The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-08-21
BORROWERS OF TROUBLE
DR.. TALMAGe breaches FOR THEIR
ESPECIAL BENEFIT.

You Cannot Expect the Lord to Give Yov
Enough Good Things Now to Last AL
Your Life--Be Satisfied, the Rest Will
Come.
BROOKLYN, Aug. l6.-Dr. Talinagt
has returned from his western tour re
invigorated in health and cbeered by
the hearty and enthusiastic greeting.
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 gel
within sound of his voice wherever he
has spoken. His sermon this week il
on the very common and foolish habit
of borrowing money, and his text IL
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
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 law
OF trouble, q 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 hammered flame through
the opening gates of the morning, chat
t1nches to sing, rivers to glitter seas to
chant, and springs to blossom, and over
towering all other sounds with its song,
and overarchihg all other splendor with
its triumph. covering up all other beauty
with it's garlands, and outfashing all
other thrones with it's dominion-de-
iverance for lost world through the
Great Redeemer.
l discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
MEET TROUBLE BRAvELY.
First. such habit of mind and
heart is wrong. because it puts one into
a dependency that i'll fits him for duty.
I planted two rose bushes in my gar
den; the one thrived beautifully, the
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 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. flee if
you courageously meet them.
-"r1ow poorly prepared tyr religious
duty is man who sits down under the
gloom of expected misfortune! If 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 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 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
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 serpents2 Hunt for bats and
hawks, and bats and hawks you will
ind. Hunt for robin redbreasts. and
you. will find robin redbreasts. One
light an eagle and an owl got into
ierce battle The eagle, unused to the
night. was no match for an owl, which
3 most at home in the darkness,
Id the king of the air fell help
but the morning rose, and
it rose the eagle, and the
and the nighthawks, and the bats
q second time to the combat;
eagle. in the sunlight, with a
his talons and great Cry,
air, ard his enemies, with
rs and splashed with blood,
the thickets Ye are the
ght. In the night of de
bu will have no chance
enemies that flock up
put, trusting in God, and
Sunshine of the prom
renew your youth like
IL PRESENT GOOD.
bit of borrowing trou-
ause it has tendency