Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-08
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUM-
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "Heavy Weights" (Deliv-
cred ct San Francisco).

TEXT: "Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
and He shall sustain thee. Psalms w.. %.
| David was here taking his own medicine.
| If anybody had on him heavy weights, Da-
| vid had them, and yet out Of his own expert
ence he advises YOU and me as to the hest
way Of getting rid of burdens This is a
world Of burden bearing. During the past
few days tidings came from across the sea OF
mighty and good man fallen. man full
of the Holy Ghost was he his name the sy-
nOnym for all that is good and kind and gra-
ciOus and benefcent. Word comes to us of
a scOurge sweeping of hundreds and thou
sands o. people. and there is a burden OF
sorrow Sorrow on the sea and sorrow on
the land. Coming into the house of prayer
| there may he no sign of sadness or sorrow,
| but whore is the man who has not a con-
| fict? Where is the soul that has not a strug-
gle! And there is not n 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 Il man owns q well he
has property Of very great value. and
sometimes battles have been fought for the
possession of one we'll of water, but there is
one we'll that every man owns, a deep well, q
perennial we'll a well Oftears. II a man has
not burden on this shoulder, he has bur-
den On the other shoulder
fhe day I left home to look after myself
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. I
have many time come to a crisis of diff
Guilty. You may know that, having been
sick for fifteen years, it was no easy thing
for me to support a family, but always God
came to the rescue. I remember the time"
he said, "When [ didn't know what to do,
and [ saw a 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 J was elected, and
God IN that way met all my wants. AMI [ tell
you it is always safe to trust Him.
Oh, my friends, what we want is practi-
cal religion! The religion people have iss
high up you cannot reach it. I had a friend
who entered the life of an evangelist. He
gave up a lucrative business in Chicago, and
he and his wife finally came to severe want.
He told me that in the morning at prayers
he said: so Lord, Thou knowest we have
not a mouthful of food in the house! Help
me; help usH' And he started out on the
street, and a gentleman met him and said:
81 have been thinking of you for good
while. You know [ am a flour merchant.
IF you won't be offended, | should like to
send you a barrel OF flour" He cast his bur-
den 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, whichever way
a ship captain puts 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 assamblage, and [ address them face to
face, not perfunctOrily, but as one brother
coll -, l,-,. IAN
upon the Lord. and He shall sustain thee"
There are great many men who have
business burdens. When we see a 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" Ah that
man may not be to blame at all! When
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 circumstances Sprlnging
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 business 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
drunken men.
There never has been a time when there
have been such rivalries in business as now.
It 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 salesmen, 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 men of business through the street,
and that is the commonly accepted idea.
do not believe a word of it. 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
this life their wives and children will not
have to go 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
1t was wrecked. President Arthur's father
1n-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 young man returning from California
"a
the last boat showed off from the ship that
was to 60 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 busi-
ness? / tell you God knows more about it
than you do. He knows all your perplext-
ties; He knows what mortgage is about to
foreciose; 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 yardstich 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
lock to be soldier will help you to dis
charge all your duties. He is going to see
you through. When loss comes, and you
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
1rlendSturn against you, just take the in
suitIng letter, put it down on the table, put
Your Bible beside the insulting letter, and
then read Of the friendship of Him who
'stlcketh closer than a brother"
A young accountant in New York City got
MS dccOuutS eutanSIed. he knew he was
honest, and yet he could not make his ac-
counts come out right. and he toiled at them
day ana night until he was nearly frenzied.
It seemed by chose books that something had
been mi5appropriated, and he knew before
God he was honest. The last day came. He
knew if he could not that day make his ac-
counts come out right he would go into dis
grace and go into banishmenf from the busi-
ness establishment. He went over there very
early-Defore there was anybody in the place
and he knelt down at the desk and said:
80 Lord Thou knowest have tried to be
Lonest, but I cannot make these things come
out right! Help me to-day-help me this
morning" The young man arose, and hard
ly knowing why he did so opened book
that lay the desk and there was a Leaf