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DIR. TaIinags Preachss Powerful serSon
on the Insanity oi borrowing Trouble
It Has Wrecked Many IA Life--. 1he Lord
VIII Look Out for You.
BROOKLYN, Aug. 1G.-Dr. Talmage
has returned from his western tour rein
vigorated in health aud cheered by the
hearty and enthusiastic greetings he has
received In the numerous cities he has
visited. Thousands ofpersOns who read
his sermons in their local newspapers
have struggled To get within sound Ot
his voice wherever he has spoken. His
sermon this week is OH the very common
and foolish habit of borrowing trouble,
and his text is Matthew vi, 81, "Suf1i-
cient unto the day is the evil thereof"
The life of every man. woman and
child is as closely under the divine care
rs though such person were the only
man, woman or Child. There are no az
cidents. AS there is Il law of storms ia
the natural world, so there Is u law Of
trouble, q law of disaster, law of mis-
fortune; but the majority of the troubles
OF life are imaginary, and the most Of
those anticipated never come. At any
rate, there is 10 cause ct complaint
against God. See Low much he hath
done to make thee nappy; his sunshine
filling the earth with glory, making rain
bow for The storm and halo for the
mountain, grccnness for the moss, saf-
from for the cloud and crystal Tor the bill
low, and procession of hammered flame
through the opening gates of the morn
ing, chafiinches TO sing, rivers to glitter,
seas to chant, aud springs to blossom,
and ovcrpowering all other sounds with
Its stng, and overarching all other splen-
dor with its triumph, covering up all
other beauty with its garlands, and OUT
flashing all other thrones with its DOM
on-.dellverancc for lost world
through the Great Redcemer.
l discourse of the SIN of borrowing
trouble.
First, such habit of mind and heart
is wrong, because il puts one into des-
pondcDcy that i'll fits HIM for duty. l
planlt TWO rose bushes in my garden.
The one thrived beautifully, the other
pcrished. found the dead one on the
shady side OF the house. Our DISPOSE
tions, like our plants need sunshine.
Expectancy OF repulse is the cause of
many secular and religious failures.
Fear of bankruptcy has upsorn many a
fine business and sent the man dodying
among the note shavers. Fear, slander
and abuse has often invited all the long
beaked vulturcs of scorn and backbiting.
Many of the msfortuncs 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 misfortune! If he
pray, he says, IL do not think l shall be
answered" If he give, he says, Il cX-
pect 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
liculty in the play was that the children
could not keep with their father. The
McCheynCs and the Summerticlds of the
church who did the most good, cultivat-
ed sunlight. Away with the horrors!
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 msfort une
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
serpcnts? 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 un-
used to the night was no match for an
owl, which is most at home in the dark
ness, and the king of the air fell helpless;
but the morning rose, and with it rose
the eagle; aud the owls and the night
hawks and the bais came q second tint
10 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 spiashed
with blood, tumbled into the thckels.
Ye 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 standing in the sunshine of the prom
ises, you shall 'rcnew 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 brimnling cup.
TO feed hls 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 exuberance OF slesslng
man sh uld growl as though he were u
soldier on half rations, or sailor on
short allowance, that a man should stand
neck deep In harvests looking forward to
famine; that one should feel the strong
pulses OF health marching with regular
tread thr. ugh all the avenues of life and
yet tremble at the expected assault Of
sickness; that man should sit in his
pleasant home, learfulithat ruthless want
will some day rattle the broken window
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 expect
to starve; that one whom God loves and
surrounds with benediction, and attends