Connecticut western news., 1891-06-10
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
REV. DR. TALMAGE BREACHES ON
 THE BURDEN BEARER.

His First Discourse Since He Was Made
 Chaplain of the Ancient and Honor
 able Artillery Company of Massachu-
 setts.
 BRooKLYN, June 7.-It Is no new thing to the members of the Brooklyn Tabernacle church to have their pas tors eminence acknowledged by the outside world. But even they must have been gratif1ed by the distinction conferred upon him since last Sunday. In listening to Dr. Talmage today they were listening to 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 1. 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 chaplains, and the honor has always been highly appreciated. The subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon this morning was "The Burden Bearer" and his text Psalms lv. %: Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
 DAv1D's HARD EXPERIENCE
 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 as to the best way of getting rid of burdens. This is 8 world of bur den bearing. Coming into the house of prayer there may be no sign of sad ness or sorrow, but where is the man who has not conflicti Where is the soul that has not a struggle9 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 infrequent that when a man owns a well he has a property of very great value, and sometimes battles have been water; but there is one we'll that every man owns, a deep we'll, a perennial well, a we'll 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 myself, in the wagon my father sat driving, he said that day something which has kept with me all my life; De Witt, it is always safe to trust God. l have many time come to a crisis of difficulty. You may know that, having been sick for fifteen years, it was ne easy thing for me to support family; but always God came to the rescue. remember the time, he said, when didn't know what to do, and l saw a man on horseback riding up the farm lane, and 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 I 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 religionl The religion people have is so high up you cannot reach it. have friend who entered the life of an evangelist. He gave up lucrative business in Chi cago, and he and his wife finally came to severe want. He told me that in the morning at prayers he said: 70 Lord, thou knowest we have not a mouthful of food in the housel Help me, help usl"
 And he started out on the street, and gentleman met him and said: II have been thinking of you for good while. You know l am a flour mer- chant; if you won't be offended l should like to send you barrel of four" My friend cast his burden on the Lord, and the Lord sustained him. In the Straits of Magellan, 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 burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
 BUSINESS BURDENS
 First-There are a 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" Ahl that man may not be to blame at all When a man plants business he does not know what will be it's outgrowths, what will be its roots, what will be it's branches There is many 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 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 thousand other questions perplex business men. until the hair is slvered 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 never has been time when there have been such rivalries in busi- ness as now It is hardware against hardware, books against books, clland. lery against cllandlery, imported arti cle against imported article. thous- and stores in combat with another