The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-03
ANOTHER'S BURDENS.
DR.. Talmage Asks Us to Assist the
Heavy Laden.
We should beware of seiHshness-
Kind Words Are as Cold Water
to a Thirsty sOuI-IIclp
the Needy.


and care and responsibility. The text
is Galatians vi. 2: Bear We one an
Others burdens. and so fulfill the law
of Christ"
Every man for himself! II there be
room for only one more passengerin the
lifeboat, get in yourself. II there be
burden to lift. you supervise while
others shoulder il. You be the digit
while Others are the ciphers on the
right hand side-nothing in themselves,
but augmenting you. In opposition 10
that theory of selfshness Paul adj
Nances in my text the gospel theory:
Bear We one anothers burdens, ana so
fulfil 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 assem-
bly,, they all seem we'll and bright and
easy, 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 must take part
| OF yours. and each one will take part of
! the others. and so we will fulfill the law
| OF Christ.
! Mrs. Appleton. Of Boston. the dnugh-
| ter OF Daniel Webster. was dying after
long illness. The great lawyer, after
! pleading an important case in the
courtroom. on his way home stopped at
! the house of his daughter and went
] a. "a bnp Sipl- Ghn enid
Father, why are you out to-day in this
cold weather without an overcoat?"
The great lawyer went into the next
room and was i'm Il food of tears. say
ing; Dying herself, yet thinking only
OF me- Oh. how much more beautiful
is care for others than this everlasting
tnking care of ourselves. High up in
the wall of the temple of Baalhec there
are three stones. each weighing LOO
tons. They were lifted b. style of
machinery that is now among the lost
arts. But in my text is The gospel ma
chincry. by which the vaster and heav-
Ter tonnage of the worlds burdens is to
De lifted from the crushed heart OF the
human race. What you and most
need to learn is the spirit of helpful
ness.
Encourage the merchant. II he have
a superior style OF goods, tell him 30. II
be have with his clerks adorned the
show windows and the shelves, com
J pliment his taste. II he have a good
business locality, IL he have had great
, success, II ne have brilliant prospects
tor the future, recognize all this. BE
} not afraid tbat he viii become arrogant
and pulled mp by your approval BEFORE
} night some sbopgoing person will come
in and tell him that his prices are eNor-
/ bitant and that his goods are of an in
; ferior quality and that his show win
! dow gave promise of far better things
than he found inside. Before the night
5 OF the day in which you say encourag-
ing words to that merchant there will
! be some crank, male or female, who wiz
! come into the store and depreciate
everythingand haul down enough goods
. from the shelves 20 fit out family for
0 whole winter without buying cents
5 worth. II the merchant be n grocer
5 there will he some one before night who
J will come into his establishment and
D taste Ct this and taste of that and taste
J OF everything else, in that way stealing
all the profits OF anything that he may
. purchase--buying three apples while he
a Is eating one orange!
Q Before the night OF the day when you
n approve that merchant he will have @
o bad debt which he Wal have to erase, a
n bad debt made by some one who has
70 from eha nainh hnr hood
, without giving any hint of the place o.
3 destination. Before the night OF tn,
Y day when you have uttered encourag
IS ing words TO the merchant there will bt
y some woman who will return TO his
. store and say she has lost her purse
y she left IL there in the store, she brought
o II there, she did not take II away, she
y knows IL is there. leaving you to make
o any delicate and complimentary infer
= ence that you wish TO make. Before
y night that merchant will hear tina
! some style of goods of which he has 1
70 large supply is going out of fashion, ant
y there will be some one who will com,
% into the store and pay bill under pro
y test, saying he has paid it before, bu
n the receipt has been lost. Now, enccur
70 age that merchant, not fearing that HI
e will become arrogant or pulled up, fo'
y there wiz be before night enough un
d pleasant things said 10 keep him from
d becoming apoplectic with plethora o
: praise.
y Encourage newspaper men. II yo'
knew how many annoyances they have
II you understood that their most elab
= crate article is sometimes dung out be
cause there is such great pressure oil
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 stenogra phic guess
and that the midnight which finds yoi
asleep demands that they be awake, an,
, that they are sometimes ground be
tween the wheels of our great braii
manufactures; sickened at the Otter
8 approach OF men who want compli-nen
i tary newspaper notices, or who wan