflict with the armed dis
asters of the future. Their ammunition
Will have been wasted long before they
come under the guns Of real misfortune.
Boys in attempting to Jump a wall some
times go SO far back in order to get impe-
tus that when they come up they are ex-
hausted, and these long races in order TO
get spring enough to vault trouble bring
us up at last to the dreadful reality with
our strength gone.
Finally, The habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because il is unbelef. God has
promised to take care of us. The Bible
blooms with assurances. Your hunger
will be fed, your sickness will be ale.
waited. your sorrows will be healed. God
viii sandal your feet and smooth youy
path, and along by frowning crag and
opening grave sound the voices Of victory
and good cheer. The summer clouds that
seem thunder charged really carry in their
bosom harvests of wheat and shocks OF
corn and vineyards purplng for the wine
press. The wrathful wave will kiss the
ieet OF the great storm walker. Our great
Joshua will command and above your soul
the sun of prosperity will stand stin.
Bleak and wave struck Palmos shall har q
apocalyptic vision. and you shall hear the
cry OF elders aud the sweep of wings and
trlmpets of salvation and the voice of hal
lcluiah unto God forever.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bride paths and amid VOLTS howl and
the scream of the vulture. but the way
still winds upward till angels guard ii end
trees of life overarch it, and thrones line
it. and crystalline fountains leap on it,
and the pathway ends at gates that are
pearl. and streets that are gold. and TEN.
pies that are always open, and hills that
quake with perpetual song and city
Iningling forever Sabbath and Jubilee and
triumph and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song;
'ris not the song for me.
To weeping it will turn ere long,
For this is hcayen's decree
But there's song the ransomed sing
70 Jesus. their exalted King.
With joyful heart and tongue
Oh, that's the song for me!
Courage. my brotherl the father does
not give to his son at school enough money
TO last him several years, but as the bills
fer tuition aud board and clothing and
books come in pays them. So God will not
give you grace all at once for the future
but will 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 thar line OF
steamers started the wife of the proprie-
tor 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 il
there. Large interest money to pay will
soon eat up farm, a store, an estate and
the interest "a narrowed troubles will
swamp anybody. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof"