Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-08-19
BORROWERS OFTROUBlE
DR.. TALMAGE breaches FOR
THEIR ESPECIAL BENEFIT.

Your Lfe-Ee Satisfied; the Rest Will
Come.
DIR. TaImage's sermon this week is on
the very common and foolish habit of
borrowing money, and his text is Mat
thew 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 was the only man,
woman or child. There are no acct
dents. AS there is law of storms in
the natural world, so there is a law Of
trouble law Of disaster, q law of mis-
fortune; 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 complaint
against God.
See how much He has 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 fame 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 overarching all other splendor with
it's triumph, covering up all other beauty
with it's garandS, and OutflaShing all
other thrones with it's dominon-deliv-
erance for lost world through the Great
Redeemer.
discourse OF the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First, such habit of mind and heart
is wrong, because it puts one into de-
spondency that i'll fits him for duty. /
planted two rose bushes in my garden;
the one thrived beautifully, the other
perished l found the dead one on the
shady side of the house. Our DISPOSE
tiOnS like our plants, need sunshine.
Expectancy of repulse is the cause of
many secular and religious failures.
Fear of bankruptcy has uptorn many d
fine business. and sent the man lodging
among the note shaverS. Fear of SLAM
der and abuse has often invited all the
long beaked vutures Of ScOrn and back
biting Many of the misfOrtunes Of life,
like hyenas, flee 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, Il do not think / shall be an
swered." If he give, he says, Il expect
they will steal the money" Helen Chal
merS told me that her father, Thomas
Chalmers, in the darkest hour of the
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
Summerfields 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 you seduously 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 SER
penis? 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, I'M
used to the night, was no match for an
owl, which is most at home in the dark
ness, 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 second
time TO the combat, now the eagle, in the
sunlight, with a stroke of his talons and
great cry, cleared the air, and his enc
mics, 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 mp from
beneath, but, trusting in God, and stand
ing in the sunshine of the promises,
you shall ''renew your youth like the
eagle
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because it has tendency to
make US overlook present blessing. 70
slakA mans thirst the rock is 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 udders 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 a soldier on half rations or sailor
on short allowance; that a man should
SUdIu uCCh uCOp III Hal FCSUS lOOhluS tOE-
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 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 haryestS
should expect to starve; that one whom
God loves and surrounds with benedic-
ton, 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 forebodng? 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
Numbered upon thee with life full Of
calamity? If your father or brother
come into your bank whore gold and sill
yer are lying about you do not watch