The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-06-06

little rcsorting to God for solace! Then
people depended upon their tones. and
their plasters, and their cordials rather
than upon heavenly stlmulants.
On, how few people there are CON-
pletelY well. Some Of you, by, dint Of
perseverance and care, have kept living
to this time, but how you have had to
war against physical ailments! Antedilu
vans, without medical college and in
frmary and apothecary shop, multiplied
their years by hundreds, but he who has
gone through the gantlet of disease in
cur time and has come to 70Tears of age
is hero worthy Of palm.
The world seems to be a great hos
pital, and you run against rheumatlsms
and consumptions and scrofulas and
scrofulas and neuralgias and scores OF
old diseases baptized by new Domene!a-
ture. On, how heavy burden sickness
| isl It takes the color out Of the SKY,
and the sparkle out of the wave, and
the sweetness out of the fruit, and The
luster out Of the night. When the limbs
ache, when the mouth is hot, when the
ear roars with unhealthy obstructions,
| how hard it is to be patient and cheaT-
! ful and assidu9us,
"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 pain
full? His was struck by the spear. Do
you feel like giving way under the
| burden? His weakness gave way under
a cross. Whileyou are in every pos
sible way to try to restore your physi-
cal Vigor, you are to remember that
more soothing than any anodyGe, more
| Vitalizing than any stimulant and more
strengthening than any tonic IS the
prescription of the text, Cast thy bur.
den upon the Lord, and he will sustain
these"
We hear great deal of talk now
about faith cure, and some people say
it cannot be done and 1t is a failure. |
do not know but that the chief advance
| of the church is to be in that direction.
| Marvellous things come to me day by
| day which make ms think that if the
age Of miracles is past it is because the
faith of miracles is past.
A prominent merchant of New York
said to member of my family, My
mother wants her case mentioned to
Mr.. Talmage."
This was the case. He said: "My mot
her had dreadful abscess, from which
she had suffered untold agonies, and all
surgery had been exhausted upon her, ,
and worse and worse she grew until we
called in few Christian friends and pro
ceeded to pray about it. We commend
ed her case to God, and the abscess
began Immediately to be cured. She is
entirely we'll now nd,Without any sur
| gely." So that case has come to me,
and there are a score of other cases
coming to our ears from all parts Of the
earth O, ye who are sick, go to Christ!
Oh,ye who are worn out with agonies OF
body, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
and he shall sustain thee"
| Another burden some have to carry
is the burden Of bereavement. Ab, these
are the troubles that wear US out! If we
lose our property, by additional indus
try perhaps we may bring back the
estranged fortune; If we lose our good
name, perhaps by reformation ot NOR
ais we may achieve again reputation
for integrity, but who will bring back
the dear departed?
Alas, me, for these empty cradles and
these trunks of childish toys that Will
never be used againl Alas, me, for the
! empty chair and the silence III the halls
| that will never echo again to those fam
liar footsteps! Alas for the cry of wild
oWhood and orphanage! What bitter
Marahs in the wilderness, what cities
Of the dead, what long black shadow
from the wing of death, what eyes sun
ken with grief, what hands trembling
with bereavement, what instruments
of music shut now because there are
no fingers to play On them! Is there no
relief for such souls? Aye, let that soul
ride into the harbor Of my text:
Thr soul that on Jesus has learned to re.
| pose
l will not, [ will not desire to its foes.
! THAT soul, though all hell shall endeavor
to stake, ~
I'll never, no never, no never forsakH.
Now the grave is hriohte1 Cnan the
ancient tomb .ssnere the lights were
prepetnsiiiy kept burning. Yhe SCARED
feet Of him who was "the resurrection
! aud the life" are on the broken grave
hilIock, while the voices Of angels ring
down the sky at the coronation Of an
other soul come home to glory.
Then there are many VINO carry the
burden of sin. All, we all carry it until
in the appointed way that burden is
lifted. We need no Bible to prove that
the whole race is ruined. What a spec.
tacle it would be if we could tear Off
the mask of human defilement or beat
drum that would bring up the whole
army Of the words trans gressions -
the deception, the fraud, and the mur.
der, and the crime of all centuries! Aye
| if could sound the trumpet OF the
resurrection 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 It's clutch upon
the immortal soul, and that clutch will
never relax unless it be under the heel
Of him who came to de stroy the works
Of the devil.
On, to have mountain Of sin on the
soul! Is there no way to have the bur
/ den moved On, yes. "CaSV Lny DuToeu
upon the LORD" The sinless one came
to take the consequences of our sin.
And | know he is in earnest. How do
l know it? By the streaming temples,
and the streaming hands as he says
Come unto me, all ye who are weary
and heavy laden, and l will give you
rest"
Why will prodigals live on sWines'
husks when the robe, and the ring. and
fathers welcome are ready? Why go
wandering over the great Sahara desert
of your sin when you are invited to the
gardens of God, The trees of life and
foundations Of living water? Why be
| houseless and homeless forever when
you may become the sons and daugh-
tiers of the Lord God Almighty?
Shocking Wreck.
CUMBERLAND, Md, May 81 The
New York and PitJsburg express on
the Baltimore. and Ohio Railroad,
which left here at 1.3O this morning,
| was wrecked near Pine Grove, two and
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