The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-06-18
VOL. Xxx.
CAST THEM ON THE LORD.
CHRIST WILL HELP YOU BEAR YOUR
HEAVY BURDENS

mon That Appeals to the Business Man,
the Invalid, tho Mourner aud to All
Humanity.
BROOKLYN, June 1T Is no new
thing to the members Of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle church to have their pastors
emnencc acknowledged by the outside
world. But even they must have been
gratilicd by the distinction conferred
upon him since last Sunday. In LISTEN
ing TO DIR. Talmage to-day, they were
listening to the chaplain of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company of
Massachusetts, i'll which Office he was
formally Installed with due ceremony on
June /. The organization, which is two
hundred and fifty years old, and the
lineal descendant of an English or9an-
Zatlon dating back to the beginning Of
the Sixteenth century. has had many
distinguished divines as chaplains, and
the honor has always been highly apprc-
clatcd. The subject OF DR.. Talmagc's
sermon this morning was 'Thc 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 medi-
cine. If anybody had on him heavy
weights, David had them, and vet out
Oi his own experience he advises YOU
aud me rs to the best way Of getting rid
"f burdens. This is world of burden
bcanny. Coming into the house OF pray
er there may be no si"n Of sadness or
sorrow, but where is the man who has
not conflict? Where IS Tie soul that
has lot struggle: And there is not a
day OF all the year when my text Is not
gloliously appropriate, and there is ncv-
er an audience assembled on the planet
where the text does not lit the occasion:
Cast thy burden upon the Lord. and he
shall sustain thee" In the far cast
wells OF water are SO inlrcqucnt that
when man owns Il well he has prop
erty OF very great value, aud 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, a perennial well. a well Of tears.
liza man has nos Il 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
father sat driving, and he said that day
my life: "Dc Witt, it is always safe to
trust God. | have many time come
to crisis of difficulty. You may know
that, having been sick for fifteen years,
1t was no easy thing for me to support
family; but always God came TO the
rescue. | remember the time" lie said
"when | didn't know what to do, and |
saw man on horseback riding up the
farm lane, and he announced to me that
L had been nominated for the most lu-
cratlve office in the Gift of the people of
the county, and to that Office | was cleo
ted, aud 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 a
practical religion! The religion people
have is so high up you cannot reach it..
l had friend who entered the life OF an
evangelist. lie gave upa lucrative bus
mess IN Chicago, and he and his wife
inally came to severe want. lie told
me that in the morning at prayers he
SAID: 30 Lord thou knowest we have
not mouthiul of food in the house!
Help me; helpus!" And he started out
on the street, and gentleman met him
and said: II have been thinking of you
tor good while. You know | am a
flour merchant; if you won't be offended.
| should like to send you barrel of
hour.''
My friend cast his burden on the I.or.!, ,
and the Lord sustained him. In the
Straits of Magellan, have been told.
there is place where whichever way a
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 thtm NAV be
here this morning, and | address them
lace to face, not pcriunctorily, but as
one brother talks TO another brother.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord. and
he shall sustain thcc.'
THE BUSINESS MANS HURDEN.
First-Therc arc great many men
who have business burdens. When we
see man harrcd and pcrpicxcd and an.
nOycd in business life we are ant to say.
"lIc ought not to have attempted to car
ry 80 much." All. that man may not
be to blame at all! When aman plants
q business he does not know what will
be Its OntgrOwths. what will he its roots.
what VIII be its branches. There is
many man wit. keen foresight aud
large business faculty who has been
flung INTO the dust by unforeseen cr.
cumstances springrg upon hiu i@om
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 ofmachlncry, what will be the
cliect OF That loss OF crop and Il thousand
other questions pcrplcx business men un-
I'll the hair is silvcrcd and deep wrirk!cs
are piowed IN the check, and The stocks
go up by the mountains and 90 down by
the valleys, and they are at their Wits
ends and stagGcr like drunken men.
There never has been Il time when
there have been such rivarcs in bust
ness as now. 1t Is hardware against
hardware, books against books, chand
lery against chandlcry, imp ,rtcd 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, new
cr so much alr0itnpss of Soloanon n,,