The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-08-20
Borrowers Of FroRbIa.
DH. TAL.MAGE breaches
FOR THEIR SPECIAL.
BENEFIT.
Aou Cannot Expect the Lord tn
Give You Enough Coed Things
Now to Last All Your:Lifc.
BE SATISFIED THE REST
WILL COME.

BROOKLYN, Aug 10. DR. Tallnago
has returned from his western tour re-
invigorated III health and chaered by
the hearty and enthusiastic rreetings
he has received Ia the numerous cities
he has visited. Thousands of persons
who have read his sermons In their 10
cal newspapers have struggled 10 get
within sound of his voice wherever he
hos spoken. His sermon this week Is
on the very common and foolish habit
OF borrowing money, and his text Is
Matthew vi. 81. 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 n law of storms
III the natural world, SO there Is a law
Of trouble, 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
At any rate there is no cause Of CON-
plant against God.
See how much he hath done to make
thee happy; his sunshine filing the
earth with glory, making rainbow for
the storm and halo for tfie 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, chat
2nches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to
chant, and springs TO blossom, and over.
powering oil other sounds with its song,
and overarching all other spiendor with
its triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands, and outfiashing all
other thrones with its dominion-de-
hverance for lost world through the
Great Redeeiner.
discourse of tho sin of borrowing
trouble.
MEET TROUBLE BHAvELY.
First, such q habit of mind and
heart Is wrong, because it puts one into
dependency that i'll fits him for duty.
den; the one tii.ir.a s----...-...,-. g
other perished 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 a fine business, and sent the
man dodging among the note shavers.
Fear Of slander and abuse has often In
vited all the long beaked vultures of
scorn and backbiting Many Of the
misfortunes Of life, Ike hyenas, fee II
you courageously meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is man who sits down under the
gloom of expected misfortunel II he
pray, he says, II do not think shall
be answered" If he give, he says, II
expect they will steal the money"
Helen Chalmers told me that her
father, Thomas Chalmers, In tho dark
est 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 wa.
that the children could not keep uI
with their father The McCheynes and
the SummerHclds Of the church who
did the most good, cultivated sunlight
Away with the horrorsl they distin poi
son, they dig graves, and If they could
climb so high they would drown tbt
re1oicings of heaven with sobs and wall
ing.
You will have nothing but misfortune
In the future if you sedulously watcl
for it. How shall a man catch tn
right kind of fish If he arranges hi
line and hook and bait TO catch lizard
ond water serpentsi Hunt for bats AM
hawks, and bats and hawks you vii
find. Hunt for robin redbreasts, ant
you viii find robin redbrcasts. On
night an eagle and an cwl got int
fierce battle. The eagle, unused to Tn
night, was no match for an owl, whicl
Is most at home in tie darkness
and the king of the air fell helf
less; but the morning rose, an
with it rose the eagle, and Ia
3 owls, and the nighthawks. and the bat
came a second time to the combat
, now the eagle, in the sunlight. with
stroke of his talon. and q great CRY
cleared the air, and his enemies, wit
| torn feathers and spiashed with bloot
! turnbled into the thickets. Ye are th
} children of light In the night Of d.
spondency you will have no chanc
against your enemies that flock u
from beneath, but, trusting In God, an
standing in the sunshine of the prom
ises, you shall renew your youth lih
2 the eagle"
APPRECIATE PRRsEsT GOOD.
Again, the habit of borrowing tro'
!. bic IL wrong, because it has a tendent
! to make us overlook present blessin
To slake mans thirst the rock is Gle
: and cool waters leap into his brimmin
: cup To feed bis hunger the fields bo
down with bending wheat. and the ca
tie come down with full udders fro
the clover pastures to give him mil
:. and the orchards yellow and ripe
casting their juicy fruits into bis lap
II Alasi that amid such exuberance
q blessing man should gscwl as thoul
:. he were q soldier on half rations or
4 sailor on short allowance; that ma
1 should stand neck deep tn harves
looking forward to faIniRei that 81
should feel the strong puIaes Of heal
!, marching with regular tread throul
!. all the avenues of life and yet tremh