News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-08-20
BORROWERS OF TROUBLE
DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES FOR THEIR
ESPECIAL BENEFIT.

You Cannot Expect the Lord to Give Yot
Enough Good Things Now to Last AL
Your Life-Be Satisfied; the Rest Will
Come.
BROOKLYN, Aug. 16.-Dr Talmagt
has returned from his western tour re
invigorated in health and cheered by
the hearty and enthusiastic greetings
he has received in the numerous cite:
he has visited. Thousands of person!
who have read his sermons in their 10
cal newspapers have struggled to gel
within sound of his voice wherever he
has spoken. His sermon this week /:
on the very common and foolish habit
of borrowing money, and his text /:
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 nc
accidents As there is law of storms
in the natural world, so there is law
of trouble, law of disaster, law OF
lnisfortune; but the majority of the
troubles of life are imaginary and the
most of those anticipated never come
At aAy rate there is no cause of com
plant against God.
See how much he hath done to make
thee happy; his sunshine filling the
earth with glory, making rainbow fol
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 it's song,
and overarching all other splendor with
its triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands, and publishing all
other thrones with its dominion-de-
liverance for lost world through the
Great Redeemer.
l discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
MEET TROUBLE BRAVELY.
heart is wrong, because it puts one into
a dependency that i'll fits him for duty.
/ planted two rose bushes in my gar
den; the one thrived beautifully, the
other persisted. found the dead one
ON the shady side of the house. Our
dispositions, like our plants, need sun
shine. Expectancy of repulse is the
cause of many secular and religious
failures. Fear of bankruptcy has up
torn many fine business, and sent the
man lodging among the note shavers.
Fear of SANDER and abuse has often in
vited all the long beaked vultures of
scorn and backbitfhg. Many of the
misfortunes Of life, like hyenas, flee if
you courageousIy meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is a man who sits down under the
gloom of expected misfortune If he
pray, he says, Il do not think shall
be answered" If he give, he says, II
expect they will steal the money"
Helen Chalmers told me that her
father, Thomas Chalmers, in the dark
est 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 difficulty in the play was
that the children could not keep up
with their father The McCheynes and
the Sunmerf1elds of the church who
did the most good, cultivated sunlight.
Away with the horrorsl they distiIl poi
son, they dig graves, and if they could
climb so high they would drown the
rejoieings of heaven with sobs and wall
ing.
You will have nothing but misfortune
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 to catch lizards
and water serpentsG Hunt for bats and
hawks, and bats and hawks you will
find. Hunt for robin Yedbreasts, and
you will find robin redbreasts. One
night an eagle and an owl got into
fierce battle. The eagle, unused to the
is most at home in, the darkness
and the king of the air fell help
less; but the morning rose, and
with it rose the eagle, and the
owls, and the nighthawks, and the bats
came second time to the combat;
now the eagle, in the sunlight, with
stroke of his talons and a 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 de-
spondenpy you will have no chance
against your enemies that flock up
from beneath, but, trusting in God, and
standing in the. sunshine of the prom
ises, you shall renew your youth like
the eagle"
APPRECIATE PRESENT GOOD.
Again, the habit of borrowing trou-
BILE 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 trimming
cup. To feed his hunger the fields bow
down with bending wheat, and the cat
tie 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.
Alasl that amid such exuberance of
blessing man should growl as though
he were soldier On half rations or a
sailor on short allowance; that man
should stand neck deep in harvests
looking 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 assault of sickness; that