The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-28
TALMAGE,S SERMON.
a Short Discourse on an Exceed.
- ingly Common Sin
A PernIcsous Habit that Robs Us or Our
Equipment to Meet tlis Real Trials 4
and Troubles of Every
day Life.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage addressed
his congregation i'm the Brooklyn tab
ernacle on the subject Of borrowing
Trouble, +" taking for his text:
Sufficient INTO the day Is the evil thereof
Matthew vi. "a.
The life OF every man, woman and
child is an closely under the Divine care
80 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, n law OF disaster. a law of
misfortune. but the majority of the
troubles of life are imaginary, and
the most of those anticipated never
come-a. At~any rate, there is no cause
for complaint against God. See how
much lie hath done to make thee
happy s,Jfi Y Aunshine. filing sthe earth
with glory .hEhal1ing rainbow ifor the
storm and halo for the mountain,
greenness for the moss, saffron for the
cloud and crystal for the billow, and
procession of hammered flame through
the opening gates of the morning,
chaffinches to sing, rivers to glitter,
seas to chant and springs TO blossom,
and overpowering all other sounds
with its song, and overarching all other
spiendor with its triumph, covering up
all other beauty vithlits garlands, and
outfashing all other thrones with it's
Observation-Disclosures for lost world
through the Great Redeemer. rs raf
I discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble. ,tf t r '1 tr1'. assF
First Snch a habit of mind and
heart is wrong. because it puts one into
a despondencY that Ill fits him for duty.
j planted two bushes in my gar
den; the one thriyed beautifully, the
other pesished. l found the dead one
on the shady side. of the house. Our
dispositions, lillefonf iplants. need, sum
shine Expectancy of repulse is the
cause of many secular and religious fail
ures- Fear of bankruptcy, has .uptorn
many 4 ifne business, and sent the man
lodging among the note-shavers. Fear
of SANDER and abuse has often invited
all the long beaked vultures of scorn
and back-biting. Many Of the mis-
fortunes of life. like hyenas, fee If you
cOurageoEsly- meet them
how poorly prepared for religious
duty is q man who sits down under the
gloom of expected misfortunel If he
pray. he says. Il do not think shall
besanswered. If he give. he says: II
expect they will steal the money"
Helen Chalmers told me that her fa-
ther, TAomas Chalmers, ia, the darkest
hopr OF the history of the Free Church
of Scotland aud when tlre=woes of the
land seemed to weigh upon his heart,
said 70 the children: Come, let us go
out and play ball or fly kite. and the
olAy difficulty in the play was that the
children could not keep mp 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 tlistil poison;
they dig graves; and If. they climb so
high, they would drown the rejoicings
of Heaven with sobs and-wailing.
You VIII have nothing but misfortune
in the future if YOU sedulously watch
for il. 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 redbrcasts
you will find robin redbreasts. 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 mostIat home in the darkness, and
the king Of the air fell helpless, but the
morning rose and with it the eagle;
and the owl. and the night hawks. and
the bats came a second time to the com
bat; now the eagle, in the sunlight
with stroke Of his talons and a great
cry, cleared ther air. and his enemies,
with torn feathers and splashed with
blood, tnmbldd into the thickets. We
are the children of light In the night
of despondency you will have no chance
against your aenemies that flock up
from beneath but, trusting in God and
standing in the sunshine of the prom
iscs, you shalb f'renew. your youth like
the eagle" ,-..,-=...-sr.s 81. .... ~
Again: The habit of .a borrowing
trouble is wrong. because it has a
tendency to make rs overlook present
blessing. To slake mans thirst the
rock is cleft and cool waters leap into
his brinnning cup TO feed his hunger
the fields bow down with bending
wheat, and the cattle come down with
full udders from the clover pasture 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 as
though he were q. soldier on half ra-
tons or "a sailor on short allowance;
that a man, should stand necl1-deep
n harvests looking forwar d to famine;
that one should feel the strong pulses
of health marching with regular
tread through all the avenues of
life, and vet tremble al the expected
assault of sicknesss that a 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; thata
man fe@ Dy Him who owns all the har--
vests should expect to starve: that one
whom Cod loves and surrounds with
Denediction, and attends with angelic
escort, and hevers over with more than
motherly fcEGness, should be looking
for heritage. of tears! Has God been
hard with thee. that thou shonldst
be foreboding? Has He stinted thy
board? Has lie covered thee with rags?
Has He spread traps for thy feet, and
CALLED thy cup, and rasred thy soul.
and wrecked thee with storm. aud
Numbered upon thee with life full of
calamity? If your father or brother
come into your bank where gold and
silver are lying about, you do not