Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-08

have had to war with physical ailments!
Antediluvians, without medical college
and infirmary and apothecary shop,
multiplied their years by hundreds; but
he who has gone through the gauntlet
of disease in our time, and has come to
seventy years Of age, is hero worthy
Of palm.
CAST YOUR BURDEN ON THE LORD.
The world seems to be great hospi-
tai, and you run against rheumatisms
and consumptions and scrofulaS and
neuralgias and scores of old diseases
baptized by new nomenclature. Oh,
how heavy burden sickness Is! 1t
takes the color out of the sky and the
sparkle out of the wave and the sweet
ness out of the fruit and the lustre out
of the night. When the limbs ache,
when the respiration is painful, when
the mouth is hot, when the ear roars
with unhealthy obstruction, how hard
it is to be patient and cheerful and as
slduous! Cast thy burden upon the
Lord" Does your head ache? His
wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt? His
were crushed of the spikes. Is
your side painful? His was struck
by the spear. Do you feel like
giving way under the burden? His
weakness gave way under cross.
While you are in every possible way to
try to restore your physical vigor, you
are to remember that more soothing
than any anodyne, and more vitalizing
than any stimulant. and more strength
ening than any tonic is the prescription
of the text. Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and he shall sustain thee" We
hear great deal Of talk now about faith
cure, and some people say it cannot be
done and it is failure. do not know
but that the chief advance OF the church
is to be in that direction. Marvellous
things come to me day by day which
make me think that if the age Of mira
cleS is past, it is because the faith OF
miracles is past.
A prominent merchant OF New York
said to a member of my family: my
mother wants her case mentioned to
Mr.. Talmage." This was the case. He
said "My mother had dreadful alb
sceSs, from which she had suffered I'M
told agonies, and all surgery had been
exhausted upon her, land worse and wo Sc
she grew until we called in few
Christian friends proceeded to pray about
it. We commended her case to God
and the abscesS began Immediately to
be cured. She is entirely well now,
and without knife and without any sur
gerry" So that case has come to me,
and there are score of other cases
coming to our ears from all parts Of the
earth. Oh, ye who are sick, go to
Christi Oh, We who are worn out with
agonies of body, least thy burden upon
the Lord and He shall sustain thee"
BURDEN OF BEREAVEMENT.
Another burden some have to carry
is the burden Of bereavement. All.
these are the trsubleS that wear us out.
If we lose our property, by additional
industry, perhaps, We may bring back
the estranged fortune; il we lose our
good name. perhaps by reformation of
morals we may achieve again reputa-
ticn for integrity; but who will bring
bank the dear depafted? Alas. me for
these empty cradles and these trunks
of childish toys that will never be used
again. Alas! me for the empty chair
and the silence in the halls that will
never echo again to those familiar foot
steps. Alas! for the cry OF widowhood
and orphanage. What bitter Marahs
in the wilderness, what cities of the
dead, what eyes sunken with grief,
what hands tremuous with bereave-
ment, what instruments OF music Shu1
now because there are no tingeres o
play on them. Is there no relief for
such souls? Ay, let the soul ride into
the harbor Of nay text.
The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose
| will not. will not desert to its foes:
That soul, though al hell shall endeavor to
shake,
I'll never, no never, no never forsake.
Now, the grave is brighter than the
ancient tomb where the lights were per-
petually kept burning. The SCARED
feet of him who was 1.-The resurrection
and the life" are on the broken grave
hllock, while the voices Of angels r.ng
down the sky at the coronation of an
other soul come home to glory.
Then there are many who carry the
burden of sin. All, we all carry it until
in the appointed way that burden is
lifted. We need no Bible to probe that
the whole race is rsined. What's specta-
Gle it would be if we could tear off the
mask of human defilement, or beat
drum that would bring up the whole
army of the worlds transgressionS-the
deception, the fraud and the rapine and
the murder and the crime Of all the CEN
turtles, Ay, if could sound the trum-
pet of resurrection in the soul Of the
best men in this audience, and all the