Do Not Fret

"Men get out of order by exeesbive industry, f'rouj steady watoh, from care, and 8o render morbid the whole nervoussystem and for the time being will draw fear from the future. Too niuch is too much of anything. Souie men are born hopeful ; they go upon life exactly as a bouyant boat float.i upon the waves. It goes up when they go up, it falls as they fall, but is evermore on the surface. I have known men bankrupted and they carne up nezt morning smiling. Then there are other men whose hope b at a minimum. The future is never radiant to tbem. One great fault U throwing into the future inflamed desires. It is not wrong for uien to desire richt.-. Certainly it is not wrong to deaire th;it whicli i.s the principal molive to industry. But if tbis is earried to an excess men becouio ii ica.ii, detestable. Thcre are multitudes of men who never think of enjoying themselves while they are acquiring riches. They put it off to the future and they live in a perpetual anxictyand fret over the acquisition of property. Propcrty is a very good thing, but it never had a valúe that juBtified a man in sacri&cing the happincss of his soul for it. Ilow uiany men there are suffering, care as to how their ohUdrea should stand in life, how their family ühould stand, and if next year they shall be as prosperous as they are now ? How many personu that brood and brood uunecessarily, as to the future of their ehildren, fearing that they tnay not turn out well. 'He has told a lie, and is on the road to the devil.' Well, l don't believe there ever was a child that did not lie. 1 1 is a part of their inheritcd nature, and it is an evil, and a great evil, and is to bc pluckcd up by the roots. I, when l go into my igardcn, never cry and say : 'Therc aro .so many ! I aul never goiug to havo a garden, never, never, never I' I dig u]i the weeds and say, I will have a garden.' And so parents, fcarful of their uhildren, tnay take courage. Now as to the remedy of the eviln that gruw out of this care for the future - and first we must put the diroct resistance of the will. It makes a reat difference whether a man takes a poker by the hot end or by the cold end. i'heru must be a vigorous determination that you are not cullci to joy ; that all the universa is made for you, and that you will not flubrait yourself to the degradation and bondage of perpetual intrusivo fears, that foa say. 'l will not perinit wyself to sut:er. ' The best way of escaping all these carping cares is to trust in the Lord. -