Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-06-13
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE'S SUN.
DAY SERMON.
Subject. "Heavy Weights" (Deliv
cred at San Francisco).

e bny DufUcTf upon the LOE,t.
and He shall sustain fee."-Psalms w., o.
David was here taking HIS own medicine.
If anybody had on HIM heavy weights, Da-
vid had them, and yet out of his own ex perf-
ence he advises You and me as 10 the hest
way Of getting rid of burdens. This, is a
world of burden bearing. During the past
few days tidfngs came from across the sea Of
mighty and good man fallen. man full
OF the Holy Ghost was he, hts name the sy-
nonym for all that is good and kind and gra-
ciouS and beneiicent. Word comes to US of
scouree sweeping off hundreds and thou
sands oil people. and there Is burden OF
sorrow. Sorrow on the sea and sorrow on
the land. Coming into the house OF prayer
there may be no sign of sadness or sorrow,
but whore is the man who has not n con-
fict? Where is the soul that has not strug-
Ele? And there is not 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 Gloriously
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 a man owns a well he
has n 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, a deep well,
perennial well, we'll oftears. II n man has
not burden on this shoulder, he has bur-
den on the other shoulder.
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. L
have many time come to crisis OF diff
Guilty. You may know that, having been
sick for fifteen years, it was no easy this.g
Tor me to support family, but always God
came to the rescue. 1 remember the time"
he said, "when didn't know what to do,
and saw man on horseback riding up the
farm lane, and he announced to me that
had been nominated for the most lucrative
office in all the gift OF the people OF the
county, and TO that Office 1 was elected, and
God in that way met all my wants, and tell
you 1t is always safe TO trust Him."
Oh, my friends, what we want is practi-
cal religiOnl The religion people have is so
high up you cannot reach it. I had q frieni
who entered the life of an evangelist. He
gave up lucrative business in Chicago, and
he and his wife finally came to severe want.
He told me that in the morning at prayers
be said 80 Lord, Thou knowest we have
not a mouthful of food In the housel Help
me ; help y And he started out on the
street, and a gentleman met him and said
Il have been thinking of you for q good
while. You know l am flour merchant.
Ii you won't be offended, 1 should like TO
send you barrel of flour" He cast his bur-
len on the Lord, and the Lord sustained
him. Now, that is the kind of religion we
want.
In the strait of Magellan, I have been
told, there is place where, whichever way
Z ship captain puts his slip, 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
his assemblage, and l address them face to
lace, not pertunctorily, but as one brother
talks 10 another brother, "Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee"
lhITR me yrb bay
business burdens. When we see man wOr-
ried and perplexed and annoyed in business
life, we are apt to say, He ought not TO
have attempted TO carry so much" An, that
man may not be to blame at all When a
man plants 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 circumstances springlng
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 thousand
other questions perpleG business men until
the hair is silversd and deep wrinkles are
plowel in the cheek, and the stocks go up
by mOratains and go down by valleys, and
sbsJ are at their wits ends and stagger like
Lrunken men.
There never has been time when there
have bGan such rlvalries IN business as now.
II is hardware against hardware, books
against books chandlerY against chandlery,
imported articles against imported articles.
A thousand stores in combat with another
thousand stores. Never such advantage of
light, never such variety of assortment.
never so much splendor of show window,
never so much adroitness OF statesmen, never
so much acuteness of advertising, and amid
all these seventies of rivalry in business how
many men break down, oh, the burden on
the shOulder Oh, the burden on the heart
You hear that it is avarice which drives
these mgn Of business through the street,
and that is the commonly accepted idea I
do not believe Il word of IL. The vast multi
tude OF these business men are toiling on for
others. To educate their children, TO put
wing of protection over their households, TO
have something left so when they pass out of
his life their wives and children will not
have to 20 to the pOorhouse-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 business,
Some OF US remember when the Central
America was coming home from California
it was wrecked. President Arthur's father
in-law was the heroic captain OF that ship
and went down with most Of the passengers.
Some Of them got off into lifeboats, but there
was a young man returning from California
who had 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
q comrade in the boat Here, John, catch
this gold. There are $4,000. Take it home
to my old mother it will make her comfort
able 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 BUSH
ness2 I tell you God knows more about II
than you do. He knows all your perplexi-
ties J., -Ie knows what mortgage is about to
tortoise, He knows what note you cannot
pay He knows what unstable goods you
have on your shelves He knows all your
trials, from the day you took hold OF the
first yardsttck 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 helped Have
Jock to be soldier will help you to dis
charge all your duties. He Is going to see
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
friendsturn against you, just take the in
sulting letter, put it down on the table, put
your Bible beside the insulting letter, and
then read of the friendship of Him who
''sticketh closer than a brother"
A 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 irenzied
It seemed by those books that something had
been misapprOpriated, and he knew before
God he was honest. The last day came. H
knew if he could not that day make his &C
counts come out right he would go into dis
grace and 90 into banishmenf from the bust
hess establishment. He went over there very
early-before there was anybody in the place
and he knelt down at the desk and said
40 Lord, Thou knowest l have tried to be
honest but | cannot make these things CONF
our riEnti Help me to-day-help me this
morning" The young man arose. and hard.
~ knowing why he did so opened book
that lay on the desk, and there was a leaf
containing line of figures which explained
everything. In other words, he cast his
burden upon the Lord, and the Lord sus-
tained him. Young man, do you hear that?
ON, yes, God has n sympathy with any,
BODY that is in any kind of toll! He knows
now heavy is the hod of bricks that the
workman carries up the ladder on the wall.
n nears the picKax of tho miner down IN
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