Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-08
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While you are in every possible way to
try to restore your physical vigor, you are
to remember that more soothing than any
anodyne, and more vitalizing than any slim
ulant, and more strengthening than any
tonic is the prescription of the text: "Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain thee" We hear a great deal of
talk now about faith cure, and some people
say it cannot be done and it is a failure. |
do not know but that the chief advance of
the church is to be in that direction. Mar
velous things come to me day by day
which make me think that il the age of
miracles is past it is because the faith of
miracles is past.
A prominent merchant of New York
said to a member of my family, my moth
err wants her case mentioned to Mr. Tai
mage" This was the case. He said: my
mother had dreadful abscess, from which
she had suffered untold agonies, and all
surgery had been exhausted upon her, and
worse and worse she grew until we called
in few Christian friends and proceeded
to pray about it, We commended her case
to God, and the abscess began Immediately
to be cured. She is entirely well now, and
without knife and without any surgery"
So that case has come to me, and there are
a score of other cases coming to our ears
from all parts of the earth. Oh, We who
are sick, go to Christi Oh, We who are
worn out with agonies of body, Cast thy
burden upon the Lord. and he shall sus-
tain theeW
THE BURDEN OF BEREAVEMENT.
Another burden some have to carry is
the burden of bereavement. All! these are
the troubles that wear us out. FIVE lose our
property, by additional industry perhaps
we may bring back the estranged fortunes;
if we lose our good name, perhaps by
reformation of morals we may achieve
again reputation for integrity; butwho will
bring back the dear departed? Alas mel
for these empty cradles and these trunks
of childish toys that will never be used
again. Alas mel for the empty chair and
the silence in the halls that will never echo
again to those familiar footsteps. Alasl
for the cry of widowhood and orphanage.
What bitter Marahs in the wilderness
what cities of the dead, what long black
shadow from the wing of death, what eyes
sunken with grief, what hands tremulous
with bereavement, what instruments of
music shut now because there are no fin
gers to play on thsm Is there no relief
for such souls2 Aye, let the soul ride into
the harbor of my text.
The soul that on Jesns hath leaned for renose
will not, | will not desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to
shake,
I'll never, no never, no never forsake.
Now, the grave is brighter than the an
cient tomb where the lights were perpetu-
ally kept burning. The SCARED feet of
him who was the resurrection and the
life" are on the broken grave hillock, while
the voices Of angels ring down the sky al
the coronation of another soul come home
to glory.
THE ONLY CURE FOR SIN.
Then there are many who carry the bur
den of sin. All, we all carry it until In
the appointed way that burden is lifted
We need no Bible to prove that the whole
race is ruined. What a spectacle it would
be If we could tear off the mask of human
defilement or beat a drum that would
bring up the whole army of the worlds
transgressions-the deception, the fraud,
and the rapine, and the murder and the
crime of all the centuriesl Aye, if l could
sound the trumpet of resurrection in the
soul of the best men in this audience, and
all the dead sins of the past should come
up, we could not endure the sight. Sin,
grim and dire, has put it's clutch upon the
immortal soul, and that clutch will never
relax unless it be under the heel of him
who came to destroy the works of the devil
Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the
soull Is there no way to have the burden
movedp Oh, yes Cast thy burden upon
the Lord" The sinless one came to take
the consequences of our sinl And know
he is in earnest. How do | know it? By
the streaming temples and the streaming
hands as he says, "Come unto me all we
who are weary and heavy laden, and / will
give you rest" Why will prodigals live
on swines' husks when the robe and the
ring, and the fathers welcome are ready
Why 90 wandering over the great Sahara
desert of your sin when you are invited to
the gardens of God, the trees of life and
the fountains of living waterS Why be
houseless and homeless forever when you
may become the sons and daughters of the
Lord God Almighty