hurts character
Folly of Allowing Forebodings of
Evil to Influence Action.
Dp. TalnttiKc In His Sermon lleelnresi
the I.lfe of E\ ery Mon, Wo Hum
anil Chilli to lie Clooely
l niler Divine Cure.
[Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.]
Washington, Sept. 8.
In this discourse Dr. Talmage
shows the folly of allowing forebod
ings to influence us and how expec
tation of evil weakens and destroys.
Text, Matthew 6:34: “Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof.”
The life of every man, woman and
child is as closely under 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, a law of disaster, a
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 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 bannered flame
through the opening gates of the
morning, chaffinches to sing, rivers
to glitter, seas to chant and springs
to blossom, and overpowering all
other sounds with its song and over
arching all other splendor with its
triumph, covering up all other beauty
with its garlands and outflashing all
thrones with its dominion—deliver
ance for a lost w'orld through the
Great Redeemer.
I discourse of the sin of borrow
ing; trouble.
First, such a habit of mind and
heart is wrong-, because it puts one
into a despondency that ill fits him
for duty. I planted two rosebushes
in my garden; the one thrived beau
tifully, the other perished. I found
the dead one on the shady side of the
house. Our dispositions, like -out
olants, need sunshine. Expectancy
of repulse is the cause of many sec
liar and religious failures. Fear oi
dander and abuse has often invited
ill the long-beaked vultures of scorr
ind backbiting. Many of the misfor
tunes of life, like hyenas, flee if yor
jourageously meet them.
How poorly prepared for religious
duty is a man who sits down undei
the gloom of expected misfortune! Ii
he prays, he says: “I do not think 1
shall be answered.” If he gives, he
says: “I expect they will steal the
money.” Helen Chalmers told me
that her father, Thomas Chalmers, in
the darkest hour of the history ol
the Free church of Scotland and when
the woes of the land seemeel to weigh
upon his heart, said to his ehildren:
“Come, let us go out and play ball oi
fly kite,” and the only difliculty ir
the play was that the children could
not keep up with their father. Th«
McCheynes and the Summerfields o1
the church who did the most good
toiled in the sunlight. Away with the
horrors! They distill poison; they
dig graves, and if they could cliinl
so high they' would drown the re
joicings of Heaven with sobs and
wailing.
You will have nothing lint misfor
tune in the future if you sedulously
watch for it. How shall a man catcl
the right kind of fish if he arranges
his line and hook and bait to catch
lizards and water,serpents? Hunt foi
bats and hawks, anel bats and hawks
you will find. Hunt for robin red
breasts, and you will find robin red
breasts. One night an eagle and ar
owl got into fierce battle. The eagle
unused to the night, was no mate!
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 niglithawks and the
bats came a second time to the com
bat. Now, the eagle in the sunlight
with a stroke of his talons and a
great cry, cleared the air, and his en
emies, with torn feathers and
splashed with blood, tumbled intc
the thickets. Ye are the children ol
'light. In the night of despondency
y'ou will have no chance against youi
enemies that flock up from beneath;
but, trusting in God and standing ir
the sunshine of the promises, yov
shall “renew your youth like the
eagle.”
Again, the habit of borrowing
trouble is wrong because it has a
tendency to make us overlook pres
ent blessing. To slake man’s 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 cattle come
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 exuber
ance of blessing man should growl
as though he were a soldier on half
rations or a sailor on short allow
ance; 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
avenus of life and yet tremble at I he
expected assault of sickness; that a
man should sit in his pleasant home,
fearful that ruthless want will some
day rattle the broken window sash
with tempest and sweep the coals
from the hearth and pour hunger
into the bread tray; that a man fed
by Him who owns all the harvests
should expect to starve; 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 a heritage of tears! Has
God been hard with thee that thou
shouldst be foreboding? Has He
stinted thy board? Has He covered
thee with rags? Has He spread
traps for thy feet, and galled thy
cup, and rasped thy soul, and
wrecked thee with storm, and thun
dered upon thee with a 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 yrou
do not know his designs. So some
men treat God; not as a father, but
a stranger, and act suspiciously to
ward Him. It is high time you began
to thank God for present blessing.
Thank Him for your children, happy,
buoyant and bounding. Praise Him
for your home, with its fountain of
song and laughter. Adore Him for
morning light and evening shadow.
Praise Him for fresh, cool water bub
bling from the rock, leaping in the
cascade, soaring in the mist, falling
in the shower, dashing against the
rock 'and clapping its hands in the
tempest. Love Him for the grasslthat
cushions the earth and the clouds
that curtain the sky and the foliage
that waves in the forest. Thank Him
for a Bible to read and a Saviour to
deliver.
Many Christians think it a bad sign
to be jubilant, and their work of self
examination is a hewing down of their
brighter experiences. Like a boy with
a new jackknife, hacking everything
he comes across, so their self-examina
tion is a religious cutting to pieces oi
the greenest things they can lay theii
hands on. They imagine they are do
ing God’s service when they are going
about borrowing trouble, and borrow
ing it at 30 per cent., which is always
a sure precursor of bankruptcy.
Again, the habit of borrowing trou
ble is wrong because the present is suf
ficiently taxed with trial. God sees
that we all need a certain amount o\
trouble, and so he apportions it for al
the days and years of our life. Alsc
for the policy of gathering it all up fot
•one day or year! Cruel thing to put
upon the back of one camel all the
cargo intended for the entire caravan
1 never look at my memorandum bool
to see what engagements and duties
are far ahead. Let every week bear its
own burdens. The shadows of to-day
are thick enough. Why implore the
presence of other shadows? The cu{
is already distasteful. Why halloo tc
disasters far distant to come and
wring out more gall in the bitterness'.
Are we such champions that, having
won the belt in former encounters, wt
can go forth to challenge all the fu
ture ?
Here are business men just able tc
manage affairs as they now are. They
can pay their rent and meet their notes
and manage affairs as they now are
but how if a panic should come am
my investments should fail? Go to
morrow and write on your daybool
or on your ledger, on your money safe:
“Sufficient, unto the day is the evi
thereof.” Do not worry about note;
that are far from due. Do not pile uj
on your counting desk the financia
anxieties of the next 20 years. The
God who has taken care of your world
ly occupation, guarding your store
from the torch of the incendiary and
the key of the burglar, will be as faith
fill in 1910 as in 1901. God’s hand is
mightie<r than the machinations oi
stock gamblers or the plots of politica
demagogues or the right arm of revo
lution, and the darkness will fly anc
the storm fall dead at his feet.
So there are persons in feeble health,
and they are worried about the fu
ture. They make out very well now
bpt they are bothering themselves
about future pleurisies and rheuma
tisms and neuralgias and fevers. Their
eyesight is feeble, and they are wor
ried unless they entirely lose it. Their
hearing is indistinct, and they are
alarmed lest they become entirely
deaf. They feel chilly to-day and are
expecting an attack of typhoid. They
have been troubled for weeks with
some perplexing malady and dread be
coming lifelong invalids. Take cart
of your health now and trust God for
the future. Re not guilty of the bias
phemy of asking Him to take care of
you while you sleep with your windows
tight down or eat chicken salad at 11
o’clock at night or sit down on a cake
of ice to cool off. Re prudent, and
then be confident. Same of the sickest
people have been the most useful. It
was so with Payson, who died deaths
daily; and Robert Hall, who used to
stop in the midst of his sermon and
lie down on the pulpit sofa to rest
and then go on again. Theodore Fre
ljnghuysen had a great horror of dying
till the time came and then went peace
\
fully. Take eare <»f the present, and
let the future lookout for itself. “Suf
ficient unto the day is the evil there
of.”
Again, the habit of borrowing mis
fortune is wrong because it unfits us
for it when it actually does come. We
cannot always have smooth sailing.
Life's path "ill sometimes tumble
among declivities and mount a steep
and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss
our cheek and then sell us for 30 pieces
of silver. Human scorn will try to
crucify us between two thieves. We
will hear the iron gate of the sepulcher
creak and grind as it shuts in our
kindred. But we cannot get ready for
these things by forbodings. They who
fight imaginary foes will come out of
breath into conflict with the armed dis
asters of the future. Their ammuni
tion will have been wasted long before
they cdme under the guns of real mis
fortune. Boys in attempting to jump
a wall sometimes go so far back in or
der to get impetus that when they
come up they are exhausted, and these
long races in order to get spring
enough to vault trouble bring us up at
last to the dreadful reality with our
strength gone.
Finally, the habit of borrowing
trouble is wrong because it is unbelief.
God has promised to take care of us.
The Bible blooms with assurances.
Your hunger will be fed; your sickness
will be alleviated; your sorrows will
"t be healed. God will sandal your feet
and smooth your path, and along by
frowning crag and opening grave
sound the voices of victory and good
cheer. The summer cloudis that seem
thunder charged really carry in their
bosom harvests of wheat and shocks
of corn and vineyards purpling for the
winepress. The wrathful wave will
kiss the feet of the great Storm Walk
er. Our great Joshua will command,
and above your soul the sun of pros
perity will stand still. Bleak and wave
struck Patinos shall have apocalyptic
vision, and you shall hear the cry of
elders and the sweep of wings and
trumpets of salvation and the voice ol
halleluiah unto God forever.
Your way may wind along dangerous
bridle paths and amid wolf’s howl and
the scream of the vulture, but the way
still winds upward till angels guard it
and trees of life overarch it, anc
thrones line it, and crystalline foun
tains leap on it. and the pathway ends
at gates that are pearl and streets thal
are gold and temples that are always
open andi hills that quake with per
petual song and a city mingling for
ever Sabbath and jubilee and triumpl
and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song;
'Tis not the song for me.
To weeping it will turn ere long,
For this is Heaven's decree.
But there is a song the ransomed sing
To Jesus, their exalted King,
With joyful heart and tongue.
Oh, that’s the song for me!
Courage, my brother! The fathei
father does not give to his son a
school enough money to last him sev
eral years, but, as the bills for tuitioi
and board and clothing and books conn
in, pays them. So God will not give yot
grace all at once for the future, bu
will meet all your exigencies as they
come. Through earnest prayer trus'
Him. People ascribe the success of i
certain line of steamers to business
skill and know not the fact that whet
that line of steamers started the wifi
of the proprietor passed the whole o:
e^cli day when a steamer started ii
prayer to God for its safety and thi
success of the line. Put everything it
God’s hands and leave it there. Largi
interest money to pay will soon eat uj
a farm, a store, an estate, and the in
terest on borrowed troubles wil
swamp anybody. “Sufficient unto tht
day is the evil thereof.”
A COLLECTIVE NAME.
Herein lx u Sensible nml Simple So
lution of n l*rnblein of
Lome Staniling.
“Every once in awhile comes a de
mand from some one for a colleetivi
name for the United States, but con
gress pays no attention to such de
mands, and the people seem very wel
satisfied with the present designator
of our country, although it does some
times produce awkward expressions it
the way of derivatives,” said the mar
on the South side ear, according ho tht
Chicago Inter Ocean. “To avoid this
the word ‘America’ is generally substi
tuted for United States, although tht
name properly belongs to the wliolt
continent, and Canadians, Mexicans
Cubans, etc., have the same right tc
be called Americans as we have.
“Such names as Columbia, Usonia
etc., ’have been selected as such col
lective names, but it w-ould appear thal
we have a better name right in tht
initials of United States, and whicl:
are in such common use as to be fa
miliar to all.
“Why not call the country ‘Us?’ The
name is short, expressive, and has a
sort of Biblical sound quite pleasing
to the ear. It rhymes with fuss, buss,
cuss, muss and numerous other words
existing or coinable, and could not be
mistaken for any other country. It
has an egotistic sound, and significance
rather pleasing to the average citizen,
and would, no doubt, be readily accept
able. The people would be either
Usites or Usses, or perhaps Usians, and
the collective name cranks would be
silenced.”
BAND MUSIC BY PHONOGP \PH,
Only (he General Kffcel i>f the Orlgh
nnl Music Cun He Re
produced,
The newest invention in the line of
phonograph improvements is an ap
paratus for recording orchestral and
band music in a manner superior to
any method hitherto employed, its es
sential feature consisting in the use
of a large number of recorders, one
of each musical instrument, reports
the Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post.
Ordinarily, the method adopted is
to seat the band in a small-sized room,
all of its members facing toward a
series of huge gaping funnels, each of
which is attached to the recorder of
a phonograph. A man, who directs
the performance, goes to each of the
funnels in turn, and speaks into them,
one after another, the words of the
formal introduction which always pre
cedes the music. When this has bee*
done, a signal is given, and the phono
graph cylineders having been started
revolving all together, the musicians
begin to play. The director of opera
tions gives notice by raising his fin
ger just when the cylinders are about
to be exhausted, and the band stops
at the next suitable pause.
Now, anybody who has heard a band
or orchestral “selection” rendered by
the phonograph must have marveled
greatly at the completeness of the
reproduction. Nevertheless, it is not
musically accurate or perfect, and
could hardly be expected to be so, con
sidering the extremely complex char
acter of the sound vibrations given out
by so many instruments played simul
taneously. As a matter of fact, only
the general effect of the original music
is reproduced, the predominating in
struments being recognizable at interi
vals.
The newly-patented contrivance
above referred to utilizes three or
more huge cylinders, each a foot or
18 inches in diameter. To the surface
of each cylinder are attached, at regu
lar intervals along its length, record
ers of the usual kind. Each musician
has a recorder for himself exclusively,
to which a long tube connected with
a big funnel is attached. He toots, or
fiddles, into horn Xo. 1, while the per
former next him plays into horn No.
2, and so on, each member of the band
having his own funnel and his own
recorder, with his own"private space
on a cylinder.
While the playing is going on the
cylinders revolve synchronously, mak
ing perhaps 40 records for as many
different instruments. With six rec
ords to a cylinder, the performance oi
36 instruments may be recorded on
half a dozen cylinders. When the mu
sic is to be reproduced all of the cylin
ders are set going at once, and they
grind, out the music exactly as it was
given to them originally, no one of the
instruments interfering with the
others, but all of them blending har
moniously. In short, the performance
is exactly like that given by the band
—just as loud, and as complete in all
respects.
WHAT TO TEACH CHILDREN.
Time Wasted 1>>- the Tonni; In Aeqnir
ins: n Smattering of Superflu
ous Subjects.
The cramming process of common
school education—teaching a little ol
everything and nothing thoroughly—
has not been carried so far in Eng
land as it is here, but there is a
growing demand there for more at
tention to fundamentals and less to
filigree work, says the New York
World. Ituskin’s dictum is quoted
with approval:
“In our training-schools the mail]
subjects should be:
“1. The law's of health and the ex
ercises enjoined by them.
“2. Habits of gentleness and jus
tice.
“3. The calling by which the «chol
ars are to live.”
The “three R’s" appear to be taken
for granted. A writer in the Specta
tor protests that “the amount oi
time wasted by the young in acquir
ing a smattering of subjects which
will never be of any practical use is
deplorable.” He approves of cook
ing as a proper and important ad
junct of the early education of girls,
and joinery and the use of toc-ls aa
part of the boys’ early training, urg>
ing that “some kinds of work a child
can scarcely begin too young.”
Our cooking, sewing and manual
schools are all departures in the
right direction, but there is not a
quarter enough of them, and they
need to be broadened in scope and
improved in equipment. Most of oui
professional teachers have yet to
learn, or at least to apply the knowl
edge, that education means the “lead
ing out” of the child's faculties—all
of them; not simply cramming his
head with things that are largely
useless.
Books on the Frt-n.-h K.-volut inn.
Two thousand of the 30,000 books on
the French revolution which have been
presented to the Bibliotheque Nation
ale by the British museum will be
kept there. The remaining 28,000 will
be sent to the Bibliotheque Sevigue -—
Bookman.
<nefn of the ’Fable.
The waitress slammed an order of about
a spoonful of dried-up mashed potatoes be
fore the customer with a defiant air.
“I like the sample,” weakly remarked the
patron as he cleaned up the small part of the
once luscious roots at one mouthful.
“That was your order; you asked for po
tatoes,’’ snapped the waitress as her eyes
narrowed and her lips assumed the shape of
a straight line.
“When do you dig potatoes?” returned
the subdued man in an effort to become
friendly.
“I dig potatoes from 11 a. m. to two p. m.,”
said the queen of i le table as she nervously
lingered a cup which was not “working.”
“And once more nobody but the cheap
skates kick.”
The patron gulped his coffee and beat a
retreat.—Cleveland Leader.
I.ettini; Him Down Easy.
"That was a pretty harsh thing you said
about me on the witness stand.”
“What?”
“Why, when they asked you about my
reputation for truth and veracity, you said
I hadn’t any.”
“Yes; that has troubled me a good deal
since then, but, honestly, old man, I want
ed to let you down easy, so I lied about
it.”
“I should think you did.”
“But you ought not to complain. Sup
pose I told them rvhat your reputation in
that line actually is!”—Chicago Post.
Religion Losing Ground.
The country is becoming agitated over
the statement that religion is losing ground.
This results in countless discussions until
the agitation runs its course, and still re
ligion nourishes. It is only useless things
that deteriorate. The linest recommenda
tion of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the
great stomach strengthener, lies in the fact
that it has lived for fifty years in spite of
hundreds of imitations, and is renowned
for its cure of dyspepsia, indigestion, bil
iousness, nervousness and malaria, fever
and ague.
One Little Hoon Asked.
A man whose wife passes the winter in
Florida, the spring in Europe, the summer
in Newport, and the fall in Lennox, is en
deavoring to get her to spend an old-home
week in Boston.—Boston Saturday Evening
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“Yes, he cracked a joke.” “Well?”
“And there was nothing in it.”—Cleveland
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