Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-06-19


and He shall sustain thee. Psalm w. %
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 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 q
conflict Where is the soul that has not a
struggled 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 In the
far east wells Of water are so infrequent that
when a man owns a we'll he has property Of
very great value aud 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 well well
of tears. IL a man has not burden on this
shoulder, he has a burden on the other shoul
der.
The day left home to look after mysalt
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, 1t is always safe to trust God. have
many 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 a family, but always God came 10
| 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 he announced TO me that | had been
nominated for the most lucrative office in
the gift OF the people Of the county, and TO
thot 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 a practi-
cal religion! The religion people have is 50
| 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 are
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, and address them face
to face, not perfuuctorily, 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
harriei and perplexed and annoyed in busi
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
q man plants business he does not know
what will he its outgrowths, what will be its
roots, what will he its branches. There is
many a man with keen foresight and lar 20
business faculty who has been flung into the
dust by Unforeseen circumstances springlnG
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 a thou.
sand other questions perplex business men
until the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles
! ,,lpt raI in cha nd fhn NJ rtyp
up by the mountains and go down by the
valleys and they are at their wits ends aud
stagger like drunken men.
There never has been time when there
! have been such rivalries in business as now
IL Is hardware against hardware, cooks
against books, chsndlery against chandlery,
imported article against imported article
A thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores Never such an advantage
of light. Lever such variety Of assortment
never so much splendor of show window,
never so much adroitness Of salesmen, never
50 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 | tell you God knows more about il
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
yardstick down to tho sale OF the last yard
Of ribbon, and the God who helped David &c
be king. and who helped Daniel to be prime
minister, and who helped Havelock to be a
soldier, will help you TO discharge all your
duties. He is going to see you through
erty going, just take this Book and put il
down by your ledger, and read OF the eterna
possessions that will come to you through
our Lord Jesus Christ. And when youl
business partner hetrays you, and your
friends turn against you, just take the in
sulting letter, put it down on the table, pu
your Bible beside the insulting letter, anC
then read of the friendship Of Him who
''sticketh closer than brother"
A young accoutant in New York City go
his accounts entangled. He knew he wa
honest, and yet he could not make his &C
counts come out right and he toiled at then
day and night until he was nearly frenzied
It seemed by those books that something
had been misapproprated, and he knew be
fore God he was honest The last day came
He knew II he could not that day make hi
accounts come out right he would go int
disgrace and 20 into Punishment from th
business establishment. He went over Their
very early, before there was anybody in tn
place, and he knelt down at the desk an
said: 'Oh, Lord, Thou knowest have trie
to be honest, but cannot make these thing
come out righti Help me to-day-help IN
this morningp
The young man arose and hardly KNOWN,
why he did SO opened book that lay on tn
desk, and there was leaf containing a lin,
Of figures which explained everything. Il
other words, he cast his burden upon tn
Lord and the Lord sustained him. Youn
man, do you hear thatf Oh, yes; God has
sympathy with anybody that Is in any kin
of TOLL He knows how heavy is the hod o
bricks that the workman carries up the lad
der OF the wall, He hears the pickax Of tn
miner down the coal shaft; He knows hoy
strong the tempest strikes the sailor at mast
, head; He sees the factory girl among thc
spindles AMI knows how her arms ache; II
sees the sewing woman In the fourth stor
and knows how few pence she gets for max
ing garment; and louder than all the di
and roar OF the city comes the voice OF
sympathetic Col, Cast thy burden upo
the Lord, and He shall sustain thee
Second-lhere are great many who hav
weight of persecution and abuse upo
, them. Sometimes society gets a grudy
against man. All his motives are mi,
interpreted, and his good deeds ara deprec
ated. With more virtue than some OF tn
2 honored and applauded, he runs only againl
; raillery aud sharp criticism. When ma
begins to go down he has not only the fore
Of natural gravitation but hun1re han.
s to help him in the precipitation. Men al
persecuted for their virtues and their su
cesses Germanicus said he had Just
many bitter antagonists as he had ador
ments. The character sometimes is 80 lu
,, trous that the weak eyes of envy AMI jeu
. ousy cannot bear to look at it. 1t was the
integrity that put Joseph in the pit, ar
: Daniel In the den, and Shadrach in the fir