Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-09-11
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WueH AuSA are gong ABOUT buIFONih5
trouble, and borrowing it at 80 per cent,
which is always a sure precursor of bank
ruptcy.
Again. the habit of T. growing trouble
is wrong because the present is sutli-
ciently taxed with trial God sees that
we all need certain amount of trouble.
and so he apportions it for all the days
and years of our life Alas for the poi
icy of gathering it all up for one day or
year! Cruel thing to put upon the back
of one camel all the cargo intended for
the Cntire caravan, | never look at my
memorandum book to see what engage
ments and duties are far ahead. Let ev-
cry week bear its own burdens. The
shadows of to-day are thick enough. VIII.
implore the presence of other shadows
The cup is already distasteful. Why
halloo to disasters fa~ distant 10 come
and wiring out more gall in the bitter
nessf Are We such champions that, hav-
ing won the belt" in former encounters,
we can 20 forth to challenge nj the fu-
ture?
Here are business men just able to
manage affairs rs they now are. They
can pay their rent and meet their notes
d1h mama ~ al -AAH as tttNl hpN slANs bhN
how If panic should come and my in
vestments should fail? Go tomorrow and
write ON your daybocli or on your ledger,
on your money safe, Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof Do not worry
about notes that are far from due. Dc
not pile up on your counting desk the
financial anxieties of the next twenty
years. The God who has taken care of
your worldly occupation, guarding your
store from the torch of the incendiary
and the key of the burglar, will be as
faithful in 1910 as in 1901. Gods hand
is mightier than the Vaccinations of
stock gamblers or the plots of political
demagogues or the red right arm of rev
olution, and the darkness will fly and
the storm fall dead ut 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 botheriBg themselves about future
pleuriseS and rheumatisuls and neural
gias and fevers. Their eyesight is feeble
and they are worried lest they entirely
lose it. Their hearing is indstinct, and
ther are alarmed lest they become en-
tirely deaf They felt chilly to-day and
are expecting an attack of typhoid. They
have been troubled for weeks with some
perpexing malady and dread becoming
lifelong 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 IL o'clock at night or
sit down ON a cake of ice to COO off. BE
prudent. and then be confident. Some Of
the sckest people have been the most
useful 1t 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 then
20 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
Borrowing Misfortune.
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
win sometimes tumble among decliSifias
and mount 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 win hear the iron gate of
the sepulcher 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
disasters of the future Their ammun;-
ton will have been wasted long before
they come under the guns of real mis-
fortune Boys in attempting to jump
wall sometimes go so far back in order
to get impetus that when they come up
they are exhausted, and these long races
in order TO get spring enough to vault
trouble bring us up at last to the dread
full 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 alevi-
ated: 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 vitto-
nv 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 com
mand, and above your soul the sun Of
sprosperity will stand still Bleak and
wave struck Patmos shall have apoealyp-
tie vision, and you shall hear the cry of
elders and the sweep of wings and trum-
pets of salvation and the voice of hallelu
iah unto God forever.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bride paths and amid VOLTS howl AMI
the scream of the vulture but the way
still winds upward till angels guard it,
and trees of life oyerarch it. and thrones
line it, and crystalline fountains leap on
it. and the pathway ends ut gates that
are pearl and streets that are gold and
temples that are always open and hills
that quake with perpetual song ana
city mngling forever Sabbath and jubi
lee 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 song the ransomed sing
To Jesus. their exalted King.
With JGyful heart and tongue.
Oh, that's the song for me.
Courage. my brother! The father does
not give to his son a school enough mon
ey to last him several years, but, IS the
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