Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-20
TALMAGE is AT HOME.
HIS VOICE AGAIN HEARD IN
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
He breaches n Timely sermon on
the EVIL Of Borrowing Trouble
Trouble wcpt Over that After All
Never Came.

BROOKLYN, NY, Aug. 10, 1sJ1.-Dr.
Talmage has returned from h $ Western
tour reinvigorated in health, and
cheered by the hearty and enthusiastic
greetings he has received in the num-
erous 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 he has spoken. His
sermon this week is on the very com
mon and foolish habit of borrowing
Trouble, and his text is Matthew 6:3l:-
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 law of trouble, II law of disaster,
a 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 Col. See 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, greenncsS for the moss,
saffron for the cloud, and crystal for
the billow, and procession of hammered
flame through the opening gates of the
morning, chatiinches to sing, rivers to
glitter, seas to chant, and spring to
blossom, and overpowering all other
sounds with its song, and overarching
all other splendor with its triumph,
covering up all other beauty with its
garlands, and publishing all other
thrones with its dominion-deliver
ance for a lost world through the
Great Redeemer.
discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First: Such habit of mind and heart
is wrong, because it puts one into a
dependency that i'll fits him for duty.
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 repulsc is the cause of
many secular and religious failures.
Fear of bankruptcy has uptorn many a
fine business, and sent the man dodg-
SANDER and abuse has often invited all
the long-bealied vulturcs of scorr and
back biting. Many of the misfortunes
of life, like hyenas flee if you cour-
ageOusly meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is a man who sits down under
the gloom of expected misfortunc! If
he pray, he says, Il do not think |
shall be answered" If he give, he
says, Il expect they will steal the
money" Helen Chalmers told me that
her father, Thomas Chalmers, in the
darkest hour of the h story. of the
Free Church of Scotland, and when
the woes of the land seemed to
weigh upon his heart, sand to the chill
dren, 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 Summerfields of the
church who did the most good, cult
waited sunlight. Away with the hor-
rors! They distill poison; they dig
graves; and if they could climb so high,
they would drown the rcjOicings of
heaven with sobS and waillng.
You will have nothing but misfor-
tune in the future if you sedulousiy
watch for it. How shall a man catch
the right kind of fish if he arranges his
line, and hook, and bait 10 catch liz
ards and water-serpents' Hunt for
bats and hawks, and rats 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 the bats came second
time to the combat: now the eagle, in
the sunlight, with stroke of his
talons and a great cry, cleared the air,
and his enemies with torn feathers and
splashed with blood, tumbled into the
thickets. Ye are the children of light
In the night of dependency you have
no chance against your enemies that
flock up from beneath, but. trusting in
God and standing in the sunshine of
the promises, you shall renew your
youth like the eagle
Again: The habit OF borrowing trou-
bic is wrong. because it has a tendency
to make us overlook present blessing.
To slake 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 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
! blessing, man should growl as though
| he were solder on half ratione, or a
sailor on short allowance; that a
man should stand neck-deep in
| harvcSts looking forward to fam.
! inc, that one should feel the strong
| pulses of heath marching with regu.
! lar tread though all the avenues of life
| and yet tremble a. the expected assault
| of sickness; that Il 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 munger into the brcad-tray;
that Il man fed by him who owns all
the harvests should expect 10 starvc;
that one VIII IN God loves and surrounds
with bcncdIction. and attends with
angelic escort, and hovcrs over with
be looking for heritage of tears, Has
& d been hlrI with thee, that thou
shoulds5 tc forcl oding? HIS 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, and numbered upon thee with
a life full of calamity? If your father
or brother comes into your bank here
gold and silver are " ng about, you do
not watch them, for you know they
are honest: but if an entire stranger
comes by the safe, you keep Your eye
on him. for you d. not kn)v his de }.
signs. So som, m n trsLt tod; no. as
a father, but a stranger, AMI act sus-
piciously of him, as though they were
afraid he would steal something.
1t is high time You began to thank
God for the present bic sing. Thank
him for your children, happy, buoy
ant, and bounding. Praise him for
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