Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-05-29
THE HEAVY WEIGHTS
REV. DR.. TALMACE'S ELOQUENT SEr-
MON IN SAN FRANCISCO.


Mountains of Sin Removed.
san Francisco May 27.-Rev. r.
De Witt Talmage is now in this city,
whence he will sail next Thursday on
the steamer Alameda for Honolulu OH
his trip around the world He preached
today to a large and deeply interested
audience ON the subject of Heavy
Weights, " the text being taken from
Psalms w, 22, "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
aulme as to the best way of getting rid
of burdens. This is a world of burden
bearing During the past few days It'd
ings 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 beneficent. Word
comes to us of a scourge sweeping off
hundreds and thousands of people, and
there is a burden Of sorrow. Sorrow on
the sea and sorrow on the land. Com
ing into the house of prayer there may
be no sign of sadness or sorrow, but
where is the man who has not con-
fiict? Where is the soul that has not a
struggle? And there is not day of all
the year when my text is not gloriously
appropriate, and there is never an au
dience assembled ON the planet where
the text is not gloriously appropriate,
Cast thy burden upon the Lord and
he shall sustain thee.
A Well of Tears.
In the far east wells of water are so
infrequent that when man owns a
well he has property of very great
value, 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
a burden on this shoulder, he has bur
den on the other shoulder.
The day left home to look after my
self and for myself, in the wagon my
father sat driving, and he said that day
something which has kept with me all
my life: "De Witt, it is always safe to
trust God. have many time come to a
crisis of difficulty. You may know that,
having been sick for 8 years, it was no
easy thing for me to support family,
but always God came to the rescue. |
remember the time, D." he said, when !
didn't know what to do and | saw
man on horseback riding up the farm
lane, and he announced to me that |
had been nominated for the most lucra-
tive 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 1 tell you it is always
safe to trust him. -
Oh, my friends, what we want is
practical religion! The religion people
have is SO high up you cannot reach it.
/ had friend who entered the life OF
an evangelist. 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: 80 Lord, thou knOwest we have
not a mouthful Of food in the housei
Help me; help us!" And he started out
ON the street, and gentleman met him
and said: Il have been thinking Of you
for a good while. You know l am flour
merchant If you won't be offended, l
should like to send you a barrel OF
flour. He cast his burden on the Lord,
and the Lord sustained him. Now, that
is the kind Of religion we want.
business Burdens.
In the strait of Magellan, l have
been told, there is place where, which
ever way a ship captain puts his ship
he finds the wind against him, and
there are men who all their lives have
been running III the teeth of the wind,
and which way to turn they do not
know. Some of them may be in this as.
semblage and / address them face to
face, not perfunctori!y, but as one broth
er talks to another brother, Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shall sus-
tain thee. -
There are a great many men who
have business burdens When we see
man haIried 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. There
is many a man with keen foresight and
large business faculty who has been
flung into the dust by unforeseen cir
cumstances springing upon him from
ambush. When to buy, when 10 sell,
when 10 trust and TO what amount to
credit, what will be the effect Of this
new invention of machinery, what Will
be the effect Of that loss of crop and
thousand other questions perplex busl-
ness men until the hair is silvered and
deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek,
and rae stocks 60 up by mountains and
go down by valleys, and they are at
their wits ends and stagger like drunk
en- men
There never has been a time when
there have been such riyalries in bust
ness as now. 1t is hardware against