The Bossier banner., 1891-08-13
THE BURDENS OF LIFE.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage Tells How
to Bear Them.
The Troubles and Besetments of Life
Should be Shared with the Lord,
who Has Promised to Bear
Our Burdens.

jec1 OF The Burden Bearers was de-
livered by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage in
the new Brooklyn Tabernacle, from
the text:
Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He
shall sustain thee.-Psalm w., %.
David was here taking his own medi-
cine. If anybody had on him heavy
weights, David had them, and yet out
of his own experience he advises you
and me to the best way of getting rid
of burdens. This is a world of burden
bearing. Coming into the house of
prayer there may be no sign of sadness
or sorrow, bat where is the man who
has not conflict? Where is the soul
that has not struggle? And there is
not day of all the 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" In
the far east wells of water are so in
frequent that when a man owns a well
he has a property of very great value, and
sometimes battles have been fought for
the possession of one well of water;
but there is one well that every man
owns, deep well, a perennial well,
well of tears. If man has not bur-
den on this shoulder, he has a burden
on the other shoulder. The day l 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:
'fDe Witt it is always safe to trust God.
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. 1
remember the time, he said, ''when l
didn't know what to do, and saw
man on horseback riding up the farm
lane, aud he announced to me that l
had been nominated for the most lu.
crative Office in the gift of the people of
the county; and to shat office l was
elected, and God in that way met all my
wants, and / tell you It is always safe
to trust Him" Oh, my friends, what
we want is practical religion! The
religious people have it so high up you
can not reach it. l had a. frie nd who
entered the life of an evangelist He
gave up lucrative business in Chicago,
and he and his wife finally came to
severe want. He told me that in
the morning at prayers he said: ''Oh
Lord, Thou knOwest we have not
mouthful of food in the house! Help
me, help usp' And he started out on
the street, and a gentleman met him
and said: 81 have been thinking of you
for a good while. You know 1 am a
-four merchant; if you won't be offend
ed, would like to send you barrel of
Aour." My friend cast his burden on the
Lord, and the Lord sustained him. In
Che straits of Magellan, l have been
told, there is place where whichever
way a ship captain puts his ship he
finds the wind against him, and there
are men who have all their lives been
running in the teesh on the wind, and
which way to turn tley do not know.
Some of them may re here this morn
ing, and l address theyu face to face,
not perfunctorily but as one brother
talks to another brother: cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain thee"
/. There are great many men VINO
have business burdens. When we 5 zee
man harried and parplexed and annoy ed
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 man plants
business he does not know what will
be its outgrowths, what will be its
roots, what will be it's branches. There
is many man with keen foresight and
large business faculty who has been
flung into the dust by unforeseen cir
cumstances springlng 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 thls
new invention of machinery, what will
be the effect of tnat 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 stock 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 buli-
AcSo dS nONs@ ~ 10 ndItlNdT6
hardware, books against books, chan
alery against chandlery, imported ar
ticles against imported articles. A
thousand stores in combat with another
Thousand stores. Never such advantage
If light, never such variety of assOrt-
thent, never so 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 it is avarice which drives
these men of business through the
street, and that is the commonly ac-
Eepted idea. do not believe word of
1t. The vast multitude of these busi-
ness men are toiling on for others. To
educate their children, to put the wing
of protection over their households to
have something left, so when they pass
out of this life their wives and chill
dren will not have to 90 to the poor