Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
iTALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE FOLLY OF WORRY, LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
Sufficient Unto the Day Is the Evil
Thereof--Matthew XXI; 34-The EVIL
of Borrowing Trouble from the Fu-
ture-Don't Worry.

copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. VI
Washington, Sept SIN this dis
course DIR. Talmage shows the folly OF
allowing forebodings to influence us
and how expectation 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 is law of
storms in the natural world, SO there
is law of trouble, law of disaster,
law of misfortune; but the majority
of the troubles of life are imaginary,
and the most of those anticipated new
er come. At any rate, there is no
cause of complaint against God. See
how much he has doI,e 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 flame through
the opening gates of the morning.
chamnches to sing, rivers to glitter,
seas to chant and springs to blossom,
and overpowering all other sounds
with its song and overarching all
other splendor with its triumph, COW
ering UP all other beauty with its gar
lands and outflashing all thrones with
its domfnion-deliveran for a lost
world through the Great Redeemer.
Borrowing Trouble.
7 diScOI1rSa of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First, such habit of mind and heart
is wrong, because it puts one into a
dependency that ill fits him for duty.
I planted two rosebushes in my gar
den; the one thrived beautifully, the
other perished. 1 found the dead one
on the shady side of the house. Our
dispositions. like our plants, need sun
shine. Expectancy of repulse is the
cause of many secular and religious
failures Fear of the bankruptcy has
uptorn many a fine business and sent
the man lodging among the note
shavers. Fear of slander and abuse
has often invited all the 1ongbeaked
:vultures of scorn and backbiting. Many
of the misfortunes of life, like hy-
enas. fee 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 prays, he says, "I do not think I
shall be answered" If he gives, he
says, st expect they will steal the
money" Helen Chalmers told me
that her father, Thomas Chalmers. in
the darkest hour of the history 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 Summerfields of
the church who did the most good
toiled in the sunlight Away with the
horrors! They distill poison; they dig
graves, and if they could climb so high
they would drown the rejoicings of
heaven with sobs and wailing.
watching for Misfortune.
You will have nothing but misfor-
tune in the future if you sedulously
watch for it. How shall a man catch
the right kind of fish if he arranges
his 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
redbreasts, 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 night hawks and the bats
came a second time to the combat
Now, the eagle in the sunlight, with a
stroke of his talons and a great cry
cleared the air, and his enemies, with
torn feathers and splashed with blood,
tumb1ed into the thickets. Ye are the
children of light. In the night Of des-
pondency 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 trou-
BILE Is wrong because it has a tendency
to make us overlook present blessing
To slake mans thirst the rock is cleft,
and cool waters leap into his brim-
ming 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, and
the orchards yellow and ripen, casting