The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-18
HURTS CHARACTER.
Folly Of Allowing Forebodings oS
Evil to influence Action.
Dr Ta1nase in His Sermon Declares
the Life OF Every Man, Noia"A
and Child to lie Closely
Under Divine Care.
copyright, Ia1I, by Louis k!opsch' \. "
Washington, Sept. s.


Washington. Sept s.
In this discourse Dr.. Talmage
shows the folly OF allowing forebod-
ings to influence US and how eXpec-
tatioo Of evil weakens and destroys.
Text, Matthew 6:34: Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof.
The life of every man, woman ana
child IS as closely under Divine care
as though such person were the only
nan. woman or child. There are no
accidents. AS there IS law OF stOrlnS
in the natural world, so there IS q
law of trouble, law OF disaster, q
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 Tor the
storm and halo for the mountain
ereenness for the moss, saffron Tor
the cloud and crystal for the oI4ow
and procession Of baonered lame
through the opening gates OF the
morning, chafinches to sing, rivers
TO glitter, seas to chant and springs
70 blossom, and overpowering all
other sounds with it's song and over
erching all other spiendor with its
triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands and outfashing all
thrones with its dorninion--deliver-
ance for a lost world through the
Great Redeemer.
I discourse OF the sin Of borrow
ing trouble.
First, such habit of mind and
heart is wrong, because it puts one
into a dependency that i'll fits him
for duty. I planted two rosebushes
in my garden; the one thrived beau
eitully, the other perished. I found
the dead one 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
slander and abuse has often invited
all the long-beal.sd vultures Of scora
and baekbiting. Many Of the nis1or-
tunes Of life, like hyenas, fee If you
courageously meet them
Eow poorly prepared for religious
duty IL a man who sits down under
the gloom Of expected misfortune! #
he prays, he says: ~ do not think l
shall BE- answered" II he gives, he
says: "I 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:
''Core, let US go out and play ball or
ay kite" and the only difficulty IN
the play was that the children could
not keep up with their father. The
McCheynes and the Sunmerields of
the church who did the most good
toiled in the sunlight. Away with the
horrorsl They distill poison; they
dig graves, and if they could climb
SO high they would drown the re-
ioicings Of Heaven with sobs and
wailing.
You viii have nothing but misfor-
tune in the future if you sedulously
watch for it. How shall 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 al
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 1t rose the eagle, and
she owls and the nighthawks and the
bats came second time to the com
bat. Now, the eagle in the sunlight,
with q stroke Of his talons and a
great cry, cleared the air, and his en-
euaies, with torn feathers and
spIashed with blood, tunbled into
ehs thiokets. Ye are the children Of
light. In the night Of dependency
you will have no chance against your
enemies that Hock up from beneath;
but, trusting in God and standing in
the sunshine Of the promises, you
shen ''renew your youth like the
eagle"
Again the habit Of borrowing
trouble IS wrong because It has g
tendency to make US overlook pres
ens blessing. To slake mans thirst
che rock is cleft and cool waters leap
into his brinning cup. To feed his
hunger the fields bow down with
bending wheat, and the cattle come
from the clover pastures to give him
milk, and the orchards yellow and
rpen, casting their juicy fruits into
his lap. Alas, that amid such exuber-
ance Of blessing man should growl
IS though he were a soldier on half
cations or sailor on short allow
oacs; that man should stand neck
deep IN harvests looking forward TO
famine; that one should feel the
strong pulses of health marching
with regular tread through all the
svenus Of life and yet tremble at the
expected assault Of sickness; that 8
naa 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 hanger
into the bread tray; that man fed
by Him who owns all the harvests
should expect to starve; that one
whom God loves and surrounds with
bene6ictioR and attends with angelic
People Who Make Sunshine.