Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-08-25

peu 10 us Udck. Stranger, SdlQ the
king, why art thou still holding thy
pack? Because" answered the man,
II did not feel that thou wouldst like
it if 1 placed it in thy chariot. I
thought if thou vert willing to carry
me 1 ought at least to be willing to
hold my pack" ''Oh, foolish man, an
swered the king, eff l am willing to
carry thee am / not willing to carry
thy pack also? So God promises that
he will help us carry the duties of the
present day. But instead of trusting
him as to the future most people go and
pile upon their own backs all the cares
and the anXieties of the morrow They
sit in the Divine Kings chariot, like
the tired traveller of old, weighed down
with pack of tomorrow's cares, which
they ought to be willing to lay at their
Masters feet.
AS worry racks the physical frame
so that the tired mind is unable to
think clearly; as it overtaxes the nery-
Gus system until the ganglia or nerve
centers have imperfect connection, or
complete discOnnection, like the teie-
phone when the wires have become
broken or crossed; as worry paralyzes
the digestive organs until they refuse
properly to assimilate the food upon
which the human body is dependent
for the sustenance of life; as it is the
forerunner of all the fatal diseases
| by which the human race is invalided
! and destroyed, so it is an awful sin
for you to fret and worry about the
future and destroy your lifes useful
ness and influence. Can you not as
true Christian men and women go
forth to meet the duties of the present
day and leave the visionary future in
Gods hands? Worry is not harm
less gadfiy, an insectile annoyance, a
| buzzing irritant haphazard playful
habit. 1t is sin which has destroyed
more victims than have ever been
slain upon the field of battle or ground
into pieces between the upper and the
neither millStOneS of persecution and
SANDER. Beware how you allow it's
fatal poison to enter your sinful heart
Anticipating trouble is form of in
tellectual and spiritual sin by which
some men are blinded to the apprecia-
ton or enjoyment of present blessings
Because of this sin they cannot thank
God for their loving wives and de-
voted children. They cannot thank
God for the food they eat and the
clothing they wear. They cannot
thank him for their opportunities of
usefulness and for health and life.
They are always thinking of something
they might have had; of something
that might be taken away. They have
no gratitude in their hearts to God for
anything. Every kiss has in it for
them the sting of a scorpion. Every
sunbeam is eclipsed by q dark cloud.
Every song has in it the echo of a
requiem ard death rattle. Every
moment is for them a pallbearer
clothed in black walking by the casket
of a stenchful corpse.
The Sin of Worrying.
Hogarth, the great caricaturist, once
declared that he never saw a beauti
full face without instantly thinking
how he could distort it and make il
look ridiculous So people who are al
ways worrying about the future are q
species of sinful, morbid icaturiStS
rendering hideous and repulsive even
the sweetest and the tenderest bless
ings of the present day. They are like
some of those self absorbed and alb
sentminded people you meet and speal
to upon the street. You may bow tC
them and talk to them, but they see
not and hear not. They are in theil
imaginations a thousand miles away
Those people who are anticipating trou
bles can never pluck the flowers Goo
has planted at their feet; they can new
er hear the birds, whose wings Coo
has fashioned, singing over their heads
they can never look into the unfath
omed sea of affection which God hal
} rolled into the deep blue of a child'i
{ eye, because they are always living II
: the dark caverns, the reptile inhabited
dungeons which their own evil imagi
l nations have created.
: In order to overcome this sin of wor
l rying want you to try an experiment
| Every hour of every day try to thinl
T of the blessings God has given to yol
e instead of trying to remember all you
e troubles. If you have poor memory
. w duI YOU " lihc d lung SuccL VI pd
+ per and write those blessings down a
i you think of them, and then every Lii
= tie while take up this paper and rea
q over the list. You will need a yer
t long sheet of paper when you once be
i gin the list. You are going to be SUI
G prised, overwhelmingly surprised, a
n the great number of blessings you ca
e put down.
e l well remember, many years age
It when my father once gathered all hi
= children together about his chair an
e gave to each one of us long sheet o
r paper and told us to write down on
It blessings. At first could not think 0
< "a thing to write, but after awhile th
II blessings. the many blessings, which
It had began to crowd into my brain.
l. wrote and wrote until after awhile
r had to get another sheet of DaDe]