The Red Cloud chief., 1891-06-19
THE BURDEN BEARER.
Rev. DR.. Talmago Discoursee on
Worldly Struggles.
The Lords Help Ever Ready to the Needy
Tho Struggles Of Men In Their
Journey Through LAfs-Confort
In An B~ereovemeat

In a late vernon at Brooklyn Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage took for his subject:
"The Burden Bearer" and his text was
from Psalms ". %: 'Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and He shall sustain
thee" He said:
David was here taking his own medi-
cine. II anybody had on him heavy
weights, David had them, and yet out
of his w experience he advised you
and me as to the best way Of getting
rid of burdens This is a world Of bur
den bearing. Coming into the house
of prayer there may be no sign Of sad
ness and sorrow, but where is the man
who has not a conflict? Where il the
soul that has not q struggle? And there
is not a day 10 all the year when my
text is not g~loriously 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 lie shall sus-
of water are Sc ~infrequent that when q
nan owns a well he has q property of
very great value, and sometimes bat
ties have been fought for the possession
of one well Of water; but there il one
well that every man owns a deep well,
perennial well, a well Of tears. IL .
nan has not q burden on this shoulder
he has "A burden on the other shoulder.
The day ! left home to loOk after my
self and for myself, in the wagon my
father sat driving. and ne sale that day
Snrnosh;p~ xrh;uh h,u la-S 18th -. Ill
my life: "De Witt, il 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 70 support
family; but always God came TO the
rescue"
81 remember the time" he said,
when | didn't know what to do, and I
saw n 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 hat Office I was
elected, and God in that way met all
my wants, and ] tell you il Ii always
safe to trust Him." o, my friends,
what we want is a practical religion.
The religion people have is so high up
you cannot each it.
had a friend who entered the life of
al evangelist. lie gave up a lucrative
business in Chicago. and he and his wife
finally came to sever want. He told
me that i'm the morning at v he
said: 20, Lord, thou knowest we
have not a mouthful Of food In
the house,! Help me, help u.s."
And he started out on the street and
n gentleman met him and said: 81 have
been thinking Of you for a good while.
You know i am q four merchant. IL
you won't he 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 a place where, whichever
way a ship captain puts his ship, he
finds the wind against him, and there
are men who all their lives have been
running i'm 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 lie shall
sustain thee"
First-Thcre are n great many men
who have business burdens. When we
see a man hurried and perplexed and
annoyed in business life, we are apt to
say: "He ought not to have attempted
Ia carry 81 much" All. that man may
not be to blame at all. When a man
plants n business he docs not know
what will be its ~outgrowths, what will
I've il roots, what will bc its branches
There is many n man with keen fore
sight and large business faculty who
mas been flung into the dust by unfore-
seer circumstances %springing upon him
from ambush. When to buy, when Ia
sell. when 20 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, aud a
thousand other questions pcrplex bust
ness men until the hair is silvered and
deep wrinkles are plowed in h check;
and the stocks go up by the mountains
and go down by the valleys, and they
are nj their wits ends, and struggle
like drunken men.
There never has been a time when
there have been such rivalrics in busi-
ness rs now. 1t is hardware against
hardware. books against books, chand-
lery against chandlcry. imported article
against imported article. A thousand
stores in combat with another thousand
stores. Never such advantage of light,
never such a variety of assortment,
never so much splcndor of show win
dow. never SO much adroitness of sales
men, never SO much acuteness OF advcr-
Using. and amid all these seventies of
riyalry /, business, how many men
break down! o, the burden on the
shoulder, q, the burden on the heart,
You hear that IL is avarice which drives
these men Of business through the
street. and that Is the commonly ac-
cepted idea do not believe a word OF
IL The vast multitude Of these bust
ness men are toiliug 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
and children will not have to go 70 the
poor house-that is the way l translate
this energy in the street and store-the
vast majority of that energy. Grip,
Congo & Co. do not do all the business
Some of us remember when the Cen
trail America was coming home from
California il was wrecked. President
Arthur's father-in-law was h heroic
CAPTAIN of that ship, and vent down
with most of the passengers. Some of
them got off into the boats but there
was a young man returning from Cali
fornia who had a bag of gold in his
hand. and rs the last boat showed of
from the ship that was to go down, that
nan shouted to q comrade in the boat:
Here, John. catch this gold: there arc
S. eco; take it home to my mother. il
will make her comfortable in her last
DAVIS" Grip. Gouge & Co. do not do all
the business of the world.
An, nv friend, do you say that God
does not care any thing about your
worldly business? / tell you God