Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-09-10
TALMAGE is AT HOME.
HIS VOICE AGAIN HEARD IN
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Tie breaches q Timely Sermon on
the EVIL OF Borrowing Trouble
Trouble wept Over that After All
Mover Came.


Talmage has returned from his Western
tour reinvigorated in health, and
cheered by the hearty and enthusiastic
greetings he has received in the num-
erous cities he has visited. Thousands
of persons who have read his sermons
in tAeir local newspapers have
struggled to get within sound OF his
voice wherever he has spoken. His
sermon this week is on the very COM
mon and foolish habit of borrowing
Trouble, and his text is Matthew 6:3+:-
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 q law of trouble, law of disaster,
law Of misfortune; but the majority
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 sunshine filing
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, chaffinches to sing, rivers to
glitter, seas to chant, and spring to
blossom, and overpowering all other
sounds with its song, and overarchin0
all other splendor with its triumph,
covering up all other beauty with its
| garlands, and outflashing all other
thrones with its dominion-deliver-
| ance 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 q
| dependency that i'll fits him for duty.
| / planted two rose bushes in my garden;
| the one thrived beautifully, the other
persisted. 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 q
! fine business, and sent the man dodg-
ing among the note-shavers. Fear of
Islander and abuse has often invited all
the long beaked vultures of scor" and
back-biting. Many of the misfortunes
of life, like hycnas, flee if you cour-
agsously meet them.
| How poorly prepared for religious
| duty is man who sits down under
the gloom of expected misfortune! If
he pray, he says, II do not think I
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
darkest hour of the h story of the
Free Church of Scotland, ana when
the woes of the land seemed to
weigh upon his heart, SAID to the chill
dren, 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
MCheynes and the Summerfclds of the
church who did the most good. culti-
waited sunlight. Away with the hor-
rors. They distill poison; they dig
graves: and if they could climb so high,
they would drown the rejoicings of
heaven with sobs and waillng.
You will have nothing but misfor-
tune in the future if you sedulousiy
watch for it. How shall man catch
the right kind Of fish if he arranges his
line, and hook, and bait TO catch liz
ards and water-serpents@ Hunt 70.
bats and hawks, and rats and hawks
you will find. Hunt for robin-red-
breasts, and you will find robin-red-
breasts 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 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 enemies with torn feathers and
splashed with blood, tumbled into the
thickets Ye are the children of light.
In the night of dependency you have
no chance against your enemies that
flock UP from beneath, but, trusting in
God and standing in the sunshine OF
the promises, you shall renew your
youth like the eagle"
Again: The habit of borrowing trou-
Bile is wrong, because it has u tendency
to make us overlook present blessing.
To Stake mans thirst, the rock is cleft,
and cool 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 pastures to 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 u
sailor on short allowances; that O
man should stand neck-deep in
harvests looking forward to fam
Inc; that one should feel the strong
pulses Of health marching with regu-
lar tread though all the avenues OF life,
and yet tremble at the expected assault
Of sickness; that man should sit in
his pleasant homo, fearful that ruthless
want will some day rattle the broken
window sash with tempest, and sweep
the Goals from the hearth, and
pour munger into the bread-tray;
that a man fed by him who owns al
the harvests should expect to starve:
that one whom God loves and surrounds
with benedIction, and attends with
angelic escort, and hovers over with
: more than motherly fondness, should