The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-06-06
TIE BURDENS OF LIFE.
An Eloquent and Forceful Sermon By Rev.
Dr. TalInsge.

"ACICc Ac VIII SAL ISAE = GSiSSaS III
the steamer Alameda for Honolulu on
his trip round the world. He preached
today to large and deeply interested
audience on the subject Of Heavy
Weights" the text being taken from
Psalms ", %, ''Cast thy burdens upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
David was here taking his own medi.
cine. If anybody had on him tenyy
weights, David had them, and vet out Of
his own experience he ADVISES you and
me as to the bes! way Of getting rid Ui
burdens. This is q world Of burden bear
ing. During the past few days tidings
came from acl oss the sea of a mighty and
good man fallen. a man full of the
Holy Ghost was he, bis name the sYno-
pym for all that Is good and kind and
gracious and bene6cient. Word comes
to Us ef a scourge sweeping of hundreds
and thousands Of people, and there IS q
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 a conflict? Where
is the soul that has not struggle? And
there is not g 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 glo-
riously appropriate, "Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and he shall sustain
thee"
In the far east wells Of water are so
infrsqUent that when man owns 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, deep well, perennial we'll q
well OF tears. II a man hss not burden
On this shoulder be has burden on the
other shoulder.
The day I LETT home TO look after N.Y.
self and for myself in the wagon my "a
ther sat driving, und be said that day
something which has kept with ne all
my life: "DeWitt it Is always safe to
trust God. I have many u time come to q
crisis OF difficulty. You may know that,
having been sick for Is years, it waa no
easy thing for me to support a family,
but always God came to tee rescue. l
remember the time" he said, ''When /
didn't know what to do, and saw a
man on horseback riding up the farm
lane, and he announced to me that I
had been nominated for the most lucra-
tive Office in all the gift Of the people of
the county, and to that Office I was
elected, and God in that way met all my
wants, and tell you 1t is always safe to
trust him."
Oh, my friends, what we want is q
practical religion. The religion people
have is so high up you cannot reach it.
l had friend who entsred the life Of an
evangelist. He gave up a lucrative
business in Chicago, and he and bis
wife huall? came to severe want. He
told me that in the morning prayers he
he SAID: 80 Lord, thou knowest we
have not moutbtul Of food in the house!
Help me, help us!" And ne started
out on the street, and a gentleman met
him and said: ST have been thinking Of
you good while. You know lam a
-four merchant. If you won't be offend
ed, I should like to send you a barrel of
-four" He cast his burdsn on the
Lold, and the Lord sustained him, Now
that is the kind Ct religion We want.
In the strait ofMegellan I have been
told, there is place where, whichever
way ship captain puts his ship, he finds
the wind against hin, 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 in this assemblage, and I
address them face to face, not perfume
torily, but as one brother talks to an
other 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 lie, We are apt to say, HE
ought not TO have attempted to carry so
much" All, that man may not be to
blame al all! When a man plants his
business, he does not know what will be
it's outgrowths, what will be It's roots,
what will be It's t-9nches, There ls
many man with keen foresight and
large business faculty who has been
flung into tho dust by unforeseen CIR
cumstances spriDging 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 in machinery, what will
be the effect of that loss OF crop and
thousand other questions perplex busI-
ness men until the hair is sllvered and
deep wrinkles are ploWed III the cheek,
aud the stoks go up by mountains and 60
down by valleys, and they are at theit
Wits ends and stagger Ike drunken
men.
There never has been time when
there have been such rivalries in busl.
ness as now. It is hardware against
hardware, books against books, chand-
lery against chandlery, imported article
against imported article. A thousand
stores 10 combat with another thousand
stores. Never such advantage Of light,
never such variety Of assortment, never
30 much splendor Of show window, new
er so much acuteness of advertising and
smid 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 &C
cepted idea. l do not believe a word OF
it. The vast multitude Of these business
men are toiling on for others. To edu-
cate their children, to put wing of pro-
lection over their households, to have
something left 80 when they pass out OF
this life their wives end children will not
#ha7e to 60 to the poorhouse-that is
%the way translate this energy in the
sstreet and store, the vast majority Of
THAT energy. Grip, Gouge 6 Co. do not
kjo all Of the business. Some of you re-
,ember when the Central America was
gning home from California it was
cked. President Arthur's father-in-
s was the heroic captain Of the ship
went down with most OF the passen-
Some Of them got off into Lfeboats