The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-09-02
BORROWING TROUBLE,
Like Debt, Has Caused Secular and
Worldly Failures
And Sent Sorrow Instead OF Happiness to
Many Hearts-Sermon by Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage, DID.

Many Hearts-SermOn by Kew.
T. Dewitt Talmage, DID.
DIR. Talmage has returned from his
western tour and preached last Sunday
in the Brooklyn tabernacle. His SER
mon was on the very common and fool
ish habit of borrowing trouble, and his
text was Matthew vi, "a: Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof"
The life of every man, woman and
child is as closely underthe 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 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. See
how much He hath done to make thee
happy. His sunshine filling the earth
with glory, making rainbow for the
,torm and halo for the mountain, green
ness for the moss, saffron for the cloud,
and crystal for the billow, and process
sion Of hammered fame through the
opening gates of the morning, chat.
finches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to
:hant and springs to blossom, and over
towering all other splendor with its
triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands, and outdashing all
other thrones with its dominion-de-
liverance for lost world through the
Great Redeemer. I discourse Of the sin
of borrowing trouble.
/. Such habit of mind and heart is
wrong, because it puts one into de-
spondency that i'll fits him for duty.
! planted two rose bushes in my gar
den; the one thrived beautifully, the
other persisted. 1 found the dead one
on the shady side of the house. Our
dispositions like our plants need sum
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 back-biting. Many of the
misfortunes of life, like hyenas, flee if
you courageously meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is man who sits down under the
gloom at expected misfortune! If he
pray. he says, 81 do not think I 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 difficulty in the play was that the
children could not keep up with their
father. The M'Cheynes and the Sum-
merAelds of the church who did the
most good, cultivated sunlight Away
with the horrors! they distil poison
: Shey dig gravesI a3i IL they could
Slimb so high they would drown the re-
joicings of Heaven with sobs and wall
: ing. You will have nothing but mis-
/ fortune in the future if you seduously
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 fol
bats and hawks, and bats and hawk:
you will find. Hunt for robin red
breasts and you will find robin red
>, breasts. One night an eagle and an ow
got into fierce battle; the eagle
unused to the night, wa'
:. no match for an owl, which il
), most at home in the darkness, and tn,
- king of the air fell helpless; but tn,
morning rose, and with it rose thu
S eagle, and the owls, and the nigh
r hawks, and the bats came q secont
time to the combat. Now the eagle, il
the sunlight, with stroke of his talon
and great cry, cleared the air, and hi
q enemies, with torn feathers and splash
IL ed with blood, tumbled into the thick
70 cts Ye are the children of light Il
: the night of dependency you will hav
no chance against your enemies tina
t. flock up from beneath, but, trusting il
% God and standing in the sunshine of tn
q promises, you shall renew your yout
10 like the eagle"
Again: The habit of borrowin
Or trouble is wrong, because it has ter
lie dency to make us overlook presen
in blessing. To slake mans thirst, tn
is rock is cleft, and cool waters leap int
his trimming cup. To feed his hunger
N the fields bow down with bendin
IS wheat and cattle come down with flu
a. udders from the clover pastures to Civ
o, him milk, and the orchards yellow an
Of ripen, casting their juicy fruits int
his lap. Alas! that amid such exubeI
rs ance of blessing man should grow
Of as though he was soldier on half r;
IN tions, or sailor on short allowance
1t that a man should stand neck-deep
Of harvests looking forward to famin
that one should feel the strong pulst
is of health marching with regular trea
c. through all the avenues of life, and W
is tremble at the expected assault of sicl
IS. ness; that man should sit in his plea
w ant home, fearful that ruthless wal
will some day rattle the broken Wi
nd dow-sash with tempest, and sweep Il
err Goals from the hearth, and poor hung
err into the bread-tray; that a man fed |
en- Him who owns all the harves
a should expect to starve; that OF
m whom God loves and surroun,
IN with benediction, and atten,
with angelic escort, and hove
of over with more than motherly fondnes
IS. should be looking for an heritage