Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-09-19

pecting an attack OF typhoid, Ihey have
been troubled for weeks with some per-
nIexine malady and dread becoming HE
long invaIids. 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 steep
with YOUR windows tight down or eat
chicken salad at IL o'clock at night or sit
down on a cake of ice to cool off. Be pru-
dent and then be confident. Some OF the
sickest people have been the most useful
tt was so with Payson, who died deaths
daily. and Robert Hail, 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
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"
Again. the habit of borrowing misfor-
tune is wrong because it units us Tor 1t
Whan il actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing Lies path
will sometimes tumble among decliyltles
and mount a steep and be thorn pierced.
midas will kiss our cheek and then sell US
for thirty pieces OF silver. Human scorn
will trv to cruelty Us between two thieves
We will hear the iron gate OF the sepui-
cher creak and grind as 1T 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 dis
azters of the future. Tfeir ammunition
will have been wasted long before they
come under the guns of real misfortune
BOYS in attempting to jump wall some
times 90 so far bacl; 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
Ms up at last to the dreadful reality with
our strength gone.
Finally. the habit of borrowing trouble
Is wrong because it is unbellef. Cod has
promised to take care of US: The Bible
blooms with assurances. Your hunger
viii be fed. your sickness will be ale
waited your sorrows will be healed. God
viii sandal YOUR feet and smooth your
path and along by frowI-ng 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 or
corn and 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 Palmos shall have
apocayptic vision, and you shall hear the
cry of elders and the sweep OF wings and
trumpets of salvation and the voice of hal
leluiah unto God forever.
Your way NAV wind along dangerous
bride paths and amid VOLTS howl and
the scream of the vulture. but the way
still winds upward till angels guard it and
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 tenn
PIES that are always open. and hills that
quake with perpetual song and city
mincling forever Sabbath and jubilee and
triumph and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song;
It's not the song for me.
To weeping it will turn ere long,
For this is heavens decree
But there's a song the ransomed sing
To Jesus, their exalted King,
With joyful heart and tongue.
Oh that's the song for me!
Courage. my brother. the father does
not give to his son at school enough money
to last him several years, but 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 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 that 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 it
there. Large interest money to pay will
soon eat up a farm store, an estate and
the interest on borrowed troubles will
swamp anybody. "Sufiicient unto the day
is the evil thereof