The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-28
TALMACE ON THE SLOPE.
He breaches on Heavy Weights at
San Francisco.

When He Was Leaving Home a
Practical Religion the Need Of Every
Man.
san Francisco, May 21-Rev T. De
Witt Talmage is now in this city, whence
he will sail next Thursday on the steamer
Almeda for Honolulu, on the trip around
the world. He preached to-day to a large
and deeply interested audience on the
subject OF Heavy Weights" the text
being taken from Psalms w., %: Cast
thy burden upon the Lord and he shall
sustain thee"
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 a world of burden
bearing During the past few days
tidings came from across the sea of a
mighty and good man fallen. A man full
Of the Holy Ghost was he, his name the
SYNONYM for all that is good, and kind. and
gracious, and beuehcent Word comes
to us of q scourge sweeping of hun
dreds and thousands of people, and there
Is burden of sorrow. Sorrow on the sea
and sorrow on the land, Coming into the
house of prayer there may be no sign of
who has not a conflict, Where is the
soul that has not a struggle. And there
is not a day of all the year when my text
is not glorlously appropriate, and there is
never an audience assembled on the
planet where the text is not gloriously
appropriate Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and he shall sustain thee
In the far east, wells of water are so in
frequent that when a man owns a well
he ,n4afv- Of aly4.,
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, a perennial well, a
well of tears. If a man has not burden
on this shoulder, he has burden on the
other shoulder. 81
The day ] left home to look after myself
ana for myself in the wagon my father
sat driving, and he said that day some
thing which has kept with me all my life:
Dewitt it is always safe to trust God /
have many a time come to a crisis of
difficulty You may know that having
been sick for fifteen years, il was no easy
thing for me to support family, but al
ways God came to the rescue. ] remem-
Der the time. " he said, when ! didn't
know what to DO, and l saw man on
horseback riding up the farm lane, and
he announced to me that | had been nomi-
the gift of the people of the county. and
to that otice was elected, and God in
that way met all my wants, and tell you
II is always safe to trust him.
Oh, my friends, what we want is a
practical religion! The religion people
have is so high up you cannot reach it. /
had q friend who entered life as an evan
gelisU He gave up a lucrative business
in Chicago, and he and his wife finally
faar1 n N a toll l,r,F
the morning at prayers he said: 20
Lord, thou knowest we have not mouth
full of food in the house. Help me, help
u.s." 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 flour merchant:
if you won't be offended, should like to
send you a barrel of -four" He cast his
burden on the Lord, and the Lord sus-
tanned him. Now, that is the kind of re-
ligion we want.
In the Straits Of Magellan, have been
told, there is place where
whichever way a ship cap
tain 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
donot know. Some of them may be in
this assem- blage. and l address them face
brother talks to another brother: Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain thee"
There are a great many men who have
business burdens. When we see a 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 man plants a bust
ness he does not lypOyy- what will no
outgrOwths, what will be its roots, what
Will be its branches. There is many a
man with keen foresight and large bust
pess faculty who has been flung into the
dust by unforeseen circumstances spring
Ing upon him from ambush When to
buy when to sell, when to trust aud 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
perpleN business men until the hair is sill
vered and deep wrinkles are ploughed in
the cheek and the stocks go up by noun
tains and go down by valleys, and they
are at their wits ends, and stagger like
drunken men,
There never has been q time when there
has been such rivalries in business as now.
II is hardware against hardware, books
against books, chandlery against chand-
tery, imported article against imported
article. j thousand stores in combat
with another thousand stores. Never
such advantage of light, never such
variety of assortment, never so much
Splendor of show window, never so much
adrOltnesS Of statesmen, never so much
acuteness of advertising. and amid all
these seventies of rivalry in business,
now many break down Oh, the burden
dn the shoulder. Oh the burden on the
heart
You hear that il is avarice which drives
these men OF business throu IN the street.
and that IS the commonly accepted idea.
] do not believe a word of it, The vast
multitude of these business men are toll
ing on for others To educate their chill
dren, to put wing Of protection over the ir
households, to have something left so
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 slore-the
vast majority of that energy Grip.
Gouge x Co. Go not do all the business.
Some of US remember when the Central
America was coming home from Califor-
MIA il was wre ,ked. President Arthur 5
father-in-law was the heroic captain of
that ship, and went down with most of
The passengers. Some of them got Of
into the lifeOOats but there was a young
man returning from California who had a
bag of gold in his hand; and as the last
boat showed of from the ship that was to
go down, that young man shouted to a
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