Connecticut western news., 1894-05-31
THE HEAVY WEIGHTS
REV. nR, TalMaGE'S ELOQUENT SER
 MON IN SAN FRANCISCO.

The Burdens That the Lord Will Sustain if Christians wm hut Cast Them Upon Hhn-The world Great Hospital. Mountains of Sin Removed.
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 27.-Rev. T. Do Witt Talmagc is how in this city, whence he W. sail Iext Thursday on the steamer Al,,me,la for Honolulu on his trip around tho world. He preached today to a largo and deeply interested audience on the subject of Heavy Weights, {" the text being taken from Psalms lv, g, Cast thy bnrden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.
 David was here taking lis own metii- 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 tid- 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 for all that is good and kind and gracious and beneficent. Word comes to us of a scourge sweeping off hundreds and thousands of people, and there Is a burden of sorrow. Sorrow on the sea and sorrow on the land. Com ing into the house or prayer there may be no sign of sadness or sorrow, but where is the man who has not con fiict? Where is the sonl that has not a struggle? And there is not a day of all the year when my text is not gloriously appropriate, and there is never an au- dience assembled on the planet where the text is not gloriously appropriate, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. :"
 A We'll of Tears.
 In the far east wells of water arc so infrequent that when a man owns a we'll he has 8 property of very great value, and sometimes battles have been fought for the possession of one well of water, but there is one we'll that every man owns, a deep well, perennial we'll, we'll of tears. If a man has not a burden on this shoulder, he has q bur den on the other shoulder.
 The day left home to look after my self 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. have many time come to a crisis of difficulty. You may know that, having been sick for years, it was no easy thing for me to support family, but always God came to the rescue. l remember the time, he said, when I didn't know what to do, and 1 saw man on horseback riding up the farm lane and he announced to ne that l had been nominated for the most lucra- tive office in all the gift of the people of the county, and to that office l was elected, and God ill that way met all my wants, and tell you it is always safe to trust him.
 Oh, my friends, what we want is a practical religion! The religion people have is so high up you cannot reach it. 1 had friend who entered the life of an evangelist. He gave up lucrative business ill Chicago and he and his wife finally came to severe want. He told me that in the morning at prayers he said: 70 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 gentleman met him and said: II have been thinking of you for good while You know am 8 flour merchant If you won't be offended, 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
 Business Burdens.
 In the strait of Magellan, 1 have been told, there is place where, which ever way a ship captain puts his ship, he finds the wind against him, and there are men who all their lives have been runlxing in the teeth of tue wind, and which way to turn they do not know. Some of them may be in this as semblage, and I address them face to face, not perfunctorily, but as one broth CT talks to another brother, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sus- tain thee.
 There are great many men who have business burdens. When we see a man W. rried and perplexed and annoyed i'll business life, we are apt to say, He ought not to have attempted to carry so much" Ah, that man may not be to blame at all! When a man plants a 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 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 busi- ness men until the hair is silyered and deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek, and the stocks go apl 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 busi ness as now. It is hardware against hardware books against books, chan dlery against chandlery, imported article against imported article. A thousand stores in combat with another thou sand stores. Never such advantage of light, never such variety of assortment, never so much splendor of show win dow, never so much adroitness of sales men, never so much acuteness of adver- tisinS, and amid all these seventies of rivalry in business how many men break down! Oh, the burden on the shoulderl Oh, the burden on the heart!
 Polling For Others.
 You hear that it is avarice which drives these men of business through the street, and that is the commonly ac- cepted idea Ido not believe word of it. The vast multitude of these business men arc toiling on for others To edu- cate their children, to put wing of pro- lection over their households, to have something left so when they pass out of this life their wives and children will not have to go to the poorhouse-that se,k IT -1.A Al1o