The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-18

CT a deceiver who deliberately prom ised what He knew He could not do, or else was Himself deceived and ex- pecting Gods protection had been left to fate and failure. The actual fact confronting their unbelief an6 hope lessness, teaches us never to doubt, never to despair.
 They worried as they went They should not have been on the way to seek a dead Christ. If they must, how ever, let them not worry as they go. They fretted over difficulty which did not exist. This is just what we are all Inclined to do. Bound on errands of love, and duty, we keep worrying over the obstacles in the way; so we poison all life and take the joy out of service, More than half the pain and suffering | we ever have, is. in our minds when we f are anxious about the morrow, which the Saviour said would rake care of itself. It is from lack of confidence in God, whom we should trust to make our way plain. The experience of these women is typical. Somehow, as we go on, the tomorrow we worried over is all rght-when we reach it. Somehow | the Jordan we worried about crossing rolls back it's flood when our feet touch the brink Almighty God was not asleep while we lay awake worrying. Like these women, we find that our Christ once dead, lives, and the stone of dread is rolled away.
 l Our text, then, contains a deep les son against hopelessness and worry | We should cultivate the confidence that God is in charge of the world and is competent 10 control it
 Some "happy- go lucky" people sing their way through the world, in a sort of intoxication, always trying to for- get that trouble exists. blind to the evils that threaten life. As a man drugs himself with morphine, or drowns his sorrow in drink, so they plunge into pleasure, and never face real life. The unhappy man laughs ! most loudly because he is trying to keep back the sobs. This is surely not the right way to live dependent on stoical self-control, or on chance for | happiness, We should not have to practice self-deceit to be happy Some 1 say that is the only way, that if wt think, we go insane. We are then like the whaling crew, caught in the Arc 1 tic ice, doomed to the Imprisonment for six months, with provisions fol one, which eats, drinks, and Is merry !, and refuses to think of the day wher l the larder shall be empty. The goddess man has no Providence in his life. Ht knows nothing of sweet. kind, Al. mighty intelligence, in control of the world. He knows only the world, surg. l ing about him in ocean vastness ant l power, and himself alone on the Widt deep sea, The true life is rather this
 to face honestly whatever is and cal
 it best believing that. God is in con
 trol, and is competent
 Our natural tendency is to independ
 ence and self-trust, and then--anxiety l We are never quite sure that God is II ,control. Some people, on board a shil
 take the whole care of the ship. They
 question the officers, inspect the en lgines and watch with the watchmen and although passengers have as mucl anxiety as the captain himself, ther, lare some who think a thing will never
 be done right unless they attend to i
 personally.
 A Boston man, who belongs to thi
 class went abroad this summer. Al
 the way over he worried about hi
 parrot, because he was not there t
 feed ii. When he reached Liverpool
 he cabled to his brother, in whose car,
 the parrot was, Have you fed tn parrot?" His brother cabled back
 Have fed the parrot. He is hungr!
 again. What shall I do next?" well
 so some people bear all the anxious
 load of detail on their mind. The,
 stand like Atlas with the world oi
 their shoulders. They would like tt
 give God some advice, Or remind Hin
 of things He might forget. The world
 the church, the nations in commotion
 all give anxiety. "Is it coming ou
 right?" they wonder They ''hear o
 wars and rumors of wars" and alway
 talk of ''the signs of the times" whicl
 forever portend evil They are anxious
 about God, and sorry for Him, too. An
 other and chiefest cause of worry i
 the personal life. Does God knov
 about me? Is He ordaining my life
 Has He made a mistake%" the,
 ask An, friends, we need to hush ou habble of fears. Just like a man wht
 stands in the door, trying to listen t,
 his friend on the sidewalk, while in
 side the house other people are talk
 ing to him, so we stand facing Coo , who speaks peace, while inside ou
 fears and anxiety keep insistentl,
 driving their complaint and guesse ) Into our ears. Let us turn around minute, and say to them, 'Be still; will hear what God the Lord vii speak"
 God is omnipotent good, and kind , Then 'all things work together fo . good to those who love God. There i no evil, so far as we are concerned God can do what He set out to dc