The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-06-10
low little we have q endure compared

Now If you have come across ill-tr
rient let me tell you you are In excel
lent company Christ and Luther and
Calico and Columbus and John Jay
and Josiah Quincy and thousands OF
men and women. the best spirits OF
earth and heaven. Bulge not one inch,
though all hell wreals upon you It's
vengeance and you be made tarset Tor
devils to shoot at Do you not think
Christ knows all about persecution?
Was He not Missed at? Was He not
struck on the cheek? Was he not pur-
sued all the days Of His life? Did they
not expectorate upon him? Or 10 put
II in Bible language, They spit upon
Him. And can not He understand
what persecution is? Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and He shall sustain
thee"
Third-There are others who carry
great burdens of physical ailments.
When sudden sickness has come, and
6erce choleras and malignant fevers
take the castles Of life by storm, we APP
peal TO God; but in these chronic all
ments which wear out the strength day
after day, and week after week, and
year after year, how little resprting 70
God for solacel Then people depend
upon their tones and their plasters and
their cordials rather than upon heavenly
stimulants. o, how few people there
are completely well! Some OF you, by
dint of perseverance and care, have
kept living TO this time. but how you
have had to war against physical all
mentsl Antediluvians, without medical
college and infrTnary and apothecary
shops, multiplied their years by hum
dreds; but he who has gone through the
gauntlet of disease in our time, and has
come to seventy years OF age, Is q hero,
worthy Of a palm.
The world seems to be a great hos
pital, and you run against rheumatistns
and consumptions and scrofulas and
neuralgias and scores of old diseases
baptized by new nomenclature. o, how
heavy burden sickness Isl II takes
the color out OF the sky and the sparkle
out of the wave and the sweetness out
of the fruit and the luster out Of the
night When the limbs ache when the
respiration is painful, when the mouth
is so hot, when the ear roars with un-
healthy distinctions, how hard is II TO
be patient and cheerful and assiduousl
Cast thy burden upon the Lord"
Does your head ache? His wore
the thorn. Do your feet hurt? His
were crushed OF the spikes. Is you
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 try to restore
your physical vigor, you are TO remem-
Der that more soothing than any ano-
dvne. and more vitaliYing than any
stimulant, and more strengthening than
any tonic is the prescription of the
text: Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
and lie shall sustain thee" We hear q
great deal of talk now about faith cure,
and some people say IL can not be done
and IL Is a failure do not know but
that the chief advance of the church is
TO be in that direction. Marvellous
things come TO me day by day which
make me think that II the age Of mira
cles is past, IL Is because the faith OF
miracles is past.
A prominent merchant of New York
said 10 a member Of my family: my
mother wants her case mentioned to
Mr.. Talmage." This was the case. He
said: my mother had dread abscess,
from which she had suffered untold
agonies, and all surgeries had been ex-
hausted upon her, and worse and worse
she grew until we called in few Chris
tian friends and commenced TO pray
about It, We commended her case TO
God, and her abscess began Immediate
ly TO be cured. She Is entirely well
now, and without lt;,ife and without
- ~ fltut huC .frs. a
to me, and there are score of other
cases coming TO our ears from all parts
OF the earth. 0, ye who are sick, go TO
Christi o. We who are worn out with
agonies OF body. "cast thv burden upon
the Lord and lie shall sustain thceF
Another burden some have 10 carry is
the burden OF bereavement. All! these
are the troubles that wear us ont. II
we lose our property, by additional in
dustry perhaps, we may bring back the
estranged fortune; II we lose our good
name, perhaps by reformation OF morals
we may achieve again reputation for in
tegrity; but who VII bring back the
dear departed? Alas, me for these emp
ty cradles and these trunks of childish
toys that will never be used again.
A1as me for the empty chair and the
silence in the halls that will never echo
again TO those familiar footsteps. Alas!
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 in
struments OF music shut now because
there are no fingers TO play on themi
Is there no relief for such souls? Aye,
let the soul ride into the harbor OF my
text.
The soul that on Jesus hath leaued for repose,
will not, win not desert 70 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
ancient tomb where the lights were per-
petually 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 at the coronation Of an
other soul come home TO glory.
Then there are many who carry the
burden Of sin. All, we all carry II until
In the appointed way that burden is
lifted. We need no Bible TO prove that I
the whole race is ruined. What spec
tacle II would be n we could tear of
the mask OF human defilement or beat
a drum that would bring up the whole
army ofthe worlds transgressions-the
deception, the fraud, and the rapine,
and the murder, and the crime OF all
the centuriesl Ay, II 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