The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-09-13

your counting desk the financial snxieties
Of he next twenty years. The God who
has taken care OF your worldly occuna-
ton. guarding your store from the torch
Of the incendiary aud NE key os the bur
g,sr. wiii be "a faithful IN 1870 as m 1901.
Gods hand "a mightier than the machina-
ations of stock gamblers or the plots OF
political demagogues or the red right arm
OF revelation. and the darkness viii hy
and the storm fall dead at Hls feet.
80 there are persons IN feeble health,
and they are worried about the future
They make out very well now. hut they
are botheTing themselves about future
pleurlsies and rheumatlsms and neural
gas and fevers Their eyesight Is feeble
and they are worried lest they entirely lose
II. Their hearing - indistinct, and they
are alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf They felt chilly to-day aud are eN-
pectlns an attack of typhoid. They have
been troubled for weeks with some per
picking malady and dread becoming hte-
long invalids Take care of your health
now and trust God for the future. BE
not guilty of the hlasphemy OF asking
Him 20 take care oi Won while YOU sleep
with your windows tight down or eat
chicken salad at II o'clock at night or SIT
down on A cake % ice 20 cool of. he pru.
dent and then be confident. Some Of the
sickest people have been the most useful.
Ii was So with Payson. who died deaths
daily and Robert Hall. who used 60 stop
IN the midst of hls sermon and lie down
on the pulpit sofa 90 rest and then 40 on
again Theodore Frelinghuysen had
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 mlsfor-
A a
when it actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing. Life's path
will sometimes tumble among declvlties
and mount r steep and be thorn pierced
Judas will kiss our cheek and then sell us
for thirty pieces of silver. Human scorn
will try to cruelty Us between two thieves.
We will hear the iron gate ot the sepul-
cher creak and grind as II shuts in our
kindred. But We cannot get ready Tor
these things by forebodings. They who
fight imaginary woes will come ont 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 wall some
times go 80 far back IN order to get impe-
tus that when they come up they are eN.
hausted. and these long races IN order to
get spring enough % vault trouble bring
us up at last 60 the dreadful reality with
our strength gone.
Finally, the habit Of borrowing trouble
is wrong because u - 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 viii be healed. God
will sandal your feet and smooth your
path. and along hy irowning crag and
| opening grave sound the voices of victory
| and good cheer The summer clouds that
seem thunder charged really carry IN their
| bosom haryests OF wheat and shocks OF
corn and vineyards purpllng 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 still.
| Bleak and wave struck Palmos shall have
| apocalyptlc vision, and YOU shall hear the
| cry of elders aud 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 and
| the scream OF the vulture. but the way
still winds upward till angels guard IL and
trees of life overarch u. and thrones line
| It, and crystalline fountains leap on II,
! 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 city
| mlngnng forever NdnlALn ana IuDllcc anu
! triumph and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song;
'Tis not the song for me.
To weeping II viii turn ere long,
For this ia heavens decree.
But there's \ song the ransomed sing
| TO Jesus. their exalted King,
| With Joyful heart and tongue.
| oh. that's the song for me-
Courage, my brother the father does
not give 10 his son At school enough money
10 last him several years. but as the bills
for tuition and board and clothing and
books come IN paws them So God will no,
give you grace all at once for the future
| but will meet all your exigences M they
come Through earnest prayer trust Him
| People ascrbc the success of n certain
line Of steamers 20 business skill. and
| know not the fact that when that line oi
steamers started the wife Of the proprie
tor passed the whole OF each day when a
steamer sailed IN prayer 20 God for IT.
safety and the success Of the line. Put
| everything IN Gods hands and leave II
| there Large interest money TO pay viii
soon eat up farm. a store, an estate and
| the interest on borrowed troubles vii
swamp anybody Sufficient unto the day
il the evil thereof"