Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-12
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
pew DIR. TALMAGE BREACHES
ON THE BURDEN BEARER.
His First Discourse Since He Was Made
Chaplain OF the Ancient and Honor
able Artillery Company of Massachu-

His First Discourse Since He Was Made
Chaplain OF the Ancient and Honor
able Artillery Company of Massachu-
sets.
The subject of DR.. Talmage's sermon
last Sunday morning was ''The Burden
Bearer" and his text Psalms Nv, y;
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
shall sustain thee"
David was here taking his own medi-
cine. If anybody had on him heavy
weights. David had them, and yet out OF
his own experience he advises you and
me as to the best way of getting rid OF
burdens. This is a world of burden
bearing. Coming into the house OF
prayer there may be no sign of sadness
or sorrow. but where is the man who has
not conflict? Where is the soul that
has not struggle? And there is not
day of all the year when my text is not
gloriously appropriate, and there is never
an audience assembled on the planet
where the text does not fit the occasion.
'Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
shall sustain thee"
In the far East wells of water are so
infrequcnt that when a man owns well
he has property of very great value,
and sometimes battles have been fought
for the possession of one we'll of water:
but there is one we'll that every man
owns a deep we'll, perennial we'll,
we'll of tears. If a man has not a burden
on this shoulder, he has a burden on the
other shoulder. The day left home to
look after myself and for myself, in the
wagon my father sat driving, he said
that day something which has kept with
me all my life: ode Witt, it is always
safe to trust God. have many time
come to crisis of difficulty. You may
know that, having been sick for fifteen
years. it was no easy thing for mo to
support family: but always God came
to the rescue. l remember the time" he
said, 'when / didn't know what to do,
and saw q man on horseback riding up
the farm lane, and he announced to me
that had been nominated for the most
lucrative office in the gift of the people
of the county: and to that office l was
elected, and God in that way met all my
wants, and tell you it is always safe to
trust Him." Oh, my friends, what we
want is a practical religion! The re-
ligion people have is so high up you cam
not reach it. have friend who en-
tered the life Of an evangelist. He gave
up lucrative business in Chicago, and
he and his wife finally came to severe
want. He told me that in the morning at
prayers he said: 20 Lord, thou know
est we have not mouthful of food in
the house! Help US, help us!''
And he started out on the street, and
gentleman met him and said: II have
been thinking of you for a good while.
You know am a flour merchant; if you
won't be offended should like to send
you barrel of four.'' My friend cast
his burden on the Lord, and the Lord
sustained him. In the Straits of Magel-
Ian, have been told, there is q place
where, whichever way ship captain
puts his ship he finds the wind against
him, and there are men who all their
lives have been running into the teeth of
the wind, and which way to turn they
do not know. Some of them may be
here this morning, and address them
face to face, not perfunctorily, but as
one brother talks to another brother,
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord and
He shall sustain thee.''
Flrst-There are u great many men
who have business burdens. When we
see man harried and perplexed and an
noyed in business life we are apt to say:
''He ought not to have attempted to
carry so much.'' All! that man may not
be to blame at all. When man plants
business he does not know what will be
its outgrowths, what will be its roots,
what will be it's branches. There is
many man with keen foresight and
large business faculty who has been flung
into the dust by unforeseen circumstan-
ces springing upon him from ambush.
When to buy, when to sell, when to
trust, and to what amount of credit,
what will be the effect of this new inven-
ton of machinery, what will be the eff
feet Of that loss of crop, and thousand
other questions perpleX business men,
until their hair is silvercd and deep
wrinkles are plowed in the cheek; and
the stocks go up by the mountains and
go down by the valleys, and they are at
their wits ends, and stagger like drunken
men.
There never has been time when
there have been such rivalries in bust
ness as now. 1t is hardware against
hardware, books against books, chand-
lery against chandlery. imported article
against imported article. A Thousand
stores in combat with another thousand
stores. Never such advantage Of light,
licNO1 SilCu v dIlcby VI assortment. never
SO much splendor of show window, never
SO much adroitness of statesmen, never so
much acuteness of advertising. and amid
all these seventies of rivalry in business,
how many men break down! Oh, the
burden on the shoulder! Oh, the burden
on the heart! You hear that it is
avarice which drives these men
through the street, and that is the com
monty accepted idea. l do not believe a
word of it. The vast multitude of these
business men are toiling on for others.
To educate their children, to put the
wing of protection over their households.
to have something left, SO when they
pass out of this life their wives and chill
dren will not have to go to the poor
house-that is the way l translate this
energy in the street and store-thc vast
majority of that energy. Grip, Gougc
d Co. do notdo all the business. Some
OF us remember when the Central Amer
lea was coming home from California it
was wrecked. President Arthur's
father-in-law was the heroic Captain of
that ship, and went down with most of
the passengers.
Some of them got into lifeboats, but
there was young man returning from
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