The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1901-09-13

| song and laughter. Adore Him 1Or
morning light and evening shadow.
Praise Him for fresh, cool water bub-
bling 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 Saviour to
deliver.
Many Christians think it bad sign
to be jubilant, and their work of self
examination is hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
a new jackknife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their self-examina-
ton is a 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 trou-
BILE is wrong because the present is suf-
fciently 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. Also
for the policy of ga herring 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.
l never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements and duties
are far ahead. Let every week bear its
own burdens. The shadows of to-day
are thick enough. Why implore the
presence of other shadows? The cup
is already distasteful. Why halloo to
disasters far distant to come and
wiring out more gall in the bitterness?
Are we such champions that, having
won the belt in former encounters, we
can go forth to challenge all the fu-
ture?
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 a panic should come and
my investments should fail? Gro to-
morrow 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 right arm of revo
luton, 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 fu-
ture. They make out very well now,
but they are bothering themselves
about future pleurisies and rheuma-
tisms and neuralgias and fevers. Their
eyesight is feeble, and they are wor-
ried unless they entirely lose it. Their
hearing is indistinct, and they are
alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf. They feel chilly to-day and are
expecting an attack of typhoid They
have been troubled for weeks with
some perpleXing malady and dread be-
coming lifelong invalids. Take care
of your health now and trust God for
the future, Be not guilty of the bias
phemy 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 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 Free
linghuysen had a great horror of dying
till the time came and then went peace
fully. Take care of the present, and
let the future look out for itself. "Suf-
ficient unto the day is the evil there
Of"
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 sonnet times tumble
among declivities and mount a steep
and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss
our cheek and then sell US for 30 pieces
of silver. Human scorn will try to
cruelty us between two thieves. We
will hear the iron gate of the sepulcher
creak and grind as it shuts in our
kindred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by forbodings. They who |
fight imaginary foes will come out of
breath into conflict with the armed dis
asters 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
a wall metimes go so far back in or
der to get 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 70 the dreadful reality with our
strength gone.
Finally, the habit of borrowing
trouble is wrong because it is unbelief.
God has promised to take care of us.
The Bible blooms with assurances. |
Your hunger viii be fed; your sickness
will be alleviated; your sorrows will |
be healed. God will sandal your feet
and smooth your path, and along by |
frowning crag and opening grave
sound the voices of victory and good |
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thunder charged really carry in their