Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-06-18
DIR. TALMAGE.
sooKLN DIvINEs SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject. "The Burden Bearer

siau thofl, anu yeI OUT OF MS own experience
ne 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 a
conflict Where is the soul that has not a
strOggles And there IS not a day of all the
year when my text is not gloriously appro-
pirate, and there is never an audience as
sembled on the planet where the text does
mot fit the OCCASION Cast thy burdenupon
the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.n In the
far east wells of water are SO infrequent that
when a man owns a well he lras a property of
very great value, and sometimes battles have
been fought for the possession OF one well Of
water; but there is one well that every man
owns--a deep well, q perennial well, well
of tears. II a man has not a burden on this
shoulder, he has burden on the other shout
der.
The day 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, it is always safe to trust God. have
many time come to q crisis of difficulty.
You may know that, having been sick for
fifteen years, 1t 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 to do, and l saw
a man on horseback riding up the farm lane,
and he announced to me that l had been
nominated for the most lucrative office in
the gift of the psople 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 practi-
cal religionl The religion people have is SO
nigh up You cannot reach it. In the Straits
of Magellan, Ihave been told, there is a place
where whichever way a captain puts his shin
he finds the wind a. CT Ia ~.
men who all their lives have been running in
the teeth of wind, and which way to turn
theY do not know. Some Of them NAV be
mere this morning, and address them face
70 lace, not perfunctorily, but as one brother
talks to another brother, Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.'
rHs1-Ihere are great many men who
nave business burdens. When we see man
married and perplexed and annoyed in bust
ness iife we are apt to say: HE ought not.
70 nave attempted to carry so much" All.
tnat man may not be to blame at all! When
man plants business he does not know
what viii 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 into the
u'lst by unforeseen circumstances springing
upon him from ambush. When to buy,
Wnen 10 sell, when to trust and to what
amount OF credit, what will be the effect of
tnls new invention Of machinery, what will
DC the effect OF that loss of crop and thou
sand other questions perplex business men
until the hair is silvered 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
nave been such rivalries in business as now.
~ IS hardware against hardware, looks
against books, chandlery against chandlery,
imported article against imported article.
a thousand stores in combat with another
Thousand stores. Never such an advantage
u light, never such variety of assortment,
never SO much splendor of show window,
never SO much adroitness of statesmen, never
SO much acuteness of advertising, and amid
all the seventies OF rivalry in business how
many men break down. Oh the burden on
the shoulderi Oh, the burden on the hearth
\ GU hear that it is avarice which drives
tnese men OF business through the street,
and thnt is the commonly accepted idea. |
90 nor believe word of it.
ADJ my friend, do you say that God does
no9tare anything about your worldly bust
\ IS? / tell you God knows more about it
ties; He. knows what mortgagee is about to
foreclose; He knows what note You cannot
pay; He knows what unstable goods you
have on your shelves He knows all your
trials, from the day you took hold of the first
yardstlck down to the sale of the last yard
of ribbon, and the God who helped David TO
be king, and who helped Daniel to be primo
minister, and whohelped Havelock to be a
soldier, will help you to discharge all your
dutiess He is going to see you through.
When loss comes, and you find your prop
erty going just take this Book and put it
down by your ledger, and read of the eternal
possessions that will come to you through
our Lord Jesus Christ. And when your
business partner betrays you, and your
friends turn against you, just take the in
suiting letter, put it down on the tables put
your Bible beside the insulting letter, and
Then read of the friendship of Him who
ASticketh closer than a brother"
A. "A young accountant in New York City got
his accounts entangled. He knew he was
honest, and yet he could not make his ac-
counts come out right, and he toiled at them
day and night until he was nearly frenzied.
1t seemed by those books that something
had been Incorporated, and lie knew bo
fore God he was honest. The last day came
He knew II he could not that day make his
accounts come out right he would 90 into
disgrace and go into Punishment from the
business establishment. He went over there
very early, before there was anybody in the
place. and he knelt down at the desk and
said: ssOh, Lord, Thou knowest have tried
20 % honest, butt cannot make these things
come out right Help me to-day--help NE
this morningr
The young man arose and hardly knowing
why ne did SO opened book that lay on the
desk, and there was a leaf containing line
Of figures which explained everything. In
other words, he cast his burden upon the
Lord and the Lord sustained him. Young
man, do you hear thaty Oh yes; God has a
sympathy with any body that is in any kind
or toll He knows how heavy il the hod Of
prlcks that the workman carries up the lad
DER OF the wall He hears the pickax of the
miner down thecoal shaft; He knows how
strong the tempest strikes the sailor at mast
head; He sees the factory girl among the
spindles and knows how her arms ache; He
sees the sewing woman In the fourth story
and knows how few pence she gets for max
Ing 9 garment; and louder than all the din
and roar OF the city comes the voice of
sympathetic God, Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and He shall sustain thee
Second There are great many who have
. weight Of persecution and abuse upon
them. Sometimes society gets a grufige
against q man. All his motives are mis-
and his good GeedAare depreci-
Rted. With more virtue than home OF the
honored and applnuded he runs dply against
raillery and sharp criticism. VIM . man
begins to go down he has not only Ne force
Of natural gravitation, but hundl5 hands
to help him In the precipitation m arc 4
for their virtues and I'll Enc-
cesses. Germanicus said he had as
many bitter antagonists as he =
ments. The character sometimeN T az
trous that the weak eyes OF env
OllsV cannot bear to look at IT, *{S