The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-30
THE BURDENS OF LIFE
AN uLooUrNr AND FoRcEFUL sER.
MON az REV. DR.. TALMAGe.


"" "i'e- '"hi"t' y" I'VE weary anu ""A'-
lily Laden burdens of the Heart aud Of
the Bodv I.t,in.. Troubles and Dead.
/ SAN FRANCISCO, Nly 2f-Rev. Il. Dc
Witt TalmaCo Is now iu this city, whence
ne will sail next Thursday on tho steamer
Alameda for Honolulu ON his trip around
the world. lie pro, thCd today to "a large
and deeply into, ,tCi audience on the sub
ject OF Heavy Nyi...ts," the text being
taken from pstlH4s ", %, Cast thy bur
den upon the i.r.d, and he shall sustain
thee. ~
David was her, taking his own medi-
cine If anyH'ly had on him heavy
weights. D1gil he'll them and yet out OF
his own tNps,. ..,s he advises you and mo
ms to the ~. yav of getting rid of bur.
/ dcns. TINS is world of burden bearing.
/ During tho past few days tidings came
from across the sea of n mighty and good
man fallen. A man fun Of the Holy Ghost
was he, his name the synonym for all that
/ Is good and kind and gracious and bcnef-
! icent. Word comes to us of n scourge
, sweeping off hundreds 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 sadness or sorrow, but where
is the man who has not n conflictS Where
Is the soul that has not strugglci 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 Is not Rloriously
! appropriate, Cast thy burden upon the
Lord and he shall sustain thee
In the iar east wells OF water are so IN
Il
mas a properly OF very great Value, ana
sometimes paotles nave Deen iough1 ior
the possession Oh one well OF water, put
deep well, perennial We'll aweii OF tears
II man has not burden on inns shoui-
DER, ne mas burden on the other shoul-
der
frao'ica' heigion'
The day L left home to look after my
self and for myself in the wagon my father
sat driving, and he said that day some
| thing which has kept with me all my life:
/ DE Witt, 1t is always safe to trust God.
/ have many a time come to a crisis of
difficulty. You may know that having been
sick for 10 years, it was no easy thing for
me to support family, but always God
came to the rescue. remember 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 nominated for the most
lucrative Office in all the gift of the people
of the county, and TO that office l 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 is n prac-
teal religion. The religion people have
d
a friend who entered the life of an evan
gelist. He gave up n 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; so Lord,
thou knowest we have not mouthful of
food in the house! Help me, help usl'
And he started out on the street, and a
gentleman met him and said: II have
been thinking of you for good while.
| You know am flour merchant. If you
won't be offended, l should like to send
you n barrel of -four He cast his bur
den on the Lord, and the Lord sustained
him. Now, that is the kind of religion
we want
In the strait of Magellan, | have been
told, there is place where, whichever way
a 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 he
in this asscmblage, and l 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
Heart Burdens.
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 man plants business, he does not
know what will be its outgrowths, what
Will be its roots, what will be its branches.
Ihere Is many man with Keen foresight
and large business faculty who has been
lung into the dust by unforeseen circum-
stances springing upon him from ambush.
! When to buy, when to sell, when to trust
ana TO what amount OF credit, what will
be the eject OF this new Invention OF
machinery, what will be the effect of that
loss OF crop ana thousand other questions
| perpleX business men until the hair Is sill
Vercd ana deep wrinkles are plowed In
the cheek, ana the stocks go up by noun
talns and go down by valleys, and they
are at their wits ends and stagger like
| drunken mon.
There never has been n time when there
have been such rivalries in business as
now. 1t is hardware against hardware,
books against books, chandlery against
chandlery, imported article against I'M
ported article. A thousand stores in COM
bat with another thousand stores. Never
such advantage of light, never such variety
of assortment, never SO much splcndor 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 shoulders
Oh, the burden on the heart
these men of business through the street,
md that a. tho con,,ooni,, aocontod idoa