Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-06-18
CAST THEM ON THE LORD.
CHRIST WILL HELP YOU BEAR YOUR
HEAVY BURDENS.

the Invalid. the Mourner and to All
Humanity.
RRooKLYN, June lit is no new thing
N the members of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
church TO have their pastors eminence ac
Snowledged by the outside world But
even they must have been grabified by the
distinction conferred upon him since last
sunday In listening to DIR. Talmage to
day. they were listening to the chaplain of
me Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com.
many of Massachusetts,, in which Office he
was formally Installed with due ceremony
On June / The organization, which is
two hundred and fifty years old, and the
lineal descendant of an English organiza-
tiou dating back to the beginning of the
Sixteenth century, has had many distin-
onished divines as chaplains. and the honor
has always been highly appreciated. The
subiect of DR.. Talmage's sermon this
morning was 1.-THE Burden Bearer" and
his text Psalm lv, 22-"Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
THE SERMON
David was here taking his own medicine.
II anybody had on him heavy weights,
David had them, and yet out of his own
experience he advises you and me as to the
best way of getting rid of burdens. This is
world Of burden bearing. Coming into
tbe house of prayer there may be no sign
of sadness or sorrow, but where is the man
who has not a conflict? Where is the soul
that has not a strugglei And there is not
aday of all the year when my text is not
uloriously appropriate, and there is never
H.. o..nV.1lal ~. eha ~, - .l.-.
the text does not fit the occasion; Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain thee" In the far east wells of wa
Ter are so infrequent that when a man
owns a well he has a property Of very great
value. and sometimes battles nave been
fought for the possession of one well of
water. but there is one well that every man
owns-a deep well, a perennial well. a well
Of tears. If a man has not a burden on
this shoulder, he has a burden on the other
shoulder
The day left home TO look after myself
and for mysel, in the wagon my father sat
driving, and be said that day something
which has kept with me all my life; DE
Witt, it is always safe to trust God. |
have many a time come to a crisis of diff.
Guilty. You may know that. having been
SICK for fifteen years. it was no easy thing
for me TO support a family; but always
God came to the rescue. remember the
time, he said. when ! didn't know what
TO do, and saw a man on horseback rid.
ing up the farm lane, Inc he announced to
me that had been nominated for the most
lucrative office in the gift of the people Of
the county, and to that office 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 a prac-
tcal %religionl The religion people have is
20 high up you cannot reach it. | had "A
friend who entered the life of an evange-
list. He gave up a 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; 20 Lord, thou
knowest we rave not a mouthful of food
In the housed Help me; help usi' And he
started out on the street. and a gentleman
met him aud said; IL nave been thinking
Of you for a good while. You know am
flour merchant. if you won't be offended,
SHOULD like to send you a barrel of flour"
My friend cast his burden on the Lord,
and the Lord sustained him. In the
Straits of Magellan, ! rave been told, there
isa place where whichever way a 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
morning, and | address them face to face,
not perfunctorily, but as one brother talks
to another brother, Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee
THE BUSINESS MANS burden
First-There are a great many men who
have business burdens. When we see a
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 foresight
and large business faculty who has been
dung into the dust by unforeseen circum-
stances 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 machin-
cry. what will be the effect of that loss OF
~SP anu a OuOu5dnN oSlcl 4Ncoti'h7 20
PICK business men until the hair is silvered
and deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek,
and the stocks go up by the mountains and
70 down by the valleys. and they are at
Their wits ends and stagger like drunken
men.
There never has been a time when there
cave been such rivalries in business as
eoE It is hardware against hardware,
books against books. chandlery against
ehandlery. imported article against i'm
ported article. A thousand stores in com
Ui with another thousand stores. Never
sueh advantage of light, never such vari-
~ OF assortment. never so much splendor
" show window, never so much adroite
uess OF statesmen. never so much acuteness
y advertising. and amid all the seventies
y rivalry in business how many men
yeak down. Oh. the burden on the
,neoulderl Oh. the burden on the hearti
iOu hear that it is avarice which drives
'nese men Of business through the street.
aha that Is the commonly accepted idea
20 not believe a word Of it.
The vast multitude of these business
men are toiling on for others. To educate
thelr children. TO put the wing Of protec-
eon over their households, to have some
thing left so when they Dass out OF TINS