Sharp County record., 1891-08-06
THE BURDENS OF LIFE.
Rev, T. Dewitt Talmage Tells How
to Bear Them.
The Troubles and Besetments of Life
should be Shared with the Lord,
who Has Promised to Bear
Our Burdens.

The following discourse on the sub
ject of THE Burden Bearers was de-
livered by Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage in
the new Brooklyn Tabernacle, from
the text:
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
shall sustain thee.-Psalm w., %.
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 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 struggle? 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
frequent that when man owns a well
he has 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, deep well, perennial we'll
well Of tears. If man has not a bur-
den on this shoulder, he has a burden
on the other shoulder. The dav 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.
l 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 family:
but always God came to the rescue. /
remember the time, he said, 'when I
didn't know what to do, and I saw a
man on horseback riding up the farm
lane, and he announced to me that
had been nominated FOR the most lu.
crative office in the gift of the people Of
the county; and to that office / was
elected, and God in that way met all nv
wants, and tell you it is always safe
to trust Him" Oh, my friends, what
we want is practical religion. The
religious people have it so high up you
can not reach it. l had friend who
entered the life of an evangelist. He
gave up lucrative business in Chicago,
and he and his wife finally came to
severe want, He told me that in
the morning at pray ers he said: "Oh
Lord, Thou knowest we have not a
mouthful of food in the house! Help
me, help usr' And he started out on
the street, and a gentleman met him
and said: 81 have been thinking of YOU
for a good while You know / am
flour merchant; if you won't be offend
ed, l would like to send you a barrel of
flour" My friend cast his burden on the
Lord, and the Lord sustained him. In
the straits of Magellan, | have been
told there is place where whichever
way a ship captain puts his ship he
finds the wind against him, and there
are men who have all their lives been
running in the teeth of the wind, and
which way to turn they do not know.
Some OF them may be here this morn
ing, aud address them face to face, |
not perfunctorily but as one brother /.
talks to another brother Cast thv /
burden upon the Lord, and He shall ,
sustain thee"
T. There are a great many men who |
have business burdens. When we see a 4
man harried and perplexed and annoyed /
in business life, we are apt to say: ole !
ought not to have attempted to carry so |
much.' All! that man may not be to /
blame at all, When q man plants a .
business he does not know what will |
be its outgrowths, what will be its !
roots, what will be it's branches There /
is many a man with keen foresight and |
large business faculty who has been /
flung into the dust by unforeseen cir /
springlng upon him from |
When to buy, when to sell, |
when to trust, and to what amount of 4
credit, what will be the effect Of this ,
new invention of machinery, what will /
be the effect Of that loss of crop, and
thousand other questions perpeX bus-
ness men, until the hair is silvercd and
6~ep wrnrles are pl owed in the check;
and the stock 60 up by the mountains
and 60 down by the valleys and they
are at their wits ends, and stagger like
drunken men.
There never has been a time when
there have been such rivalrics in busi-
ness rs now, II is hardware against
hardware, books against books, chan
llcry against chandlery, imported ar
ticles against imported articles,
thousand stores in combat with another
stores. Never such advantage
Of light never such variety of assort.
ment never so much spendor Of show
window, never so much adroitness Of
never so much acutcness Of
advertising, and amid all the sevcrities
Of rivalry IN business how many men
break down. Oh the burden on the
shoulderl Oh, the burden on the heart.
You hear that IL is avaricc which drives
these men Of business through the
street, and that is the commonly nc.
ceptcd idea, do not believe q word Of