Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-08
THE BURDEN BEARER
A High Honor Conferred Upon
the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage.
A WORLD OF BURDEN-BEARiNG
Practical Religion Needed, Not That Which IS
SO High You Cannot Reach 1t.
What a Spectacle it Would be Could the
Mask of Human DeIIement be Torn
OF, or the Army OF Transsress-
ors be Brought Forth.
A WORLD OF BURDEN-BEARlNG
THE BTRDFN-REARER.
Special to the Gazette.

THE BURDFN-BEARER.
! Special to the Gazette
BRooKLYN. y Y. June 1t is no new
! thing to the mem be.'S OF The Brooklyn
! Tabernacle church 10 have their pastors
emlnence acknowledged by the outside
world. But even they must have been
gratitied by the DISTINCTION conferred upon
him since last Sunday. In listening to Dr..
TalInage to-day, they We're listening to the
chaplain of the Ancient ana Honorable
artillery company OF Massachusetts, in
which Office he was formally installed with
| due ceremony on June !. The organization,
which IS 80 years old. and the Iineal de-
! scendaut OF an English organization dating
back to the beginning Of the Sixteenth
century. has had many distinguished
divineS rs chaplairs, and the honor has
always been highly appreciated. The sub
| lect of DIR. Taimage'S sermon this morning
S9&aS The Burden Bearer" and ms text
Paslm w., -: Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and H. shall sustain thee. >"
TAXING his OWN MEDICINE.
David vas here taking his own medicine.
| If anybody bad on MIN heavy weights, Da-
yid had them. and Yet out Of his own eX
pelience he advises YOU and me as 10 the
11st way OF getting rid of burdens This
is a world OF burdel- bearing. Coming into
the house Of prayer there may be no sign
| OF sadness or SORROW. but where is the
mau who has not 4 conflict! Where is the
soul that has not Il struggle, And there is
not day Of all the year when my text is
not gloriouSIE 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 5" infreQuent that when a man
| owns 4 well he has 4 property OF very great
! value, ana sometimes battles have been
| fought for the possession OF one well of
| water: but there is one well that every
man owns, 4 deep well, perennial well. Il
! well Of tears If Il man has not i burden
on this shoulder lc 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, aud he said
| thai day something which has kept with
me all my life: Dewitt. it is o
ALWAYS SAFE TO TRUST COD.
| have many a time come 10 Il crisis of
| difficulty. You may KNOW that, having
| been sick for fifteen years, il was no easy
! thing for me 10 support Il family: but al
ways God came to the rescue. ! remember
the time" he said, when ! didn't know
/ what TO 10. and | saw Il man on horseback
| riding up the farm lane. and he announced
to Tue that hat been nominated for the
most lucrative office in the gift Of the peQ
PIE of the county: and to that Office l was
elected, and God in that way met all my
! ants. and I tell you it is always safe 10
trust him. -" On, my friends, what we
want is practical religion. The religion
people have IS 50 high up YOU cannot
reach ii. had friend who entered the
| sfc of an evangelist He gave up lucra-
hssye business in Chicago, and he and his
wife finally came to severe want. lie told
ME that in the morning al prayers he said
%. Lord, thou knoweSt we have not
mou:hful OF food in the house! Help me,
help as And he started out On the street,
and a gentleman met him and said: Il
have been thinking of you for a good
while You know am flour merchant;
II YOU won't be offended l should like to
send You L barrel Of -four" My friend
cast his burden on the Lord, and the Lord
sustained him IN the straits of Magellan,
/ have been told, there is a place where
whichever way ship captain puts his ship
ne finds
THE WIND AGAINST HIN
ana there are men who all their lives have
been running in the teeth OF the winds, and
which way to turn they do not know. Some
Of them may be here this morning, and
addgsS them face 10 face not lcTfunctorily
buf&S one brother talks 10 another brother:
= thy burden upon the Lord and He
sE&l sustain thee
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,Eavc business burdens. When we see
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