The Greenville times., 1894-06-02
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject; "Heavy Weights (Deliv
cred at San Francisco.

N AAS enaAi euslaiu thee. Psalms " %
David was here taking his own medicine
~ anybody had on him heavy weights, Da-
va had them, and yet out OF his own experI-
ence ne advises YOU and me as 10 the hes.
way OF getting rid of burieEs. This Is a
world oil burden bearing. During the nasf
lew DAYS tidings came from across the sea Of
mighty an9 good man fallen. A man full
otthe Holy Ghost was he. his name the sv-
honSm ior all that is goot and kind and gra-
elous and benetieent. Word comes 10 us Of
seourge sweeping on hundreds and thou
SAINTS OF people. and there is a burden OF
sorrow. Sorrow or the sea and sorrow on
tne land. Coming into the house Of PRAYER
tnera may he no sign OF sadness or sorrow.
nnt where is the man who has not a con.
met! Where IS the soul that has not strug-
ger And there is not day OF all the year
Wnsn my text is not gloriously appropriate,
ana there IS never an audience assembled on
the planet where the text is not gloriousIy
appropriate. "Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and He shall sustain thee"
In the far East wells OF water are 50 in
frequent tnat when a man owns well he
mas property OF very great value, and
sometimes battles have been fought for the
possession OF one well oil water, tut thers is
one well that every man owns, u deep well, a
perennial well, a we'll oitears. II a man has
not burden on this shoulder, he has bur-
den on the other shoulder.
Tho day left home TO look after myself
AMI Tor myself, in the WAGON my father sat
driving, and he said that day something
which has been with me all my life
"Ds Witt, II is always safe to trust Col. |
nave many a time come 10 a crisis oil diff
Guilty. You may know that, having been
sick Tor fifteen years, Il was no easy thing
Tor me 10 support family, but always God
came 10 the rescue. remember the time,
no said "when l diln't know what to do,
and l saw man on horseback riding up the
iarm lane, and he announced to me that
md been nominated for the most lucrative
ohlce in all the gift OF the people OF the
county, AMI to that office was elected. and
God In that way met all my wants, and tel
! you II Is always safe TO trust Him."
oh, my friends, what we want is a rractl.
cal religion! The religion people have isse
high up you cannot reach 1t. had a frleni
| who entered the life OF an evangelist. Hs
gave up lucrative business in Chicago. ant
be and his wife finally came TO severe want
He told me that in the morning at prayer,
he said 20 Lord. Thou knowest we hav,
| hOA "a hlOueh'ut VI iOOl III iuc uOu9Os htlI
me help usg' Aud he started out on thu
street, and a gentleman met him aud said
II have been thinking OF you for goo.
while. You know I am -four merchant
II you Won't be offended, l should like I,
send you abarreloi -four" He east his bur
den ON the Lord, and tho Lord sustainel
him. Now, that is the Kind Of religion VI
want.
In the strait OF Magellan, 1 have beel
told, there is place where. whichever wa,
ship captain puts his ship, he finds tn
wind against him, and there are men VIII
all their lives have been running in th'
teeth OF the wind. and which way to turn
they do not know. Some OF them may be Il
this assemblage, and address them face L
face. not perfunctorily, but rs one brothe
talks to another brother. "Cast thy burdel
upon the Lord. and He shall sustain thee.
There are q great many men who hay
business burdens. When we see man wof
ried and perplexed and annoyed in busines
life, we are apt to say, "Ho ought not /
have attempted 10 carry so much" All. tha
man may not be to blame at all When
man plants q business he does not kno'
what will he its outgrowths, what will be II
roots, what will be its branches. There
many man with keen foresight and larg
business faculty who has been flung into tn
dust by Unforeseen circumstances springin
upon him from ambush. When to buy
when to sell, when to trust and to whit
amount to credit, what will be tho effect {
this new invention OF machinery, what will /
the effect OF that loss of crop, and thousan
other questions perplex business men unit
the hair Is sllvered and deep wrinkles ~
plowed In the cheek, and the stocks 90 u
by mountains and 60 down by valleys, an
they are at their wits ends and stagger liz
drunken men.
There never has been q time when ther
have been such rivares In business as nov
IL Is hardware against hardware, bool
against books, chandlerv against chandler.
imported articles against imported article
A thousand stores in combat with anoth'
thousand stores. Never such advantage
light, never such variety OF assortmen
never so much splendor OF show window
never so much adroitness OF statesmen, new,
SO much acrteness OF advertising, and aml
all these seventies OF rivalry In business no
many men break down! oh, the burden Q
the shoulder! Oh, the burden on the hear
You hear that il Is avarice which driy'
these men OF business through the stree
and that is the commonly accepted idea.
do not believe word of Il. The vast mutt
tude of these business men are toiling on Il
others. To educate their children. TO pl
wing of protection over their households,
have something left so when they pass out
this life their wives and children Will n
have TO 60 to the poorhouse--that is the WI
translate this energy in the street ana sto
--the vast majority OF that energy. Girl
Gouoe 4 Co. do not do all the buslnes
! Some OF US remember when the Centr
America was coming home from Callforn
n was wrecked. President Arthurs fathe
in-law was the heroic captain oil that sn
and went down with most OF the passenger
some OF them got of into lifeboats, but the
was Young man returning from Callforn
who Ind lag OF gold in his hand, and
the last boat showed of from the snip TO
was TO 90 down that young man shouted
comrade in the boat "Here, John, cat
tbia gold. There are $4,000. Take 1t nor
, to NV Old mother; it will make her comic
able in her last days" Grip, Gouge [
do NOT do all the business oi the world.
All my friend, do you say that God &c
}. ,ot care ANYTHING about your worldly pu
: ness9 Iteli you God knows more about
s. than vou do. He knows all your perple'
Ties He knows what mortgage Is about
foreclose; He knows what note you cam !,
nav.U He knows what unstable goods y
h have on your shelves He knows oil 70
trials from the day you took hold oil !
first yardsljek down to that sale oil the u
xard of ribbon aud the God VINO heip
Dav;d 10 he king, and who helped Daniel
be nrime minister, and who helped ha,
,oct 70 be a soldier will help you TO 9
charge nil your duties. He is gong 70
Won through. When loss comes, ,n ana y '
And And your property going, Just take this Isl bi
tbs ane eternal ter possessions that will come to
through our Lord Jesus Christ. And 4 ", y
,nnr snsinpss mariner betrays you, and y