Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-08-20
DON'T INVITE SORROW.
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY IS THE
EVIL THEREOF.

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The Lord win Look Out for You.
BROOKLYN, Aug l6-Dr. Talnage has
returned from his western tour reinvigo-
rated in health and cheered by the hearty
and enthusiastic greetings he has received
in the numerous cities he has visited
Thousands of persons who have read his
sermons in their local newspapers have
struggled to get 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 "a, 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 is a law of storms in the natural
world. so there is law of trouble a law of
disaster, law of misfortune; but the ma
iority 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 filing 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
the opening gates of the morning, chat
finches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas TO
chant, and springs TO blossom, and over
towering all other sounds with its song,
and oyerarching all other splendor with its
triumph, covering up all other beauty with
its garlands, and publishing all other
thrones with its dominion-delivemnc for
a 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 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
repltlse 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 Islander and abuse has often invited
all the long beaked vutures of scorn and
backbiting. Many OF the misfortunes Of
life, like hyenas, flee If you courageously
meet them.
FORCE HAPPINESS TO COME.
How poorly prepared for religious duty
is a han who sits down under the gloom
of expected msfortuEel Ii he pray, he
SAYS, II do not think shall be answered.
If 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 go out
and play ball or fly kite" and the only diff
fculty in the play was that the children
could not keep up with their father. The
McCheynes and the Summeriields of the
church who did the most good. cultivated
sunlight. Away with the horrorsl they
dstill poison, they dig graves, and II they
could climb so high, they would drown the
rejoicings of heaven with sobs and wailing.
You will have nothing but misfortune in
the future if you sedulously watch for il.
How shall man catch the right kind Of
fish if he arranges his line and hook and bait
to catch lizards and water serpentsi Hunt
for bats and hawks and bats and hawks
yon will find Hunt for robin redbreasts
and you will find robin redbreasts. One
night an eagle aud 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 aud
the night hawks and the bats came a sec.
ond time TO the combat; now, the eagle, in
the sunlight with stroke OF his talons
and great cry. cleared the air, and his
enemies with torn feathers and splashed
with blood tumbled into the thickets Ye
are the children of light. In the night of
dependency you viii have no chance
against your enemies that flock up from
beneath, but, Trusting in God aud 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
is wrong because it has a tendency to
make us overlook present blessing To
sake 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
into his lap. Alasl that amid such exuber
ance of blessing man should growl as
though ne were sOtuler on nail ratlOns
or a sailor on short allowance; that man
should stand neck deep in haryests 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 tremble at the expected as
sault Of sickness; that 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 harvests should ex-
pect 30 starve, that one whom God loves
and surrounds with benediction, and at
tends with angelic escort, and hovers over
with more than motherly fondness. should
be looking for a heritage of tearsl
Has God been hard with thee that thou
shouldst he forebodings Has he stinted
thy board5 Has be covered thee with ragsi
Has he spread traps for thy feet, and CALLED
thy cup, and rasped thy soul. and wrecked
thee with storm. and Numbered upon thee
with a life full Of calamityi Il your father