Connecticut western news., 1899-02-02
BEARERS OFBURDENS
THE REV. OR. TAlMAGE BREACHES
 AGAINST SElFISHNESS.
Speak Encouraging and Helpful Words to Those With Whom You Meet In the Daily Walks of Life Is the Preachers Admonition.

Meet In the Dafly WALKS or Lile is
 the Preachers Admonition.
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 WASHINGTON, Jan 20.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage shows how 1t is pos sible to help others who are under the pressing load of fatigue and care and responsibility. The text is Galatians vi, 3, "Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. l"
 Every man for himselfl If there be room for only one more passenger in the lifeboat get in yourself. If there be burden to lift, you supervise while oth- CTS shoulder it. You be the digit while others are the ciphers on the right hand side-nothing in themselves, but aug menting you. In opposition to that theory of selfshness Paul advances in my text the gospel theory, Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.
 Everybody has burdens. Sometimes they come down upon the shoulders, sometimes they come down upon the head, sometimes they come down upon the heart. Looking over any assembly,
  but each one has burden to lift, and some of them have more than they can lift. Paul proposes to split up these burdens into fragments. You take part of mine, and I must take part of yours, and each one will take part of the oth CTS, and so we will fulfill the law of Christ.
 Mrs. Appleton of Boston, the daugh- ter of Daniel Webster, was dying after long illness. The great lawyer after pleading an important case in the court room on his way home stopped at the house of his daughter and went into her sickroom. She said to him, Father, why are you out today in this cold weather without an overcoat2'- The great lawyer went into the next room and was in flood of tears, saying, Dying herself, yet thinking only of me-" Oh, how much more beautiful is care for others than this everlasting taking care of ourselvesl High up in the wall of the temple of Baalbec there are three stones each weighing 1, 100 tons. They were lifted up by style of machinery that is now among the lost arts But in my text is the gospel ma chinery, by which the vaster and the heavier tonnage of the world's burden is to be lifted from the crushed heart of the human race. What you and most need to learn is the spirit of helpful ness.
 Speak Words of Encouragement.
 Encourage the merchant. If he have. a superior style of goods, tell him so. If he have with his clerks adorned the show windows and the shelves, compli ment his taste. If he have good busi- neas locality, if he have had great sue cess, if he have brilliant prospects for the future, recognize all this. Be not afraid that he will become arrogant and puffed up by your approval Before night some shopgoing person will come in and tell him that his prices are ex orbitant and that his goods are of an inferior quality and that his show win dow gave promise of far better things than he found inside. Before the night of the day in which you say encourag- ing words to that merchant there will be some crank, male or female, who will come into the store and depreciate everything and haul down enough goods from the shelves to fit out family for a whole winter without buying cents worth. If the merchant be a grocer, there will be some one before night who will come into his establishment and taste of this and taste of that and taste of everything else, in that way stealing all the profits of anything that he may purchase-buying three apples while he IS eating one orange
 Before the night of the day when you approve that merchant he will have a lad debt which he will have to erase a bad debt made by some one who has moved away from the neighborhood without giving any hint of the place of destination. Before the night of the day when you have uttered encouraging words to the merchant there will be some woman who will return to his store and say she has lost her purse; she left it there in the store, she brought it there, she did not take it away, she knows it is there. leaving you to make any delicate and complimentary infer ence that you wish to make. Before night that merchant will hear that some style of goods of which he has large supply is going out of fashion, and there will be some one who will come into the store and pay bill un- der protest, saying he has paid it before, but the receipt has been lost. Now, en- courage that merchant not fearing that he will become arrogant or puffed up, for there will be before night enough unpleasant things said to keep him from becoming apoplectic with plethora of praise.
 Encourage newspaper men. If you knew how many annoyances they have. if you understood that their most elabo- rate article is sometimes flung out be- cause there is such great pressure on the columns, and that an accurate re- port of a speech is expected although the utterance be so indistinct the dis course is one long stenographic guess, and that the midnight which finds you asleep demands that they be awake, and that they are sometimes ground be- tween the wheels of our great brain planufactories sickened at the often approach of men who want compliment tary newspaper notices or who want newspaper retraction; one day sent to I-uport burial, the next day to report a pug iistic encoucter; shifted from place to place by sudden revolution which is liable to take place any day in our great journalistic establishments; precarious life becoming more and more precarious if you understood it, you would be more sympathetic. Be affable when you have not an ax to be sharpened on thsir grindstone. Discuss in your mind what the nineteenth century would be with out the newspaper and give encouraging words to all who are engaged in this interest, from the chief of editorial de- partment down to the boy that throws the morning or evening newspaper into your basement window.
 Do Not Find Fault.