The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-17
ALL THE BURDENS OF LIFE.
DISCUSSED RYTHE REV. DR.. IALmAee
business Troubles Social PsrsecutIons-
Physical Ailmsnts-Ths Load of BE.
reavemsnt Sin-Share Them
All With the Lord.


the outside world. But even they must
have been gratiied by the distinction con-
ferred upon him since last Sunday. In
listening to DR.. Talmage last Sunday. they
were listening to the chaplain of the An
eient and honorable artillery company Of
Massachusetts, IN which office he was
formally installed with due ceremony
June 1. The organization, which is $50
years old, and the lineal descendant Of an
English organization dating back TO the
beginning of the sixteenth century, has
had many distinguished divines as chap
lains, and the honor has always been
highly appreciated. The subject OF DR..
Talmage's sermon was '"rhe Burden-bear-
err" and his text Psalm !. v, %: Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and He shall sus-
tain thee"
David was here taking his own medi-
cine. If anybody had on him heavy
weights, David had them, and yet out of
his OVID experience he advises you and me
TO the best way of getting rid of burdens.
This is a world of burden-bearing. Com
ing into the house of prayer there may be
no sign Of sadness OF sorrow, but where is
the man who has not a conflict? Where
is the soul that has not a struggle? And
there is not a 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
lar East wells OF water are so infrequent
that when a man owns a well he has a
property OF very great value, and some
times battles have been fought for the
possession OF one we'll Of water; but there
Is one well that every man owns, a deep
well, perennial well, well of tears. II
a man has not a burden on this shoulder,
he has a burden on the other shoulder
The day 1 left home to look after myself
and for myself, IN the wagon my father sat
driving, and he said that day something
which has kept with me all my life: "De
Witt, 1t Is always safe to trust God. /
have many time come to crisis of diff
Guilty. You may know that, having been
sick for fifteen years, it was no easy thing
for me TO support family; but always
God came to the rescue. remember the
time" he said, when didn't know what
10 do, and / saw man on horseback rid
ing up the farm lane, and be announced
to me that l had been nominated for the
most lucrative Office in the gift of the peo-
pie OF the county; and to that Office | 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 practical religion! The religious
people have it so high up we can not
reach 1t. 1 have friend who entered the
life of an evangelist. He gave up a lucra-
tive business In Chicago, and he and his
wife finally came to severe want He told
me that in the morning at PRAYERS he
said: 80 Lord, thou knowest we have
not a mouthful of food in the house
Help me, help us?" And he started out
on the street, and q gentleman met him
and said: 81 have been thinking of YOU
for good while. You know am a flour
merchant; If you won't be offended. |
should like to send you a barrel of flour"
My friend cast his burden on the Lord.
and the Lord sustained him. In the
straits of Magellan, l have been told.
there Is a place where whichever way
ship captain puts his ship he finds the
wind against him, and there are men who
have all their lives been running in the
teeth of the wind, and which wav to turn
they do not know. Some Of them NAV be
here this morning, and l address them
face 70 face. not perfunctOrily, but as one
brother talks TO another brother: Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall
sustain thee"
l. There are a great many men who
have business burdens. When we see
man BARRED and perplexed and ANNOYED
In business life, we are apt TO say: "He
ought not 10 have attempted to carry so
much" All! that man may not be to
blame at all. When a man plants a bus
fnaGa ha -
outgrowths, what will be its roots. what
will be Its branches. There is many a
man with keen foresight and large bust
ness faculty who has been flung into the
dust by unforeseen circumstances spring
ing 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 that loss of crop, and thousand
other questions perplex business men, I'M
I'll the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles
are Dlowed in the cheek; and the stocks
20 up by the mountains and 90 down by
the valleys, and they are at their wits
ends, and stagger like drunken men.
There never has been q time when there
have been such rivalries in business as
now. 1t Is hardware against hardware,
books against books, chaudlery against
chandlery, imported article against i'm
ported article. A thousand stores in COM
bat with another thousand stores. Never
such advantage of light, never such va
rlety OF assortment, never 80 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 OF business through the street,
and that is the commonly accepted idea.
l do not believe a word of il. The vast
multitude of these business men are toll
ing on for others. To educate their chill
dren, to put the wing of protection over
their households, to have something left,
so when they pass out of this life their
wives and children will not have to 90 to
the poor house-that is the way translate
this energy in the street or store-the vast
majority Of that energy. Grip. Gouoe &
Co. do not do all the business. Some of
us remember when the Central America
was coming home from California, il was
wrecked. President Arthur's father-in-
law was the heroic captain of that ship.
and went down with most of the passen-
gers. Some OF them got of into life-boats,
but there was a young man returning
from California who had bag of gold in
his hand, and as the last boat showed off
from the ship that was 10 90 down that
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