The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-21
BORROWERS OF TROUBLE
Or. TALMAes BREACHES FOR THEIR
ESPECIAL BENEFIT,

Ton Cannot Expect the Lord to Give Yoa
Enough Coed Things Now to Last All
Your Litn-Be Satisfied, the Rest wili
Come.
BROOKLYN, Aug, l6.--Dr. Talmage
has returned from his western tour re-
invigorated 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 To-
cal 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 money, 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
rs though sucll 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 n law
OF trouble, a 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 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 hammered flame through
the opening gates of the morning, chat
tinches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to
chant, and springs to blossom, and over
towering all other sounds with its song,
and overarchng all other splendor with
its triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands, and publishing all
other thrones with its dominiou-de.
liverance for lost world through the
Great Redeemer
| discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
MEET TROUBLE BRAvELY.
First, such a habit of mind and
heart is wrong, because it puts one into
a dependency that i'll fits him for duty.
| planted two rose bushes in my gar
den; the one thrived beautifully, the
other persisted. 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 ui&ny secular and religious
f;,:.'.;NS Fear Of bankruptcy has up
t"rI many Il fine h:siness, and sent the
MAI: doc ing amCnG the note shavcrs.
Fca: II SANDER and abuse has often in
we'd ail the long ieeaked vultureS of
SCR and !mckbiting. Many of the
n.Si''tlnrS Of life, like hyenas, lice if
you cu'f::-C' nsly meet them
How pcory prepared for religious
duty j., y l.l&n vho sits down under the
gloom Of expected misfortune! If he
pray, i!e says, Il do not think shall
be answered" If he si;g. lie says, 81
expect they will steal the money"
Helen Chalmers told me that her
father, Thomas Chalmers, i'll 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 so out and play ball or lily kite"
and the only difficulty 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 horrors they distill poi
son, they dig graves, and if they could
climb SO high they would drown the
rejoicings of heaven with sobs and wall
ing
You will have nothing but misfortune
in the future if you sedulously watch
for it. How shall man catch the
right kind of fish if he arranges his
line and hook and bait to catch lizards
and water scrpents2 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 help,
less; but the morning rose, and
with it rose the eagle. and the
owls, and the nighthawks, and the bats
came Il second time to the combat !;
pow the eagle in the sunlight, with a
stroke of his talons and a 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 de,
spondency you Sill have no chance
against your enemies that flock up
from beneath, but, trusting in God, and
standing in the sunshine of the prom.
scs, you shall renew your youth like
tile eagle.
APPRECi ATE PRESENT GOOD.
Again, the habit of borrowing trOu-
BILE is wrong, because it has Il tendency
to make MS overlook present blessing.
To Stake mans thirst the rock is cleft
and cool waters leap into his Drumming
cup. To feel his hunger the fields bow
down with bending wheat, and tie cat
tie come down with full udders from
the clover pastures 10 give him milk,
and the orchards yellow and ripen,
casting their juicy fruits into his lap.
Alas that amid such exuberance OF
| blessing man should growl as though
| he were a soldier on half rations or a
sailor on short allowance; that man
should stand neck deep in harvests
looking forward TO famine; that one