Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-09-13

your counting desk the hnanaIar anxletis,
| of the next twenty years. The God VINO
has taken care Of your worldly occupa
| ton, guarding your store from the torch
OF the incendiary and the key Of the bur
| glar. will be as faithful in 1910 as In 1901
! Gods hand is mightier than the machina
ations Of stock gamblers or the plots OF
| political demagogues or the red right arm
of revolution, and the darkness will fy
and the storm fall dead at 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 bothering themselves about future
| pleurisies and rheumstisms and neural
| gias and fevers. Their eyesight is feeble,
and they are worried lest they entirely lose
it. Their hearing is ipdistinct, and they
are alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf. They felt chilly to-day and arc ex-
pecting an attack OF typhoid. They have
been troubled for weeks with some per-
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 Won while you sleep
with your windows tight down or eat
chicken salad at II o'clock at night or sit
down on cake Of ice to cool off. Be pru.
dent and then be confident. Some of the
sickest people have been the most useful
IL 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 go 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"
tune is wrong because it units us for it
when it actually does come. We cannot
always have smooth sailing. LIES path
will sometimes tumble among declvities
and mount a 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 Of the sepul-
cher creak and grind as it shuts in our
kindred. But VIC 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 wall some
times go go far back in order to get im:e-
tus that when they come up they are ex-
hausted, and these long races in order to
get spring enough te 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 unbelief. God has
blooms with assurances. Your hunger
will he faI e,nlyp xr-,ll ho ell
waited, 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 victory
and good cheer. The summer clouds that
seem thunder charged really carry in. thoir
bosom harvests Of wheat and shocks Of
corn and vineyards purpling for the wipe
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
apocalyptic vision, and you 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 and
the scream of the vulture. bat the way
trees of life overareh it, and thrones line
it, and crystalline fountains leap on it,
and the pathway ends at gates that are
pearl. and streets that are gold, and tenn
pies that are always open, and hills that
quake with perpetual song and city.
mingling 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 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 to his son at school enough money
to last him several years, but as the bills
for tuition and board and clothing and
books come in pays them. So God will not
give you grace all at once for the future,
but will meet all your exigencies as they
come. Through earnest prayer trust Him.
People ascribe the success of certain
line Of steamers to business skill. and
know not the fact that when that line of
steamers started the wife of the proprie-
tor passed the whole of each day when a
steamer sailed in prayer to God for it's
safety and the success of the line. Put
everything in Gods hands and leave it
there. Large interest money to pay will
soon eat up farm, store, an estate and
the interest on borrowed troubles will
swamp anybody. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof"