Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-27
DON'T INVITE SORROW.
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY is THE
EVIL THEREOF.

Or. TaImage PreAehes Powerful Ser.
mon on the Insanity Of Borrowing
TroubIe-It Has Wrecked Many . Life.
The Lord VIII Look Out for You.
BRooKLYS. Aug. l6-Dr. Talmage has
returned from his western tour reinvigo-
rated In health and cheered by the hearty
and enthusiastic greetings he has received
in the numerous 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 us
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 law of trouble, law Of
disaster, law Of misfortune; but the ma
jority of the troubles Of life are imaginary,
and the most of those anticipated never
come. At any rate, there is no cause Of
complaint against God. See how much he
hath done to make thee happy; his sun.
shine 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 hammered flame through
the opening gates of the morning, chat
flnches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to
chant, and springs to blossom, and over
powering all other sounds with its song
and overarching all other splendor with its
triumph, covering up all other beauty with
its garlands, and outflashing all other
thrones with its Observation-Disclosures for
a lost world through the Great Redeemer
discourse of the sin of borrowing trou.
BILE.
First, such habit of mind and heart is
wrong, because it puts one into a des-
pondency that i'll fits him for duty.
planted two rose bushes in my garden.
The one thrived beautifully, the other per-
ished. 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
uptorn many a fine business and sent the
man dodging among the note shavers.
Fear OF slander and abuse has often invited
all the long beaked vultlAres of scorn and
backbiting. Many of the misfortunes of
life, like hyenas, flee If you courageously
meet them.
FORCE HAPPINESS TO COME
How poorly prepared for religious duty
is man who sits down under the gloom
of expected misfortuEel If he pray, he
says, II do not think shall be answered"
II he give, he says, II expect they will
steal the 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 80 out
and play ball or fly kite" and the only diff
ficulty in the play was that the children
could not keep up with their father. The
McCheynes and the Summerfields of the
church who did the most good, cultivated
sunlight. Away with the horrorsl they
distill poison; they dig graves, and If they
could climb so high, they would drown the
rejoicings Of heaven with sobs and wailing
You will have nothing but misfortune in
the future II you sedulously watch for It,
How shall man catch the right kind of
to catch lizards and water serpentsi 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 an 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 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 children of light. In the night of
dependency you will have no chance
against your enemies that flock up from
beneath, but, trusting in God and stand
ing in the sunshine of the promises, you
shall ''renew your youth like the eagle"
THERE ARE BLESSINGS A-PLENTY.
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong because it has tendency to
make US overlook present blessing. To
slake mans thirst, the rock is cleft, and
caol 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 pas
lures to give him milk, and the orchards
yellow and ripen, casting their juicy fruits
into his lap. Alasl that amid such exuber-
ance of blessing man should growl as
though he were soldier on half rations,
or a sailor on short allowance; that man
should stand neck deep in harvests look
ing 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 as
sault of sickness; that man. should sit in
his pleasant home, fearful that ruthless
want will some day rattle the broken win
dow sash with tempest, and sweep the
Goals from the hearth, and pour hunger
into the bread tray; that man fed by
him who owns all the harvests should ex-
pect to starve; that one whom God loves
and surrounds with benediction, and at
with more than motherly fondness, should
be looking for heritage of tearsl
Has God been hard with thee that thou
shouldst be foreboding2 Has he stinted
thy board? Has he covered thee>with rags?
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 a life full of calamityS If 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 on him, for you do not
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