Borrowiug Trouble

Southland Times, Issue 10199, 3 July 1889, Page 2

Borrowiug Trouble

It is uncomfortably true that there is almost as muck distress of mind experienced in the anticipation as in the nalization. A oit half <f our unhappy dayi are occasioned by oir looking forward to th« 3 unhappneaa of he other half. « Sufficient unto the day ia the evil thereof.' We need never take another jot ou credit. In borrowing trouble, natural laws are reveled; mere mole hills of annoyance become mountains when viewed at a distance ahead. Some persons never takeactual comfort, in tranquil times the dread, of a coming change U always in the way ot tbeir enjoyment. I know of a family who were forever expecting to move, consequently neglecting to make,garden, repair tae house or permanently arrange the furniture. At the la', est ad vice* t i.« family had livediuthesame house elevenye2H If we take thing! as they came we shall usually find that they come mii3h better than we have any right to expect. Our anticipa* tory flags of distress may have been inviting compassion »nd flinging patches of darkuets over many a bright scene for months, only for us to find at list that we have been guilty of needlessly, we might say criminally, robb. iog ourielves and. others of tie happintii rightfully belonging to ns and to them. 4 Borrowing. trouble' is sometimes only another name for selfishness, for the one borrow* ing trouble is seldom satisfied, unlets all with* in his or her influence are inveigled into the toils. Itie holding a dangerous serpent in our hearts, which grows with what it feed* upon, It is sinful* for it ii an abidiog dii* truit of Qq4'i gwflaws. ,