Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
REV. DIR. TALMAGE..
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Burden Bearer"

he advises you and me as to the best way O.
getting rid of burdens. This is world o.
burden bearing. Coming into the house o.
prayer there may be no sign OF sadness OF
sorrow. but where is the man who has not q
conflict Where Is the soul that has not
struggle? And there Is not day Of all the
year when my text is not gloriOuslY apprO
PIRATE, and there Is never an audience as
sembled on the planet where the text doe:
not fit the occasion: Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and He shall sustain thee" In the
far east wells OF water are 50 infreQuent that
when a man owns well he has property OF
very great value and sometimes Lattles have
been fought for the possession of one we'll of
water; but there Is one well that every man
Owns-a deep we'll, a perennial well, a well
of tears. If a man has not a burden on this
shoulder, he has burden on the other shout
der
The day | left home to look after myself
and for myself, in the wagon my father sat
driving, and he said that day something
which has kept with me all my life: 'Da
Witt, it is always safe to trust Col. [ have
many time come to a crisis of difficulty
You may know that, having been sick for
fifteen years. it was no easy thing for me to
support family; but always God came to
the rescue. L remember the time" he said,
''when didn't know what to do, and 1 saw
a 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 tle people of the county, and to
that office l was elected, and God in that
way met all my wants, and tell you it is
always safe 10 trust Him.
Oh, my friends what we want is a practi-
cal religion. The religion people have is so
high up you cannot reach it. In the Straits
of Magellan. 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 their lives have been running in
the teeth of wind, and which way to turn
they do not know Some of them may be
here this morning, and [ address them face
to face, not pertunctoriiy, but as one brother
talks to another brother, Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee"
First-There are a great many men who
have business burdens. When we see man
harried and perplexed and annoyed in busi-
ness life we are apt to say: 'He ought not
to have attempted to carry SO much" All,
that man may not be to Llame at all! When
a man plants a business he does not know
what will be its Outgrowths what will be its
roots, what will be its branches. There is
many man with keen foresight and large
business faculty who has been flung into the
dust by unforeseen circumstances springing
upon him from 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 Of machinery, what will
be the effect of that loss Of crop and a thou
sand other questions perplex business men
uubiI Tie udlI Is SlINeE6u anu uSSp Wrinkles
are plOwed in the cheek, 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 business as now.
1t is hardware against hardware, books
against books, chandlery against chandlery,
imported article against imported article.
A thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores Never such an advantage
OF light, never such a variety OF assortment.
never much splendOr of show window,
never so much adrOitneSS of statesmen, never
so much acuteness of advertising, and amid
all the seventies of rivalry in business how
many men break down, Oh, the burden on
the shoulder, Oh, 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 accepted idea. l
do not believe word of it.
All. my friend, do you say that God does
not care anything about your worldly bust
ness2 l tell you God knows more about il
than you do. He knows all your perplexi-
ties: He knows what mortgage is about to
foreclose; He knows what note you cannot
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
yardstick down to the sale of the last yard
of ribbon, and the God who helped David TO
be king, and who helred Daniel to be prime
minister, and who helped Havelock to be a
soldier, will help you to discharge all your
duties. He Is going to see you through.
When loss comes, and you find your prop
ertv going, just take this Book and put it
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 betrayS you, and your
TRENDS turn against you, just take the in
sultlng letter, put it down on the table put
your Bible beside the insulting letter, and
Then RAD of ba VII lei
'sticketh closer than brother"
A young accountant in New York City got
his accounts entangled. He knew he was
honest, and Yet he could not make his &C
counts come out right, and he toiled at them
day and night until he was nearly frenzied
1t seemed by those books that something
had bsen miSapprOpriated and he knew be-
tore God he was honest. The last day came
be knew II he could not that dav make his
accounts come out right he would 90 into
disgrace and go into Punishment from the
business establishment. He went over there
very early, before there was ANYBODY in the
place, and he knelt down at the desk and
said: .''Oh, Lord, Thou knowest I have tried
to be honest, but cannot make these thinos
come ont right! Help me to-day-help me
this mornings
The young man arose and hardly KNOWING
why he did so opened book that Law on the
desk, and there was leaf containing a line
OF figures which explained everything In
other words, he cast his burden up0n the
Lord and the Lord sustained him. Young
man, do you hear that? Oh, yes: God has
sympathy with anybody that is in any kind
OF toll! He knows how heavy is the hod of
bricks that the workman carries 10 the lad
der OF the wall; He hears the Uickax OF the
miner down the coal shaft He knows how
strong the tempest strikes the sailor at mast
mead; He sees the factory girl amolr the
splndIes AMI knows how her arms ache: He
sees the sewing woman in the fourth story
ana knows now few pence she gets for max