The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-09-13
DIR, TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE sY THS NOTED
DIVINE.
subject The Sin OF Borrowing rroubts-A
Bad Habit That Units Many tn Proper
ly Discharge the Duties Of Iife-God
viii Meet Our Exigencies "a shey Arise
Icopyrsht 1901. I


WASHINGTON. ID. C.-In this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows the folly OF allowing
forebodlugs To influence Us and how eN-
pectation of evil weakens and destroys;
text, Matthew vi. 81. Sufficient unto the
dav 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 lmag-
mary, 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 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 Tor the
billow and procession of hammered flame
through the opening gates OF the morning,
chaffnches To sing, rivers 70 glitter, seas
to chant and springs To blossom ana over
powering all other sounds with lts song
and over reaching all other splendor with
It's triumph, covering up all other beauty
with it's garlands and outhashng all other
thrones with IT'S domiuion--delyeranc
for a lost world through the Great Re
deemer.
/ discourse Of the sin of borrowing
trouble.
First. such habit of mind and heart
Is wrong because At puts one into de
spondency that Ill fits him for duty. l
planted two rose bushes IN nv garden.
The one thrved beautifully, the other
persisted. | found the dead one on the
shady side of the house Our dispositions,
like our plants. need sunshine Expec-
fancy OF repulse Is the cause ot many sec
ular and religious failures. Fear oi bank
ruptcy has uptorn many hne business
and sent the man lodging among the note
shavers. Fear of slander and abuse has
often invited the long beaked vultures OF
scorn and backb,ting. Many Of the mis-
fortunes of life, like hyenas, tiec II you
courageously meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious duty
is a man who sits down under the gloom
of expected misfortune! Ii he priys, he
says, Il do not think | shall be an.
swered" II he gives. he SAYS, II expect
they will steal the money Helen Chaim-
ers told me that her father. Thomas
Chalmers, in the darkest hour ot 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 aud
the only difficulty in the play was that
the children could not keep up with their
father. The McCheynes and the Summer
fields OF the church who did the most
good toled in the sunlight. Away with
the horrors, They distll poison. They
dig graves. and if they could climb 80 high
they would drown the rejo.clngs Of heaven
with sobs and wailing
You will have nothing but misfortune
in the future # you saduIousiy watch Tor
it. How shall a 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 red
breasts, 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 IT. rose the
eagle, and the owls and the nlghthawks
and the bats came a second time 10 the
combat Now, the eagle m the sunlight,
with a stroke of his talons and 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 despond
ency you will have no chance against
your enemies that flock up from beneath
! but trusting in God and standing an the
sunshine Of the promises YOU shall renew
your youth like the eagle.
Again, the habit of borrowing. trouble
is wrong, because IT has a tendency ,lto 70
make US overlook present blessing. To
slake mans thirst the rock ~ cleft, and
cool water leap into hIs brlmmIny cup
To feed his hunger the fields bow down
| with bending wheat, and the cattle come
! down from the clover pastures 70 XIV,
him milk. and the orchards yellow and
ripen, casting their JUICY, fruits into ms
| lap. Alas, that amid such eKuberancc oi
| blessing man should growl A. though h'
were a soldier on half rations or sailor
on short allowance, that a man should
stand neck deep IN harvests looking for
| ward to famine; that one should feel Tho
strong pulses OF health marching with reg
/ ular tread all the avenues vi lie ana |s'
| tremble at the expected assault ot sex
| ness: that a man should at m his pleasant
! home. fearful that ruthless want wlll some
! day rattle the broken window sash with
/ tempest and sweep the Goals from the
| hearth and pour hunger into the bread
| tray: that a man fed by HIM who owns
! all the harvests should expect 90 stdrve
| that one whom God loves and surround'
/ with benediction and attends with angelic
escort and hovers over with more thar
motherly fondness should be looking iOi
/ a heritage Of tears Has God been har,
/ with thee that thou spou.dst be ioreO9d
/ ing? Has He stinted thy board Has H'
covered thee with rags Has He sprea'
trans for thy feet and CALLED thy cup an,
rasped thy soul and wrecked thee witl
/ storm and thundered upon thee with
/ life full Of calamity
/ II your father or brother come into you
/ hank where gold and silver are lynn,
about. YOU do not watch them, for yO'
know they are honest, but " an entir
stranger come b. the -aic YOU keen you
eve on him, for you do not know his de
signs. So some men treat God not as
! father. but stranger. and act suSpi
ciousiv toward Him " - high time y0
began to thank God for present blessing
| thank Him for your children happy buoy
| ant and bounding. praise HIM for you
| home with ~ fountain Ot song an
laughter: adore Him for morning lgh
, and evening shadow praise Him Tor fresh
cool water bubbling from the rock. LEAP
| ing in the cascade. soaring 10 the mg'
/ falling IN the shower. dasning against IN
rocks and ciappng u hands IN the ten
pest: love Him for the grass that cushion
/ the earth and the clouds that Curtsin th
| sky and the foliage that waves in the fDr
est: thank Him for Bible % read and
/ Saviour 90 deliver
MANY Christians think n a bad sign +
| be iubilant. and their work Of ell exam
nation IL hewing down of their hrighte
experiences Like . hoy with a new Iack
knife hacking everything be comes acros'
so their seii-examination y religion
cutting 90 pieces of the greenest thing
they can lay their hand on They iu
aginc they are doing GOd's scrvi'. whe
they are gong about borrowing trouble
and bogrOwinE it AZ thirty pcr cent
which - always a sure precursor o. banl
! ruptcy.
Again, the habit % borrowing troub'
is wrong because the present u ufhcientl
taxed with trial God secs that We a
need certain amount ot trouble. and =
He apportions }, for All the days and year