The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-06-17
CAST THEM ON THE LORD.
CHRIST WILL HELP YOU BEAR YOUR
HEAVY BURDENS

mon That Appeals to the Business Man,
the Invalid, the Mourner aud to All
Humanity.
BROOKLYN, June lit IS no new
thing to the members Of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle church to have their pastors
emlnence acknowledged by the outside
world. But even they must have been
sratifed by the distinction conferred
apon him since last Sunday. In listen
ing to DR.. Talmage to-day, they were
listening to the chaplain of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company OF
Massachusetts,, in which Office be was
formally installed with due ceremony on
June l. The organization, which is two
hundred and fifty years old, and the
lineal descendant Of an English organl-
zation dating back to the beginning Of
the Sixteenth century. has had many
distinguished diyines as chaplains, and
the honor has always been highly appre-
ciated. The subject Of DR.. Talmage's
sermon this morning was The Burden
Bearer" and his text Psalm iv, %
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he
shall sustain thee"
THE SERMON.
David was here taking his own medl-
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 burden
bearing. Coming into the house ofpray-
or there may be no sign Of sadness or
sorrow, but where is the man who has
not a conflict. Where Is tie soul that
las 10. struggle? And there is not q
day of al the year when my text IS not
gloriously appropriate, aud there is nev-
er an audience assembled on the planet
where the text does not fl the occasion:
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and be
shall sustain thee" In the far east
wells of water are so infrequent that
when man owns well he has prop
erty of very great value, and sometimes
battles have been fought for the posses
sion of one well Of water; but there is
one well that every man owns-a deep
well, perennial well, well Of tears.
Ifa man has not a burden on this should.
er, he has burden on the other should
er.
The day left home to look after my
self and for myself, in the wagon my
.ather 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. have many time come
TO q crisis of difficulty. You may know
that, having been sick for fifteen years,
it was no easy thing for me to support
afamily; but always God came to the
rescue. remember the time," he said,
when didn't know what to de, and I
saw man on horseback riding up the
farm lane, and he announced to me that
I had been nominated for the most lu-
crative office in the Gift of the people Of
the county, and to that Office was elec-
ted, aud God in that way met all my
wants, and I tell you it is always safe to
trust him."
Oh, my friends, what we want is a
practical religion! The religion people
have is so high up you cannot reach it.
I had friend who entered the life Of an
evangelist. He gave up lucrative bus
mess IN Chicago, and he and his wife
finally came to severe want. He told
me that in the morning at prayers be
SAID: 80 Lord thou knowest we have
not mouthful of food in the house!
Help me; helpus!" 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 I am a
-four merchant; if you won't be offended,
l should like to send you barrel Of
6our.'
Nv friend cast his burden on the Lori,
and the Lord sustained him. In the
Straits of Magellan, I have been told,
there is place where whichever way
captain puts his ship he finds the wind
against him, and there are men who all
theirliv 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 morning, and I address them
face to face, not perfunctorily, but as
one brother talks to another brother.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and
be shall sustain thee"
THE BUSINESS MANS BURDEN.
Fwst-There are great many men
who have business burdens. When we
see man harrled and perpiexed and an
moved in business life we are apt to say,
HE ought not to have attempted to car
ry so much.'' All. that man may not
be to blame al all! When man plants
business be 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 foresight and
large business faculty who has been
flung into the dust by unforeseen CIR
cumstances springipg upon him fSom
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 ofmachinery, what will be the
effect OF that loss of crop and thousand
other questions perplex business men un-
i'll the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles
are plowed IN the cheek, and the stocks
COUP by the mountains and 60 down by
the valleys, and they are at their wits
ends and stagcer like drunken men.
There never has been time when
there have been such rivalries in busi-
ness as now. 1t IS hardware against
hardware, books against books, chand'
lery against chandlery, imp rted article:
against imported article. a thousand
stores in combat with another thousand
stores. Never such advantage Of light,
never such variety Of assortment, never
so much splendor Of show window, ney-
er so much adroitness OF salesmen, neV-
er so much acu,eness of advertising. and
amid all the seventies Of riva'ry in busi-
ness 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 accented idea I do not