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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, FEB. 25, 1881. 9 Don’t Worry. wrong as in you lies; and thank God sire of mankind to be happy, but we raised up Jesus from the dead shall that he has given you a conscience* would’nt argue therefore all men are also quicken your mortal bodies. How shall I pievent it ? that will let pou have no peace while We conclude then with the thought Four thousand years ago Job asked Jiappy or will be happy. On the There is ne panacea for worry ; the you are transgressing. the question, “ If a man die shall he other hand we look at man as he is- that the Bible is the only place where disease is various and the remedies- The cause may be still deeper. We live again I” He was, no doubt, in and we see him to-day in the beauty we can find a satisfactory answer to are various. Sometimes the difliculty woryy when we are bent on having tensely ifiieresteci in the question of and strength of his manhood, but to- Job’s question. is physical. It is a brain disease. If our own way and fear lest we shall E. B. W. life and death, but especially in the niorrow we see him cut down like the a physician could feel your pulse, lit, not; we cease to worry when it be jfuture of man beyond this life. He plant; the body decayeth and wasteth Discontented Teachers? would tell you you were a little comes our habitual and supreme wish ,,4op^ed upon this present life as re away, it returns to its mother dust; feverish. Your head is hot; your that another shall have his way;. There appears to be at present a vealed in his own experience, and and. so far as human wisdom and ex brain overexcited ; perhaps your when we v.«s learn to pray without eras thought, no doubt, like Paul, that perience are able to discern, it goes general discontent among, the teachers digestion impaired ; at all events, ing, “Thy will, not mine be done.” “ if in this life only.we have hape we | down to death forever. So it is in of this country. So, at least, we infer are of all men the most miserable.’ all animal creation. \\ e find no from the tone of communications pub your nervous system exhausted. You The child worries because he is bent need a chance to recuperate. Think on the picnic, and he fears the gather Job’s affliction,’no doubt, had much to satisfactory proof of the fact that “ if lished in the educational journals. The other day we made a list of the ing, even praying, which is sometimes ing clouds mean rain; and the man do in leading him to reflect- for the a man die he shall live again. complaints contained in about a dozen the most stimulating form of thought, worries because his heart is set on future life, so it has ever been with We turn now to the vegetable only aggravates the trouble. Go to preserving his commercial honor and man, affliction, sorrow and bereave i kingdom. Is there anything in all of these periodicals. It is not necessary to mention the sleep ; get a good night’s i est ; and in the impending crisis threatens bank ment are ofyyi the means in the pro [ vegetable life, from which we might j the "morning the worries will have ruptcy ; the mother worries because vidence of~God to lead us to contem suppose,- that there is a life beyond chronic complaint of insufficient in gone where the black dies go when she wishes to deci.de whether her sick plate on our soul’s eternal welfare. this* present state oT existence. I comp because that is common to the Job, in the belief that he was going to look out uporr-the “ beaiittful hills whole “human race. We have met cold nights come»—nobody can guess child shall live or die, and the decision “ is not left to her. The remedy for die, was anxious about his future, in covered with their carpets of green, with all sorts of people in our pilgrim where. But peiintp’s you cannot sleep. this worry is to have no will but this he is like all others of Tas kind. they seem to be fit emblems of per- age through this vale of tears ; but we Sleeplessness is alwayf a dangerous God's will; to wish nothing but that 3len often feel no particular interest, petual . youth; but alas’. in a few have rarety encountered any one who symptom of a dangerous disease. The his kingdom should come and his will about their future until they are short months I look again, and all is had 'ptift money enough.- Passing trouble is not merely with thé brain, be done. It is for the child to learn, brought face to face with death, then changed: that grass has withered, this by, we find our teachers -com I or with.the digestion ; it is with the I am God’^-child, and lie.knows best they often begin to cry out, “ It a and is dead ; that flower that bloomed plaining of the follo'wing things : | circulation. Yoùr blood is sluggish ; 1. Their profession, they say,'has when it should rain ; it is for the man man dieshall he live again ?’■ It is so beautifully has.fallen to tjie earth your nervous system is used up ; your to learn, I am Gods agent, ami he sate to say that no more important to rise no more. I look^again at that no prices.' A soldier can win promo muscular system has had little oi no knows whether I can serve him best question was ever propounded by a majestic oak, he has stood the storm tion, as well as glory, and can come at employment. Then do something to a son of Adam’s race. We may realize of a hundred years,’but at last he has , last to be one of the chief personages tire, the muscles and start th.e blood by success or bankruptcy ; it is for the importance of it, if we will re- yielded to the wreck ef time and lies 01 c°untry- A man of business Do not fall into the delusive snaie of the mother to realize that God alone ' can acquire ___ member that in. th®, solution of i t ls is prostrate'upon the earth never _ __ 1-j } r , Wealth, and surround his “gentle e\ei*cise ;” that is admissible is wise enough to know whether life to rise or death is best, and to be able to with elegance and safety. An involved the destiny of- the human 1 again. Thus it is in all ve ‘ b ¡retable ° . .. xt . .• 1 _ _ u 1 • x ” 1 ._____x only for invalids. Whatsoever you thank God that he leaves not the race. There is an iriate desire in man life, like that of animal, it is swàllow- author can make a “ hit,” and soar at do, do it with all youi might. Take to live again. lhe query of Job is ed up in death, leaving, no evidence once into fame and fortune. For the a tramp on the hills ; saw wopd ; ride responsibility of choosing to her. Rest, recreation, confession, conse ■only the outward manifestation of behind of returning to life. Once teacher there is no issue, no outlet, no on horseback ; give fifteen minutes to cration—these ar«i the four recipes for that■ longing for immortality which more I appeal to nature and askof reward. For the few prizes which "an Indian duty or a pair—of-not too, we find in the bosom of every man her “ if a man die shall he live l^e Pr°fe9s'on might claim, the presi- heavy dumb-bells ; run; jump; dig Wi tv .— But this desire -is not sufficient agiin ?” The history of all animal fientships of colleges, even these are How He Used His “ Pi.” in the garden; anything to exert proof of the fact that man shall live and vegetable, life, if they say any- always bestowed upon members of your body and stop thé exertion of another profession. again. It was the desire of Job that thing, say no. In his youth Sir Richard Phillips I 2. The teacher has no hold upon your mind, to set your muscles int» edited and published a paper at Lei prompted him to make the inquiry, I turn once more. to nature, I ap- exercise and give your nerves a. rest. his place, ana. ms and^ can acquire none, nene, no but that desire was not satisfactory peal .... to the silent earth, is there any- - ‘ , ,, Get into a glow and perspiration, and cester, England, called the Herald. . . , . , , . . \ matter if he is the ___ best _ teacher _____ "* ___ _ in the i-.J evidence of the fact that he should f, thing in this department of nature make yourself feel thoroughly, healthy One day an article appeared in it universe. He is no better off in this live again, hence the question, which says that a man shall live tired. Then take a bath, get on heated “ Dutch Mail,” and added to respect than a politician, who may at When we lay our loved ones away again ? J Ye 1 v 111 LI of .lx DV 1 vv 1*1 V . • , men science who pro- clean, dry clothes,-eat a light hneal it was an announcement that it had c . , , . ., . any moment, and without a moments . in the cold earth, then it is that we fess to have broken the seals of the J . with a good appetite, and go to bed ; arrived toe late for translation, and previoui notice, receive a note in a feel the importance of -tbis^queation. book of nature, and to be able to re and, ten chances to one you will go to been set up and printed in the origi We look upon the deathly face for the veal to man the secrets of his past yellow envelope, turning him out of a sleep. nal, This wondrous article drove half v last time, and the question comes up and future history, tell us, if you can, place he has held twenty years. The cause may be more intellectual England crazy, and for years the best * 3. The teacher is compelled to obey than physical. The mind sometimes Dutch scholars squabbled and j wired with, redoubled force and significance, if there is written upon the flinty his inferiors. The average member of gets running in a certain groovè and overit without being abie to arrive at " •• Shall he live again ?” “ We weave pages of this earth’s history anything a schtfol committee, say our education it tannot lift itself but of its groove. any idea at what it meant. our chaplet of flowers anl strew the that teaches us that " if a man die he al jourfials, is not equal in knowledge It thinks the same thing over and beauties of nature about the grave,” shall live again ?” The answer comes The famous “ Dutch Mail ” was in and capacity to the average teacher. but in all these pleasant memories up from the “ rock-ribbed earth,” No, over again ; trots round and round in reality merely a column of“ pi.” This assertion might be questioned; the same dry, dusty course ; meets the there is no rest to 'the troubled soul, there is nothing written upon'the “ Pi,” it may as well be explained, but probably, the average school com same questipn, balances again and is a jumble of odd letters gathered up- for the desire of that soul is to know rocks which assures the future life of mittee does not know as much about again the same question, balances and set on end so as to save their man. The voice of "science tell us teaching as the teachers whom they again the-^same arguments prd and faees from being scraped, to be dis again.”. that other worlds have lived and died Where do we find an answer to this elect, direct and dismiss. con, comes to the same decision—or tributed at the leisure of the. prin and that this one is doomed to des great question ? There are but two • 4. Holding his place at the mercy indecision—and then begins once ters in their proper places. Some let truction. sources from which we may reason of the school committee, the teacher more. This is one of the uses of ters are up side down, often ten or Thus speaks the united testimony ably expect an answer, if the question cannot speak his mind freely even on fiction ; of society ; of games ; of the moie comments or as many vowela of all nature, and the question of Job is answered from neither of these, subjects relating to the management home circle. Every man must find come together, and the whole is pep Z • stands unanswered. Nature does not then may we safely conclude that it of the school. He must please, he his own intellectual pastime ; that is pered with punctuations, dashes, and answer it, she can not. is unanswered at all, and that it is must flatter them by acqnicsenca He' There is but one other source to can be sincere, direct and wise, only at best for him which most effectually so cn, till it might pass for poetry by unanswerable, and that all is dark breaks up the stupid eddy of his a lunatic Choctaw. The Mory Sir ness, so far as our knowledge is con which we can look ; if we reject that j the risk of his position. thoughts and allows them to resume Richard tells of the particular "pi,”’ cerned in reference to the great then may we rest assured that the 5. He has no standing in the con» their onward current. With one man he*had had a hand in is this problem of the future life. These great problem of the "future is unre munity. Or, as one of our journals' One evening, before one of our pub it is a book: with another children; sources, to which we may look for an vealed, and whatever may be our de- has it, “Ina small village he is a man lications, my men and a boy over iniportanc. btlt in a )arge with a third a good horse; with a answer to this question, are Nature sires, our longius, or our expectations, of we go down to the grave without a city, the teacher has virtually no so fourth a social game; with a fifth turned two or three columns of the- and Revelation. music. Blessed is the man whose paper in type. We had to get ready If there is nothing in nature, and single ray of light to light up the cial standing.”^ home gives him Buch employment as some way for the coaches, which at. God has not revealed anything which darkness-by which it is surrounded. These are the principal complaints, to turn thé current of his thoughts four in the morning required 400 or proves the future existence and hope- That other source is revelation. If and there is some cause for them' ex 500 papers. After every exertion we ness of man, then inde'ed are our God has not made known the fact of cept perhaps, the last. If there is any into new channels ; whose wife knows were short nearly a column, but there’ how to make the cares of the house hopes blasted, and we can say with a future life by a revelation from circle in any city where a good teach stood a tempting column of "pi,” on hold and children a sweet intrusion, Job that “ man cometh forth like a heaven, then that fact is unknown to er would not be held in honor both the galleys. It suddenly struck me- who is wise enough never to bring plant and is cut down as the waters the world. for his own and" his profession's sake, that this might be thought Dutch. I the perplexities of home business ap We see at once the position that all the discredit belongs to the circle, not fail from the seaand the flodd decay- made up the column, overcame the- for evening discussion after a hard «th andjdrieth up, so man lieth down those who reject the Bible place them to the teacher. scruples of the foreman, and so away and wearisome day, and is yet wise selves in, they reject the only source and riseth not.” Our great lack is a better organ iza-* the country edition went, with its- enough to use the home perplexities We propose to look first to nature. from which we can expect any light tion of the whole teaching service, so philological puzzle to worry the hon to dhive other and greater cares away; Is there anything in nature that on this great question. And herein as to keep out the incompetent, and est agricultural readers ’ head.. There blessed is the man who has learned proves to our entire satisfaction that we see the great adaptability of the to enable the competent to gain due Is of man. It be-, promotion and reasonable emolument. hovp5to enter into his children’s wor was plenty of time to set up a column “ if a man die he shall livo again ?” Bible to the of plain English for the local edition.”' Nature is divided into three king cont.es his instructor Where he needs Either this will be done, or the com ries and make them his own, and in Sir Richard tells of one man whom» doms ; the animal, the vegetable and most some one to instruct. It brings mon school system will gradually de making them his own to find relief he met in Nottingham who fov thirty from the greater cares of the shop and four years preserved a copy of th» mineral. What evidence is there in jey to his heart where nothing else cline into efficiency. the counting room. Leicester Herald, hoping that some any or all of these departments of na can. Where every other friend fails In an ideal State, teachers would But the causes of worry are not al day the letter would be explained.—> ture of the eternal existence of man ? it steps in, his truest and best friend, constitute an order of nobility, and I freely confess to my mind there is and brings peace to his troubled soul. would consist of the very choice of the ways physical ; they are sometimes •••♦*—----- - . *4" A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat none. Let us take man himself, is It is the only book, it is the only inhabitants. The chief business of spiritual ; then the remedy must be there anything in man, aside from the place in the wide world where we each generation is to rear and educate spiritual. Worry is sometimes a mild sbonD be Hopped. Neglect frequenter results iu an luctirsble Lung T^-rerr or' light of revelation, that teaches us find a satisfactory answer to Job’s the next, and civilization progresses form of remorse. You have done Consumption. Brown’s Bronchial Tro- • wrong; the memory of it rankles; ehes are certain to give relief in Asthma, question. that he shall live forever ? when the best of the present genera Jesus answered that question when tion does the greater |>art of the work you cannot get rid of the rankling. Bronchitis, Conglis, Catarrh, OonsessptiTe We have noticed before that the and Thro it DMews. For thirty yr are simple desire in man for eternal life he said to those weeping sisthrs, for the next. How to bring the beat An unoonfeesed wrong is like a tbs Troche* ha* lw»cn recommended bj* aud alwaya give purfect aesia- is no proof that he shall live beyond “ Thy brother »hall live again,” and minds to bear U|K>n the mass of mind ■plinter in the flesh ; it festers, and physicians, faction. llx-yikre not n«>w or untried but — that is the sublime problem of re the only remedy for the festering is having been tested by wide and constant this life. This argument founded on he seated the v;hy, when he said, " I publican statesmanship to take the splinter out. Nothing but use for nearly so entire'generation, they the longings of man for a future life, am the resurrection and the life, who So many of our readers expect to have attained a ell,merited rank »tuoiig l b» or to live forever, has been preset d too soever lives and believes in me shall become teachers, that they may as repentance and confession can do that. few staple remedies of the ag<j. 1'jbLio far. It' does’nt prove that he shall never <1ie.” God showed the how, well begin to think of these things.— Confess to God ; confess to the indi •peakers and Singers nse them to dear and strengthen the Voioe. «old at twenty vidual you have wronged ; repair the ■v» live forever. It is the universal de where he said the same spirit that Companion, cents a box everywhere. - Job’s Query. u' alii v ’ vllVC • UM I i 4