Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-09-13

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. - In this dis
tOurse DIR. Talmage shows the folly Of al
lowing forebodings to influence us and
how expectation Of evil weakens and de-
gtroys; text, Matthew vi, "a, 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 inn |
aginary, and the most Of those anticipat-
ed never come. At any rate, there is no
cause Of complaint against God. See
how much he has done 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 morn
| ing, chafIinches to sing, rivers to glitter,
seas to chant and springs to blossom, and
| overpowering all other sounds with its
song and overarching all other splendor
with its triumph, covering up all other
heautv with its garlands and Outfiashing
| MI thrones with its dominion-deliyer-
| ance for a lost world through the Great
discourse oi he an Of borrowing
trouble
First. such habit OF mind and heart
is wrong. because it puts one into de
spondency that ill fits him for duty. l
planted two rosabushes in my garden;
the one thrived beautifully, the other per-
ished. 1 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 baclbiting. Many
} of the misfortunes of life, like hyenas
dee if you courageously meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious duty
is man who sits down under the gloon
of expected misfortunel If he prays, he
says, Il do not think l shall be answer
ed" If he gives, he says, Il expect they
will steal the money" Helen Chalmers
told me that her father, Thomas CHAIN
ers, in the darkest hour of the history o
. the Free Church of Scotland and whel
the woes of the land seemed to weigl
upon his heart said to his children
Come, let us go out and play ball or f.
kite" and the only difficulty in the pla
vas that the children could not keen u
18th their father TIE McCheynes an'
me Summcrhelds Of the church who di,
! the most good tOiled in the sunlight
9 Away with the horrors! They distill poi
c son; they dig graves, and if they cOul,
81 climb so high they would drown the re
r joicings Of heaven with sObs and wailing
Watching For Misfortune.
? You will have nothing but misfortun
in the future If you sedulOusly watch fo
it. How shall a man catch the righ
n kind Of fish if he arranges his line an
." hook and bait to catch lizards and waite
serpents? Hunt for bats and hawks, an
bats and hawks you will find. Hunt fl
robin redbreasts, and you will find robi
ell redbrcasts. One night an eagle and q
- owl got into fierce battle. The eagle, III
G used to the night, was no match for Il
y owl, which is most at home in the dar
ness, and the king of the air fell helples
But the morning rose, and with it TO
the eagle, and the owls and the mig
hawks and the bats came a second tin
60 hn ha oula in,
sunlight, with a stroke of his talOns al
We great cry, cleared the air, and his Ell
- miles, with torn feathers and splash
r, with blood, tunbled into the thickets.
sti are the children of light. In the night
,rs dependency you will have no chan
soi against your enemies that flock up fro
ntI beneath; but, trusting in God and star
ce ing in the sunshine of the promises, Y
'ro shall renew your youth like the eagle.
Again, the habit of borrowing trou
is wrong because it has a tendency
make us overlook present blessing
-. slake mans thirst the rock is cleft, a
cool waters leap into his trimming Ct
To feed his hunger the fields bow do
with bending wheat, and the cattle co
down from the clover pastures to G
him milk. and the orchards yellow o
ripen, casting their juicy fruits into
lap. Alas, that amid such exuberal
III of blessing man should growl as thOl
GNS he were a soldier on half rations Oh
to. sailor on short allowance; that a Il
v'sS should stand neck deep in harvests 10
ut ing forward to famine; that one shO
\ feel the strong pulses of health march
S with regular tread through all the d
nues of life and yet tremble at the
pected assault of sickness; that L
49, should sit in his pleasant home, fea
q that ruthless want will some day IA
the broken window sash with tenn
and sweep Che Goals from the hes
"A and pour hunger into the bread Il
- that Il man fed by him who owns all
harvests should expect to starve;
one whom God loves and surrounds '
q If benediction and attends with angelic
cOrt and hOvers over with more
We mOtherly fondness should be looking
We a heritage of tears! Has God been
with thee that thou shOuldst be fore
ing? Vas he stinted thy board?
he covered thee with rags? Has
spread traps for thy feet, and CALLED
cup. and rasped thy soul, and wre
thee with storm, and Numbered
40 thee with life full of calamity?
0C II your father or brother come
your bank where gold and silver are
low about. you do not watch them, for
u know they are honest, but if an e
iN stranger come by the safe you keep
eye on him, for you do hot know hi
signs. So some men treat God; nj
a father, but Il stranger, and act S
ciously toward him. 1t is high time
began TO thank God for present bles
ana Thank him for your children, b.
frono buoyant and bounding. Praise hin
your home, with its fountain of SOM
nlte laughter. Adore him for morning
mbeI and evening shadow. Praise hin
fresh, cool water bubbling from the
e4- leaping in the cascade, soaring il
mist, falling in the shower, da
against the rock and clapping its
in the tempest Love him for the
that cushions the earth and thecloud
curtain the sky and the foliage
waves in the forest Thank him
- Bible to read and a Saviour to deliV
IN Work of Self Examination
w. Many Christians think it a bad S
Is. be jubilant, and their work of self
inRtion is a hewing down Of their
er experiences. Like a boy with
Y jnckknife, hacking everything he
Is across, so their self examination is
York. glous cutting 70 pieces ices; on 5ne g
, Ave imagine they are doing Gods
when they are going about Dor
trouble, and borrowing it at 80 pc
which is always a sure precursor Of