The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-09-14

In tnlS lSCOuTS III. IalmdSe
shows the folly of allowing forebod-
ings to influence us and how expec-
tation of evil weakens and destroys.
Text, Matthew 6:34: Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof"
The life of every man, woman and
child is as closely under Divine care
as though such person were the only
man, woman or child. There are no
accidents. AS there is a law of storms
in the natural world, so there is q
law of trouble, a law of disaster. a
law of misfortune; but the majority
of the troubles of life are imaginary,
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 fer the
storm and halo for the mountain,
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 springs
to blossom, and overpowering all
other sounds with it's song and over
arching all other splendor with its
triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands and ou~thashing all
thrones with its dominion-deliver-
ance for a lost world through the
Great Redeemer.
| discourse of the sin of borrow
ing trouble.
First, such a habit of mind and
heart is wrong, because it puts one
into a dependency that i'll fits him
for duty. l planted two rosebushes
IN my garden; the one tbrived beau
tifully, the other persisted. 1 found
the dead n on the shady side of the
house. Our dispositions, like our
plants, need sunshine. Expectancy
of repulse is the cause of many Sec
ular and religious failures. Fear of
SANDER and abuse has often invited
all the long-beaked v%ultures of scorn
and backbiting. Many of the misfor-
tunes of life, like hyenas, flee if you
co~urageously 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: 81 do not think I
shall be answered." If he gives, he
says; 81 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 u 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 re-
joicings of Heaven with sobs and
wailing.
You will have nothing but misfor-
'NHN III Nv iutdiC IL lOu StdulOuSlN
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 red
breasts, and you will find robin red
breasts. One night an eagle and an
wv 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 n~ighthawks and the
bats came a second time to the COM
pat Now, the eagle in the sunlight,
with a stroke of his talons and a
great cry, cleared the air, and his en-
emies, with torn feathers and
splashed with blood, tumbled into
the thickets. Ye are the children of
hight. In the night of dependency
you viii have no chance against your
enemies that flock up from beneath;
put' trusting in God and standing in
me sunshine of the promises, you
snail renew your youth like the
eagle
Again, the habit of borrowing
trouble is wrong because it has a
tendency to make us overlook pres
eht blessing. To slake mans thirst
the rock is cleft and cool waters leap
INTO his brimming cup. To feed his
munger the fields bow down with
bending wheat, and the cattle come
IRON the clover pastures to give him
milk and the orchards yellow and
,ipen' casting their juicy fruits into
MS lap. Alas, that amid such exuber-
dhce oil blessing man should growl
as though he were a soldier on half
ratons or q sailor on short allow
shce; that a man should stand neck
ueep IN harvests looking forward to
famine; that one should feel the
s'rong pulses of health marching
win regular tread through all the
venus OF life and yet tremble at the
expected assault of sickness; that a
man should sit in his pleasant home,
iedrful that rutb1aSS want will Soma