The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-07-21
HEAVY WEIGHTS.
DR.. Talmage breaches Powerful
Sermon in San Francisco,
Taking For His Text Psalms Nv. <<'
Thy Burden Upon the LORD, ah@s0 "
VIII Sustain Ghee." al

terested audience on the subject OF
Heavy Weights" the text being taken
from psalms lv, %, Cast thy burden
unon the Lord, and he shall sustain
thee" :.
David was here taking his own medi-
cine. If anybody had on nm heaVy
weights, David had them, and yet Out
of his own experience he advises you
and me as to the best way of getting rlo
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
fuil of the Holy Ghost was He, his
name the synonym OF all that is gooo
and kind and gracious and beneficent'
Word comes to us of a scourge sweep
;np off hundreds and thousands OF peo-
ple, 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
a conflict? Where is the soul 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 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
infreouent that when man owns
well he has property of very great
value. and sometimes battles have oeen
fought for the possession of one well OF
water, but there is one well that every
man owns, deep well, a perennial
well. a well of tears. If a man has not
a burden on this shoulder, he has
burden on the other shoulder.
The day after / 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: de Witt, it
is always safe to trust God. l have
many a time come to 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 l tell you it is al
ways safe to trust Him."
n Oh. nv friends, what we want is a
: practical religion! The religion people
have is SO high up you can not reach It
I had a friend who entered the life OF
an evangelist. He gave up lucrative
position in Chicago, and he and his wife
finally came to severe want. He tosc
: me that in the morning at prayers he
said: go, Lord; thou knowest we have
> not a mouthful of food in the house
Help me; help us!'' And he started ou
on the street, and gentleman met hin
and said: II have been thinking of yo'
for a good while. You know l am |
-four merchant. If you won't be offend
ed. should like to send you barrel o
-four He cast his burden on the Lord
and the Lord sustained him. Now, tina
is the kind of religion we want.
In the strait of Magellan, / hav
been told, there is place where, which
ever way a ship captain put his ship
he finds the wind against him. an
there are men who all their lives hav
been running in the teeth of the wind
and which way to turn they do nc
know. Some of them may be in thi
assemblage, and / address them face t
face, not perfunctorily, but as one brotf
er talks to another brother, "Cast tn
: burden upon the Lord, and he sha
= sustain thee"
There are a great many men VIII
!. have business burdens. When we see
: man worried and perplexed and al
moved in business life we are apt
say: HE ought not to have attempted
: carry so much!'' All, that man may NJ
= be to blame at all. When man plants
4 business he does not know what wi
y be it's outgrowths, what will be i
roots, what will be it's branches. The
is MANY a man with keen foresight ar
large business faculty who has bee
flung into the dust by unforeseen CT
cumstances springing upon him fro
ambush. When to buy, when to SCI
when to trust and to what amount
credit, what will be the effect of tn
new invention of machinery. what wi
= be the effect of that loss of crop and
thousand other questions perplex blu:
ness men until the hair is silvered al
deep wrinkles are plowed in the chez
and the stocks go up by mountains al
60 down by valleys, and they are
tnelr wits ends and stagger like drum
en- men.
There never has been time WIFI
there have been such rivalries in bu
ness as now. 1t is hardware again
. hardware, books against books, cha
dlery against chandlery, import
m, article against imported article.
md thousand stores in combat with a
other thousand stores. Never such a
vantage of light, never such variety
= assortment, never SO much splendor
show window, never SO much adro
ness of statesmen, never so much acu
ness of advertising and amid all the
seventies of rivalry in business hi
many men break down! Oh, the b.
den on the shoulder Oh, the burd
on the heart!
You hear that it is avarice viii
drives these men of business throu
the street, and that is the common
accepted idea. do not believe we
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