Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-11
THE BURDEN
A High Honor Conferred Upon
the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage.
A WORLD OF UNDERWRITING
Practical Religion Needed, Not That Which is
so High You Cannot Reach Il.
What Spectacle it Would be Could the
Mask of Human Defilemcnt be Torn
OF, or the Army of Transgress-
ors be Brought Forth.
THE BURDRN-BEARER.

| grained DY the distinction conferred upO
him since last Sunday. In listening TO d.
Talmage to-day, they were listening TO tn
chaplain of the Ancient and Honorabl
artillery company of Massachusetts,, i
which office he was formally installed wit
due ceremony on June /. The organization
| which is $50 years old, and the lineal de
scendant of an English organization datin
back TO the beginning of the Sixteent
century, has had many distinguishes
| divines as chaplains, and the honor ha
| always been highly appreciated. The sub
| iect of DIR. Talmage's sermon this mornin,
was THE Burden-Bearer.' = and his tex
Paslm w., %: Cast thy burden upon tn
Lord, and He shall sustain thee
| TAXING HIS OWN MEDICINE
David was here taking his own medicine
| If anybody had on him heavy weights, Da
| vid had them and yet out of his own ex
\ pcrience ne ADVISES you and me as to the
| best way of getting rid of burdens. Thi.
! IS world of burden-bearing Coming int
the house of prayer there may be no sign
! Of sadness or sorrow, but where is the
man who has not a conflict Where is the
soul that has not struggle? And there is
| not day OF al the year when my text is
| not gleriouslv 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 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 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. and he said
that day something which has kept with
me all my life: Dewitt. 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 family; but al
ways God came TO the rescue. | remember
the time" he said, when | didn't know
what to do, and saw a man on horseback
riding up the farm lane, and he announced
to me that had beer nominated for the
most lucrative Office in the gift of the peo-
pie 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 IL practical religion! The religion
people have is so high up YOU cannot
reach it. | had friend who entered the
life of an evangelist. He gave up lucra-
tive 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
mOuthful of food in the house, Help me,
help us!'' And he started out on the street,
and a gentleman met him and said: Il
have been thinking of you for a good
while. You know | am a -four merchant;
if you won't be offended. | should like to
send YOU q 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
he finds
THE WIND AGAINST Nm
and there are men who all their lives have
been running in the teeth of the winds. and
which way TO turn they do not know Some
of them may be here this morning and |
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
First, There are great many men who
have business burdens. When we see a
man harried and perplcXed and annoyed in
business life, we are apt TO say: He ought
not To have attempted to carry so much -
All! that man may not be To blame at all.
When a man plants a 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
sprineing 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 inven-
lion of machinery, what will be the effect
If that loss of crop, and thousand other
questions perplex business men, until the
lair 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
hey are 1T their wits ends, and
STAGGER LIKE DRUNKEN MEN
There never has been n time when there
nave been such rivalries in business as
Iow. 1t is hardware against hardware.
books against books, chandlery against
'handlery, imported article against i'm
ported article. A thousand stores in COM
,at with another thousand stores. Never |
'uch advantage of light, never such variety |
" assortment, never so much splendor of |
how window, never SO much adroitness of |
alesmen, never so much acuteness of adyer- |
Using, and amid all these seventies of |
ivalry in business, how many men break |
lown! Oh. the burden on the shoulderi |
)h, the burden on the heart, You hear |
hat it is avarice which drives these men of |
business through the street, and that is the |
accepted idea ] do not believe |
word OF II. The vast multitude of these |
business men are toiling on for others. To |
ducate their children, to put the wing of |
protection over their households, to have /
omething left so when they pass out of |
his life their wives and children will not |
ave to go TO the poorhouse-that is the |
way translate this energy in the street |
nd store-the vast majority of that energy. |
Trip, Geuge & Co. do not do all the bust
ess. Some of us remember when the Cen
raj America was coming home from Cali
ornia, IL was wrecked.
PRESIDENT AKTHUR's FATHER-IN-LAw
Tas the heroic captain of that ship, and
'ent down with most of the passengers.
ome of them got off into life boats, but |
here was young man returning from Cal
,ornia who had bag of gold in his hand: |
nd as the last boat showed off from the
hip that was TO go down, that man shouted |
} comrade in the boat, Here, John,
atch this gold; there are $1,000: take it
ONE to my old mother, it will make her
omfortable in her last days Grip, Gouge
Co. do not do all the business Of the
ORD: All! my friend, do you say that
Iod does not care anything about your
'erldly businesss l tell you God knows
lore about it than you do. He knows all
our perpleXities; he knows what
lortsagee is about to foreclose: ne
nGwS what note you cannot paw: |
2 knows what unstable goods YOU have |
1 your shelves; he knows all your trials, |
ON the day you took hold OF the first |
down to the sale of the last yard |
ribbon, and the God who helped David to |
, king, and who helped Daniel 10 be prime |
mister and who helped Haveiock TO be a |
ldler will help you TO discharge all your |
ltles. He IS going TO see you through