The southern argus., 1891-08-20
BORROWING TROUBLE.
Dr. Talmage Gives Advice to the
Despondent.
A sermon For Pesslmists-The Folly OF
Looking on the Dark Side of Life-''Sut-
ticient Unto the Day Is the EVIL
Thereor'-Trust the Lord.

Upon returning to Brooklyn from his
western tour Rev. Il. Dewitt Talmage
preached in his tabernacle to a large
congregation upon the foolish habit Of
borrowing Trouble" His text was
Matthew vi "a: Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof" Following is
the sermon:
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 a law
of trouble, law of disaster, 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 com
plant against God. 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, greenness for the
moss, saffron for the cloud, and crystal
for the billoW, and procession Of ban
nered fame 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 splendor with its
triumph covering up all other beauty
with its garlands, and publishing all
other thrones with its dominion-de-
liverance for lost world through the
Great Redecmer.
discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First-Such habit Of mind and heart
is wrong, because it puts one into
dependency that i'll BELTS him for du-
ty. | 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 dispositions, like our plants, need
sunshine. Expectancy Of repulse is the
cause Of many secular and religious
failures Fear Of bankruptcy has up
torn many fine business and sent the
man lodging among the note shavers.
Fear Of SANDER and abuse has often in
vited all the long beaked vultures Of
scorn and backbiting. Many Of the
misfortunes Of life, like hyenas, fee if
you courageously meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is a man who sits down under the
gloom of expected misfortune. If he
pray, he says: III do not think I 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 the 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 was
that the children could not keep up
with their father. The McChcyncs and
the Summericlds Of the church who
did the most good cultivated sunlight.
Away with the horrors They distill
poison; they dig graves, and if they
could climb 50 high, they would drown
the rejoicings of Heaven with sobs and
wailing. You will have nothing but
misfortune in the future if you sed-
ulously watch for it. How Shall man
S"USh Iltc AiBIC Kill VI llSH III ne at
ranges his line and hook and bate to
catch lizards and water serpcnts?
Hunt for bats and hawks, and bats and
hawks you will find. Hunt for robin red
breasts, and you will find robin rcd
breasts.
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;
but the morning rose, and with it rose
the eagle; and the owls, and the night
hawks and the bats came a second
time to the combat; now the eagle, in
the sunlight with q stroke of his talons
and a great cry, cleared the air, and his
enemies. with torn feathers and
splashed with blood, tumblcd into the
thickcts Ye are the children Of light
In the night Of dcspondcncy you will
have no chance against your enemies
that flock up from beneath, but trust
ing in God and standing in the sunshine
Of the promise, you shall renew your
youth like the eagle"
Again, the habit Of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because it has a tendency to
make us overlook present blessing. To
Stake 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 exnberance Of blessing
man should growl, as though he were q
soldier on half rations, or sailor on
short allowance; that a man should
stand neck deep in harvests looking for
ward to famine; that one should feel
the strong pulses Of health marching
with regular tread through all the ave-
nues Of life, and yet tremble at the ex-
pectcd 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; |