Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-09

ftace Of tearsi Has God been hard
wit. thee that thou shouldst be fore
0oG.ng? Has he stinted thy board?
Has he covered thee with rags? Has
he spread traps for thy feet and CALLED
thy exp a1d rasped thy soul and wreck
ed thee with storm and Numbered up
Oh 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 toward
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 bubbling from the
rock, leap;ng in the cascade, soaring in
the mist, falling in the shower, dash
ing against the rocks and clapping it's
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 q Bible to read and a Saviour
to deliver.
Many Christians think it a bad sign
to be jUbilant, and their work of self
examination is a hewing down Of their
brighter experiences. Like a boy with
new ! e'cknife hacking everything
he comes @ -oss. so their self examina-
tio1 is i gioCs cutting to pieces Of
the cTee1eS' things they can lay their
hands OF. They imagine they are do
ing Gods service when they are going
about borrowing trouble, and borrow
ing it ct 80 per cent, which is always
a sure precursor Of bankruptcy.
Sufficient Unto the Day.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because the present is sufff-
GENTLY taxed with trial. God sees that
we al need a certain amount Of trou
bic, 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 OF year! Cruel thing to put
upon the back Of one camel eli the car
go intended for the entire caravan. I
never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements and duties
are fer ahead. Let every week bear its /
own burdens. The shadows Of today
ere thick enough. Why implore the /
presence of other shadows? The cup is !
already distastefuI. Why kalloo to dis !
asteTs faT distant to come and wiring :
out moro gall in the bitterness? IRE I
we such champions that, having won !
the belt II former encounters, we can
60 forth TO challenge ali the future? /
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 q panic should come and my I
investments should fail! Go tomorrow
and write CT your daybook or On your /
ledger CT On your money safe, Stuff /
cioCt unto the DAY is the evil thereof"
Do net worry about notes that are far I
from due. Do not pile up on your
counting desk the financial an1ieties .
CT tie next 20 years. The God who has
taken care Of YOUR worldly occupation,
YOUR store from the torch Of
the iCcenGiary ard the key Of the bur
gIar, Viii be as faithful in 1910 as in
1901. Gods hand is migntier than the
OF stock gamblers or the
plots Of political delnagogues or the
red right arm CT revolution, and the
darkness VIII fy and the storm fall
lead at bis feet.
So there are persons in feeble health,
md they are worried about the future.
They make oct very well now, but
they are bothering themselves about
future pleurisies and rheumatisms and
neural gas AID 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
lack Of typhoid. They have been trou-
bed fer weeks with some perpleXing
nGiaGy and dread becoming lifelong in
Talids. Take care Of your health now
md trust God for the future. Be not
guilty CT 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 people have been
he most useful. 1t was so with Pay
son, who died deaths daily, and Rob
ert Hall, who used to stop in the midst
IF his sermon and lie down on the pull
pit sofa to rest and then go on again.
Theodore Frelinghuysen had a great
horror of dying till the time came and
hen went peacefully. Take care Of