Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-06-12
THE BURDEN BEARER.
TEXT OF DIR. fTALMAoRs SER
MON LAST SUNDAY.
Tho World would he Much Improved
m People Lived Up to the bible
An Eloquent Discourse by the Emil
nent Brooklyn Divine.


yet out of his own experience he adj
vises 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 might 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 appropriate,
and there is never an audience assem-
bled on the planet where the text does
not fit the occasion: "Cast thy burden
upon the Lord. and he shall sustain
thee"
There are great many men who
have business burdens. When we see
a man harried and perplexed and an
noyed in business life, we are apt TO
say; "He ought not to have attempted
to carry SO much" All! that man may
not be to blame at all. When a man
plants business he does not know
what will be it's outgrowths, what will
be its roots, what will be its branches.
There is many a 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
cell. 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 bust
ness men, until the hair is silvered and
deep wrinkles are plowed in the check;
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. It is hardware against
hardware, books against books, chand-
lery against chandlery, imported arti-
Gle against imported article. A
Thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores. Never such advan-
tage of light, never such variety of
assortment, never SO much splendor
of show-window, never SO much
adroitness of salesmen, never SO
much acuteness of advertising, and
amid all these seventies of rivalry in
business, how many men break down!
Oh, the burden on the shoulderi 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. do not
believe word of it. The vast multi
tude of these business men are toiling
on for others. To educate their chill
dren. to put the wing of protection
over their households, to have some
thing left so that when they pass out
of this life their wives and children
viii not have TO go the poorhouse-that
is the way translate this energy in
the street and store-the vast majority
of that energy. Grip, Gouge q Co.,
do not do all the business
Some of us remember when
the Central America was coming home
from California, it was wrecked. Pres
ident Arthurs father-in-law was the
heroic captain of that ship, and went
down with most of the passengers.
Some of them got Off into Efe-boats,
but there was young man returning
from California who had bag Of gold
in his hand; and as the last boat sailed
off from the ship that was to 60 down,
that man shouted to comrade in the
boat, "Here, John, catch this gold;
there are three thousand dollars; take
it home to my oA mother, it will make
her comfortable in her last days" Grip,
Gouge & Co. do not do all the business
of the world. All! my friend,
do you say that God does
not GRE anything about your
worldly business? l tell you God
knows more about it than you do. He
knows all your perplexities; He knows
what mortgage is about to foreclose;
He knows what note you can not 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 yard-stick down to the sale
of the last yard of ribbon. He will
help you to discharge all your duties
He is'going to see you through. When
loss comes, and you find your property
down by your ledger, and read of the
eternal possessions that will come TO
you through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And when your business partner be-
trays you, and your friends turn against
you, just take the insulting letter, put
1t down on the table, put your Bible
beside the insulting letter. and then
read of the friendship of Him who
''sticketh closer than a brother"
A young accountant In New York
City got his accounts entangled. He
knew he was honest, and yet he could
not make his accounts como out right,
and he toiled at them day and night
until he was nearly frenzied. II
seemed by those books that something
had been misappropriated, and he knew
before 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 and go
into Punishment from the business cs-
tablishment. He went over there very
early, before there was any body in the
place, and he l1nelt down at the desk
and said: ooh, Lord, thou knowest i
have tried to be honest, but cannot
make these things come out right!
Help me to-day--help me this morn
ingw The young man arose, and hardly
knowing why he did SO, opened a book
which lay on the desk, and there was a
leaf containing line of figures which
Explained everything. in other words,
he cast his burden upon the Lord, and
the Lord sustained him. Young man,
do you hear that? Oh, yes, God has a
sympathy with anybody that is in any
kind of TOLL He knows how heavy is
the hod of bricks that the workman car
ries mp the ladder of the wall; he hears
the pickaxe OF the miner doYn in the
coal shaft; he knows how Strong the
tempest strikes the sailor at masthead;
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