The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-12
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A DISCOURSE ON THE BURDENS OF
LIFE ENFORCING THE TEXT, Cast
THY BURDENS UPON THE LORD AND
he SHALL SUSTAIN THEE"
There are Fewer Miracles Because There
Is Less Faith.


Is Less Faith.
BROOKLYN n. Y, June S.-The sub
ject of DIR. Tslmage's sermon yesterday
morning was "The Burden Bearer"
and his text psalm iv, -: Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and He shall
sustain thee"
David was here taking his own medi-
cine. If ANYBODY had on him heavy
weights. David had them, and vet out
of his OWE experience he advised you
and me as to the best way of getting rid
of burdens. This is world of burden
bearing. Coming into the house of
prayer there may be no sign of sadness
and sorrow, but where is the man who
has not conflict? Where is the soul
that has not struggle? And there Is
not day in the whole year when my
text is not gloriously 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 He shall sustain thee"
o, my friends, what we want is a
practical religion. The religion people
have is so high up YOU can not reach it.
In the straits of Magellan l have been
told there is place where, whichever
way ship 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 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
H., I
sustain thee"
First: There are great many men
who have business burdens. When we
see man harried and perpleXed and
annoyed In business life. We are apt to
say: He ought not to have ATTEMPTED
to carry so much" All! that man may
not be TO blame 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 a man with keen fore
sight and large business faculty who
has been flung into the dust by unfore-
seen circumstances springing upon him
from ambush. When to buy. when to
sell, when to trust and to u hat 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
Thousand other questions perplex busi-'
ness men until the hair is silvered and
deep 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
o, the burden on the shoulder, o.
the burden on the heart, You hear that
1t is avarice which drives these men OF
business through the street. and that
is the commonly accepted idea. | DO
not believe a word of it. The vast null
ntude OF these business men are tOiling
on for others. To educate their chill
dren, to put the wing of protection over
their households, to have something
left so when they pass out of this life
their wives and children will not have
to go to the poor hOTse-that is the
way l translate this energy in the
street and store-the vast majority of
that energy.
All! my friend, do you say that God
does not care anything about your
worldly business? tell you God knows
more about it than you do. He knows |
all your perpleXities: 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 tri-
ais, from the day You took hold of the |
first yard stick down to the sale of the /
last yard of ribbon, and the God who J
helped David to be king. and who |
helped Daniel to be prime minister. and |
who helped Hayelock to be a soldier. |
will help you TO discharge all your du-
ties. He Is going to see you through.
When loss comes. and YOU find YOUR |
property going, just take this book and |
put 1t down by your ledger. and read Of |
the eternal possessions that will come /
to you through the Lord Jusus Christ.
And when your business partner be-
trays you, and your friends turn against |
you, Just take the insulting letter, put |
1t down on the table. put your Bible be-
side the insulting letter, and then read |
OF the friendship of Him who sticketh
closer than a brother"
., yes, God has a sympathy with any
body that Is in any kind Of toll, He knows |
how heavy Is the hod of bricks that the |
workman carries up the ladder of the
wall: He hears the pickax of the miner
down IN the coal shaft: He knows how
the tempest strikes the sailor at mast
head: He sees the factory girl among
the splndles and knows how her arms
acne; he sees the sewing woman in the /
fourth story and knows how few pence
she gets for making a garment. and
louder than all the din and roar of the
city comes the voice Of q sympathetic
God: Cast thy burden upon the Lord
and He shall sustain thee
Second-Tbere are great many who
a n n r~gNTr - r |
ABUSE upon them Sometimes society
gets a grudge against a man. All his
motives are misinterpreted and his
good deeds are not appreciated. With
more virtue than some of the honored
and applauded, he runs only against
raillery and sharp criticism. When a
man begins to 60 down. he has not only
the force of natural graritation. but 100
hands to help him in the precipitation.
Men are prosecuted for their yir-
tues and their successes. TIE character
sometimes Is so luStrious that the weak
eyes OF envy and JEALOUSY cannot bear
TO look al II. 1t was their integrity thai
put Joseph in the pit. and Daniel in the
den, and Shadrach in the fire and sent
John the evangelist to desolate Patmos,
and Calvin to the castle of persecution.
and John Huss 10 the stake. and Korah
after Moses, and Saul after David. and
Herod after Christ. Be sure if Won :
have anything to do for church or state. '
and you attempt it with all your soul. I
The lightning will strike you.
The world always has had a cross
two thieves for the one who {
comes TO save it. High and holy en-
erprise has always been followed By ,
abuse. The most sublime tragedy of ,
elf sacrifice has come to burlesoue.
The graceful gait of virtue is ALWAYS
ollowed by grimace and travesty. The !
weetest strain of poetry every written ,