The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-06-11
Tabernacle Sermon.
REV. DIR. TALMAGEPREACH-
ES ON THE BURDEN
BEARER.
His First Discourse Since He was
Made Chaplain OF the An
cient and Honorable Ar
tillery Company of
MasSac huSettS.

BROOKLYN, June lit is no new
thing to the members of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle church to have their pas
tors erninence acknowledged by the
outside world. But even they must
have been gratified by the distinction
conferred upon him since last Sunday.
In listening to DR.. Talmage today they
were listening to the chaplain of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com
pany of Massachusetts,, in which Office
he was formally installed with due cere-
mony On June l. The organization,
which is two hundred and fifty 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
chapiains. and the honor has always
been highly appreciated. The subject
of DR.. Talmage's sermon this morning
was 1.-The Burden Bearer" and his text
Psalms lv, g: "Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.n
DAvID's HARD EXPERIENCE.
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 world of bur
den bearing. Coming into the house
of prayer there may be no sign of sad
ness or sorrow, but where is the man
who has not conflict Where is the
soul that has not a struggled 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 far east wells of water are so
infrequent that when a man owns a
well he has property of very great
value, and sometimes battles have been
water; but there is one well that every
man owns, deep well, a perennial
WELL well 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 nay life: de Witt, it is alway.
safe to trust God. I have many 8
time come to a crisis of difficulty.
You may know that, having beer
sick for fifteen years, it was nc
easy thing for Inc to support {
family; but always God came to The
rescue. I remember the time, he said
"when I didn't know what to do, an6
I saw a man on horseback riding W
the farm lane, and he announced tx
me that l had been nominated for th'
most lucrative Office in the gift of th'
people of the county; and to that offic,
I was elected. and God in that way me
all my wants, and I tell you it is alYay
safe to trust him." Oh, my friends
what we want is a practical religion
The religion people have is so high u
you cannot reach it. have a frien,
who entered the life of an evangelist
He gave up a lucrative business in Chi
cago, and he and his wife finally cam
to severe want. He told me that il
the morning at prayers he said: II
Lord, thou knowest we have. not
mouthful of food in the house! Hell
me, help usl"
And he started out on the street, an
gentleman met him and said: g
have been thinking of you for a goo
while. You know 1 am -four mel
chant; if you won't be offended
should like to send you a barrel c
-four" My friend cast his burden o
the Lord, and the Lord sustained hin
In the Straits of Magellan, I have bee
, told, there is place where, whicheve
way ship captain pats his ship b
, finds the wind against him, and ther
, are men who all their lives have bee
: running in the teeth of the wind, an
! which way to turn they do not know
4 Some of them may be here this morr
9 ing, and I address them face to fac
t not perfunctorily. but as one brotht
2 talks to another brother, 'Cast tt
burden upon the Lord. and he sha
sustain thee"
c BUSINESS BURDENS.
) Frst-There are great many me
J, who have business burdens. When v
J, see a man harried and perplexed ar
!, annoyed in business life we are apt
- say, "He ought not to have attempte
= = to carry so much" Ah! that man ms
not be to blame at all When a ma
plants 4 business he does not kno
what will be its outgrowths, what W
K be its roots, what will be its branche
There is many q man with keen fol
sight and large business faculty wi
has been flung into the dust by unfo1
g seen circumstances springing upon hi
d from ambush. When to buy, when
le sell. when to trust, and to what amou
J. of credit, what will be the effect
r this new invention of machinery, VIII
u will be the effect of that loss of Gro
~ and a. thousand other questions perpl
y business men, until the hair is silver
y, and deep wrinkles are plowed in t
- - cheek; and the, stocks go up by t
q q mountains and go down by the vale.
and they are at their wits ends. a
i stagger like drunken men.
;fl There never has been a time wh
,r there have been such riyalnes in bu
ness as now. It is hardware agar
hardware, books against books, char
" lery against chandlery, imported al
h, Gle against imported article. A thoa
and stores in combat with anotf