Connecticut western news., 1901-09-12
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage shows the folly of allowing forebodings to influence us and how expectation of evil weakens and destroys; text, Matthew vi, 34, 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 a law of storms in the natural world, so there Is a law of trouble, law of disaster, a law of misfortune, but the majority of the troubles of life are imaginary, and the most of those anticipated nev- CT 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 glo- ry, making rainbow for the storm and halo for the mountain, greenness for the moss, saffron for the cloud and crystal for the pillow 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 overpew- cring all other sounds with It's song and overarching all other splendor with its triumph, covering up all other beau ty with it's garlands and outfashing all other thrones with it's dominion-deliv- erance for a lost world through the Great Redeemer.
 I discourse of the sin of borrowing trouble.
 First, such habit of mind and heart Is wrong because 1t puts one into a despondency that i'll fits him for duty. I planted two rosebushes in my gar Gen. The one thrived beautifully; the other perished. I 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 bankruptcy has up torn many a fine business and sent the man lodging among the note shavers. Fear of islander and abuse has often invited all the long peaked vultures of scorn and backbiting. Many of the misfortunes of life, like hyenas, flee If you courageously meet them.
 Evils of Brooding.
 How poorly prepared for religious duty Is a man who sits down under the gloom of expected misfortune! If he prays, he says, q do not think shall be answered" If he gives, he says, Il expect they will steal the money" Helen Chalmers told me that her fa- ther, 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 Sum- merfields 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 they would drown the re- joicings of heaven with sobs and wall ing.
 You will have nothing but misfor- tune in the future If you sedulously watch for 1t. 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 redbreasts, and you will find robin redbreasts One night an eagle and an owl got into fierce battle. The eagle, unused 10 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 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 tai ons 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 despondency 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"
 Do Net Borrow Trouble.
 Again, the habit of borrowing trouble Is wrong, because 1t has a tendency to make us overlook present blessing. To slake mans thirst the rock is cleft, and cool waters leap Into his brimming cup. To feed his hunger the fields bow down with bending wheat, and the cat tie come down from the clover pastures to give him milk, and the orchards yell low and ripen, casting their juicy fruits into his lap. Alas, that amid such ex- tolerance of blessing man should growl as though he were soldier on half ra tions or a sailor on short allowance; ]; that a 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 avenues of life and yet tremble at the expected assault of sick ness; that man should sit in his pleas ant home, fearful that ruthless wait will some day rattle the broken win dow sash with tempest and sweep the coals from the hearth and pour hunger into the bread tray; that man fed by him who owns all the harvests should expect to stafve: that one whom God loves and surrounds with benediction and attends with angelic escort and hovers over with more than motherly fondness should be looking for her ftage of tearsl Has God been hard with thee that thou shouldst be fore boding7 Has he stinted thy board 2 Has he covered thee with rags? Has he spread traps for thy feet and galled thy cup and rasped thy soul and wreck ed thee with storm and thu ndered up on thee with life full of calamity?
 If your father or brother come into your bank. where gold and silver are lying about, you do not watch them, for you know they are honest, but if an entire stranger come by the safe you keep your eye on him, for you do not know his designs. So some men froaf Cad na4 xa4l.a~ A..4 r