The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-30
Full Of Troubles.

Men and women must bend their bacl
and load up with the troubles of lite.
always was so and always, no dsubs. g
be so.
The last trouble we have on earth
while we are getting out Of it. If We d
as we should we will have no more troub1
II we die as we should not our troubleysw4
have only just begun.
Why some of my readers should hay
such terrible troubles I do not know. PEI
haps some of them are of the kind thd
have worried me-more in thought than
reality.
Little troubles are sometimes e nuisanc
Not large enough to weigh us down. b
US Of sleep at night.
A few nights since I was troubledsabo
almost nothing, but it would not leave ID
and was strong enough to toss me aboi
on my bed. But sleep had its way, on
the next morning I could not help smiff
at myself for being: so foolish as TO let sud
3 little bit of a thing trouble me-.
Bear your burdens as lightly as you ca
Do not pet or hug them, but give them ,
understand that you have something be
ter on hand than to be q crltayator
troubles.
The truth is that many Of our troubly
Ire brought about by our own foolishnes
A gentleman came to me with his fnancif
troubles, and was frank enough TO ed
that they were the result of his havif,
spent or allowed his family to spend ovd
$1,000 a year, while his salary was s$l4d,
The condition he found himself IN wd
that he had $500 worth of trouble durinI
the past year and had very little comfortl
Troubles brought about by sickness ed
Of a very serious kind and cannot be al
WAYS helped.
The daughter of a friend of mine wa
taken to a hospital in Nassau CountE N
Y, to be operated on for the third tim
last week. As her father was relating i
me what the young girl had to gothr6ug3
my heart ached for him and his who'd
family, and especially for the young girl.
There are troubles that make one FED
that this is q hard world to live in.x 81
Tar in life grace has been given me to bea|
mp under all the ills Of life that it has beel
my lot to encounter.
To do all you can to bear the burdens q
others is q good way to bear your own bug
have often found it to be SO.
I met an old lady in a village where
nnce resided who was so troubled with Til
backache that she was going to help an
other old lady who was in the same cond5
lion. Her idea was that while helpinI
her friend in her troubles she would for
get her own. 1t is sometimes GOOD poEcj
10 be your own doctor in this way.
Troubles! Don't stop to count them, fol
Il you do they will grow about as fast al
Tou can enumerate them.
The religion you profess is yours for Till
purpose of enabling you to beat down yon]
sorrows, no matter what they may be. Yal
must do your best and trustfthe rest
God. 49,
It is not pleasant to be poor: it rs M
cheerful to be sick, and there is no com
sort in being despised and unkindly treatsj
BY others. But if it is your lot to be thu
afflicted keep on thinking and hoping thai
there will soon come q change for the bet
ter. If the change never comes you will b
40 worse off for your thoughts.
If We had no trouble in this world w
would be very 10th to leave it. While
vas looking at a dying man. he suddenly
opened his eyes and said, George, I hays
had enough of the troubles of this life and
Jesus will soon take me home" "Soon,
proved to be inside of ten minutes. Wher
:he doctor pronounced the good man deaC
George softly responded "God is good"
Surely none of you have forgotten tina,
there is a great burden bearer, who ia eve
ready to help you in every time OF need
not occasionally. but all the time.-Georg,
z. Scott, in Sabbath Reading.