Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-02
THE BURDEN BEARER,
TEXT OF DR.. TALMACE'S SER.
MON LAST SUNDAY.
lr People Lived Up to tho Bible
An Eloquent Disc curse BY the Emil
mont Brooklyn Divine.

lie shall sustain thee"
David was here taking his own
medicine. II anybody had on him
heavy weights, David had them, and
yet out of his own experience lle ad-
vises you and me as to the best way OF
getting rid Of burdens This is a world |
Of burden bearing. Coming into the
house OF prayer there might 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 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 At the occasion: "Cast thy burden
upon the Lord. and he shall sustain
thee"
There are great many men who
have business burdens. When we see
"a man harried and perplcxcd and an
noyed 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 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 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
thousand other questions perpleX bust
ness men, until the hair is silvered and
| deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek;
ind the stocks go up by the mountains
and so down by the valleys, and they
are at their wits ends. and stagger like
drunken men.
There never has been a time when
there have been such rivalries in bust
ness as now. 1t is hardware against
hardware, books against books chand-
lery against chandlery, imported arti
rle against imported article. A
thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores. Never such advan-
tage Of light, never such variety OF
assortment, never so much splendor
of show-window, never SO much
adroitness of statesmen, never so
much acuteness of advertising, and
amid all these seventies of rivalry In
business, how many men break down.
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
Is the commonly accepted idea. do not
believe a word of it. The vast multi
tude 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 some
thing left so that when they pass out
Of this life their wives and children
will not have to go the poorhouse-that
y the way translate this energy in
the street and store-the vast majority
of that energy. Grip, Gouge 4 Co..
} do not do all the business
| Some of us remember wher
the Central America was coming homo
from California, it was wrecked. Pres
, ident Arthur's father-in-law was the
heroic captain of that ship, and wen
down with most Of the passengers
, Some of them got off into life-boats
but there was young man returning
from California who had bag Of golt
in his hand; and as the last boat sailet
off from the ship that was to go down
that man shouted to q comrade in thu
boat, ''Here, John, catch this gold
1 there are three thousand dollars; TAX
{, it home to my old mother, it will MAKE
q her comfortable in her last days" Grip
= Gouge & Co. do not do all the bushes
1 of the world. All! my friend
= do you say that God doe
9 not crre anything about you
i worldly business? tell you Go
i knows more about it than you do. II
= knows all your perplexities; He know
what mortgage is about to forcclose
!. He knows what note you can not pay
: He knows what unstable goods 70
> have on your shelves; He knows a.
your trials, from the day you took hol
Of the first yard-stick down to the sal
of the last yard Of ribbon. He wi
help you to discharge all your duties
q He is going to see you through. Whe
loss comes, and you find your propert
. going, just take this Book and put
!, down by your ledger, and read of tn
d eternal possessions that will come t
II you through our Lord Jesus Chris
!, And when your business partner bt
N trays you, and your friends turn again
It you, just take the insulting letter, p,
r. It down on the table, put your Bib
- beside the insulting letter. and the
- read of the friendship of Him WI
~ .'sticketh closer than a brother"
e A yourg accountant in New Yol
H. City got his accounts entangled. +
KNEW uc was uOuCSoS uuN JCo AO SCu
a not make his accounts come out RICH
1T and he toiled at them day and mig
n, until he was nearly frenzied.
10 seemed by those books that somethil
had been misappropriated, and he kne
n before God he was honest. The Ia
k day came. He knew If he could n
ed that day make his accounts come o
right, he would go into disgrace and
IN into Punishment from the business I
al adjustment. He went over there We
IN early, before there was any body in t
VA place, and he knelt down at the de
"a and said: "Oh, Lord, thou knowes
sIn have tried to be honest, but l cam
III make these things come out rigl
=. Help me to-day-help me this mol
III ing!' The young man arose, and hare
knowing why he did so, opened a DO
-, which lay on the desk, and there wa
III. leaf containing line Of figures VIII
We explained everything. In other wor
he cast his burden upon the Lord,
the Lord sustained him. Young mi
do you hear that? Oh, yes, God ha
lie, sympathy with anybody that is in a
,d- kind of toll! He knows how heavy