The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-08-29
DON'T INVIiE SORROW
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY is Z
EVIL THEREOF.


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 ne 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 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
the opening gates of the morning, chat
finches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to
chant, and springs to blossom, and over
powering all other sounds with its song,
and overarching all other splendor with it's
triumph, covering up all other beauty with
its garlands, and outhashing all other
thrones with its Observation-Disclosures for
lost world through the Great Redeemer
discourse of the sin of borrowing trou-
bic.
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
repulse 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 slander and abuse has often invited
all the long beaked vultures of scorn and
ckbiting 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 man who sits down under the gloom
of expected misfortuEel If he pray, he
says, 81 do not think shall be answered"
If he give, he says, II expect they viii
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 Summerfields 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 and wailing
You will have nothing but misfortune in
the future if you sedulously watch for it.
How shall man catch the right kind of
fish if he arranges his line and hook and bait
to catch lizards and water serpents? 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 a sec
ond time to the combat; now, the eagle, in
the sunlight, with a stroke of his talons
and great cry, cleared the air, and his
enemies, with torn feathers and splashed
with blood, tumbed into the thickets Ye
are the children of light. In the night of
you viii 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
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 pas
lures to give him milk, and the orchards 1
yellow and ripen, casting their juicy fruits /
into MS lap. Alasl that amid such exuber- |
ance OF blessing man should growl as
though he were a soldier on half rations, /
Or sailor on short allowance; that man (
should stand neck deep in harvests look 4
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 a man should sit in
MS pleasant home, fearful that ruthless
want Will some day rattle the broken win
Goals from the hearth, and pour hunger
INTO the bread tray; that man fed by
him who owns all the harvests should ex-
pect to starve; that one whom God loves
and surrounds with benediction, and at
lends 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
,houldst be forebodingi Has be stinted
ny board? Has he covered thee with rags!
Has he spread traps for thy feet, and CALLED
hy cup, and rasped thy soul, and wrecked
hee with storm, and thundered upon thee
With a life full Of calamity! If your father
,r brother come into your bank where gold
md silver are lying about you do not
watch them. for you know they are honest;
Jut if an entire stranger come by the safe
'ou keep your eye on him, for you do not
Know his designs. So some men treat God;
,ot as father but a stranger, and act
toward him, as though they
we're afraid he would steal something
THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAvE.
It is high time you began 20 thank God
or your present blessing Thank him for
our children, happy, buoyant and bound
ng Praise him for your home, with its
ountain OF song and laughter. Adore him
or morning light and eveninE shadovE !