The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-10-04
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Subject The Sin Of borrowing Tr0ubls-A
Bad Habit That UNITS Many 70 Proper
" Discharge the Duties Of Lifo-God
VIII Meet Our lsxigenciesns rhey Arise
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WASHINGTON, ID. Gin this discourse
DR., Talmage shows the folly Of allowing
forobodings to influence us and how eK-
pectation 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
is as closely under the divine care as
though such person were the only man,
woman or child. There are no accidents.
AS there il a Law OF storms in the natural
world, so there is law of trouble, a law
of disaster. a law of misfortune, but the
majority of the troubles of life are mag
mary, 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 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 cloud and crystal for the
billow and procession Of hammered fame
through the opening gates Of the morning,
chatfinches TO sing, rivers to glitter, seas
to chant and springs to blossom and over
towering all other sounds with its song
and over-reaching all other splendor with
its triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands and outfashing all other
thrones with its dominion-deliveranc
for a lost world through the Great Re
deemer.
1 discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First, such habit Of mind ana heart
is wrong because 1t puts one into a de-
spondency that i'll fits him for duty. I
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 a fine business
and sent the man lodging among the note
shavers. Fear of SANDER and abuse has
often invited the longbeaked vultures of
scorn and backbiting. Many of the mis-
fortunes 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 misfortunel If he prays, he
says, Il do not think shall be an.
swered." If he gives, he says, Il expect
they will steal the money" Helen Chain.
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 seemed 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
the horrors! They distil poison, They
| dig graves. and if they could climb so high
thew would drown the rejoicings Of heaven
/ with sobs and wailing.
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 line and hook and
bait to catch lizards and water serpents
/ Hunt for bats and hawks, and bats 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 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 nighthawks
and the bats came a second time to the
with stroke of his talons and great cry
cleared the air, and his enemies, with
torn feathers apd splashed with blood
tumbled 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 "renev
your youth like the eagle"
Again, the habit of borrowing trouble
is wrong, because it has tendency tC
make us overlook present, blessing. IL
Stake mans thirst the rock is cleft, anC
cool water leap into his trimming cup
10 feed his hunger the fields bow dowr
with bending wheat, and the cattle come
down from the clover pastures to give
him milk, and the orchards yellow anC
ripen, casting their juicy fruits into hi!
lap. Alas, that amid such exuberance O
blessing man should growl as though hi
were a soldier on half rations or sailol
on short allowance; that man SHOULD
stand neck deep in harvests looking for
ward to famine; that one should feel tn
strong pulses of health marching with reg
ular tread all the avenues of life and ye
trembe at the expected assault of sick
ness; that a man should sit in his pleasan
home, fearful that ruthless want will som
day rattle the broken window sash witt
tempest and sweep the Goals from tn
hearth and pour hunger into the brea,
tray; that a man fed by Him who own
all the harvests should expect to starve
that one whom God loves and surround
with benediction and attends with angel
escort and hovers over with more tina
motherly fondness should be looking 70
a heritage of tears! Has God been har
with thee that thou shouldst be foreboC
ing? Has He stinted thy board? Has H
covered thee with rags? Has He sprea
traps for thy feet and CALLED thy cup an
rasped thy soul and wrecked thee wit
storm and Numbered upon thee with
life full of calamity?