The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-01
HEAVY WEIGHTS.
Dr. Talmage breaches Powerful
Sermon in San Francisco,
Taking For His Text Psalms Nv. 2e: sCast
Thy Burden Upon the Lord. and He
VIII Sustain Thee"

ran Francisco to large anu deeply m
terested audience on the subject of
seHeavy Weights the text being taken
from Psalms ", 90, Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and he shall sustain
thee"
David was here taking his own medi-
cine 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. This is world of burden
bearing. During the past few days It'd
ings 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 of all that is good
and kind and gracious and beneficent.
Word comes to us of scourge sweep
ing off hundreds and thousands of peo-
pie, 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 sor-
row, but where is the man who has not
conflict? Where is the soul that has
not struggle? And there is not a
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 thou burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
In the far east wells of water are so
infrequent that when man owns
well ne has 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. a well of tears. If man has not
burden on this shoulder he has a
burden on the other shoulder.
The day after l 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 my life: ode Witt, it
is always safe to trust God. | have
many time come to a crisis of difficult
.ty. You may know that, having been
sick for fifteen years, it was no easy
thing for me to support family, but
always God came to the rescue. / re-
member the time" he said. when /
didn't know what to do, and l saw a
man on horseback riding up the farm
lane, and he announced to me that
had been nominated for the most lu-
crative office in all the gift of the peo-
pie of the county. and to that office |
was elected, and God in that way met
all my wants, and / tell you it is al
ways safe to trust Him."
Oh. my friends, what we want is a
practical religion! The religion people
have is so high up you can not reach it.
] had a friend who entered the life of
an evangelist. He gave up a lucrative
position in Chicago, and he and his wife
finally came to severe want. He told
me that in the morning at prayers he
said: 80, Lord; thou knowest we have
not a mouthful of food in the house!
Help me: help us,' And he started out
on the street. and a gentleman met him
and said: Il have been thinking of you
for good while. You know am
-four merchant. If you won't be offend
ed, should like to send you barrel of
flour" He cast his burden on The Lord,
and the Lord sustained him. Now, that
is the kind of religion we want.
In the strait of Magellan, ] have
been told, there is place where, which
ever way ship captain put 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
assemblage. and / address them face to
face, not perfunctorily, but as one broth
er 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 worried and perplexed and an
noyed 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 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 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
thousand other questions perpleX bust
ness men until the hair is Silvered and
deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek,
and the stocks go 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 a time when
there have been such rivalries in bust
ness as now. 1t is hardware against
hardware, books against books, chan
dlery against chandlery, imported
article against imported article. A
thousand stores in combat with an
other thousand stores. Never such adj
vantage of light, never such variety of
assortment, never so much splendor of
show window, never so much adroit-
ness of statesmen, never so much acute
ness of advertising, and amid all these
seventies of rivalry in business how
many men break down. Oh, the bur
den on the shoulder, Oh, the burden
on 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 a word
of it. The vast multitude of these bust
ness 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 this life their wives and chill
dren viii not have to go to the poor
house-that is the way translate this
energy in the street and store-the vast