Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-08
BEARING BURDENS.
REV. DR.. TALMAGgS SERMON AT TIE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE
he Talks About the Different Burdens the People
Are Called Upon to Bear in This Life.
The Comfort he Says, Is
Found in Christ

Special Tslsqr0ua to the Register.
BRooKLYN, n. Y, June Tt is no
new thing to the members of the Brook
lyn Tabernacle Church TO have their
pastors eminence acknowledged by the
outside world. But even they must
have been gratifed by the distinction
conferred upon him since last Sunday.
In listening TO DR.. Talmage to-day, they
were listening 10 the Chaplain OF the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com
pany OF Massachusetts,, in which office
he was formally installed with due cere-
mony on June l. The organization
which is two hundred and fifty years
old. and the lineal descendant OF an
English organization dating back TO the
beginning of the sixteenth century, has
had many distinguished divineS as chap
lains, and the honor has always been
highly appreciated. The subject OF DR..
Talmage's sermon this morning was
The Burden Bearer, and his text Psalm
1922: Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
and he shall sustain thee.
David was here taking his own medl-
cine. II anybody had on him heavy
weights, David had them, aud yet out
OF his own experience he advises you
and me as TO the best way Of getting rio
OF burdens. This is world OF burden
bearing. Coming into the house OF
PRAYER there may be no sign OF sadness
or sorrow, but where is the man VINO
has not a 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 mt the
occasion: Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and he shall sustain thee" In
the far East wells OF water are so
inireQuent that when man
owns well he has
property of very great value, and some
times battles have been fought for the
possession Of one well of water; but
there is one well that every man owns,
a deep WELL perennial well, well OF
tears. II 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 myself, in the
wagon my father sat driving, and he
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 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. / remember the time,
he said, when l didn't know
what TO do, and l saw man on horse
back riding up the farm lane, and he
announced TO me that l had been nom
mated 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 l tell
you il is always safe TO trust Him. y
Oh, my friends, what we want is Prac-
tical religion, The religion people have
is so high up you cannot reach it.
had friend 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: 80 Lord, Thou knoweSt we
have not mouthful of food in the
house! Help me, help uSr' And he
started out on the street, and a
gentleman met him and said: 81 have
been thinking of you for good while.
You know | am a flour merchant; II
YOU won't be offended l should like &c
send YOU a barrel of flour" My friend
cast his burden on the Lord, and the
Lord sustained him. In the Straits OF
Magellan, have been told, there is a
place where whichever way ship cap
tain 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 Il
turn they do not know. Some OF them
may be here this morning and l 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"
BUSINESS BURDENS.
First: There are great many mer
who have business burdens. When We
see a man harried and perplexed and an
moved in business life, we are aptto say
"He ought not TO have attempted &c
carry so much" Ali 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 man with keen foresight and
large business faculty who has been
nung into the dust by unforeseen cir
cumStanceS Springing upon him from
ambush. When 10 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
thousand other questions perplex bust
ness men, until the hair is Silvered and
deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek;
and the stocks go up by the mountains
and 60 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 busi-
ness as now. 1t is hardware against
hardware, books against books, chand-
lery 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 aSSort-
ment, never so much SplendOr OF
show window, never so much adroit-
ness Of statesmen, never so much acute
ness of advertising, and amid all these
seventies Of rivalry in business, how
many men break down. Oh, the burden
on the shoulders, 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 COM