Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-18
CAST THEM ON THELORD.
CHRIST WILL HELP YOU BEAR YOUR
HEAVY BURDENS.

the Invalid. the Mourner and to All
Humanity.
BROOKLYN. June 7.-It is no new thing
70 the members Of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
church TO have their pastors eminence &C
knowledged by the outside world But
even they must have been gratifed by the
distinction conferred upon him since lass
Sunday. In listening TO Dr. Talmage &C.
day, 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 ceremony
on June L The organization, which is
two hundred and fifty years old, and the
lineal descendant of an English organiza-
ton dating back to the beginning Of the
Sixteenth century, has had many distin-
guished divines as chaplains, and the honor
has always been highly appreciated. The
subject Of DR.. Talmage's sermon this
morning was '"The Burden Bearer" and
his text Psalm lv, 22-"Cast thy burden
upon the Lord. and he shall sustain thee"
THE sERMeN.
David was here taking his own medicine.
II anybody had on him heavy weights,
David had them, and yet out of his own
experience he adviaD ,u and me as to the
best way of getting m of burdens. This is
world Of burden bearing. Coming into
the house Of prayer there may be no sign
of sadness or sorrow, but where is the man
who has not conflict Where is the soul
that has not struggled And there is not
a 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 wa
ter are so infrequent that when a man
owns well he has 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-a deep well, perennial we'll, a we'll
of tears. If man has not burden on
this shoulder, he has burden on the other
shoulder
The day left home to look after myself
and for mysel, in the wagon my father sat
driving, and he said that day something
which has kept with me all my life: "De
Witt, 1t is always safe to trust God.
have many time come to crisis of diff
Guilty. You may know that, having been
sick for fifteen years, it was no easy thing
for me to support family; but always
God came to the rescue. | remember the
time" he said, when didn't know what
to do, and saw a man on horseback rid
ing 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 prac-
tical religionl The religion people have is
30 high up you cannot reach it. ] had a
friend who entered the life of an evange.
list He gave up lucrative business in
Chicago, and he and his wife finally came
to severe want He told me that in the
morning at prayers he said: 20 Lord, thou
knowest we have not a mouthful of food
in the housed Help me; help us" And he
started out on the street, and gentleman
met him and said: II have been thinking
of you for good while. You know am
-four merchant; if you won't be offended,
should like to send you barrel of -four"
My friend cast his burden on the Lord,
and the Lord sustained him. In the
Straits of Magellan, have been told, there
is place where whichever way captain
puts his ship he 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
morning, and l address them face to face,
not perfunctorily, but as one brother talks
to another brother, "Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
THE BUSINESS MANS BURDEN
First-There are great many men who
have business burdens. When we see a
man harried and perDlexed and annoyed in
business life we are apt to say, HE ought
not to have attempted to carry so much" f"
All, that man may not be to blame at ALL
When a man plants business he does not
know what will be its outgrowths, what
will be its roots, what will be its branches.
There is many a man with keen foresight
and large business faculty who has been
flung into the dust by unforeseen circum-
stances 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 machin-
cry, what will be the effect of that loss of
crop and thousand other questions per-
plex business men until the hair is silvered
and deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek,
and the stocks go up by the mountains and
go down by the valleys, and they are at
their wits ends and stagger like drunken
men.
There never has been time when there
have been such rivalries in business as
now. 1t is hardware against hardware,
books against books, chandlery against
chandlery, imported article against i'm
ported article. A thousand stores in COM
bat with another Thousand stores Never
such advantage Of light, never such vari-
ETY. OF assortment. never SO much splendor
OF show window, never so much adroit-
ness of statesmen, never SO much acuteness
of advertising, and amid all the seventies
Of rivalry in business how many men
break down. Oh, the burden on the
Ahoulderl Oh, the burden on the heart
You hear that it is avarice which drives
these men of business through the street.
and that is the commonly accepted idea
I do not believe word of it.
The vast multitude of these business
men are toiling on for others. To educate
their children, to put the wing of protec
tion over their households, to have some
thing left 30 when they pass out of this
life their wives and children will not have
to go to the poorhouse-that is the way
translate this energy in the street and
store-the vast majority of that energy.
Grip, Gouge & Co. do not do all the bust.
ness. Some of us remember when the
Central America was coming home from
California, it was wrecked. President
Arthur's father-in-law was the heroic cap
tnix Of that rhir, and want do1.rr .u-it /