The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-28
TALMAGE'S SERMON
PREACHED IN SIN FRANCISCO, CAL
IFORNIA LAST SUNDIY.
"Heavy Weights" the Subject from Which
He breaches an Interesting Sermon.
On His Trip Around the World.

IalflaSe Is now IN IHlS Guy, whence ne
Will sail. next Thursday, on the steamer
Almeda for Honolulu. on his trip around
the world. He preached today to a large
and deeply interested audience on the sub
ject OF Heavy Weights" the text being
taken from Psalms. ": 22-'Cast the bur
den upon the Lord and He shall sustain
thee"
David was here taking his own medicine
If 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
During the past few days tidings came
from across the sea of a 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 beneficent. Word
comes to us Of a scourSe sweeping Off hun
dreds and thousands of people, and there
is a burden of sorrow; sorrow on the sea
and sorrow on the land. Coming into the
house of prayer there may be sign OF
sadness sorrow, but where is the man
who has not a conflict? Where is the soul
that has not a struggle? And there is not Il
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 Sloriously 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 d 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 well that every man owns, a deep
well, a perennial WELL a we'll of tears If
man has not burden on this shoulder, he
has burden on the other shoulder.
The day 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 nay life: DE
Witt, it is always Saf to trust God. / have
many a time come TO crisis Of difficulty.
You may know that, having been sick for
fifteen years, It was no easy thing for me
to support Il family; but always God came
to the rescue. / remember the tme' he
said, when | didn't know what to 40, ana
L saw a man on horseback riding up the
farm lane, and he announced to that |
had been nominated Tor the most lucrative
olilce III all the gift CT the people OF the
county; and 10 tnat office | was elected,
ana goo IN that way met all my wants,
and tell you 1t IS always sale TO trust
him."
Oh. my friends, what we want is a prac
teal religion! The religion people have is
high up you cannot reach it. / had Il
friend who entered the life OF an evangelist
he gave up a lucrative business in Chicago
ANA ne and his Wl1e finally came to severe
want. lie told me that in the morning at
prayers he said: 'Oh, Lord, thou knowest
we have not a mOuthful of food in me
house! Help me; help USE And he started
out on the street and a gentleman net HIM
and sad: Il have been thinking of you
fer a good while. You know / am q -four
should like to send you a barrel OF flour"
lie cast his burden or the Lord, and the
of religion We want.
In the straiehts of Magellan, have been
told, there is place where whichever way
a ship captain puts his ship ne finds the
wind against him and there are men who
all their lives have been running i'll the
teeth Of the wind and which way to turn
how a. no 10 q
this assemblage and ] address them face to
face, not perfunctorily, but as ore brother
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 man
harled and perpleXed and annoyed in bus
mess life we are apt to say: lie ought
not to have attempted to carry 50 much
All! that man may not be to blame at
all. When a man plants a business ne
does not know what will be it's out8roWths;
what will be its roots; what will be It's
branches. There is many a man with
keen foresight and large business faculty
who has been flung into the dust by unfofe-
seen circumstances sprinSnS upon nm
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 m
vention of machinery, what Will be the
effect of that loss Of crop ana a thouSanu
other questions perpleX business men until
the hair is slvered and deep wrinkles are
plowed in the cheek, and the stocks 80 up
by mountains and go down by valleys ana
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 again chandl3fy,
imported article against imported article; a
thousand stores in combat win othei
thousand stores. Never such advantage OF
lighf never such variety OF assortment
never so much splendor OF snow WINDOW
never so much adrOitncSS OF statesmen, never
so much acuteneSS of advertising, ana anna
all these seventies of riVa ny IN business
how may men break down! ON, the bur
den the shoulder! Oh, the burden Oh
the heart' ~
You hear that it is avarice which drives
these men of business through the street,
and that is the commonly accepted idea. !
do not believe word of it. The vast null
titude OF these business men are tolllnS on
for others. TO educate their children, to put
a wing Of protect Es * er their households, to
have something left 50 when they pass out
Of this life their wives and children WI II not
have to go to the pOOrhOGSe-that IS the
way | translate this energy in the street
and store-the vast majority of that energy
Grip. Gouge & Co. do not do all the bust
ness. Some of us remember when the Cen
trail America was coming home from Cali
fornia it wrecked President Arthur $
father-in-law was the heroic captain of that
ship, and went down with most of the pas
sengers. Some of them got off into the life
boats, but there was a young man returning
from California who had Il 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 comradee in the
boat. "Here. John, cath this gold; there are
$1,000; take it nome to my old mother; it
will make her comfortable in her last days"
Grip, Gouge & Co. do not do all The business
Of the world.
All. my friend, do you say that God does
not care anything about your worldly bust
ness? | tell you God knows more about
it than you do. He knows all your perpleX-
tiles; He knows what mortgage is about
to foreclcSe; He knows what unsaleabe
goods you have on your shelves; He knows
all your trials from the day you took hold
of the first yardsticll down to that sale OF
the last yard of ribbon, and the God who
helped David to be king, and who helped
Daniel to be prime minister, and who help
ed Havelocl to be a soldier, will help you to
discharge 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 your business partner betrayS you,
and your friends turn against you, just take
the insulting letter. put it down on the ia
BILE put your Bible beside the insulting let
ter and then read of the friendship of
Him who "ctir11eth rlOser than q brother. -
young accountant in New York city got
his accounts entangled. He knew he was
honest and yet he could not make his ac-
counts come out right and he toiled at
them day and night until he was nearly
frenzied. It seemed by those books that