The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

that are Iar rrom due. 10 not pIs up on
your counting desk the financial anxieties
Of the next twenty years. The God who
has taken care of your worldly occupa-
ton, guarding your store from the torch
of the incendiary and the key Of the bur
glar, will be as faithful in 1910 as in 1901
Gods hand is mightier than the machina-
atoms 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 well now but they
are bothering themselves about future
| pleurisies and rheumatisms and neural
| gas aud fevers. Their eyesight is feeble,
and they are worried lest they entirely lose
| 1t. Their hearing is indistinct. and they
are alarmed lesr they become entirely
| deaf. They felt chilly to-day aud are ex-
| pecting an attack of typhoid. They have
| been troubled for weeks with some per
! picking malady and dread becoming life
long invalids. Take care of your health
now and trust God for the future BE
not guilty of the blnsphemy of asking
Him TO take care of you while you sleeD
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 pru-
dent and then be confident Some of the
sickest people have been tho most useful.
OF was so with Payson, who died deaths
daily, and Robert Hall, who used to stop
an 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"
Again, the habit of borrowing misfor-
tune Is wrong because II units us for it
when 1T actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing. Life's path
Will sometimes tumble among declivities
and mount steep and be thorn pierced
Judas will kiss our cheek and then sell VA
for thirty pieces of silver. Human scorn
will try 10 cruelty MS between two thieves
We will hear the iron gate of the sepu-
cher creak and grind rs it shuts in our
kindred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by forebodings. They who
night imaginary woes will come ont of
breath into conflict with the armed dis
asters of the future. Their ammunition
viii have been wasted long before they
come under the guns of real misfortune.
Boys in attempting to jump wall some
times go so far back in order 70 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
us up at last TO 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
will be fed, your sickness will be ale
waited, 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 cheer. The summer clouds that
seem thunder charged really carry in their
bosom harvests OF wheat and shocks of
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 stiIl.
Bleak and wave struck Palmos shall have
apocalyptic 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 il, and thrones line
1t, 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 aud city
nlnghng forever Sabbath and jubilee and
triumph and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song;
lis not the song for me.
10 weeping 1t Will turn ere long,
For this is heavens decree.
But there's n song the ransomed sing
TO Jesus. their exalted King,
With joyful heart and tongue.
Oh, that's the song for mel
Courage, my brotherl the father does
not give to his son ut school enough money
70 last him several years, but as the bills
for tuition and board and clothing and
books come IN paws them. So God will not
give you grace all at once for the future,
but viii meet all your exigencies as they
come. Through earnest prayer trust Him.
People ascribe the success of n certain
hnc 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
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 cat up farm, a store, an estate and
the interest on borrowed troubles will
swamp anybody. Sufficient unto the day
Is the evil thereof" -