St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-10-05


Bile is wrong because the present is suf=
ficiently 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. Also
for the policy 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 entire caravan.
I never look at my memorandum book
to see what engagements and duties
are far ahead. Let every week bear its
own burdens. The shadows of to-day
are thick enough. Why implore the
presence of other shadows? The cup
is already distasteful. Why halloo to
disasters far distant to come and
wiring out more gall in the bitterness?
Are we such champions that, having
won the belt in former encounters, we
can go forth to challenge all the fu-
ture?
Here are 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 if panic should come and
my investments should fail? Go to-
morrow and write on your daybook
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. Do not pile up
on your counting desk the financial
anxieties of the next 20 years. The
God who has taken care ofyour world
~ occupation, guarding your store
from the torch of the incendiary and
the key of the burglar, will be as faith
full in 1910 as in 1901. Gods hand is
mightier than the Vaccinations Of
stock gamblers or the plots of political
demagogues OF 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 well now,
but they are bothering themselves
about future pleurisies and rheuma-
tisms and neuralgias and fevers. Their
eyesight is feeble, and they are wor-
ried unless they entirely lose it. Their
hearing is indistinct, and they are
alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf. They feel chilly to-day and are
expecting an attack of typhoid. They
have been troubled for weeks with
some perplexing malady and dread be-
coming lifelong invalids. Take care
of your health now and trust God for
the future. Be not guilty of the bias
phemy of asking Him to take care of
you 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 prudent, and
then be confident. Some of the sickest
people have been the most useful. It
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 60 on again. Theodore Ere.
linghuysen had great horror of dying
till the time came and then went peace
fully. Take care of the present, and
let the future look out for itself. "Suf-
icient unto the day is the evil there
Of"
Again, the habit of borrowing mis-
fortune is wrong because it units us
for it when it actually does come. We
cannot always have smooth sailing.
Life's path will sometimes tumble
among declivities and mount a steep
and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss
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 gate Of the sepulcher
creak and grind as it shuts in our
kindred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by forbodings. They who
fight imaginary foes will come out OF
breath into conflict with the armed dis
asters of the future. Their ammuni-
ton viii 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 or
der 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 u up ct