The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-08
BEARER OF THE BURDENS
TIE ONE TO WHOM ALL May
TURN IN TIMES OF TROUBLE.


"cast Thy Burden On the Lord and
He Shall Sustain Thse'-The Efficacy
OF Prayer.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, June Tt Is no new
thing TO the members OF the Brooklyn
Tabernacle church to have their pastors'
eminence acknowledged by the outside
world. But even they mus, have bee5
gratifled by the distinction conferred upon
him since last Sunday. In listening to DR..
Talmage to-day they were listening to the
chaplain Of the Ancient and Honorabls
Artillery Company Of Massachusetts,, in
which office he was formally installed with
due ceremony on June l. The organizes
tion, which Is two hundred aud fifty years
old. and the lineal descendants of an Eng lisn
organization dating back to the beginning
Of the sixteenth century, has had many dig
tinguished divines as chaplains. and the
honor has always been highly appreciated.
The subject of DIR. Talmage's sermon this
morning was "The Burden-Bearer," !" and his
text Psalm lv., %; Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and be shall sustain thee"
David was here taking his own medicines
II anybody had on him heavy Weights
David had them, aud yet out of his own ex4
perienoe he advises you and me as to the
best way of getting rid of burdens. This Id
a world Of purden-bearing. Coming into
the house OF prayer there may be no sign OF
sadness or sorrow, but where is the man
who has not a conflict Where Is the soul
that has not STRUGGLED And there is not q
day In all the year when my text is not
gloriously appropriate, and there is never
an audience assembled on the planet whefa
the text does not fit the ocoasioni Cast thy
hfIr rdan fha Lord und ho bmll ais
thee" In the far east wells Of water ara SD
unfrequent that when man owns a
well he has property OF
very great value, and sometimes
battles have been fought for the possession
Of one well of water; but there is one we'll
that every uian owns, deop well, persn-
nial well, a well of tears. II man has nod
on the other shoulder. The day left homd
to look after myself and for myself, In tha
wagon my father sat driving, aud he said
that day something which has Kept with me-
all my life; "De Witt, 10 is always safe to
trust God. have nrafty time come 30 q
crisis Of difficulty. You may know that,
having been siok for fifteen years, 1t was NO
always God came to the rescue. reneua-
Der the time" he said, when didn't know
what 10 de, and saw a man
on horseback riding up the farny
lane. and he announced to me that I had
been nominated for the most lucras
tive office In the gift Of the people OF the
county; and TO that office was elected.
and God In that way met all my wants, and
tell you 10 is always safe TO trust him. ~
o, my friends, what we want is practical
religionl The religion people have Is go
high up you cannot reach Ii. had friend
who entered the life of an evangelist. He
gave up lucrative business in Chicago.
and he and his wife finally came to sewers
want He told me that In the morning at
prayers he said: 10 Lord, thou knowost We
have not mouthful of food In the houset
Help me. help us'' And he started out on
the street, and a gentleman met him and;
said: II have been thinking of you for
good while. You know a
am a -four 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 ths
Straits OF Magellan, have been told, there
is place where whichever way a ship oap-1
tain puts his ship he finds the wind against
him, and there are men who all their lives
have been running in the teeth OF the wind,
and which way TO turn they do not know.
Some OF them may be here this morning.
and l address them face 70 face, not psr-
functorily, bat as one brother talks to !
another brother: "Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
First, There are great many men who
have business burdens. When we see a man
harried aud perplexed and annoyed in bustsl
ness life, we ara apt to say: "He ought nohi
to have attempted TO carry so much" AhH
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 its branches There,
is many man with keen foresight and large
business faculty who has been flung intol
the dust by unforeseen circumstances spring.
ing upon him from ambush. When TO buy
when to sell, when to trust, and to wha1
amount 70 credit, what will be the effect ef
this new invention Of machinery, what wilt
be the effect Of that loss of crop, and q
thousand other questions perplex business
men, until the hair is siivered and deepi
wrinkles are plowed In the cheek; and this
stocks go up by the mountains and 20 downs
by the valleys. and they are at their witss'
ends and stagger like drunken men.
There never has been time when there
have been such riyalries IN business as now.
1t is hardware against hardware, books
against books, chandlery against chandlery.
imported article against imported article. ]
thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores. Never such advantage Of
Light never such variety of assortment
never so much spleudor of show window,
never 80 much adroitness of statesmen.
never 50 mucn acuUeneSs Oh adverttsingsi l
and amid all these seventies of rivalry In
business, how many men break down. O. /.
the burden on the shoulderl O., the burdens
on tho heartl You hear that it is avarfcel
which drives these men Of business
through the street, and tha&
Is the commonly accepted idea. ddA
not believe word of 1t. The vast multi-i
tude OF these business men are toiling on for.
Others. To educate their children. 10 pun
the wing Of protection over their households,
to have something left SO when they passs
out Of this life their wives and children wilE
not have to go to the poorhouse-that is thes
way translate this energy in the street an(fk
store-the vast majority Of that energy.
Grip, Gouge a. Co., do not do all the busi<s
ness. Some OF us remember when the Cen~I
trail America was coming home from Cali
fornia, it was wrecked. President Arthur's
father-in-law was the heroic captain oft
that ship, and went down with most of
the passengers. Some of them
got of into life-boats, but
there was q 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 to go down. that man
shouted to a comrade in the boat: Here.
John. catch this gold; there are three thou
sand dollars; take it home to my old mother,
it will make her comfortable in her last
days. Grip, Gouge & Co do not do all the
business OF the world. All my friend, do
you say that God does not care anything
about your worldly businessf tell
you God knows more about it than