The Forrest City times., 1891-08-21
TALHAeE Is AT HONE.
HIS VOICE AGAIN HEARD IN
 BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
He Freaches . Timely Sermon on she Evil or Borrowing Trouble Trouble Weps Over shas After All Never Came.

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Aug. 10, 1so1.-Dr. Ialmage has returned from his Western tour reinvigorated in health, and cheered by the hearty and enthusiastic greetings he has received in the num- erous 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 com mon and foolish habit of Borrowing Trouble, and his text is Matthew 6:34.- 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 law of storms in the natural world, so there is a law of trouble a law of disaster, a law of misfortune but the majority 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. Sec how much he hath done to make thee happy; his sunshine 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 pillow, and procession of bannered flame through the opening gates of the morning, chaffinches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to chant, and spring to blossom, and overpowering all other sounds with its song, and overarching all other splendor with its trium ph, covering up all other beauty with its garlands, and outflashing all other thrones with it's dominion-deliver ance for lost world through the Great Redeemer.
 discourse of the sin of borrowing trouble
 First: Such a habit of mind and heart is wrong, because it puts one into Q despondency that ill fits him for duty lplanted two rose bushes in my garden. the one thrived beautifully, the other perished. found the dead one on the shady side of the house. Our disposi- tions, like our plants, need sunshine Expectancy of repulse is the cause of many secular and religious failures. Fear of bankruptcy has uptorn many a fine business, and sent She man dodg ing among the note-shavers. Fear of islander and abuse has often invited all the long peaked vultures of scorn and back biting. Many of the misfortunes of life. like hyenas, flee If you cour- ageously meet them.
 How poorly prepared for religious duty Is a man who sits dow. under the gloom of expected misfortune. If he pray. he says, ''I do not think hut hn .,l -:. says, Il expect they will steal the money" Helen Chalmers told me that her father, Thomas Chalmers, in the darkest hour of the story of the Free Church of Scotland, and when the woes of the land seemed to weigh upon his heart, sad to the ehil- dren, Come, let us go out and play ball or fly kite. and the only difficulty in the play was that the children could not keep up with their father The MCheynes and the Sumunrfields of the church who did tho most good. culti- vated sunlight. Away with the hor- rorss They distili poison. they dig graves and if they could climb so high, they would drown the rejoicings of heaven with sobs and wailing.
 You will have nothing but misfor- tune in the future if you sedulously watch for it. How shall a man catch the right kind of fish if he arranges his line, and hook, and bait .o catch liz. ards and water-serpcntsp Hunt for bats and hawks, and rats and hawks you will find. Hunt for robin-red- breasts, and you will find robin-red- breasts. One night an eagle and an owl got into fierce battle: the eagle unused to the nigh. was no match for an owl, which is most at home in the darkness and the klng of the air fell helpless, but the morning rose, and with it rose the eagle; and the owls, and the night haw~ and the bats came second 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 thiclSets. Yc are the children of light In the night of despondenoy you have no chance against your enemies that flock up from beneath, but, trusting in God and standing in the sunshine of the promises, you shall renew your youth like the eagle"
 Again: The habit of borrowing trou- ble is wrong, because it has tendency to make us overlook present blessing. To slake mans thirst, the rock Is cleft and cool waters leap into his brimming cup. To feed his hunger, the fields bow down with bending wheat, and the cattle come down with full udders from the clover pastures to give him milk and the orchards yellow and ripen, casting their juicy fruits into his lap Alas. that amid such exuberanee of blessing. man should growl as though he were soldier on half rations, or sailor on short allowances; that a man should stand neck-dccp in aarvests looking forward to fam ine; that one should feel the strong pulses of health marching with regu- lar tread though all the avenues of life and yet tremble at the expected assault of sickness; that a man should sit in his pleasent home, fearful that ruthless want will some day rattle the broken window-sash with tempest, and sweep the coals from the hearth, and pour hunger into the breadtray; that man fed by him who owns all the harvests should expect to starve; taat one whom God loves and surrounds with benediction, and attends with angelic escort, and hovers over with more than motherly fondness, should be looking for heritage of tears. Has God been hard with thee, that thou shouldst be foreboding9 Has he stinted thy board? Has he covered thee with rags? Has he spread traps for thy feet, and galled thy cup, and rasped thy soul, and wrecked thee with