Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-22
TALMAGES SERMON.
There ls no Necessity to Bor-
row Trouble.
Good Advice given to the Despondent
Tho Present Brings Trials Enough
without Fretting Over Ex-
pected Evils not Yet Come.

DIR. Talmage, having returned from
his western tour. preached the follow
ing sermon in his own church: His
sermon this week is on the very COM
mon 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 persons 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 law
of trouble, q law OF disaster. a law OF
misfortune; but the majority OF troubles
OF life are imaginary and the most OF
those anticipated never come Az any
rate there Is no cause oil complaint
AGAINST God. See how much he has
done to make thee happy; His sunshine
filing the earth with glory, making
rainbow for the storm and halo Tor the
mountain, greenness for the moss san
ron for the cloud, and crystal Tor tne
billow, and procession OF ba2nered
flame through the opening gates oil the
morning, chaffinches to sing, rivers 10
glitter. seas TO chant. and Springs TO
blossom, and overpowering all otner
sounds with its song, and overarchlng
all other splendor with its triumph,
covering up all other beauty with lts
garlands. and outhashing all other
thrones with its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
for a lost world through the Great
Redeemer.
I DISCOURSE OF the sin OF borrowing
trouble. :,
First-Such q habit OF mind and
heart is wrong. because it puts one INTO
a despondency that i'll hts him Tor duty.
I PLANTED two rose bushes in my garden:
the one thrived beautifully. the other
nerished. 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 q
fine business and sent the man lodging
among the note shavers. Fear oil sian
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 il you courageous
ly meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is a man who sits down under the
gloom of expected misfortune. II he
Dray. he So IS: 81 do not think | shall
be answered" If he give, he says: II
expect they will steal the money" He
len 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 McCheynes and the sum-
merfelds OF the church who did the
most good cultivated sunlight. Away
with the horrors. they distil poison:
thew dig graves; and If they could
climb so high, they would drown the re-
ioicinp of heaven with sobs and wailing.
You will have nothing but misfortune
in the future If you sedulously watch
for it. How shall man catch the
right kind OF fish II he arranges his
line. and hook, and bate to catch lizards
and water serpents? Hunt for bats and
hawks. and bats and hawks you will find.
Hunt for robin redbreasts, and 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 the owl,
which is most at home in the darkness,
and the king OF the air fell helpless;
hut the morning rose. and with 1t rose
the eagle: and the owls and the night
hawks. and the bats came second time
IN the combat: now the eagle, in the
sunlipht with stroke OF his talons
and q 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:
Tn the night OF dependency you will
have no chance against your enemies
that flock up from beneath. but, trust
ing in God and standing in the sum
shine OF the promise, you shall renew
your youth like the eagle" =,
Again, the habit OF borrowing trouble
is wrong, because it has tendency TO
make us overlook present blessings. To
slake mans thirst the rock is cleft, and
cool waters leap into the Drumming 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 fruit into his lap. Alas.
that amid such exuberance Of blessing
man should growl as il he was soldier
on half rations, or a sailor on short al
Iowauce: that man should stand neck
deep in harvests looking forward to
famine; that one should feel the strong
pulpes Of health marching with regular
tread through all the avenues OF life,
and vet 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 man