Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-21
BORROWERS OF TROUBLE
DIR. TALMAGE breaches FOR
THEIR ESPECIAL BENEFIT.

You Cannot Expect tho Lord to Give You
Enough Good Things Now to Last All
Your Life-Be Satisfied; the Rest Will
Come.
DR.. Talmagc's sermon this week is on
/ the very common and foolish habit of
borrowing money, and his text is Mat
thew 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 was the only man,
woman or child. There are no acct
dents. AS there is law of storms in
| the natural world, so there is a law of
| trouble, a 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 no cause of complaint
against God.
See how much He has done to make
thee happy; His sunshine 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 bllow, 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
its triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garands, and outflashing all
other thrones with its dominion-deliv-
erance for a lost world through the Great
Redeemer.
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trouble
First, such habit of mind and heart
Is wrong, because it puts one into de-
spondency that i'll fits him for duty. 1
planted two rose bushes in my garden;
the one thrived beautifully, the other
persisted. 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 uptorn many a
fine business, and sent the man lodging
among the note shavers. Fear of SLAM
der and abuse has often invited 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
Of expected misfortune! If he pray, he
says, 81 do not think I shall be an
swered." If he give, he says, 81 expect
they will steal the money" Helen Chal-
mers told me that her father, Thomas
Chalmers, in the darkest hour 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
Summerfields of the church who did the
most good, cultivated sunlight. Away
with the horrors! they distill poison, they
, dig graves, and if they could climb so
high they would drown the rejoicings of
, of Heaven with sobs and wailing.
You will have nothing but misfortune
in the future if you seduously watch for
it. How shall man catch the right kline
of fish if he arranges his line and hook
, and bait to catch lizards and water ser
: penis? Hunt for bats and hawks, ano
bats and hawks you will find. Hunt fol-
robin redbreasts and you will find robin
redbreasts. One night an eagle and an
owl got into fierce battle. The eagle, un.
owl, which is most at home in the dark.
. ness, and the king of the air fell help
less; but the morning rose, and with it
! nighthawks 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 enc
mics, with torn feathers and splashed
, with blood, tumbled into the thiclkets.
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 stand
: ing in the sunshine of the promises,
, you shall s'renew your youth like the
: eagle"
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because it has tendency to
make us overlook present blessing. TIC
) Stake mans thirst the rock is cleft and
| cool waters leap into his trimming cup
t To feed his hunger the fields bow down
!, with bending wheat, and cattle como
, down with full udders from the clover
, pastures to give him milk, and orchards
E yellow and ripen, casting their juicy
!. fruits into his lap.
Alas! that amid such exuberance oil
blessing man should growl as though he
were soldier on half rations or sailor
on short allowance; that a man should
stand neck deep in harvests looking for
3 ward to famine; that one should feel the
l strong pulses of health marching with
regular tread through all the avenues Of
life and yet tremble at the expected result
of sickness; that man should sit in his
pleasant home, fearful that 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 a man fec
by Him Who owns all the haWestS
should expect to starve; that one whom
God loves aud surrounds with benedic
tion, and attends with angelic escort
and hovers over with more than motherly
fondness, should be looking for a herit-
> age of tears!
? Has God been hard with thee, thai
thou shouldst be foreboding? Has He
, stinted thy board? Has He covered thee
with rags? Has He spread traps for thy
feet, and CALLED thy cup, and rasped thy
: soul, and wrecked thee with storm, anc
Numbered upon thee with life full o.
,, calamity? If your father or brother
, come into your bank where gold and sill
yer are lying about you do not watch