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

and how expectation of evil Weahens
and destroys; text, Matthew vi, 81,
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof"
The life Of every man, woman and
child is as closely under the divine
care as though such person were the
only man, woman or child. There are
no accidents. AS there is law OF
storms in the natural world, so there
is law of trouble, 4 law Of disaster,
q law of misfortune, but the majority
Of the troubles Of life are imaginary,
and the most of those anticipated new
er come. At any rate, there is no cause
Of complaint against God. See how
much he has done to make you happy
his sunshine filing the earth with glO-
~, making rainbow for the storm and
halo for the mountain, greenneSS for
the moss, saffron for the cloud and
crystal for the billoW and procession Of
hammered fame through the opening
gates Of the morning, cbaffnches to
sing, rivers to glitter, seas to chant
and springs to blossom and overpow-
ering al other sounds with it's song
and overarching all other splendOr with
its triumph, covering up all other beau
ty with its garIaEds and outfa ASKING all
other thrones with its domiEion-de!iy
erance for lost world through the
Great Redeemer.
I discourse Of the s.n OF borrowing
trouble.
First, such habit CT mind and heart
Is wrong because it puts enc into a
dependency that i'll fits him for duty.
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den. Tie one thrived beautifully; the
other persisted. l found the dead one
on the shady side OF the house. Our
dispositions, Ike our plants. need sum
shine. Expectancy Of repUlse is the
cause of IlG2y secular and religious
failures, FCcr Of bankruptcy has up
torn many = Gre business and sent the
man lodging among tie note sLavers-
Fear Of SANDER and abuse has often
Invited eli the long beaked vuirures OF
scorn and backJiting. Many Of the
misfortunes Of life, like Lye1as. flee II
you ourageously meet them.
f~ Evils OF Droodinr.
How poorly prepared fer religious
duty is q man who sits down under the
gloom Of expected misfortune. If he
prays, he says. y Go not think shall
be answered" If he gives. lie says. Il
expect they Will steal the money
Helen Chalmers told re that her IA
ther, Thomas Chalmers, il tie darkest
hour Of the history Of the Free Church
of Scotland and when the woes Of the
land seemed to weigh upon his heart
said to lis children, Come, let US so
out and PLAY ball or fly kite" and the
only difficulty il the play vas that the
children could not keep Up with their
fatEe~. The 3-cCheynes and the Sum
merfeIGs CT the church who did tie
most good to.!ed in the sunlight. Away
with the horrors. They distl poison.
They dig graves, and if they could .
climb so high they would drown the re-
toicings Of heaven with sobs and wall
ing.
You Will have nothing but mister
tune in tie future if you sedulously !
watch for it. How shall G man catch
the right kind Of fish f he arracges .
line and hook and bait TO catch lizards .
and water serpents? Hunt for bats
and hawks. and bats and hawks you .
Will find. Hunt for robin redOTeasts,
and you will find robin redbreasts.
One night an eagle and an owl set
into fierce battle. The eagle, unused
10 the night. was no match for the owl,
which is most at home in the darkness,
and the king of the air fell helpless,
but the morning rose, and with it rose
the eagle, and the owls and the night
hawks and the bats came q second
time to the combat. Now. the eagle in
the sunlight, with a stroke OF his tai
onS and q great cry. cleared the air,
and his enemies, with torn feathers
and splashed with blood. tumbled into
the thickets. Ye are the children of
light. In the night of dependency
you will have no chance against your
enemies that flock UP from beneath,
but trusting in God and standing il
the sunshine Of the promises you shall
''renew your youth like the eagle"
Do Not Borrow Trouble.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because it has tendency to
make US overlook present blessing.
To Stake mans thirst the rock is cleft.
and cool waters leap into his trimming
cup. To feed his hunger the fields bow
down with bending wheat, and the cat
tie come down from the clover pastures
to give him milk, and the orchards yell
low and ripen, casting their juicy fruits
into his lap. Alas, that amid such ex-
uberance of blessing man should growl
as though he were soldier on half ra-
tons or q sailor on short allowance;
that q man should stand neck deep III
harvests looking forward to famine;
that one should feel the strong pulses
of health marching with regular tread
through all the avenues of life and yet
tremble at the expected assault OF sick
ness; that & man should sit in his pleas