The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-12
BORROWING TROUBLE.
DR.. Talmage Says II Is a Bad Habit That
Units Many TO Properly Discharge
Their Duties.
God VIII Meet Our Hslsene'es as They Arise


Ir. 1almaRc SHOWS the folly OF allowing
forebodings to influence us and how cx-l
pcctation of evil weakens and destroys
text. Matthew vi, "a, Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof"
The life of every man, woman and child
IL as closely under the divine care as
though such person were the only man,
woman or child. There arc no accidents.
AS there is a law of storms in the natural
world, so there is a law Of trouble, law
of disaster, a law of misfortune, but the
majority of the troubles of life are imaR-
mary, and the most of those anticipated
never come. Az any rate. there is no
cause Of complaint against God See how
much He has done to make you 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 clond and crystal for the
billow and procession OF hammered hame
through the opening gates of the morning.
chafiinches to sing. rivers to glitter. seas
10 chant and springs to blossom and over
powcring all other sounds with its song
aud over-reachinp all other splendor with
its triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands and outflaslnng all other
thrones with its dominion-delveran
for lost world through the Great Re
deemer
7 discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble
II
is wrong because it puts one into a de
spondency that i'll fits him for duty. l
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 dispositions,
like our plants. need sunshine. Expec-
fancy of repulse is the cause of many Sec
ular and religious failures Fear of bank-
ruptcy has uptorn many fine business
and sent the man dQdging among the note
shavers. Fear OF ahnder and abuse has
often invited the long-bcaked vultures of
scorn and backbiting Many OF the mis-
fortunes OF life, like hyenas, flee if you
courageously meet theni
How poorly prepared for religious duty
is man who sits down under the gloom
of expected misfortune, II he prays, he
says, II do not think shall be au-
swercd.' If he gives, he says, 81 expect
they will steal the money" Helen Chalm-
ers told me that her father, Thomas
Chalmers. in the darkest hour of the
Free Church OF Scotland and when the
woes of the land seelhed TO weigh upon
his heart, said to his 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 Summer
fields of the church who did the most
good toiled in the sunlight. Away with
dig graves. and il they could climb so high
they would crown the rejoicings of heaven
with sobs and wailing.
You will have nothing but misfortune
in the future if you sedulously watch for
1t. How shall man catch the right kind
OF fish il he arranges line and hook and
bait TO catch lizards and water scrpents?
Hunt for bats and hawks, and bats and
hawks you will find. Hunt for robin red
breasts, aud you will find robin red
breasts. One night an eagle and an owl
got INTO fierce battle. The eagle. unused
to the-pight, was no match for the 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 niehthawks
and the bats came n second time to the
combat. Now, the eagle in the sunlight,
with u stroke Of his talons and great cry
cleared the air, and his enemies. with
torn feathers and splasbed with blood,
tumbed into the thickets. Ye are the
children Of light In the night of despond-
ency you will 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 trouble
is wrong because it has a tendency 10
make us overlook present blessing. To
slake mans thirst the rock is cleft and
cool water. leap into his brimming cup.
To feed his hunger the fields bow down
With bending wheat, and the cattle come
down from the clover pastures to give
him milk aud the orchards yellow aud
ripen, casting their Juicy fruits into his
lap Alas. that amid such exuberancc of
blessing man should growi as though he
were u soldier on half rations or sailor
on short allowance: that man should
stand neck deep in harvests looking for
ward to famine: that one should feel the
strong pulses of health marching with reg
uar tread all the avenues of life and yet
tremble at the expected assault OF sick
ness; 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 harvcsts should expect to starve;
that one whom God loves and surrounds
with benediction and attends with angelic
escort and hovers over with more than
motheriy fondness should be looking for
a heritage of tearsl Has God been hard
with thee that thou shoudst be forebod-
ing? Has He stinted thy board! Has He
covered thee with rags? Has He spread
traps Cor thy feet and CALLED thy cup and
rasped thy soul and wrecked thee with
storm aud thundered upon thee with a
life full of calamity
If your father or brother come into your
bank. where gold and silver are lying
about, YOU do not watch them, for you
know they are honest, but il AN entire
stranger come by the safe you keep your
eve on him. for you do not know his de
sigus. So some men treat God not as a
father. but a stranger, and act suspi-
ciously toward Him II is high time you
hogan 70 thank God for present blessing;
thank Him for ,yonr children, happy buoy
ant and bounding: praise Him Tor your
home. with its fountain Of song and
laughter; adore Him for morning light
and evening shadow; praise Him Tor fresh.
cool water bubbling from the rock, leap
ING in the cascade soaring in Che mist,
falling in the shower, dashing against the
rocks and clapping its hands in the tenn
pest; love Him for the grass that cushions
the earth and the clouds that curtain the
sky and The foliage that waves in the for
est; thank Him for Bible to read and
Saviour 10 deliver.
Many Christians think it a bad sign to
he jubilant, and their work Of self-exam
ination is hewing down Of their brighter
experiences Like boy with a new Jack
knife hacking everything he comes across,
so their determination is a religious
cutting TO pieces of the greenest things
they can lay their hands on. They i'm.
agine they are doing Gods service when
they are going about borrowing trouble
and borrowing il at thirty per cent.
which is always a sure precursor OF bank
fnptcy.
Again, the habit OF borrowing trouble
~ wrong becauec' the nresqut il ifician Nv