The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-09-13
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE FOLLY OF WORRY, LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
Sufficient Unto the Day Is the EVIL
Matthew XI; 34-The Evil
of borrowing Trouble from the Fu-
ture-Don't Worry.

course DR.. 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 ana
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 a law or
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
err 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 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 overarching all
other splendor with its triumph, COW
ering up all other beauty with its gar
lands and publishing all thrones with
its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES for lost
world through the Great Redeemer.
Borrowing Trouble.
1 discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First, such habit of mind and heart
is wrong, because it puts one into
dependency that i'll fits him for duty.
I planted two rosebushes in my gar
den; the one thrived beautifully, the
other persisted l 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 SANDER and abuse
has often invited all the long-beaked
vultures of scorn and backbiting. Many
of the misfortunes of life, like hy-
enas, flee if you courageously meet
them.
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is man who sits down under
the gloom of expected misfortune! If
he prays, he says, Il do not think
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 60 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
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
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
Now, the eagle in the sunlight, with
stroke of his talons and a great cry
cleared the air, and his enemies, with
torn feathers and .splashed with blood,
tumbled 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
ike the eagle"
Again, the habit of borrowing trou-
Die is wrong because it has tendency |
% make us overlook present blessing. |
TO Stake mans thirst the rock is cleft, |
Ind cool waters leap into his brim-
ming cup. To feed his hunger the |
ields bow down with bending wheat, |
ind the cattle come down from the |
clover pastures to give him milk, and |
he orchards yellow and ripen, casting
heir Juicy fruits into his lap. Alas,
hat amid such exuberance Of blessing
nan should growl as though he were
soldier on half rations or a sailor
IN short allowance; that a man should
tand neck deep in harvests looking
onward to famine; that one should |
eel the strong pulses of health march
ng with regular tread through all the /