Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1877 — A Girdle of Fret. [ARTICLE]

A Girdle of Fret.

There are men in the world who wear a girdle of fret, as trying as any friar’s to annoy them. They fancy that in ouch experience is to be found the highest fulfillment of religious duty and truest expression of the world’s probation. 'Seme one has said that they procure their tickets and then carry their luggage with them, always encumbered with it, wherever thev go, while there is provided a proper and capacious receptacle for all encumbrances. Oh, what domestic infelicity this spirit of worry occasions! Mary and Martha are always in confusion, never able to comprehend one another. What business impatience and misunderstandings are inspired by this same«contradiction, as it exists in common forms! The assurance needs to be taken home by every one-of us, that worry is the deadly foe of the-Gospel and of common sense. In both the general and the special providences' of God, which are revealed to us on every page of the Bifile, theie are distinct utterances against. this tendency by which-we are all plagued. .But in addition to these promises there positive precepte which make it most evident that anxiety has in it the very nature of sin, and is the mother of misery. However nervous, depressed and despairing may be the tone of anyone, the Lord leaves him no excuse, for there is enough in God’s promise to overbalance all these natural difficulties. In the measure in which tne Christian enjoys his privileges, rises above, the things that are seen, hides himself in. the refuge provided for him, will he be able to voice the confession of Paul, and say. “ None of these things” —however combined and confederate they may be—“.none of these thinge move me.”— Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr.