The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-09-18
BORROWING TROUBLE,
Like Debt, Has Caused Secular and
Worldly Failures
And Sent Sorrow Instead of Happiness to
Many Hcarts--Sermon by Rev.
Il. Dewitt Talmage, DID.

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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 under the divine care
as though such person were the only
man, woman or child. There are no
accidents AS there is law Of storms
in the natural world, so there Is a law
| of trouble, n law of disaster, q 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
how much He hath done TO make thee
happy. His sunshine filling the earth
with glory, making rainbow for the
storm and halo for the mountain, green
ness for the moss, saffron for the cloud,
and crystal for the billow, and process
sion of hammered flame through the
! opening gates of the morning, chat
! finchcs to sing rivers to glitter, seas to
chant and springs TO blossom, and over
| towering all other splendor with its
! triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands, and publishing all
other thrones with its dominion--de-
livcrance for lost world through the
Great Rcdccmcr. i discourse Of the sin
Of borrowing trouble.
/. Such habit of mind and heart is
wrong because il puts one into de-
spondency that i'll fits him for duty.
II Il
den; the one thrivcd 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 Islander and abuse has often in
vited all the long beaked vultures of
scorn and bacll-biting. Many of the
misfortunes of life, like hyenas flee if
you courageously 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, 81 do not think / 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
merfields of the church who did the
most good, cultivated sunlight. Away
with the horrors! they distil poison;
they dig graves; and If they could
climb 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 for
bats and hawks, and bats and hawks
you will find Hunt for robin red
breasts and you will find robin red
breasts. 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 tho bats came second
time to the combat. Now the eagle, in
the sunlight, with n stroke of his talons
and great cry, cleared the air, and his
enemies, with torn feathers and splash
ca with blood, tumblcd into the thick
cts Ee 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 ana standing in the sunshine of the
promises, you shall renew your youth
like the eagle"
Again; The habit of borrowing
Il ouble is wrong, because IL has ten
dency To mako us overlook present
blessing. To Stake 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 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 exuber-
ance of blessing man should growl
rs though he was soldier on half ra-
tons or sailor on short allowance;
that man should stand neclS-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 ut the expected assault of sick |