The Forrest City times., 1891-06-12
THE BURDEN BEARER.
TEXT OF DR. TALMACE'S SER.
 MON LAST SUNDAY.
If People Lived Up to the Bible nent Brooklyn Divine.

! medicine. If anybody had on him heavy weights, David had them, and | yet out of his own experience he ad- vises you and me as to the best way of getting rid of burdens. This is q world | of burden bearing. Coming into the l house of prayer there might be no sign l of sadness or sorrow, but where is the ! man who has not 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. and he shall sustain | thee"
 | There are a great many men who have business burdens. When we see
 a man harried and perplexed and an- | moved in business life, we are apt to | say; ''IIe ought not to have attempted ! to carry so much" An! that man may | not be to blame at all. When man | plants a business he does not know what will be it's outgrowths, what will | be its roots, what will be its branches. | There is many a 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 a I thousand other questions perplex busi- | ness men, until the hair is silvered and | deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek; ! and the stocks go up by the mountains l and go down by the valleys, and they l are at their wits ends and stagger like I drunken men.
 There never has been a time when ! there have been such rivalries in busi- ! ness as now. It is hardware against | hardware, books against books, chand- l lery against chandiery, imported arti- cle against imported article. A | thousand stores in combat with another | thousand stores. Never such .advan- | tage of light, never such variety of 1 assortment, never so much splendor | of show-window, never so much | adroitness of salesmen, never so | much acuteness of advertising, and l amid all these seventies of rivalry in | business, how many men break down. l Oh. the burden on the shoulder! Oh. | the burden on the heart. You hear | that it is avarice which drives these men | of business through the street, and that l is the commonly accepted idea. do not | believe word of it. The vast multi | tude of these business men are toiling | on for others. To educate their chil- | dren, to put the wing of protection l over their households, to have some thing left so that when they pass out | of this life their wives and children \ ( lot | is the way 1 translate this energy in | the street and store--the vast majority | of that energy. Grip, Gouge X Co., l Some of us remember when | the Central America was coming home | from California, it was wrecked. Pres l ident Arthur's father-in-law was the 1 heroic captain of that ship, and went 1 down with most of the passengers. l Some of them got off into life boats, l but there was young man returning l from California who had bag of gold | in his hand; and as the last boat sailed off from the ship that was to go down, | that man shouted to comrade in the | boat, Here, John, catch this gold; l there are three thousand dollars; take l it home to my old mother, 1t will make her comfortable in her last days" Grip, Gouge & Co. do not do all the business of the world. An! my friend, do you say that God does not crre anything about your worldly business? 1 tell you God knows more about it than you do. He knows all your perplexities; He knows what mortgagce is about to foreclose; He knows what note you can not pay; He knows what unstable goods you have on your shelves; He 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 l 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 frenzied IL seemed by those books that something
 had been misappropriated. and he knew before God he was honest. The last | day came. He knew if he could not
 that day make his accounts come out right, he would go into disgrace and go | s,,tr hor ;ch fynr,, tha bYs as. tablishment. He went over there very | early, before there was any body in the | place, and he knelt down at the desk
 and said: ''Oh, Lord, thou lSnowest 1 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 hardly
 knowing why he did so, opened a book l which lay on the desk, and there was a
 leaf containing line of figures which
 explained everything. In other words,
 he cast his burden upon the Lord, and
 the Lord sustained him. Young man,
 do you hear that? Oh, yes, God has a
 sympathy with anybody that is in any
 kind of toil! He knows how heavy is
 the bod of bricks that the workman car
 ries up the ladder of the wall; he hears
 the pickaxe of the miner down in the
 coal shaft; he knows how strong the
 tempest strikes the sailor at masthead
 he sees che factory girl among the spin
 dies, and knows how her arms ache; hs
 sees the sewing woman in the fourtf
 story and knows how few pence sh,
 gets for making garment: and louder
 than all the din and roar of the city
 comes the voice of sympathetic God
 | Cast thv burden unou the Lord, an(