The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-09-13

Will tutt Indb lhOu ouOhidob bO AOsN
boding? Has he 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 thunder
ed upon thee with life full of Ca
lamity?
Work of Self-Examination.
Many Christians think it bad sign
to be jubilant, and their work of self
examination is hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like a boy with
new jackknife, hacking everything he
comes across, so their self-examination
Is 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 30 per cent, which is always
a sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing
trouble is wrong because the present
is sufficiently 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.
Alas 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 cara
van. l never look at my memoran-
dunn book to see what engagements
and duties are far ahead. Let every
week bear its own burdens. The
shadows of today are thick enough.
Why implore the presence of other
shadows? The cup is already dis
tasteful. Why halloo to disasters far
distant to come and wiring out more
gall in the bitterness? Are we such
champions that, having won the best
in former encounters, we can go forth
to challenge all the future?
Do Not Worry.
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 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
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 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
neuralgias 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 entirely deaf They felt
chilly today and are expecting an at
tack OF typhoid. They have been
troubled for weeks with some perplex-
ing malady and dread becoming life
long invalids. Take care of your
health now and trust God for the fu-
ture. 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 a cake of ice
to cool off. Be prudent, and then be
confident. Some of the sickest peo-
pie have been the most useful. 1t 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 Frelinghuysen 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 for ITSELF Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof"
Borrowing Misfortune.
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.
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
to cruelty us between two thieves. We
will hear the iron gate of the sepul-
cher creak and grind as it shuts in
our kindred. 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 disasters of the future. Their
will have been wasted
long before they come under the guns
Of real misfortune. Boys in attempt
ting to jump a wall sometimes go so
far back in order to get impetus that |
when they come up they are ex-
and these long races in order |
to get spring enough to vault trouble |