The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-24
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVfNES SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Burden Bearer


David wsz r,s g taking his own medicine
r. anvbodv had a. him heavy weights, DayiG
had them and nd vet O. 1t Of his own experience
he M advises Won w and ma. as to the best way Of
aettinr e 1 rid yb Of burdens' | This is a world Of
burden bearing. Coming y neo the hots5 oi
prayer there may be no sign' or sadness 2r
sorrow, but where is the man ~ has not
conflict? Where is the soul that las nof>a
struggle? And there is not day of%Sll the
year when my text is not gloriously ap5fp.
pirate, and there is never an audience AS
sembled on the planet where the text does
not fit the occasion: Cast thy burden upon
tho Lord, and He shall sustain thee" In the
far east wells Of water are so infrequent that
when man owns well he hasa 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 man
owns-a deep well, perennial we'll, we'll
Of tears. II man has not burden on this
shoulder, he has burden on the other shoul
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: 'tDe
Witt, it is always safe'to trust God. have
many time come to crisis Of difficulty.
You may know that, having been sick for
IL
support family; but always God came to
the rescue. remember the time" he said,
"when didn't know what to do; aud saw
a man on horseback riding up the farm lane,
and he announced to me that I had been
nominated for the most lucrative 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 it Is
always safe to trust Him.
Oh, my friends what we want is>apracti-
cal religion! The religion people have is so
high up you cannot reach it.. In the Straits
Of Magellan, Ihave been told, there is place
where whichever way captain puts his ship
he finds the wind against him, and there are
men who all their lives have been running in;
the teeth Of wind, and which way to turn
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"
First-There are great many men who.
have business burdens. When we see man.
harried and perple1ed and annoyed in busi--
ness life we are apt to say: "Hs ought not
to have attempted to carry so much" All,
that man may not be to blame at all! When
a 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 into the
dust by unforeseen circumstances Spr1nging
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 invention Of machinery, what will
be the effect of that loss Of crop and thou
sand other questions perple1 business men
until the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles
are plowed in the cheek, and the stocks 60
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 business as now.
1t is hardware against hardware, cooks
against books, chandlery against chandlery,
A thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores. Never such an advantage
Of light, never such variety Of assortment,
never 80 much splenGor 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 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 word of it,
All! my friend, do you say that God does
not care anything about your worldly busi-
nesss I tell you God knows more about It
than you do. He knows all your perple1i.
ties; He knows what mortgage 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
yardstick down to the sale OF the last yard
Of ribbon, and the God who helped David TO
be king, and who helIed Daniel to be prime
soldier, will help you to discharge all your
duties He is going to see you through.
When loss comeS and you find your prop
srty going, just take. this Book and put it
down by your ledger, and read Of the eternal
possessions that will come to you through
eur Lord Jesus Christ. And when your
business partner betrays you, and your
friends turn against you, just take the IN
sulting letter, put it down on the table, put
your Bible beside the insulting letter, and
then read OF the friendship of Him who
"stieketh closer than brother"
A young accountant In New York City got
his accounts entangled. He knew ne was
honest, and yet he could not make his &C.
eornts come out right, and no toiled at them
day and night until he was nearly trenzled.
It seemed by those books that something
lad been misappropriated, and be knew be-
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 go into
disgrace and 20 into bsnishnent 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: "Oh, Lord, Thou knoyyest have tried
to beshonest, but cannot make these things
come out rightl Help me: to-day-help me
this morningr'
The young man arose and hardly knowing
Why he did so opened book that lay on the
desk, and there was leaf containing Line
Of figures which explained everything. In
other words, he cast his burden upon the
Lord and the Lord sustained hia- Young
man, do you hear thatg Oh, yesi God has
sympathy with anybody that Is in any kind
Of toll He knows how heavy is the hod Of
bricks that the workman carries up the lad
der Of the wall; He hears the picka1 of the
miner down the coal 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 arsas ache; He
sees the sewing woman in the fourth story
and knows bow few pence she gets for max
ing garment; and louder tha2e all the din
God, "Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and He shall sustais. thee"
Second There are great many who have |
\ weigLs Of persecution ,aEd abuse upon
them. Sometimes society: gets a grudge \
szains. a man. AL his motives are mis-
and his good deeds are depreci-
ated. With more virt.s than some OF this.
honor II and applauded, he runs only againss
raillc.y and sharp criticism, When man.
be1i.ss to 20 down hs has ;rsot only tha forss-
Of atura1 gravitatiops but hundred nataa
bo Lelp him in the precipitation. Msn are.
for theG virtues and their aue--
ccssss. Germanicas, said he had just. as.
g any bitter antagonists as he had aa9rn.
raeats. The character sometimes Is s2.luS--