The Penn's Grove record., 1894-06-01
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE,s SUM-
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "Heavy Weights" (Deliv
cred at San Francisco).

DaVld was mere taking his own medicine
II anybody had on him heavy weights. Da.
vid had them, and yet out of his expert
ence he advises you and me as TO the bes
way of getting rid of burdens. This is
world of burden bearing. During the pas
few days tidings came from across the sea o
n mighty and good man fallen. A mar full
of the Holy Ghost was he, his name the sy,
nonym for all that Is good and kind and gra'
oious and benefcent. Word comes to us o.
a scourge sweeping of hundreds and thou
sands OF people, and there is a burden o
sorrow. Sorrow on the sea and sorrow Oh
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 con
lictP Where is the soul that has not a strug.
gle? And thereis not a day of all the veal
when my text Is not gloriously appropriate,
and there is never an audience assembled on
the planet where the text is not gl~oriously
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
has a 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 owts, a deep well, a
perennial well, a well of tesrs. If a man has
not a burden on this shoulder, he has a bur
den 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 been with me all my life
"De Witt, it is always safe to trust God. ]
have many Il time come to a crisis Of diff
Guilty. You may know that, having been
sick for fifteen years, it was no easy thing
for me to support q family, but always God
came to the rescue. l remember the time,''
he said, ''when I didn't know what to do,
and I saw a man on horseback riding up the
farm lane, Il he announced 10 me that /
had I been nominated for the most lucrative
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 it is always safe to trust Him."
oh, my friends, what we want is a rracti-
cal religionl The religion people have isso
high up you cannot reach 1t. 1 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 morning at prayers
he said so Lord, Thou knowest we have
not a mouthful of God in the housed Help
me help usl" And he started out on the
street, and a gentleman met him and said
81 have been thinking Of you for a good
while. You know 1 am a -four merchant.
II you won't be offended, 1 should like to
send you a barrel OF -four" He cast his bur-
'1th Ou luS hOEus anu tub LUFu Bu5tulu6l
him. Now, that is the kind Of religion we
want.
In The strait of Magellan, T have been
told, there is a 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 be in
this assemblage, and I address them face to
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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 q man wor-
ried 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 ALI When q
man plants a 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 circumstances ~springlng
upon him from ambush. When to buy,
when to sell, when to 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 athousand
other questions perplex business men until
the hair is silyered and deep wrinkles are
plOW6u III tuo- Vhtthy hAu tho 5tOCh5 SO 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 business as now.
1t is hardware against hardware, books
against books, chandlerY against chandlery,,
imported articles against imported articles.
A thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores. Never such advantage of
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never so much splendor 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 shoulder Oh, the burden on the heart :
You hear that 1t Is avarice which drives
these men OF business through the street,
and that is the commonly accepted idea. I
do not believe Il word of 1t. The vast multi
tude of these business men are toiling on for
others. To educate their children. to put
wing of protection over their 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
I translate this energy in the street and store
the vast majority Of that energy. Grip,
Gouge & Co. do not do all the business,
Some OF us remember when the Central
America was coming home from California
1 wac WtCNhOus LiIoA4Cht hLtuuk . AAlholT
in-law was the heroic captain OF that ship
and went down with most OF the passengers.
Some of them got off into lifeboats, but there
was a young man returning from California
who had a bag of gold in his hand, and as
the last boat showed off from the ship that
was to go down that young man shouted to
a comrade in the boat Here, John, catch
this gold. There are $4,000. Take 1t home
to my old mother IT will make her comforts
ah1a In har Loaf Ioxu ~ GRIN nnura q ~
do not do all the business OF the world.
All, my friend, do you say that God does
not care anything about your worldly BUSH
ness? 1 tell you God knows more about 1t
than you do. He knows all your perplexi-
ties He knows what mortgage is about to
foreclose He knows what note you nno
pay He knows what unstable goods you
have on your shelves He knows all your
trials, from the day you took hold Of the
yard of ribbon and the God who helped
David to be king, and who helped Daniel to
be prime minister, and who helped Have
lock to be a soldier will help you to dis
charge all your duties. He is going to see
you through. When loss comes, and you
find your property going, just take this book
and put it down by your ledger and read Of
the eternal possessions that will come to you
through our Lord Jesus Christ. And when
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%friendsturn against you, just take the IN
sulting letter, put It down on the table, put
your Bible beside the insulting letter, and
then read of the friendship of Him who
''sticketh closer than a brother"
A young accountant in New York City got
his accounts ~entangled. He knew he was
honest, and yet he could not make his ac-
counts CONT out right, and he toiled at them
day and night until he was nearly frenzied.
It seemed by those books that somethins ha(
been misappropriated, and 10 knew @e.ore
God he was honest. The last day came. H
knew if he could not that day make his &C
counts come out right he would go into dis
grace and go into banishmenf from the bust.
ness establishment. He went over there very
eGrly-hefore there was anybody in the place
and he knelt down at the desk and said
so Lord, Thou knowest / have tried to be
honest. but | canno make these things comf
our right Help me ~to-day-help ne this
morning" The young man arose, and hard
ly knowing why he did so opened a book
that lay on the desk, and there was a leaf
containing a line of figures which explained
everything. In other words, he cast his
burden upon the Lord, and the Lord sus-
him. Young man, do you hear that!
Oh, yes, God has a sympathy with any
body that is in any kind Of TOLL He knows
how heavy is the hod of bricks that the
workman carries uD the ladder on the wall,