Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-06-13
There are Fewer Miracles Because There
il Less Faith.

)ect OF DIR. Talmage's sermon yesterday
morning was "The Burden Bearer"
and his text psalm iv. -: Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and He shall
sustain thee"
David was here taking his own medi-
cine. II anybody had on him heavy
weights, David had them, and yet out
of his own experience he advised 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 may be no sign OF sadness
and sorrow, but where is the man who
has not conflict? Where is the soul
that has not struggle? And there Is
not day in the whole 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.
o, my friends, what we want Is d
practical religion. The religion people
have is so high up you can not reach it.
In the straits OF Magellan l have been
told there is place where, whichever
way ship 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 morn
ing, 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 man harried and perplexed 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 q business he does not know
what will be its outgrowths, what will
be its 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
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 q
thousand other questions perplex bust
ness men until the hair is silvere1 and
deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek:
and the stocks 60 up BY the mountains
and 60 down by the valleys. and they
are at their wits ends, and stagger like
drunken men
o. the burden on the shoulder. O.
the burden on the heart! You hear that
1t is avarice which drives these men OF
business through the street, and that
Is the commonly accepted idea do
not believe word OF it. The vast null
titude OF these business men are toiling
on for others. To educate their chill
dren, to put the wing Of protection over
their households, TO have something
left so when they pass out of this life
their wives and children will not have
10 go to the poor house-that is the
way l translate this energy in the
street and store-the vast majority of
that energy.
All! my friend, do you say that God
does not care anything about your
worldly business? / tell you God knows
more about it than you do. He knows
all your perplexities; he knows what
mortgagee is about to foreclose: He
knows what note you cannot pay: He
knows what unstable goods you have
on your shelves: He knows all your tri-
ais, from the day you took hold of the
first yard stick down to the sale of the
last yard OF ribbon, and the God who
helped David to be king, and who
helped Daniel to be prime minister, and
who helped Havelock to be a soldier,
will help You TO discharge all your du-
ties. 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 the Lord Jusus 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 be-
side the insulting letter, and then read
OF the friendship OF Him who sticketh
closer than brother"
Second-Tbere are great many who
have weight Of persecution and
abuse upon them. Sometimes society
gets grudge against man. AL his
motives are misinterpreted and his
good deeds are not appreciated. With
more virtue than some of the honOred
and applauded. he runs only against
raillery and sharp criticism. When a
man begins TO go down. he has not only
the force OF natural gravitatiOn, but 100
hands to help him in the precipitation.
Men are prosecuted for their vir-
tues and their successes. TIE character
sometimes is so lustrious that the weak
eyes OF envy and JEALOUSY cannot bear
10 look at it. 1t was their integrity that
put Joseph in the pit, and Daniel in the
den, and Shadrach in the fire and sent
John the evangelist TO desolate Patmos,
and Calvin TO the castle OF persecution,
and John Huss to the stake, and Korah
after Moses, and Saul after David, and
Herod after Christ. Be sure II you
have anything to do for church or state.
and you attempt 1t with all your soul,
4. ~ II