News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-06-11
THE TABERNACLE PULPIT.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON
THE BURDEN BEARER.

His First Discourse Since He Was Made
Chaplain of the Ancient and Honor
able Artillery Company of NIassachu
setts.
BROOKLYN, June Ut is no new
thing to the members of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle church to have their pas
tors eminence acknowledged by the
outside world. But even they must
have been gratiied 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
chaplains, and the honor has always
been highly appreciated. The subject
of DR.. TalInage's sermon this morning
a~dI
Psalms ", %: Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
DAyID'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 struggle? And there
is not 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 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, a perennial
well, a well of tears. If 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 my life: de 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 a
family; but always God came to the
rescue. remember the time, " he said,
when l didn't know what to do and
| saw 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 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 practical religionl
The religion people have is SO high up
you cannot reach it. have a friend
who entered the life of an evangelist.
He gave up lucrative business in Chi
cago, and he and his wife finally came
to severe want. He told me that in
the morning at prayers he said; 80
Lord, thou knowest we have not a
mouthful of food in the housed Help
me, help usi"
And he started out on the street, and
gentleman met him and said: Il
have been thinking of you for good
while. You know / am a flour mer-
chant; if you won't be offended l |
should like to send you a 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 place where, whichever
way ship 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 the wind, and
which way to turn they do not know.
Some of them may be here this morn
ing, and | address them face to face,
not perfunctorily, but as one brother
talks to another brother, Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain thee"
BUSINESS BURDENS.
First-There are a great many men |
who have business burdens. When we
see a man harried and perplexed and |
annoyed in business life we are act to |
say, He ought not to have attempted |
to carry so much" Ali 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 its branches.
There is many man with keen fore
sight and large business faculty who
has been flung into the dust by unfore-
seen 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 a thousand 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, |
and they are at their wits ends, and |
stagger like drunken men.
There never has been a time when
there have been such rivalries in bust,
ness as now 1t is hardware against
hardware books against books, chand-
lery against chandlery. imported arti
Gle against imported article. a thous-
and stores in combat with another
thousand stores. Never such advan-
tage of light, never such variety of as
sortment, never SO much splendor of
show window, never SO much adroit-
ness of statesmen, never SO much acute
ness of advertising, and amid all these
seventies of rivalry in business, how
many men break down. Oh, the bur-
den on the shoulderl Oh, the burden
on the hearth You hear that it is
avarice which drives these men of bust
ness through the street, and that is the
accepted idea. | do not be-
lieve a word of it, The vast multitude
Of these business men are toiling on for
others.
To educate their children, to put the
wing of protection over their house
holds, to have something left, so when
they pass out of this life their wives
md children will not have to go to the
ooorhouse-that is the way translate
his energy in the street and store-the !
7ast majority of that energy. Grip,