Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-06-11
THE BURDEN BEARER.
TEXT OF DIR. TALMAGE'S SER
MON LAST SUNDAY.
The World Would Ise Much Improved
If People Lived Up to the bible
An Eloquent Discourse by the Emil
nent Brooklyn Divine.
"cast thy burden upon the Lord and

"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and
He shall sustain thee"
David was here taking his own
medicine. If anybody had on him
heavy weights, David had them, and
yet out of his own experience he adj
viscs you and me as to the best way of
getting rid of burdens. This is world
of burden bearing. Coming into the
house of prayer there might be no sign
of sadness or sorrow, but where is the
man who has not a conflict? Where IS
the soul that has not a struggle? And
there is not day of all the year when
my text is not gloriously appropriate,
and there is never an audience assem-
bled on the planet where the text does
not fit the occasion: Cast thy burden
upon the Lord. aud he shall sustain
thee"
There are a great many men who
have business burdens. When we see
man harred and perplexed and an
noycd in business life, we are apt to
say; ''He ought not to have attempted
not be to blame at all. When n man
what will be its outgrowths, what will
be it's roots, what will be its 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
cell, when to trust, and to what amount
of credit, what will be the effect of this
inn nf oh Nyil
be the effect of that loss of crop, and II
thousand other questions pcrplcX bust
ness men, until the hair Is Silvercd and
deep wrinkles are plowcd in the check;
and the stocks go up by the mountains
and go down by the valleys, and they
are at their wits ends. and staggcr like
drunken men.
There never has been time when
there have been such rivalries in bust
ness as now. 1t is hardware against
hardware, books against books, chand-
lery against chandlcry, imported arti-
Gle against imported article. A
thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores. Never such advan-
tage of light, never such variety of
assortment, never so much splcndor
of Show-window, never so much
much acutcHcSs of advertising, and
amid all these seventies of rivalry in
business. how many men break down!
Oh, the burden on the shoulder. oh,
the burden ON the heart! You hear
That ii is avaricc which drives these men
of business through the street, and that
is the commonly accepted idea. ! do not
believe word of it. The vast multi
tudc of these business men are toiling
on for Others. 70 educate their chill
drcn, to put the wing of protection
over their households, to have some
thing left 50 that when they pass out
of this life their wives and children
will not have to go the poorhouse-that
i the way | translate this energy in
the street and store-thc vast majority
of that energy. Grip, Gouge IL Co.,
do not do all the business.
Some of us remember when
the Central America was coming home
rom California, it was wrecked. Pres
ident Arthur's father-in-law was the
heroic captain of that ship, and went
down with most of the passengers.
Some of them got off into life-boats,
hut there was a young man returning
from California who had a bag of gold
IN his hand and as the last boat sailed
off from the ship that was to go down,
chat man shouted to comrade in the
boat, 'IIerc, John, catch this gold;
there are three thousand dollars; take
it home to my old mother, it will make
her comforta Bile in her last days" Grip,
Gouge & Co. do not do all the business
of the world. All! my friend,
do you say that God does
not crre anything about your
worldly business? tell you God
knows more about it than you do. He
knows all your perpleXitics; lie knows
what mortgagee is about TO foreclose:
lie knows what note you can not pay;
He knows what unstable goods you
have on your shelves; lie knows all
your trials, from the day you took hold
of the first yard-stick down TO the sale
of the last yard of ribbon. He will
help you to discharge all your duties.
He is going to see you through. When
loss comes, and you find your property
| going, just take this Book and put it
down by your ledger, and read of the
eternal possessions that will come to
/ you through our Lord Jesus Christ.
/ And when your business partner be-
/ trays you, and your friends turn against
| you, just take the insulting letter, put
/ it down on the table, put your Bible
/ beside the insulting letter. and then
read of the friendship of Him who
''sticketh closer than brother"
A young accountant in New York
| City got his accounts entangled. He
| knew he was honest, and yet he could
/ not make his accounts come out right,
and he toiled at them day and night
until he was nearly frenzicd. 1t
seemed by those books that something
! had been misappropriated, and he knew
before God he was honest. The last
day came. lie knew if he could not
that day make his accounts come out
right, he would go into disgrace and &c
into Punishment from the business es,
Enlistment. lie went over there very
| early, before there was any body in the
place, and he llnelt down at the desk
and said: sob, Lord, thou knowest
have tried to be honest, but | cannot
make these things come out right
Help me tO-day-help me this morn
| ing," The young man arose, and hardl J
knowing why he did so, opened bool
which lay on the desk, and there was !;
leaf containing a line of figures which
explained everything. In other words
he cast his burden upon the Lord, anC
the Lord sustained him. Young man
do you hear that? Oh. yes, God has {
| sympathy with anybody that is in any
kind of toll! He knows how heavy j!
the hod of bricks that the workman car
| i.ies IN the ladder OF the wall: he hear