Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-13
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.
's'sabjsc.. The Burdep-Bearer..


and he shall sustain thee."-Psalm w. D.
David was here taking his own medicine.
Ii 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 bur lens. 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
struggle? And there is not 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
not fit the occasion: Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and He shall sustain thee" Ia the
Tar east wells of water ara 50 insrequent 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 well that every man
owns-a deep well, perennial well, well
OF tears. Ii man has not a burden on this
shoulder, he has burden on the other shout
der
The day left home to look after mvsslf
and for myself, in the wagon my father sat
driving AMI he said that day sometime
which has kept with me all my life: IDS
Witt, it is always safe to trust God / have
many a time come to a crisis of difficulty,
You may know that, having been sick for
fifteen years, it was no easy thing for me to
support family; but always Col came to
the rescue. remember the time" he said
when didn't know what to do, and | saw
a man on horseback riding up the farm lane.
and ne announced to me that l had been
nominated for the most lucrative Office in
the gift of the people of the county ami 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 religion! The religion people have is so
high up you cannot reach it, In the Straits
of Magellan, have been told, there is a place
where whichever way a captain puts his ship
he finds the wind against him. and there ara
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 may be
here this morning, AID address them facs
to face, not perfuDctorily, but as one brother
talks to another brother, Cast thy burden
upon the lord, and He shall sustain thee
First-Ihere are great many men Who
have business burdens When we see a man
harried end perplexed and annoyed in bus
ness life we are apt to say; He ought not
to have attempted to carry so much" All.
that man may not be to Llame 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 a man with keen foresight and large
business faculty who has been flung into the
dust by unforeseen circumstances springing
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 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, aud they are at their wits ends and
stagger like drunken men.
There never has been a. time when there
have been such rivalries in business as now.
1t is hardware against hardware, cooks
against books, chandlery against chandlery,
imported article against imported article.
A thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores, Never such an advantage
of light, never such a 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 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 bust
ness? l tell you God knows more about it
than you do. He knows all your perplexi-
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
yards.ick down to the sale of the last yard
of ribbon, and the God who helped David TO
be king, and who helred Daniel to be prime
minister, and who helped Havelock to be
soldier, will help you to discharge all your
duties. 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 rhat 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-
sulting letter, put it down on the table, put
your Bible beside the insulting letter and
then read of the friendship of Him who
'sticketh closer than BROTHER
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 misappropriated, and he knew be-
fore God he was honest. The last day came.
He knew il he could not that day make his
accounts come out right he would go into
disgrace AMI g into Punishment from the
Ns-I
very early, befors there was anybody in the
place, ami he knet down at the desk and
said: "Oh, Lord, Thou knowest have tried
TO be honest, but cannot make these things
come out right! Hep me to-day-help me
this morning.
Tne young man arose and hardly knowing
why he did so opened book that lay on the
desk, and there was leaf Containing lina
of fl CURES which explained everything. In
other words, he cast his burded upon the
Lord and the Lord sustained him: Young
man, do you hear that? Oh, yes; God has a
sympathy with anybody that is id 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 pickax of the
miner down the coal shaft. He knows how
strong the tempest strikes the sailor at mast
head, He sees thu factory girl among thu
splndles AMI knows how her arms ache, He
sees the sewing woman in the fourth story
and knows how few pence she gets for max
ins garment; and lou Ter than all the din
AMI roar of the city comes the voics of n
sympathetic Go l. Cast thy burden upon
the Lori, AMI He shall sustain thee
Seconf-fhere are a gre4tmany who have
a weight of persecution and abuse upon
them Sometimes society gets a grudge
against man. All his motives are mis-
interpreted, and his good deeds are depreci-
ated. Vita more virtue than some of the
honore1 AMI apolau led, he runs only against
raillery and sharp criticism. When a man
begins to 20 down he has not ONLY the force
of natural gravitation, but hun Ire han Is
TO help him in the precipitation Msn are
prosecuted for their virtues and their sue
ceSses Germanicus said he hal just as
many bitter antagonists as he had aiorn-
ments. The character sometimes is SO lus-
trous that the weak eyes OF envy an jsal-
ousy cannot bear to loot at it. 1t was their
integrity that put Joseph in the pit, an
Daniel in the den, and Shadrach in the fire,
AMI sent John the Evan 5elist to desolate
Patnos, aud Calvin to the castle o. parsecu-
ton, AMI John Huss to the stake, AMI Kora1
after Moses, aui Saul after David, AMI
Herod after Christ. Be sure IL You have
anything to do for church or state, an You
attempt it with all your soul the lightning
will strike you.
The world always had had cross between
two thieves for the one w,i1 comes to save
it. High and hoy enterprise has always
been followed by abuse. Ths most sublims
tragedy of self sacrifice has come to bur-