The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-28
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
SUNDAYS SERMON PREACHED
IN SAN FRANCISCO.
The Hand of God Is i'm Everything
Pays His Respects to HGsssrs Grip,
GOuge O. Co Before Departing On
his Trip Around the World

bne steamer 'Almeda" Tor Honolulu
on his 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 So: %. Cast thy
burden upon the Lord and he shall
sustain thee
! David was here taking his own med
icine If any body had on him heavy
J 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. During the past few
days tidings came from across the sea
of mighty and good man fallen
man full of the Holy Ghost was he,
his name the synonym for all that is
| good, and kind and gracious, and
benifcent Word comes to US of
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 conflict?
Where is the soul that has not a strug
gle? And there is not a 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 gloriously ap-
propriate cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
In the far east, wells of water are
SO infrequent that when a 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.
man has not burden on this shoulder
he has a burden on the other shoulder.
The day 1 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: DE Witt, 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. it was no easy thing
for me to support family; but al
ways God came to the rescue 1 re-
member the time he said, when 1
didn't know what to do, and l saw
man on horseback riding up the farm
lane. and he announced to me that I
had been nominated for the most 1u-
crative Office in the gift of the people
of the county; and to that Office L was
elected, and God in that way met all
nv wants, and L tell you it is always
safe to trust him"
oh. nv friends, what we want is
practical reIgioni The religion peo-
pie have is so high up you can not
reach it / had a friend who entered
the life of an evangelist He gave up
a lucrative business in Chicago. and
he and his wife finally came to severe
want He told me that in the morn
ing at prayers he said: 80 Lord, thou
knowest we have not mOuthful of
food in the house! Help me, help usP'
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 a flour mer-
chant; if you won't be offended, 1
should like to send you barrel of
flour" He cast his burden on the
Lord, and the Lord sustained him
Now. that is the kind of religion we
want.
In the Straits of Magellan, 1 have
been told, there is "a place where
whichever way a ship captain points
his ship he finds the wind against him.
and there are men who all their lives
havo been running in the teeth of the
wind. and which way to turn they do
not know Some of them may be in
this Assem- blage, and 1 address them
face to face, not prefunctoriIy. but as
one brother talks to another brother; I
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and /
he shall sustain thee "
There are great many men who |
have business burdens. When we see /
a man harried and perplexed and an
moved in business life, we are apt to |
saw: He ought not to have attempt /
ed to carry SO much" All! that man /
NAV not be to blame at all When +
man plants a business ne 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 /
bv unforeseen 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 inven ton of /
machinery, what will be the effect of
that loss of crop, and a thousand other
questions perp1ex business men until
the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles
are ploughed in the cheek; and the
stocks go up by mountains and go
down by valleys. and they are at their
wits ends, and stagger like drunken
men
There never has been a time when
there have been such rivalries in bust
ness as now. It is hardware against
hardware, books rgalnst books, chand-
lery against chandlery, imported
article against imported article A
thousand stores in combat with anoth-
er thousand stores Never such ad-
vantage of light never such variety
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