The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-06-18
BURDEN BEARING
Talmage Tells His Congregation How
to Get Rid Of Their Heavy
Loads.
The Remedy Prescribed Is to "Cast
Thy Burden on the
Lord"

BROOKLYN N. Especial The sub
ject of DR.. Talmage's sermon was
"The Burden Bearer" and his text
Psalm w., %: Cast they burden up
on the Lord, and he shall sustain
thee" He said:
This is a world of bearing.
Coming into the house of prayer there
may be no sign of sadness or sorrow,
but where is the man who has not a
conflict? And there is not day OF all
the year when my text is not appro-
pirate, and there is never an audience
assembled on the planet where my
text does not fit the occasion. sCast
thy burden upon the Lord, and he
shall sustain thee" If man has not
a burden on this shoulder, he has a
burden on the other shoulder. Oh,
my friends, what we want is a practi-
cal religion. The religion people have
is so high you cannot reachit.
There are a great many men who
have business burdens. When we see
a man harried and perplexed and an
noyed in business life, we are apt to
say; "He ought not to have attempt
ed 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 it's outgrowths,
and what will be it's roots, and what
will be it's branches. There is many
a man with keen foresight and large
business faculty who has been flung
into the dust by unforeseen circumstan-
ces 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 in
vention of machinery, what will be the
effect of that loss of crop, and a thou
sand other questions perplex business
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.
there have been such
RIVALRIES IN BUSINESS -....
as now. 1t is hardware against hard
ware, books against books, chandlery
against chandlery, imported article
against imported article. A thousand
stores in combat with another thous-
and stores. Never such advantage of
light, never such variety of assert
ment, never. SO much splendoro of show
window, never so much adroitness of
statesmen, never so much acuteness of
advertising, and amid all these sever
ties OF rivalry in business, how many
men break down! You hear that it is
avarice which drives these men of
business through the street, and that
is the commonly accepted idea. I do
not belieye a word of it. The vast
multitude OF these business men are
toiling on for others. To educate
their children, to put the wings of pro-
lection over their households, to have
something left so when they pass out
OF this life their wives and children will
not have to 60 to the poorhouse-th
is the way translate this energy in
the street and store-the vast major
ity of that energy. -
Grip, Gouge & Co. do not do all the
business in the world. All! my friend,
do you say t hat God does not care
anything about y our worldly business?
I tell you God knows more about it
than you DO, He knows all your per-
plexltles; 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 yard-stick,
down to the sale of the last yard of
ribbon, and the God who elped David
to be king, and who helped Daniel to
be prime minister, and who helped
Havelock to be a soldier will help YOU
to discharge your duties,
There are a great many who have a
weight of
.. PERSECUTION AND ABUSE
upon them. Sometimes society gets a
grudge against a man. All his motives
are misinterpreted and his good deeds
are deprecated. With more virtue
than some OF the honored and ap
plauded, he runs against railery and
sharp criticism. When a man begins
to go down, he has not only the force
OF natural gravitation, but a hundred
hands to help him in the precipita-
ton. Men are prosecuted for their
virtues and their successes. The
character sometimes is 50 lustrous
that the weak eyes of envy and ZEAL
ousy cannot bear to look at it.
The world always has had a cross
between two thieves for the one who
comes to save it. High and holy en-
terprise has always been followed by
abuse. The most sublime tragedy Of
self-sacrifice has come to burlesoue.
The graceful gait of virtue is ALWAYS
followed by grinace and travesty.
The sweetest strain of poetry ever
written has come to ridiculous paro.
dy, and as long as there are virtue
and righteousness in the world. there
will be something for inquiry to grin
at. All along the line OF the ages. and
in all lands, the cry has been: s.Not
this man, but Barabbas. Now, Ba,
rabbas, was a. robber." And what
makes Representations of life worse, Is
that they come from people whom
you have helped, from those to whom
you have loaned money or have
started in business, or whom you res.