Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-17
DON'T INVITE SORROW.
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY IS THE
EVIL THEREOF.

DF' Ahimhge trenches Powerful Ser
mon ON the Insanity of borrowing
TrOuble-It Has Wrecked Many a Life
The Lord win Look Out for You.
BROOKLYN, Aug. l6.-Dr Talmage has
returned from his western tour reinvigo
rated In health and cheered by the hearty
and enthusiastic greetings he has rece we'd
IN the numerous cities he has visited
Thousands of persons who have read his
sermons in their local newspapers have
struggled to yet within sound of his voice
wherever he has spoken. His sermon this
week Is on the very common and foolish
habit OF borrowing trouble, and his text is
Matthew vi -, Sufficient unto the day Is
the evil thereof"
The life OF every man, woman and child
Is as closely under the divine care as
though such person were the only man,
woman or child. There are no accidents.
AS there IL n law OF storms In the natural
world, so there is "A law of trouble, law OF
disaster, law of misfortune but the ma.
Jority Of the troubles Of life are imaginary,
and the most Of those anticipated never
come. AT any rate, there Is no cause of
complaint against God, See how much he
hath done to make thee happy; his sun
shine filling the earth with glory, making
rainbow for the storm and halo for the
mountain, greenness for the moss, saffron
for the cloud and crystal for the billow,
and procession of hammered flame through
tho opening gates Of the morning, chat.
fnches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to
chant, and springs to blossom, and over
towering all other sounds with its song,
hipn a az of,In HpT tKrif II lee
triumph, covering up all other beauty with
its garlands, and publishing all other
thrones with its dominion-deliveran for
lost world through the Great Redeemer
discourse of the sin of borrowing trou
BILE
First, such habit Of mind and heart Is
wrong, because it puts one into a des-
pondency that i'll fits him for duty |
planted two rose bushes in my garden
The one thrived beautifully the other per
Ished. | found the dead one on the shady
side of the house. Our dispositions, like
our plants, need sunshine. Expectancy of
Fepulse Is the cause of many secular and
religious failures Fear of bankruptcy has
uptorn many fine business and sent the
man lodging among the note shavers
Fear OF SANDER and abuse has often invited
all the long beakcd vultures of scorn and
backbiting Many of the misfortunes of
life, like hyenas. flee II you courageously
meet them,
FORCE HAPPINESS TO COME.
How poorly prepared for religious duty
ls man who sits down under the gloom
of expected misfortuEel If he pray, he
says, 81 do not think shall be answered"
II he give, he says, 81 expect they will
steal the money" Helen Chalmers told
me that her father, Thomas Chalmers, in
the darkest hour of the history of the Free
Church of Scotland, and when the woes of
the land seemed to weigh upon his heart,
said to the children, Come, let us 20 out
and play ball or fly kite" and the only diff
hculty in the play was that the children
could not keep up with their father The
McCheynes and the Summerflelds of the
church who did the most good cultivated
sunlight. Away with the horrorsl they
distill poison; they dig graves, and if they
could climb so high, they would drown the
rejoicings of heaven with sobs ard wailing
You will have nothing but misfortune in
she future II you sedulously watch for it,
How shall n man catch the right kind of
fish II he arranges his line and hook and bait
to catch lizards and water serpentsP Hunt
for bats and hawks and bats and hawks
you will find Hunt for robin redbreasts
and you will find robin redbreasts One
night an eagle and an owl got into fierce
battle; the eagle unused to the night was
no match for an owl, which is most at
home in the darkness, and the king of the
air fell helpless; but the morning rose, and
with it rose the eagle; and the owls and
the night hawks and the bats came Il sec.
ond time to the combat; now, the eagle, in
ha wit a G M
and great cry, cleared the air, and his
enemies, with torn feathers and splashed
with blood, tumbled into the thickets. Yo
are the children of light. In the night of
dependency you will have no chance
against your enemies that flock up from
beneath, but trusting in God and stand.
ing In the sunshine Of the promises, you
shall "renew your youth like the eagle"
THERE ARE BLESSINGS A-PLENTY.
Again, the habit Of borrowing trouble
Gs wrong because it has a tendency TO
make us overlook present blessing. To
,slake mans thirst the rock is cleft, and
cool waters leap into his trimming cup.
TO feed his hunger the fields bow down
with bending wheat, and the cattle come
down with full udders from the clover pas
lures to give him milk and the orchards
yellow and ripen, casting their juicy fruits
dnto his lap. Alasl that amid such eXuber-
ance of blessing man should growl as
though he were o soldier on half rations,
or q sailor on short allowance; that a man
should stand neck deep in harvests look
ing forward to famine; that one should
feel the strong pulses Of health marching
with regular tread through all the avenues
of life and yet tFembe mt the expected as
sault of sickness that n man should sit in
his pleasant home, fearful that ruthless
want will some day rattle the broken win
dow sash with tempest, and sweep the
Goals from the hearth, and pour hunger
into the bread tray that man fed by
him who owns all the harYests should eX-
pect to starve; that one whom God loves
and surrounds with benedieton, and at.
tends with angelic escort, and hovers over
with more than motherly fondness, should
be looking for heritage of tearsl
Has God been hard with thee that thou'I
shouldst be forcboding2 Has he stintcd
thy board2 Has he covered thee with ragsH
Has he spread traps for thy feet, and CALLED
thy cup, and rasped thy soul, and wrecked
thee with storm and thundered upon thee
with life full of calamityY If your father
or brother come into your bank where gold
and silver arc lying about you do not
watch them. for you know they are honest;
but II an entire stranger come by the safe
you keep your eye on him, for you do not
know his designs So some men treat God;
not as q father but a stranger, and act
suspiciously toward him, as though they
were afraid he would steal something.
THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE.
It is high time you began to thank God