The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-20


these chronic ailments which wear out the
strength day after day, and week after
week, and year after year, how little re-
sorting to God for solacei Then people de-
pend upon their tonics and their plasters
and their cordials rather than upon heav-
enly stimulants. Oh, how few people
there are completely welll Some of you, by
dint of perseverance and care, have kept
living to this time; but how you have had
to war against physical ailmentsl Ante
diluvians, without medical college and in
frmary and apothecary shop, multiplied
their years by hundreds; but he who has
gone through the gantlet of disease in our
time, and has come to seventy years of age,
is hero worthy of a palm
THE BURDEN OF ILLNESS.
The world seems to be great hospital,
and you run against rheumatisms and con-
sumptions. and scrofulas and neuralgias
and scores of old diseases baptized by new
nomenclature. Oh, how heavy burden
sickness isl 1t takes the color out of the
sky, and the sparkle out of the wave, and
the sweetness out of the fruit and the lus-
ter out of the night. When the limbs ache,
when the respiration is painful, when the
mouth is hot, when the ear roars with un-
healthy distractions, how hard it is to be
patient and cheerful and assiduousi Cast
thy burden upon the Lord.'' Does your
head ache? His wore the thorn Do your
feet hurt2 His were crushed of the spikes.
Is your side painfula His was struck by
the spear. Do you feel like giving way un-
der the burdeni His weakness gave way
under a cross.
While you are in every possible way to
try to restore your physical vigor, you are
to remember that more soothing than any
anodyne, and more vitalizing than any stim-
ulant, and more strengthening than any
tonic is the prescription of the text: "Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain thee.7 We hear great deal of
talk now about faith cure, and some people
say it cannot be done and it is failure.IoI
do not know but that the chief advance of
the church is to be in that direction. Mar
velous things come to me day by day
which make me think that if the age of
miracles is past it is because the faith of
miracles is past. A,.
A prominent merchant of New York
said to member of my family, Ny moth
erwants her case mentioned to Mr. Tai
mage" This was the case He said: my
mother had a dreadful abscess, from which
she had suffered untold agonies, and all
surgery had been exhausted upon her, and
worse and worse she grew until we called
in a few Christian friends and proceeded
to pray about it. We commended her case
to God, and the abscess began Immediately
to be cured She is entirely well now, and
without knife and without any surgery"
So that case has come to me, and there are
score of other cases coming to our ears
from all parts ofotbe earth. Oh, ye who
are sick, go to Christi Oh, We who are
worn out with agonies of body, Cast thy
burden upon the Lord. and he shall sus-
tain theep'
THE BURDEN OF BEREAVEMENT.
Another burden some have to carry, is
the burden of bereavement = Ahi these are
the troubles thatwear us out. II we lose our
property, by additional industry perhaps
we may bring back the iestranged fortune;
if we lose our good name, perhaps by
reformation of morals we may achieve
again reputation for integrity; but who will
bring back the dear departede Alas mel
for these empty cradles. aud these trunks
of childish toys that will never be used
again. Alas mel pforthe empty chair and
the silence in the halls that will never echo
again to- those: familiar footsteps. Alasl
for the cry of widowhood and erphanage.
Il What bitter Marahs. In the wilderness,
what cities Of the dead, what long black
shadow from the wing of death, what eyes
sunken with grief, what hands tremulous
with bereavement, what Instruments of
music shut now because there are no fin
gers to play on theml Is there no relief
for such soulsf Aye, let the soul ride into
the harbor of my text.
The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose
viii not, win not desert to its foes; -.
That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to
J ts3 shake, .sU istsl s.,c5s t.-.st-rf -
III never, no never. no never forsake.
Now. the grave is brighter than the an
cient tomb where the lights were perpetu-
ally kept burning. The SCARED feet of
him who was 1.-THE resurrection and the
life" are on the broken grave hillock, while
the voices of angels ring down the sky at
the coronation of another soul come home
to glory .a..,-
THE oNLI yCkE FOR SIN
Then there are many who carry the bur-
den of sin.s All, we all carry it until in
the appointed way, that burden is lifted
We need no Bible to prove that the whole
race is ruined. What a spectacle it would
be if we could tear off the mask of human
defilement, or beat a drum that would
bring up the whole army of the worlds
transgressions-the deception, the fraud,
and the rapine, and the murder, and the
crime of all the centuriesl Aye, if could
sound the trumpet of resurrection in the
soul of the best men in this audience, and
all the dead sins of the past should come
up, we could not endure the sight. Sim,
grim and dire, has put its clutch upon the
immortal soul, and that clutch wiHyneyer
relax unless it be under the heel of him
who came to destroy the works of the devil
Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the
soulI Is.there no way to, have the burden
moved? Oh, yes. "Cast thy burden upon
the Lord The sinless one came to take
the consequences of our sini And 1 know
he is in earnest. How4lo / know it?s By
the streaming temples and the streaming
hands rs he says, Come unto me all ye
who are weary and heavy laden, and will
give YOU srest.s WhyfwilI prodigals live
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