The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
aTHE BURDEN BEARER"
Christ Offers to Serve the Whole
World in That Way.
Business Burdens, Burdens Of Persecution
Burdens Of Physical Ailments and
Burdens Of Sorrow May be
Cast ON the LOrd-Dr.
TAlmags's Ser.
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The subject Of DR.. Talniage's sermon
ct the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday
was "The Burden Bearer" and his text
Psalm w., 20: "Cast thy burden upon
Ihe Lord. and He shall sustain thee"
The eloquent divine spoke as follows:
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 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 struggle? 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 man owns we'll he has a
property of very great value, and some.
times battles have been fought for the
possession Of one well of water; but
there is one we'll that every man owns,
q deep we'll, a perennial we'll, we'll Of
tears. If man has not a burden on
this shoulder, he has 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 al
ways 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 God al
ways came to my rescue. remember
the time" he said, when didn't know
what to do, and saw man on horse
back riding up the farm lane, and he an
nounced to me that had been nomi-
mated for the most lucrative Office in the
gift of the people of the country; and
to that Office was elected. and God in
that way met all my wants, and I tell
you it is always safe to trust Him" O,
my friends, what we want is practical
religion! The religion people have is so
high up you can not reach it. had a.
friend who entered the life of an evan.
gelist 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 house! Help
me, help usr' And he started out on
the street, and a gentleman met him
and said: II have been thinking of you
for a good while. You know am q
flour merchant; if you won't be offended
should like to send you a barrel Of
-four" My friend cast his burden on
the Lord, and the Lord sustained him.
In the straits of Magellan, I have been
told, there is a 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 run
ming in the teeth of the wind and which
way to turn they do not know. Some
Of them may be here this morning, and
I address them face to face, not per-
functorily, 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 a 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
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 has never been time wher
there have been such rivalries in bust
ness as now. 1t is hardware against
hardware. books against books, chand
lery against chandlery, imported arti
Gle against imported article. A thou
sand stores in combat with another
thousand stores Never such advantage
Of light, never such variety of assert
ment, never so much splendor of show
window, never so much adroitness o
salesmen, never so much acuteness o
advertising, and amid all these severi
ties of rivalry in business, how man,
men break down! o, the burden on tn,
shoulder. o, the burden on the heart
You hear that it is avarice which drive
these men of business through thu
street, and that is the commonly &C
cepted idea. do not believe word o
it. The vast multitude of these bust
ness men are toiling on for Others. II
educate their children, to put the win
of protection over their households, +
have something left so when they pas
out of this life their wives and children
will not have to go to the poorhouse-
that is the way translate this energ.
in the street and store-the vast major
ity of that energy. Grip, Gouge & CO
do not do all the business. Some of u
remember when the Central Americ