Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-06-02
THE HEAVY WEIGHTS
REV. DR.. rALMAeE,s ELOQUENT SER.
j MON IN SAN FRANCISCO.

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i MON IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Tho Burdens That the Lord VIII Sustain IL
Christians VIII but Cast Thorn Upon
| Him-The World Great Hospital
Mountains of Sin Removed.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 27.-Rev. 7.
De Witt Talmage is now in this city,
whence he will sail next Thursday on
the steamer Alameda for Honolulu on
his trip around the world He preached
today to large and deeply interested
audience on the subject Of Heavy
Weights, +" tho text being taken from
Psalms ", %, Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee "
David was here taking his own medi.
zinc. II anybody had on him heavy
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 It'd
ings came from across the sea OF 8
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 benefcent Word
comes to us Of a soourge sweeping OH
hundreds and thousands Of people, and
there is burden Of sorrow. Sorrow on
the sea and sorrow on the land. Com
ing into the house of prayer there may
BIO no sign of sadness or sorrow, but
whore is the man who has not con-
fliot? Where is the soul that has not q
struggled And there is not q day OF all
the year when my text is not gloriously
appropriate, and there is never an au-
dionce assembled on tho planet where
the to1t is not gloriously appropriate,
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and
he shall sustain thee. :"
a Well of Tears.
In the far cast wells of water arc SO
infrequent that when man owns a
we'll no has property Of very great
value, and sometimes battles have boon
fought for tho possession of one we'll OF
water, but there is onc well that every
man owns, a deep we'll, a perennial
we'll, q we'll of tears. If n man has not
o burden OH this shoulder, ho has bur-
den on the other shoulder
Tho day l left hoDio TO look after my
self and for riysolf, il 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 time come to a
crisis of difficulty. You may know that,
having been sick for 3 years, it was no
easy thing for me to support family,
but always God came to the rescue. l
remomber the time" no said, when 1
didn't know what to do, and / saw a
man on horseback riding up the farm
lane and he announced to me that l
had been nominated for the most lucra-
tive Office In all the gift Of the people of
the county, and to that Office 1 was
elected, and God in that way met all
my wants, and I tell you it is always
safe to trust him."
Oh, my friends, what we want is .a z, z,
practical religioni The.religion people
have Ia SO high up you cannot reach 1t.
I 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: 20 Lord, thou knowest we have
not O mouthful of food in the house,!
Help me; help usI" And he started out
on the street, and gentleman met him
and said: II have been thinking of you
for good while. You know I am o -four
merchant If you won't be offended, I
should like to send you a, barrel OF
-four" He cast his burden on the Lord,
and the Lord sustained him Now, that
Is tho kind of religion we want
Business Burdens
In the strait Of Magellan, 1 have
been told, there is place where, which
ever way 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 as
semblage, and I address them face to
face, not pcrfunotorily, but as one broth
CT talks to another brother, Coast 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 worried 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 a
business, he does not know what will
be its outgrowths, what will be its
roots, what will be its branches. There
is many man with keen foresight and
large business faculty who has been
flung into the dust by unforeseen cir
oumstances springing 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
now invention of machinery, what Will
BIO tho effect Of that loss of crop and 3
thousand other questions perplex bust
ness men until the hair is silvered and
deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek,
and the stocks go up by mountains and
go down by valleys, and they arc at
their wits ends and stagger like drunk
en- men
There never has been time when
there have been such rivalries in busl-
ness as now. 1t is hardware against
hardware, books against books, chan
dlery against chandlery, imported article
against imported article. A thousand
stores il combat with another thou
sand stores. Mover such advantage OF
light, never such variety of assortment,
never so much splendor OF show Win
dow, never So much adroitness OF sales