The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-13

she went home, and, when in sight of
Tho house, she saw the old house stand
ing there and went inside and saw the
embnra OF what was once n very small
fire; and She sits down and says: oh,
what fool | was to worry over such Z
little matter That's borrowing trouble.
Is 1T not, brethren?
IF had one of these little old pre-
sentiments, sisters, l would have some
sense and just quit borrowing SO much
uDnt ceSSary trouble. Now, sis .ers. have
some sense and quit thinking and hay
ing these little old prosentiments.
Mothers, have some sense. If your child
Is taken littlo sick, don't go round tho
town and cry that your daugh ter is going
to die just because sho has got little
cold. Another thing, we mon get bad
off ourselves. Sometimes Il great. big,
strong robust follow says he is afraid he
will starve to death. | have been in
forty States. Listen to me. l have
mover seen man who has starved to
death. have read of such things, but
they always happen to just bury him
before get there.
I'm glad my wife has sense enough
to think her husband has sense enough
to tote his own skillet. Borrowing trou-
BILE; sister, if you have got any sonsc,
use it. There was q fellow in u room in
hotel who kept rolling and tumbling,
and wouldn't let the man below him
sleep. He finally went up and asked
what was the matter. The fellow said:
Il owe $1,000 and can't pay it Have
you honestly tried to pay it?' Yes,
have Then | would let tho other fell
low do the walking tho floor" was the
roply.
''I'm not li;so tho old Dutchman, very
nf no nj u ,
said he had been in this country seven
teen years, and had only ridden horse
back three miles. and walked two of
them.
"Onco there was great drought and
1t q PRAYER meeting tho preacher said:
Once ! was young now | an old
and | have mover seen the right
cous forsaken or his seed begging for
bread croaker in the audience said:
If you stay in this country long you
viii, unless it rains pretty soon
Listen. l have been as poor as a
dog; yes, as poor as two dogs and. | have
never felt any uneasiness about getting
something to cat. When you starve
near me. | want to see you. Any old
tramp can get something to cat and
look fat and greasy, and when he can't
GIT anything any longer ne can get
whisFcy enough to keep him drunk for
3G5 days in the year.
Tho best remedy for this borrowing
trouble is good sense to bear on the sit
uation. The Lord won't help you in
your borrowed trouble. He don't run
on that schedule. He's too busy, old
sister.
81 knew an old lady who prayed
twenty years for grace from God to keep
her from starving and to let her dio in
nd t1~
$50, 600 in her own home,
Talk about stingy mon, women are a
heap stingier than men. An old widow
can primp up her mouth and say poor
widow like you Baptists say brethren,
all twisted like pigs tail. This don't
belong to tho text; it is gratuitous
l Just threw it in for you old female sis
tiers. There arc real burdens and real
cares enough for mo without borrowing
trouble.
Listen. I'm talking to wives who
know what mean. There arc wives
here who know if their husbands d 10 in
their present condition they would go
to hell and they carry that heavy bur
dan III their hearts year after year.
have visited asyIums all over the land
and have looked on in sorrow at the
miserable wretched human beings de-
bauchcd and with reason dethroned |
have been to the asylum in Miliedge-
WIG and talked to mother; saw her
mind Lave and tho wild glare como in
her eyes. and heard her weird rawlings.
Her drunken debauched husband broke
her heart and dethroned her reason.
They say a feather will break
campbcll's back, and know that human
nature can stand so much that it can
stand no more.
Imagine young man going into
hotel. Tho walters cannot arouse him,
tho officers break open the door.
lifcli SIS corpse lies on tho floor and by
it pistol. l put my ears to his bloody
mouth ard think | can hear that silent
corpse cry out, Il was overloaded with
trouble and could stand it no longer.
thought it couldn't be any worse
There is scarcely a suicide on ri cord
that hasn't been overloaded.
81 sometimes talk to my own boys
and say, Boys, look at me, l have
about all | can tote. I heard your
mother saw like David, 'Oh, that had
tho wings of a dove Oh, boys, don't
drink or gamble Whatdo you do, Sis
ter, who have boys who drink and swear
and gamble? scarcely ever go to
new city like this but what I get let
ters saying. Mr.. Jones, my son is there.
Pray for him.. It's bad thing for a
boy to walk on his mothers heart.
Il like these mother boys | do. Oh,
my countrymen, what a sad thing when
you and have all we can carry, that
other people will load their cares on
our hearts. Sometimes | look at my
wife and SEQ the blue veins on her face
and wonder if tho three years of our
married life, whom was in sin, caused
those lines Of care to be written on her
brow. Some of you men have broken
your poor wife's heart and wiring the