The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-09-20
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God been hard with thee that thou
ss'iioui,lst DO. toreboding? Has 10
stinted thy board? Has lie covered
tlrco with rags? Has He spread
traps for thy feet, and CALLED thy
cup, and raspcd thy soul, and
wrecked thee with storm, and thun-
dercd upon 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 arc honest, but II
an entire stranger como by the safe
you keep your eye on him, for you
do not know his designs. So some
men treat God not as n father, but
stranger, and act suspiciously to-.
ward Him. 1t is high time you began
to thank God for present blessing.
Thank Him for your children, happX,
buoyant and bounding. Praise Him
for your home, with its fountain of
song and laughter. Adore Him for
morning light nnd evening shadow.
Praise Him for fresh, cool water bub-
bling from the rock, loaping in tho
cascade, soaring in tho mist, falling
in tho shower, dashirg against tho
rock and clapping its hands in the
tempest. Love Him for tho grass that
cushions the earth and tho clouds
that curtain the sky end the foliage
that waves in the forest. Thank Him
for Bible to read md Saviour to
deliver.
Many Christians think it bad sign
to be jubilant, and their work of self
examination Is q hewing down Of their
brighter experiences. Like boy with
new jackknife, hacking everything
he comeS across, so their self.examina-
tion is religious cutting to pieces Of
the grecncst 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 80 per cent, which is always
sure precursor Of bankruptcy.
Again, tho habit Of borrow trou.
BILE is wrong because the present IL suf-
ticiently taxed with trial. God secs
that we all need certain amount Of
trouble, and SO he appoptions Il for all
the days and years of our ltfe Also
for the policy of gathering it all up for
one day OF 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 dutic,.
are far ahead: Let every week bear its
own burdens. The shadows of to-day
are thick enough. Why imnoro the
presence Of other shadows? The cup
is already distasteful Why halloo to
disasters far distant to como and
wiring out more gail in the bitterness?
Are we suoh champions that, having
won the belt in former encounters, we
can go forth to challenge all the fu-
ture?
Hero arc 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 Il /. panic should come ana
my investments should fail? Go to-
morrow and write on your daybook
or on your ledger, on your IN oney safe: {:
Sufficient unto tho 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 caro- Of your world
~ occupation, guarding your store
from the torch Of the inoendiary and
the key of the burglar, will be as faith
full In 1910 as in 1901, Gods hand is
mightier than tho maohinations Of
stock gamblers or the plots Of political
demagogncs 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 we'll now.
but they are bothering themselves
about future pleurisies and rhauma-
tisms and neuralglas and fevers. Their
eyesight IS feeble, and they are wor-
ried unless they entirely lose 1t. Their
hearing is indist tinct. and they are
alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf. They feel chilly to-day and arc
expecting mn attack Of typhoid. They
have been troubled for weeks with
some perplexing malady and dread be-
coming lifelong inyaGdn. Take care
Of your health now and trust God for
the future. BE not guilty of the BIAS
phemy Of aslsing Him to take caro- Of
you While you sleep with your wind ows
tight down or eat chicken salad at II
o'clock at night or sit down on cake
OF Toe to cool Off. BE prudent, and
then be confident. Some Of the sicltest
people have been tho most useful. 10
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 than go on again. Theodore Fro
linghuysen had great horror OF dying
I'LL the time came and then went peace
fully. Take care of the present, and
lat the future look out for itself. "Suf-
f1cient unto the day Is the evil there
Of"
Again, the habit Of borrowing mis-
fortune IS wrong because it units us
for 1T when Il actually does come. We
cannot always have smooth sailing.
Life's path will sometimes tumble
among declivities and mount a steop
and DO thorn pierced. Judas will his,
our cheek and then sell US FOR 80 pieces
Of silver. Human scorn will try to
cruelty us between two thieves. We
will hear the iron cato of the sepulcher
creale and grind as It shuts in our
kindred. But we cannot get roady for
these things by forbodings. They who
fight imaginary foes will come ont OF
breath into conflict with the armed dis
asters Of the future. Their ammuni-
tion will have been wasted long before
they come under the guns Of real mis-