Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20
BORROWERS OF TROUBLE
op TALMAGE breaches FOR
THEIR ESPECIAL BENEFIT.

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the very common ana looilsh haols VI
| borrowing money, and ms Ieat Is NAV
Nav vi a. sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof.
child is as closely under the dlVlne care
/ &c though such person was the only man,
woman or child There are no accl-
dents As there is law Of storms III
the natural world, 50 there is law OF
trouble, law OF disaster, law or mis-
fortune; but the majority Of the troubles
of life are imaginary and the most OF
those anticipated ne9er come. AT arV
rate there is no cause OF complS ~
against God
See how much He has done to make
thee happy; His sunshine filing the
| earth with glory, making rainbow Tor
the storm and halo for the mountain,
| ereenncss for the moss, saffron Tor the
! cloud and crystal for the billoW, ana
! procession Of hammered fame through
| the opcning gates Of the morning, cha1-
| Gnches to sing. rivers to glitter, seas 10
chant, and springs TO blossom, and over
nowcrjng all other sounds with It's song,
! and ovcrarching all other splendor WIN
it's triumph, covering up all other beauty
| With it's garlands and Diminishing al
other thrones with its domlnion-dcllV-
erancc for a lost World through the Great
| Redccmer.
discourse of The sin Of borrowing
| trouble.
First, such habit Of mind and heart
| Is wrong, because it puts one INTO Il dc
spondency that i'll fits him for duty. !
planted two rose bushes in my garden;
the one thrived beautifully, the other
Eershcd. found the dead one on the
shady side Of the house. Our DISPOSE
lions, like our plants, need sunshine.
| Expectancy Of repulse IS the cause OF
many secular and religious failures.
Fear Of bankruptcy has uptorn many
| fine business. and sent the man lodging
among the note Shavers. Fear Of slam
der and abuse has often invited all the
| long bcaked VuIturcs OF Scorn ana BACK
biting. Many Of the msfortuhcS OF llfe'
like hyenas, flee if you couragcously
meet them
How poorly prepared for religious duty
is man who sits down under the gloom
of expected misfortune! IT he pray, he
says, II do not think ] shall be an
swered." If he give, he says, II expect
they will steal the money" Helen Chal-
mers told me that her father, Thomas
Free Church of Scotland, and when the
woes of the land seemed to weigh upon
lis 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
Summerfelds 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 SO
nigh they would drown the rejoicings OF
of Heaven with sobs and wailing.
You will have nothing but misfortune
in the future if yon seduously Watcf for
it, How shall man catch the right kind
of fish if he arrangcs his line and hook
and bait to catch lizards and water SER
penis? Hunt for bats and hawks, and
bats and hawks yon 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, UNI
used to the night, was no match Tor an
owl, which is most at home III the dark
ness, and the king of the air fell help
less; but the morning rose, and with 1t
rose the eagle, and the owls and the
nighthawks and the bats came second
time to the CONT bat, now the eagle, in the
sunlight, with stroke of his talons and
great cry, cleared the air, and his ene-
mics, with torn feathers and Splashcd
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 1TeneW your youth like the
eagle"
Again, the habit Of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because it has d tendency to
make us overlook present blessing. To
slaks mans thirst the rock bS cleft and
cool waters leap into his trimming cup.
To feed his hunger the fields bow down
with bending wheat, and cattle come
dowh with full uddcrs from the clover
pastares to give him milk, and 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 soldier on half rations or sailor
on short allowance; that y 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 avenues of
life and yet tremble at the expected result
of sickness; that a 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 fed
by Him Who owns all the harvests
should expect to starve; that one whom
| God loves and surrounds with benedic-
tion, and attends with angelic escort,
and hovers over with more than motherly
| fondness should be looking for hertz
| age of tears!
Has God been hard with thee, that
| thou shouldst be foreboding? Has He
stinted thy board? HAS Recovered thee
with rags? Has He spread traps for thy
| feet, and CALLED thy cup, and rasped thy
| soul, and wrecked thee with storm. and
| Numbered upon thee with u life full of
| calamity? Ii your father or brother
come into your bank where gold and sill
yer are lying abont, you do not watch