The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-17
BORROWING TROUBLE.
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON ON THIS
VEaY FOOLISH habit.

Units One for Duty-The Shadows
Of To-day Are Thick Bnough-You
Nay Wind Along Dangerous Bride
Paths, but the Way Still Winds Up
ward Till Angels Guard it-Put Every
thing In Gods Hand and Leave It
There.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Aug. 16.-Dr. Tai
mage has returned from his western tour re-
invigorated In health and cheered by the
hearty and enthusiastic greeting he has re-
ceived In the numerals 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 common and foolish
habit Of borrowing trouble. and his text is
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
a law OF storms in the natural world. so
there is a law Of trouble, a law of disaster,
law OK misfortune; but the majority Of
the troubles Of life are imaginary and the
most OF those anticipated never come. Au
any rate, there is no cause Of complaint
against God. See how much he hath
done to make thee happy; his sunshine
fillinR the earth with glory, making rain-
bow for the storm and halo for the noun
tain, greenness for the moss saffron for the
cloud, and crystal for the billow, and pro.
cession OF hammered flame through the
opening gates Of the morning, chaffinches
20 sing, rivers to glitter, seas TO chant, and
springs to blossom. ana overpowering all
other sounds with It's song, aud overarching
all other splendor with its triumph, cover
ing up all other beauty with its garlands,
and outfiashing all other thrones with its
through the Great Redeemer.
discourse of the sin OF borrowing trouble.
First: Such a habit OF mind aud heart
Is wrong. because 1t puts one into a de-
spondency that i'll fits him for duty.
planted two rosebushes in my garden the
one thrived beautifully, the other perished.
l found the dead one on the shady side Of
the house. Our dispositions, like our plants.
Iced sunshine. Expectancy of repulse 10
the cause OF many secular and religious fall
ures. Fear Of bankruptcy has uptorn many
fine business, and sent the man dod1ing
among the note-shavers. Fear of slander
and abuse has often invited all the long
beaked vultures Of soorn and backbiting.
Many OF the misfortunes of life, like hyenas,
hee II you oourageously meet them.
how poorly prepared for religious duty
Is man who sits down under the gloom Of
expected misfortunel If he pray, he says.
| Il DO BOT think l shall be answered. IL he
| give, be says, 81 expect they will steal tho
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 Summerhelds of the church who
did the most good, cultivated sunlight
Away with the horrorsl they distil poison;
tney dig graves; and, il they could climb so
high, they would drown the rejoicings Of
heaven with sobs and wailipg.
You will have nothing but misfortune in
the future II you sedulously watch for 1t.
How shall man catch the right kind of
fish II he arranges his line, and hook, and
bait TO catch lizards aud water eerpents7
Hunt for bats and hawks, and bats and
hawks you will find. Hunt for robin red
breasts, and you will find robin redbreasts.
One night an eagle and an owl got Into
herce battle; the eagle, unused to the night,
was no match for an owl, which is most 40
| home in the darkness, and the king Of the
air fell helpless; but the morning rose, and
with 1t rose the eagle; and the owls, and
the night-hawks, and the bats came a sec-
ond time TO the combat; now the eagle, in
the sunlight, with a stroke of his talons and
great cry, cleared the air, and his enemies.
with torn feathers and splashed with blood,
tumbled into the thickets. Ye are the chill
dren OF light. In the night Of despondency
you will have no chance against your ene-
mics that flock up from beneath, but, trust
ing in God and standing in the sunshine Of
fha rfaaa hall
like the eagle"
Again The habit Of borrowing trouble
IS wrong, because 1t has "A tendency TO make
us overlook present blessing. To slake mans
thirst, the rock Is cleft, and cool waters leap
into his brimming 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 soldier on
half rations, or sailor on short allowance;
that a man should stand neck-ieep 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 at the expected assault 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 q
man fed by him who owns all the harvests
should expect to starve; that one whom
God loves and surrounds with benedicticn,
and attends with angelic escort, aud hovers
over with more than motherly fond
ness, should be looking for a herit-
age OF tearsl Has God been hard with
thee. that thou shouldst be forebod-
ings Has be stinted thy boardl Has he COW
cred thee with ragsG Has he spread traps
for thy feet, and CALLED thy cup, and
rasped thy soul. and wrecked thee with
storm, and thundered upon thee with life
full Of calamityl II your father or brother
come into your bank where gold and silver
are lying about, you do not watch them,
for you know they are honest, but If an
entire stranger come by the safe, you keep
your eye upon him, for you do not know
his designs. So some men treat God; not
as father, but a stranger. and act suspi-
ciously toward him, as though they were
afraid be would steal something.
1t is high time you began to thank God
for present blessing. Thank him for your
children, happy, buoyant and bounding.
Praise him for your home, with its fountain
Of song and laughter. Adore him for morn
ing light and evening shadow. Praise him
for fresh, cool water, bubbling from the
rock, leaping in the cascade, soaring in the
mist. falling in the shower. dashing against
the rock and clapping its hands in the tenn
pest, Love him for the grass that cushions
the earth, and the clouds that curtain the
sky, and the foliage that waves Ia the for