Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-06-08
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON
THE BURDEN BEARER.

able Artillery Company of Massaohu-
setts.
BROOKLYN, Juna Ut is no new
thing to the members of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle church TO have their pas
tors eminence acknowledged by the
outside world. But even they must
have been gratified by the distinction
conferred upon him since last Sunday
In listening to Dr. Talmage today they
were listening to the chaplain of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com
pany of Massachusetts,, in which office
he was formally installed with due cere-
mony on June /. The organization,
which is two hundred and fifty years
old, and the lineal descendant of an
English organization dating back to the
beginning of the Sixteenth century, has
had many distinguished divines as
chaplains, and the honor has always
been highly appreciated The subject
of DIR. Talmage's sermon this morning
was "The Burden Bearer" and his text
Psalms lv, %: "Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
DAvID's HARD EXPERIENCE.
David was here taking his own medi-
cine. If anybody had on him heavy
weights, David had them, and yet out
of his own experience he advises you
and me as TO the best way of getting
rid of burdens. This is a world of bur
den bearing. Coming into the house
of prayer there may be no sign of sad
ness or sorrow, but where is the man
who has not conflict Where is the
soul that has not struggled And there
is not day of all the year when my
text is not gloriously appropriate, and
there is never an audience assembled
on the planet where the text does not
fit the occasion, Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. "
In the far east wells of water are so
infrequent that when a man owns a
we'll he has a property of very great
value and sometimes battles have been
fought for the possession of one well of
water; but there is one well that every
man owns, deep well, a perennial
well, a well of tears. If man has not
burden on this shoulder, he has a
burden on the other shoulder. The
day left home to look after myself
and for myself in the wagon my
father sat driving, he said that day
something which has kept with me
all my life: "De Witt, it is always
safe to trust God / have many a
time come to crisis of difficulty.
You may know that having been
sick for fifteen years, it was no
easy thing for me to support a
family; but always God came to the
rescue. remember the time, " he said,
"when / didn't know what to do, and
| saw man on horseback riding up
the farm lane, and he announced to
me that had been nominated for the
most lucrative office in the gift of the
people of the county; and to that office
was elected, and God in that way met
all my wants, and tell you it is always
safe TO trust him" Oh, my friends,
what we want is a practical religion!
The religion people have is so high up
you cannot reach it. have friend
who entered the life of an evangelist.
He gave up lucrative business in Chi
cago, and he and his wife finally came
to severe want. lie told me that il
the morning at prayers he said: &C
Lord, thou knowest we have not 1
mouthful of food in the house, He'll
me, help us !"
And he started out on the street, anG
"A gentleman met him and said 81
have been thinking of you for n good
while. You know / am flour mer
chant; il you won't be offended
should like to send you barrel OF
flour" My friend cast his burden on
the Lord, and the Lord sustained him.
In the Straits of Magellan, have been
told, there is "A place where, whichever
way a ship captain puts his ship ho
finds the wind against him, and there
are men who all their lives have been
running in the teeth of the wind, and
which way to turn they do not know.
Some of them may be here this morn
ing, and address them face to face
not perfunctorily, but us one brother
talks TO another brother, Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shal
sustain thee
BUSINESS BURDENS.
First-There are great many mer
who have business burdens. When WI
see man harried and perplexed an,
annoyed in business life we are apt I,
say, "He ought not to have attempted
to carry 80 much" All! that man ma.
not be TO blame at all. When a maj
plants business he does not lmoN
what will be it's outgrowths, what Wi
be its roots, what will be its branches
There is many man with keen for,
sight and largo business faculty VIII
has been flung into the dust 10y unfor
seen circumstances springing upon hiI
from ambush When TO buy, w'ldn
sell, when to trust, and 10 what anour
of credit, what will be the effect {
this new invention of machinery, wha
viii be the effect OF that loss of erol
and thousand other questions perple
business men, until the hair is silvere
and deep wrinkles are plowed in IL
cheek; and the stocks go up 10y IL
mountains and go down 10y the valley
and they are at their wits ends, aIi
stagger like drunken men.
There never has been time whe
there have been such riyalries la bu'
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