Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-09-14

your home with its fountain of song and
laughter. Adore him for morning light
and evening shadow. Praise him for
fresh, cool water bubbling 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
Bible to read and a Saviour to deliver.
Work of self Examination.
Many Christians think it bad sign to
be jubilant, and their work Of self-exam-
ination is Il hewing down of their bright
or experiences. Like a boy with a new
Jackknife hacking everything he comes
across, so their determination is n reli-
gious cutting to pieces of the greeneSt
things they can lay their hands on. They
imagine they are doing Gods service
when they are going about borrowing
trouble. and borrowing it NJ 30 per cent,
which is always a sure precursor of bank
ruptey.
Again, the habit Of borrowing trouble
is wrong because the present is suni-
we all need a certain amount OF trouble,
and so he apportions it for all the days
and years Of our life. Alas for the pol
icy 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. | never look at my
memorandum book to see what engage
ments and duties are far ahead. Let ev-
cry week bear its own burdens. The
shadows of to-day are thick enough. Why
lmplore the presence of other shadows?
The cup is already diStasteful. Why
haloo TO disasters far distant To come
and wiring out more gall in the bitter
ness! Are we such champions that, hav-
ing won the belt in former encounters,
We can 20 forth TO challenge all the flu
tureg
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 ms they now are. but
how If panic should come and my in
vestmcntS should fail? Go tomorrow 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 anXicties of the next twenty
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 burglar, will be as
faithful in 1910 as in 1901. Gods hand
is mightier than the Vaccinations Of
stock gamblers or the plots of political
dcmagogues or the red right arm of rev
olution, 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 well now, but they
are bothering themselves about future
pleurisies and rheumatisms aud neural
gias and fevers. Their eyesight is feeble,
and they are worried lest they entirely
lose it. Their hearing Is indistinct, and
they are alarmed lest they become en-
tirely deaf. They felt chilly to-day and
are expecting an attack Of typhoid. They
have been troubled for weeks with some
pcrplcXing malady and dread becoming
lifelong invalids. Take care of your
health now and trust God for the future
BE not guilty Of the blasphemy 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 q cake Of ice to cool off BE
prudent, and then be confident. Some OF
the sickcst people have been the most
useful. II 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 Frelinghuys,n
had great horror Of dying till the time
came and then went peacefully. Take
care Of the present, and let the future
look ont for itself. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof"
Borrowing Misfortune.
Again, the habit Of borrowing misfor-
tune is wrong because il unfit. Us for it
when it actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing. Lifc's path
will sometimes tumble among dcciyitics
aud mount Il 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 scpulchcr creak and grind as it shuts
in our kindred But we cannot get ready
for these things by forcb0dings They
who fight imaginary woes will come out
Of breath into conflict with the armed
disasters 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
wall sometimes go so far back in order
to got 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 at last to the dread
full reality with our strength gone.
Finally the habit Of borrowing trouble
is wrong because it is unbcIicf. God has
promised 10 take care Of Us. The Bible
blooms with assurances Your hunger
will be fed; your sickness will be allevi-
ated; your s0rrows will be healed. God
will sandal your feet and smooth your
path, and along by frowning crag and
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