The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-30
The BURDENS OF LIFE.
AN ELOQUENT AND FoRCEFUL SER
MON BY THE REV. DIR. TALNIAGE.
He Gives Comfort to the Weary aud
Heavily Laden-Burdens of the
Heart and of the BOdy-Living
Troubles and Dead.

the steamer Alameda for Honolulu on
his trip around the world. He preached
today 10 a large and deeply Interested
audience on the subject of Heavy
Weights" the text being taken from
Psalms ~. %. Cast thy burden upon
the Lord. and He shall sustain thee"
David was here taking his own medi-
cine If anybody had 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 a world of bur
den bearing. During the past few days
tidings came from across the sea. of a
mighty and good man fallen. 4 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 OF
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 a
conflict Where is the soul that has not
struggle And there is not a day Of
ali the year when my text is not glor-
iOuSly appropriate. and there is never
an audience assembled on the planet
where the text is not gioriOusly appro-
PIRATE. 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 we'll of
water, but there is one we'll that every
man OWNS, q deep we'll, a perennial
well, a we'll of tears. If a man has not
burden on this shoulder. he has a bur-
den on the other shoulder.
Practical Religion.
The day I 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: Dewitt. 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 a family
but always God came to the rescue re-
member the time" he said. when I
didn't know what 10 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 lucrative office
in all the gift Of the people of the coun-
". and to that office 1 was elected. and
God in that way met all my
wants, and l tell you it is always safe to
trust him"
Oh. my friends. what we want is a
practical religion. The religion people
have is so high up you cannot reach it.
had a friend who entered the life of an
evangelist. He gave up a lucrative bust
ness in Chicago. and he and his wife
finally came TO severe want. He told me
that in the morning at prayers he said
90 Lord, thou knoWest have not a
mOuthful of food in the house! Help me-
help US" And he started out on the
street and a gentleman met him and said ::
Il have been think of You for a good
while. You know | am flour mer-
chant. 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 the
kind of religion we want.
In the strait Of Magellan, I have been
told. there is 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 / address
them face to face, not perfunct6riiy but
as one brother talks to another brother,
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he
shall sustain thee"
Heart Burdens.
There are a great many men who have
business burdens. When we see a 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 a man plants
business. he does not know what will be
its outgrowths what will be it's roots
what will be its branches. There is
many d man with keen foresight and
large business faculty who has been
flung into the dust by Unforeseen cir
ncUmstances springing upon him from am
bush. When to buy, when TO sell, when
70 trust and TO what amount Of credit
what viii be the effect Of this new in
VentiOn Of machinery, what will be the
effect of that loss of crop and a thou
sand other questions perplex business
fmen until the hair is silvered and deep
wrinkles are plOwed in the cheek, and
the stocks 90 up by mountains and go
down by valleys, and they are at their
wits ends and stagger ike drunken men.
There never has been a time when
there have been such rivalries in bust
ness as now. 1t is hardware against
hardware books against books chan
sdlery against chandlery imported article
against imported article. A thousand
iStOres in combat with another thousand
lstOres. Never such advantage of light.
never such variety Of assortment, never
so much splendOr Of show window, never
$50 much adrOitneSSOf SaleSmen never so
much acuteness of advertising and amid
all these seventies of rivalry in business
how many men break dOwnl Oh, the
burden on the shOulderi Oh, the bur
den on the heart
You hear that il is ayarice which drives
these men Of business through the
street. and that Is the commonly ac-
.cepted idea. / do not believe a word of
st. The vast multitude Of these business
men are toiling on for others. To edu-
cate their children TO put wing of protec-
ktion over their households, to have some
thing left SO when they pass out of this
life their wives and children will not
have to go to the poor hOuse-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 IL was wrecked
President Arthur's father-in-Iaw was
the heroic captain Of that snip and went
down with most Of the passengers Some
OF them got off into the life-boats but
there was 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 I'm the
boat: "Here. John. catch this gold
There are $1,000. Take 1t home to my
Aold mother. 1t will make her comfort
able in her last days" Grip, Gouge e.
Co do not do all the business of the
world.
An. my friend, do you say that God
does not care anything about your world
1y business / tell you God knows more
about IL than you do. He knows all