Democratic messenger., 1894-06-02
THE HEAVY WEIGHTS
REV. DR.. TALMAGE'S ELOQUENT SER
MON IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Inc Atur0enb tue A@OIu VIII Sust1tn
Christians VIII but Cast Them Upon
Him-The World n Great Hospital.
Mountains of Sin Removed.
San Francisco, May 27.-Rev. T.
DE Witt Talnagc is Eow 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 n 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 II anybody had on him heavy
weights, David had them. and yet out
sf his own experience he advises you
and me rs 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 o
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 beneficent Word
comes TO us of a scourge sweeping off
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
be no sign of sadness or sorrow, but
where is the man who has not con-
fiict? Where is the soul that has not n
struggle: And there is not n day of all
the year when my text is not gloriously
appropriate, and there is never an au.
dience assembled on the planet where
the text is not gloriously appropriate,
Cast thy burden upon the Lord. and
he shall sustain thee.
AwelI of Tears.
In the far east wells Of water are so
infreQuent that when 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 owns, n deep well, a perennial
well. well of tears. II man has not
n burden on this shoulder. he has bur-
den on the other shoulder.
The day 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 been with me all
my life: "De Witt, it is always safe to
trust God. have many a time come to q
crisis Of difficulty. You may know that,
having been sick for Is years. it was no
easy thing for me TO support family,
but always God came to the rescue. i
remember the time, he said, when
didn't know what to do. and / saw a
man on horseback riding up the farm
lane, and he announced to me that
had been nominated for the most lucra-
tive Office in all the gift of the people Of
the county, and to that Office 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 q
practical religion! The religion people
have is so high up you cannot reach il.
! had 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 III the morning ut prayers he
said: 20 Lord, thou knowest we have
not mouthful Of food in the house!
Help me; help us.' And he started ont
on the street. and gentleman met him
and said: Il have been thinking Of you
for a good while. You know am -four
merchant. If you won't be offended.
should like to send you n barrel Of
-four" He cast his burden on the Lord,
nx.I Sha Il 0rle exxcfas..al hin, hot
is the kind of religion we want
Business Burdens.
In the strait of Magellan, have
been told, there is place where, which
ever way n 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 / address them face to
face, not perfunctorily. but rs one broth
er talks to another brother, Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shall sus-
tain thee
There are great many men who
have business burdens. When we see q
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 ut all! When a man plants q
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 cir
cumstances 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
new invention of machinery. what will
be the effect Of that loss of crop and q
thousand ether questions perplex bust
ness men until the hair is silvered and
deep wrinkles are plowed in the check.
and the stocks 90 up by mountains and
go down by valleys, and they are at
their wits ends and stagger like drunk
en- men.
There never has been q time when
there have been such rivalries in bust
ness rs now. 1t is hardware against
hardware. books against books, chan.
dlery against chandlery, imported article
against imported article. A Thousand
stores in combat with another thou.
sand stores. Never such advantage OF
light, never such variety of assortment.
never SO much splendor of show win
dow, never SO much adroitness of sales
men, never so much acuteness of adver
tising, and amid all these seventies ol
rivalry in business how many men breal
down. Oh. the burden ON the shoulder
Oh. the burden ON the hearth
Toiling For Others.
You hear that il is ayarice which
drives these men Of business through tn,
street. and that is the commonly &C