Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-09-14

Copyright. Louis Klopsch, 1901
S7N this discourse DIR. Talmage shows
the folly of allowing forebodings 10
influence us and how expectation of
evil weakenS and destroys; text, Matthew
vi, 81, 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 q storms in the nat
ural world SO there is law of trouble,
a law Of disaster, 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 10 make
you happy, his sunshine filling the earth
with glory. making rainbow for the storm
and halo for the mountain. sreenness Tor
the moss, saffron for the cloud and crys-
tai for the billow and procession of ban
nered flame through the opening gates of
the morning. chaflinchcs to sing, rivers 10
glitter. seas to chant and springs to bios
som, and overpowering all other sounds
with its song and overarching all other
splendor with its triumph, covering up
all other beauty with its garlands and
outfiashing all thrones with its dominion
--deliverance for u lost world through the
Great Redeemer.
/ discourse of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First, such habit Of mind and heart
is wrong, because il puts one into de
spondency that i'll fits him for duty. l
planted two rosebushes in my garden;
the one thrivcd beautifully, the other per
ished. | 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 secular
and religious failures. Fear of bank
ruptcy has uptorn many a fine business
and sent the man lodging among the
note shavers Fear of Islander and abuse
has often invited all the long beaked
vultures of Scorn and backbiting. Many
of the misfortunes of life, like hyenas,
flee If you couragcously 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, II do not think | shall be answer
ed" If he gives, he says. Il expect they
will steal the money Helen Chalmers
told me that her father. Thomas Chalm-
ers, 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 VI
with their father. The McCheynes and
the Summerfelds of the church who did
the most good toiled in the sunlight.
Away with the horrors. They distill poi
son: they dig graves. and if they could
climb so high they would drown the re-
joicings of heaven with sobs and wailing.
Watching for Misfortune.
You will have nothing but misfortune
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 redbreasts, and you will find robin
redbreasts. One night an eagle and an
owl got into fierce battle. The eagle, I'M
used to the night, was no match for the
owl, which is most at home in the dark
ness, 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 stroke Of his talons and
great cry, cleared the air, and his enc
Al. 4.
with blood. tumbled into the thiekets. le
are the children Of light. In the night Of
dependency you will have no chance
against your enemies that flock up from
beneath; but, trusting in God and stand
ing in the sunshine of the promise, you
shall "renew your youth like the eagle"
Again, the habit OF borrowing trouble
is wrong because it has tendency to
make us overlook present blessing. To
slake mans thirst the rock is cleft, ana
cool waters leap into his trimming 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 their juicy fruits into his
lap. Alas, that AMID such exuberance
he were soldier on half rations or a
sailor on short allowance; that man
should stand neck deep in harvests look
ing forward to famine; that one should
feel the strong pulses of health marching
with regular tread through all the ave
nues of life and yet tremble at the ex-
pected assault of sickness; that n man
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 hunger into the bread tray;
that man fed by him who owns all the
haryests should expect to starve; that
one whom God loves and surrounds with
benediction and attends with angelic es-
cort and hovers over with more than
motherly fondness should be looking for
her.2ge Of tears! Has God been hard
with thee that thou shouldst be forebod-
ingI Has he stinted thy boardY Has
he covered thee with rags? Has he