Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-09-12
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE FOLLY OF WORRY, LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
Sufficient Unto the Day Is the Evil
Thereof'-Matthew XI; 3i-The Evil
of borrowing Trouble from the Flu
ture-Don't Worry.

and destroys; text, Matthew vi, 81,
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof"
The life of every man, woman and
shild is as closely under the divine
ARE as though such person were the
only man, woman or child. There are
no accidents. As there is law OF
storms in the natural world, so there
is 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 new
er 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 fame through
the opening gates of the morning.
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 it's triumph, COW
ering up all other beauty with its gar
lands and publishing all thrones with
its dominion-deliveran for lost
world through the Great Redeemer.
Borrowing Trouble.
7 ,p ef nf nurira q
trouble.
First, such habit of mind and heart
is wrong, because 1t puts one into a
dependency that i'll fits him for duty.
l planted two rosebushes in my gar
den; the one thrived beautifully. the
other persisted. | 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 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 n.y.
enas, flee If you courageously meet
them.
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is man who sits down under
the gloom of expected misfortune! II
he prays, he says. Il do not think
shall be answered" II he gives, he
says, IT expect they will steal the
money" Helen Chalmers told me
that her father, Thomas Chalmers, in
the darkest hour of the history oil
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 Summerfields OF
the church who did the most good
toiled in the sunlight. Away with the
horrors! They distill poison; they dig
graves. and IL they could climb so high
they would drown the rejolcings OF
heaven with sobs and wailing.
watching for Misfortune.
You will have nothing but misfor.
tune in the future il you sedulously
watch for it. How shall a man catch
the right kind of fish II 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 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
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 talons and a great cry
cleared the air. End 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
like the eagle"
Again, the habit OF borrowing trou-
BILE 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 brim-
ming 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 of blessing
man should growl as though he were
soldier on half rations or a sailor
on short allowance: that a man should
stand neck deep In harvests looking
forward to famins that one should
feel the strong pulses of health march.
ing with regular tread through all the
avenues OF life and yet tremble at the
expected assault of sickness; that q
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 harvests should ex,
pect to starve; that one whom Coo
loves and surrounds with benedlctior
and attends with angelic escort ant
hovers over with more than motherlS
fondnests should be looking for heri
tage OF tears! Has God been hare
with thee that thou shouldst be fore
boding? Has he stinted thy board
Has he covered thee with rags? Hal