The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-06-12

Oh how few people there are complete
~ wenI Some of you, by dint of perse-
verance and care, have kept living to
this time; but how you have had to war
against physical ailments! Antedeiu-
VANS, without a medical college and
infrmary and apOthecary shop, multi-
piled their years by hundreds; but he
who has gone through the gauntlet OF
disease in our time, and has come to
seventy years of age, is hero worthy
OF palm
The world seems to be a great hospi-
tai, and you run against rheumatisms
and cOnsumptions and scrofulas and
neuralgias and scores of old diseases
baptized by new nomenclature o, how
heavy a burden sickness is. It takes
the color out Of the sky and the sparkle
out of the wave and the sweetness O0t
of the fruit and the luster out OF the
night. When the limbs ache, when the
respiration is painful, when the mouth
is hot, when the ear roars with un-
healthy distractions, how hard it is TO
be patient and cheerful and assiduOus.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord" Docs
your head ache? His wore the thorn.
Do your feet hurt? His were crushed of
the spikes. Is your side painful? His was
struck by the spear. Do you feel like
giving way under the burden? His
weakness gave way under a cross.
While you are in every possible way to
y
remember that more soothing than
anOdyne and more vitalizing than any
stimulant and more strengthening than
any tonic is the prescription of the
text: Cast thy burden upon the Lord
and He will sustain thee" We hear q
great deal of talk now about faith cure
and some people say it cannot be done
and it is a failure. I do not know but
the chief advance of the church is to be
in that direction Marvellous things
come to me day by day which makes
me think that if 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
mother wants her case mentioned to
! Mr.. Talmage." This was the case. He
said: my mother had a dreadful abb
| cess, from which she had suffered IN
| told agOnies. 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 abcess began Immediately
/ to be cured. She is entirely we'll now,
| and without any surgery" So that
| case has come to me, and there are
score of other cases coming to our ears
from all parts of the earth. o, ye who
are sick, go to Christ! o, ye who are
| worn out with agOnies of body, least
thy burdens upon the Lord and He
| will sustain thee"
Another burden some have to carry
| is the burden OF bereavement Ahi
these are the troubles that wear us out
| II we lose our property, by additional
| industry, perhaps, we may bring back
| the estranged fortune; if we lose our
! good name, perhaps by reformation of
morals we may achieve again re puta-
ton for integrity, but who will bring
back the dear departed? Alas! me for
| these empty cradles and these trunks
of childish toys that will never be used
| again. Alasi me for the empty chair
and the silence in the halls that will
never echo again to those familiar foot
steps. Alasi for the cry of widow
hood and Orphanage. What bitter
| Marahs in the wilderness, what
cities OF the dead, what long
black shadow from the wing of
death, what eyes sunl0en with grief,
| what hands tremulOus with bereave-
ment, what Instruments of music shut
now because there are no fingers to
| play on them! Is there no relief for
such souls? Ay, let the soul ride into
| the harbor Of my text
The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for re-
I viii not, I viii not desert to lite foes:
| That soul, though all hell shall endeavOr to
| shake,
I'n never, no never no never forsake.
| Then there are many who carry the
burden of sin. An, we all carry it un-
til 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
of the mask Of human defilement or
beat a drum that would bring up the
whole army of the worlds transpres-
siOns-the deception, the fraud and the
rapine and the murder and crime of all
the centuries! Ay, if I could sound the
trumpet OF the 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 en-
dure the sight. Sin. grim and dire, has
put its clutch upon the immortal soul,
and that clutch win never relax unless
it be under the heel OF Him who came
to destroy the works OF the devil.
o, to have mountain OF sin on the
soulI Is there no way to have the bur
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