The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-19
. SCRIPTURE LESSONS.
Reforms in Religion and manners
! Sadly Needed.
CHRIST'S REDEEMINGeGRACE.
PRAYERS and Preaching in Fthe Grove
and by the Sea.
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
ooNrrNrMEyr AND DIsCoNTENrMENT-sERA


BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
CONFINEMENT AND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BY THE REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
Mr. Talmage preached yesterday In orning In the
Rrooxlyn Tabernacle on "Contentmeni and Discon-
tentment," taking his text from Psams xxxviL l.
'Fret not tbyssli because Of evil doers The human
race said Mr.. ramage, are hard to please II seems
as # God by the stretch Of His omnipobence and the
plying Of His eternal wisdom and she expression OIL
HIS infinite love cannot make some people happy.
They study all their sensations to seef they can dis
cover pain and the world is full oi-worriment and
discomfort and hypercriticism and usefulness Tho
world Is struck through ana through with discomfort
IL IN Tor tho purpose of showing thet folly and tho
weakness or this spirit OF fretfulness iat address
YOU this morning from biblical injunction, "Fret
not tbyseE"
CAUSES Discomfort
think frequent cause oil iretulness ais bodily
condition God has tuned bodies to exquisite
endowment but we easily succumo 10 pain lin other
words We fret. How strange that you so soon for
get the young years OF robust health that one dis
coyery OF m health will make you forget the lifelong
puisation oil health Why don't you 90 a nong tho
poor and the invalid and then come bacIt and beg
Cd that He win teach you never again TO iIstY
Contrast the more IOrtubate condition OF other
people often induces this spirit o! irsiulness Fhey
nave 1t easy; have 1t hard On. dear how shall
circumstances their lite out against SO msbodys
brown throw their happiness under the
Il were crushing Juggernaut under which they must
be SACRIFICED. These people forget that maaSs happ-
ness Is not dependent outward condition. The In
mortal soul that put bong Is not dependent
on a span OF horses. He who once dwet IN a'manger
is wiling now, NIL the flashing gores, OF h Is
train 10 come to a tenemeni Goa will nurl away
hat VINO, when he ought 10 be thankful. covers
all with the burrs and thorns oil pTpeIuai
Iretiuness Somebody that II Of these people
actually got into heaven he would not be suitso there
this halo doesn't d. a BIT" tLaughter) The fact Is
IL wants TO hnd iault with his circumsta aces Ia
lie hnd fault all the time. One OF tlse most
uespicabic spirits IN all the worio u tnlssp'r't Of
fretIulness and complaint
Abuse from other people also cause Of this spirit
Men want TO DO treated well, 10 be handled llshty.
Who you that you should escapeY DID not they
Paul the apostle as sensational preacher and
Christ a sot? Besides that, are you not willing that
others should have some amusement You often
laugh the world why not let tho world sometimes
laugh Al you? Be man and finch not at N bite OF
nca Take the word comes. Don't fret. Inc
world aon't know half our weaknesses and ioibes or
~ would laugh louder yet
Again. think the Inconsistency OF other people
makes u great deal OF irotfuncss. Men iret not SO
much about their own faults as they do about the
faults oil others. have noticed that man is both
er ed about in other peoples just the
beam his eye approaches the sizs OF ship tim
Der God don't hold YOU respo nsble Tor the worlds
behavior. Because other voyagers through eternity
run their vessel on the rocks is NO reasen why you
sh ,uid lose your bearing. Love- 1ndness patience
must the characteristics OF christian workcrs
MANY people are led into fretfuluess because relig
ION does triumph as rapidly AS they would like 10
have It. Christianity seems to be failure, they say.
They don't realize what has been accom- pshed The
fact Is that tor nearly six thousand years satan
ranged numbered IN ths world and that IL IS within
the present century that all the great missionary
projects have been accomplished.
REMEDIES FRErFu1NEss.
..How may get The spirit of iretfunessY" l
viii tell you FIRST OF all, realize that the LORD Goa
pmuipotsnt rcgneh that In all the ages past He has
never made one mistake, in all the ages 10
He viii never mako a mistake. We may hight against
Gods providence but our complaints and fretiuluess
and assault will come back again upon our own miser-
ADIe. faces.
Besioes that, we to remember that all these
soon going to end. A lew more trials ana dstresses
xud then you viii be ushered into lifo svealastngy
glad and trium phanI In sickness, povertyand death
xeepng may endure Tor The night but JOY cometh In
the morning.
RsmcmDer. you arc only under divine discipline
now. You only going TO school. God would not
be so cruel as let have our own way. Tncre are
lessons learn, tasks we must take, drudgery
through which We must 60 IL would De cruel In Gou
10 let Us have our own way
II will be beathiul II we contrast our condition
with those that more unfortunate. Who're
sou ind one person better oil than you are you
viii nd ave hundred worse or The TACT Is that many
of you spoiled children. You huve been peted oil
nfe's successes; you have walked around In en-
brodcred slippers while many have put their bare
feet hard down the cobulestones. In winter you
feit the breath OF the register, while others
nave gone out 10 pick up scant bundle oil sticks
How many would rejoice TO get the crumbs from your
tablet Win all The heaven full OF stars BY night,
sunIignt By day, and the world covered with flowers
and iruiis and the Tree, ful, everlasting salvation
stretched before some OF us have done nothing
but frc May God forgive IA Tor our past ngratitude
help US tnis day 20 resolve thawe have made our
last Complaint In fsrvent prayer let us ask toat
meek and quiet spirit which In the city OF God Is OF
great price lake home this practical lesson, appro-
pirate to me, appropriate 10 you, "Don't ret