Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-28

aud knows how Few pence she gets Tor
making a garment; and louder than all
the din and roar OF the city comes the
voice Of sympathetic God: "Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shall sus.
tain thee"
Now, II YOU have come across i'll
treatment, let me tell you you are in ex-
celDent mBany-Christ and Luther
aud Calico ard Columbus ana John
Jey and Josiah Quincy and thousands
oi men and women, the best spirits Of
earth and heaven.
Bulge not one inch, though all hell
wreak upon you its vengeance, and you
be made target for devils TO shoot at.
Do you think Christ knew all about
persecution? Was he not Kissed at?
Was he not struck on the cheek? Was
be not pursued all the days of his life?
Did they not expeetorate upon him?
Or, to put itin Bible language, "They
spit upon him" And cannot be under
stand what persecution is? Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain thee"
Then, there are others who carry
great burdens Of physical ailments.
When sudden sickness has come, and
fierce choleras and malignant feyers
take the castles OF life by storm, we
appeal 20 God; but in these chronic all
ments which wear out the strength day
after day, and week after week, and
year after year, how little resorting to
God for solace! Then people depend
upon their tOnics and their plasters and
THAR COrdials rather than
UPON HEAVENLY sTIMULANTs.
Oh, how few people there are COM
pletely well. Some of you, by diut OF
perseverance and care, have kept living
10 this time; but how you have had TO
war against physical ailments! Ante
diluvians, without medical college and
intirmsry and apothecary shop, multi
piled their years by hundreds; but he
who has gone through the gauntlet OF
disease in our time, and has come to
seventy years Of age, is hero worthy
of palm.
The world seems to be a great hospi-
tai. and you run against rheumatisms
aud consumDtions and scrofulas and
neuralgias aud scores Of old diseases
baptized By new nomenclature. Oh,
how heavy a burden sickness is? 1t
takes the color out Of the SKY and the
sparkle out Of the wave and the sweet
ness out Of the fruit and the lustre out
of the night. When the limbs ache,
when the respiration is painful, when
the mouth is bot, when the ear roars
with unhealthy distractions, how hard
il is to be patient and cheerful and as
SiduOus.
cast thy burden upon the Lord. ="
Does your head ache? His wore the
thorn. DO your feet hurt? His were
crushed Of the spikes. Is your side
painful? His was struck by the spear.
Do you feel like giving way under the
burden? His weakness gave way IN
der cross. While you are in every
possible way to try 10 restore your
physical vigOr, you are to remember
that more soothing tSdn any anodyne,
more vital,Ang than any stimulant, and
more STRENGTHENING than any tonic is
the prescription OF the text: Cast thy
burden upon the Lord and he will sus
tain thee.
Another burden some have to carry is
the burden of bereavement. Oh! these
are the troubles that wear US out. II
we lose our property, by additional in
dustry perhaps we may bring back the
estranged fortune; is we lose our good
name, perhaps by reformation OF morals
we may achieve again reputation for
integrity; but who will bring back the
dear departed?
Alas, me- for those empty cradles and
these trunks of childish toys that will
never be used again. Alas, mel for the
empty chair and the silence in the halls
that will never echo again TO those
familiar footsteps. Alas for the cry Of
widowhOOd and orphanage. What Bit
ter MarahS in the wilderness, what
cities of the dead, what long black
shadow from the wing of death, what
eyes sunken with grief, what hands
tremulous with bereavement, what in
struments OF music shut now because
there ars no fingers to play on them!
Is there no relief for such souls? Ay,
lot that soul ride into the harbor Of my
text.
The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
1 will not. / VIII not desert 10 It's foes,
That soul though ali hell shall endeavor TO
snake.
III never, no never, no never forsake.
Now, the grave is brighter than the
ancient tomb where the lights were
DerDetually kept burning. The SCARED
feet of Hin who was 1.-THE resurrection
and the life" are on the broken grave
hilock, while the voices Of angels ring
down the sky at the coronation OF an
other soul come home 10 glory.
Then there are many who carry
THE BURDEN OF SIN.
An, we all carry il until ia the ap-
pointed way the burden is lifted. We
need no Bible to prove that the whole
race is ruined. What a spectacle it
would be IL we could tear of the mask
OF human detilement, or beat a drum
that would bring up the whole army Of
the worlds transgresSions-the decep-
tiOn, the fraud AID the rapine and the
murder and the crime OF all centuriesl
Ay, II l could sound the trumpet OF
In the soul of the best men
In this audience, and all the dead sins
Of the past should come up, we could
not endure the sight. Sin, grim and
dire, has put its clutch upon the i'm
mortal soul. and that clutch will never
relaq unless it be under the heel Of Him
who came TO destroy the works Of the
devil.
Oh, TO have a mountain Of sin on the
soul, Is there no way to have the bur-
den moved? Oh, yes, Cast thy burden
upon the Lord" The sinlesS one came
10 take the consequences Of our sin!
Aud | know be is in earnest. How do
I know il? BY the streaming temples