Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-05-31
THEBURDENS OF LIFE
AN ELOQUENT AND FORCsFUL SER
MON BY REV. Or. TALMAGE.
lily Laden-Burdens of the Heart and of
the Body-Living Troubles and Dead.

the Body-LiNing Troubles ana Dead.
SAN FRANCISCO, May o7.-Rov. r. De
Witt Talmagc is now 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 largo
and deeply interested audience on the sub
ject of Heavy Weights" the text being
taken from Psalms ", %, Cast thy bur
den upon the Lord, and he shall sustain
thco"
David was here taking his own mcdi
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 bur
dcns, This is a world of burden bearing.
During the past few days tidings came
from across the sea of mighty and good
man fallen. A man full of the Holy Ghost
was he, his namc the synonym for all that
Is good and kind and gracious and benct-
iCcnt. Word comes to us of scourgN
sweeping off hundreds and thousands Of
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 where
Is the man who has not II conflict? Where
Is the soul that has not a struggle? 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 arc SO in
frequent that when a man owns well he
has a property of very great value, and
sometimes battles have been fought for
bn ion Of pf lint
there is one well that every man owns, a
deep well, perennial well, a wei of tears.
If a man has not a burden OF this shout
der, he has a burden on the other Shout
der.
Practical Religion,
The day left home to lcoll after my
self and for myself in the wagon my father
sat driving, and he said that day some
thing which has been with me all my life:
"Dc Witt, it is always safe to trust God.
[ have many time come TO a crisis of
difficulty. You may know that, having been
sick for 10 years, it was no easy thing for
me to support a family, but always God
came to the rescue. remember the time, y"
he said, when didn't know what to do
ind l saw man on horseback riding up
the farm lane, and he announced to me
that l had been nominated for the most
lucrative Office in all the gift of the people
of the county, and to that office l was
elected, and God in that way met all my
wants, and tell you it is always safe to
trust him. "
On, my friends, what we want is prlc-
tical religion The religion people have
Is so high up you cannot reach it. l had
friend who entered the life of an evan
gclist 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 at prayers he said: 80 Lord.
thou knowcst we have not mouthful of
food in the house! Help me, help us'
And he started out or the street. and q
gentleman met him and said; Il have
been thinking OF you for a good while.
You know I an flour merchant. If you
won't be offended, I should like to send
you a barrel of flour" He cast his bur
den en- the Lord, and the Lord sustained
him. Nov, that is the kind of religion
we want.
In the strait of Magellan, I have been
told, there is a place where, whichever way
a ship captain puts his ship, he finds the
wind against him, and there are men who
oil their lives have been running in the
teeth of the wind and which way to turn
in this assemblagc, and / address them
face TO face, not perfunctorily, but as one
brother talks to another brother, Cast
thy burden upon tho Lord, and he shall
sustain thee"
Heart Burdens,
There arc q great many men who have
business burdens. When we see man
worried and perplexcd and annoyed il
business life, we are apt to say, He ought
not to have attempted to carry SO much. y
All, that man may not be to blame at all
When 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 man with keen foresight
and large business faculty who has beer
flung into tho dust by unforeseen cirCum
stances springing upon him from ambush
When to buy, when to sell, when to truS
and to what amount of credit, what vii
be the effect of this new invention O
machinery, what will be the effect of tina
loss Of crop and thousand other question
perpiex business men until the hair is sill
vered and deep wrinkles are plowed il
the check, and the stocks go up by noun
tains and go down by valleys, and the
are at their wits ends and staggcr liiI
drunken men.
There never has been a time when Their
have been such rivalries in business Il
now. 1t is hardware against hardware
books against books, chandlery agains
chandlely, imported article against i'm
ported article A thousand stores in com
bat with another thousand stores. Neve
such advantage of light, never such variet
of assortment, never so much splcndor G
show window, never so much adroitnes
of statesmen, never SO much acuteness c
advertising and amid all these severitie
Of rivalry in business how many men brca
down Oh, the burden on the shoulder
Oh, the burden on the hcartl
You hear that it is avarice which drive
these men of business through the stree
and that is the commonly accepted idef
] do not believe word of it. The vas
multitude Of these business men are tot
Ing ON for Others. To educate their chi
dren to put wing Of protection over the
households, to have something left s
when they pass out of this life their wivt
and children will not have to go to IL
poorhouse-that is the way translate tn
energy in the street and store, the va