The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-10-04

winch - Always sure pfecuAbof OF bank
ruptcy.
Again. the habit Of borrowing trouble
Is wrong because the present Is suficientlg
taxed with trial. God sees that we al
need a certain amount of trouble, and so
He apportion8 10 for all the days and years
Of our life. Alas for the policy Of gather
ing It all up for one day or yearl Cruel 4
thing TO put upon the back Of one camel E
all the cargo intended for the entire cara
van. never look at my memorandum
book 20 see what engagements and duties
are far ahead. Let every week hear ~
own burdens. The shadows OF to-day arc
thick enough. Why implore the presence
of other sbadowsy The cup is already dis
tasteful. Why halloo to disasters far dis
tant 90 come and wiring out more gall in
the bitterness? Are we such champions
that, having won the belt in former en-
sounters, we can 60 forth TO challenge all
the future? <
Here are business men just able to man
age 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 OF on you-
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
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-f
glar, will be as faithful in 1910 as in 1901
Gods hand is mighter than the machina.
atoms of stock gamblers or the plots Of
political demagogues or the red right arm
Of revolution, and the darkness win fly
and the storm fall dead at His feet.
So there are persons in feeble health,
Qnd they are worried about the future.
They make out very well now but they
are bothering themselves about future
peurisies and rheumatisms and neural
gias and fevers Their eyesight is feeble,
and they are worried lest they entirely lose
II. Their hearing is indistinct, and they
are alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf. They felt chilly to-day and are ex- :
pecting an attack Of typhoid. They have
been troubled for weeks with some PERI
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 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 q cake of ice to cool off. Be pru-
dent and then be confident. Some Of the
sickest people have been the most useful.
1t was so with Pavson, 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 20
! great horror of dying till the time came,
and then went peacefully. Take care Of
the present and let the fIAuna 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 for IL
| when it actually does come. We CANNOT
always have smooth sailing. Lies path
will sometimes tumble among declivities
and mount steep and be thorn pierced.
Judas will kiss our cheek and then seHs'ds
for thirty pieces of silver Human 6corn
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 dis
asters of the future. Their ammunition
will have been wasted long before they
come under the guns of real misfortune.
Boys in attempting to jump a wall soSne-
times 90 so far back in order to get imfbe-
tus that when they come up they are Nex-
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 unbelef. 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
VIII 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 tne
feet of the great storm walker. Our great
Joshua will command and above yourk soul
the sun of prosperity will stand still.
Bleak and wave struck Palmos shall have
apocalyptic vision, and yea 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 may wind along dangerous
bride paths and amid VOLTS howl aud
the scream of the vulture. but the way
still winds upward I'll angels guard it and
trees Of life overarvn il. ard thron0a line
il, and crystalline fountains leauA on it,
! and the pathway ends at gates That are
pearl. and streets that are gold, and tenn
Piles that are always open, and hills that
| quake with perpetual song and a city
1ningling 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 q song the ransomed sing
TO Jesus, their exalted King,
With ioyful heart and tongue. -
Oh, that's the song for me!
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