The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-10
BEARERS OF BURDENS.
THE REV. DIR. TALMAGE PREACH.
ES AGAINST SELFISHNESS
Speak Encouraging and Helpful
Words TO Those With Whom You
Meet in thu Daily Walks of Life Is the
Preachers Admonition

Meet in the Daily walks of Life Is the
Preachers Admonition
Copyright, 1893, by American Press |
Association.)
In this discourse DR.. Talmage shows |
how it is possible to help others who
are under the pressing load of fatigue
and care and responsibility. The text
is Galations vi, 2, Bear We one anoth-
er's burdens and so fulfill the law of
Christ"
Every man for himself! It there be
room for only n more passenger in
the Iifeboat get in yourself. If there
be a burden to life, you supervise
while others shoulder it. You be the
digit while others are the ciphers on
the right hand side-nothing in them
selves, but augmenting you. In oppo-
sition to hat theory Of ~selfshness
Paul advances in my text the gospel
theory, Bear we one another's bur-
dens 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,
they all seem we'll and bright and easy,
but each one has a burden to lift, and
some Of them nave more han they can
lift. Paul pos to split up these
burdens into fragments. You take part
of mine, and I must take part of yours,
and each one will tai part of the 9TH
er's, 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 sick room. She said to him,
Father, why are you out today in this
cold weather without an Overcoat?"
The great lawyer went into the mex
room and was in a flood of tears, say
ing, Dying herself, yet thinking only
of me- Oh, how much more beautiful
is care for others than this everlast-
ing kin care of OurSelVesi High up
in the wall of the temple of Baalbec
there are three stones, each weigh
ing /, 1000 tons. They were fitted up by
a style of machinery that is now among
the lost arts. But in my text is the
gospel machinery, by which the vaster
and the heavier tonnage of the worlds
burden is to be lifted from the crush
ed heart of the human race. What
you and I most need to learn is the
spirit of h~elpfulness.
SPEAK WORDS OF ENCOURAGE
MENT.
Encourage the merchant. If he have
a SunpriOr StV1p of goods fell him ca
If he nave with his clerks adorned the
show windows and the shelves, COM
pliment his taste. If he have a good
business locality, if he ave had great
success, if he AVE brilliant prospects
for the future, recognize all this. Be
not afraid that he will become AFRO
giant and puffed up by your approval.
Before night some ohOpgoing person
will come in and tell him that his
prices are eXorbitant and that his
goods are of an inferior quality n
that his show window gave promise
of far better things than he found in
side. Before the night of the day in
which you say encouraging words to
that merchant there Will be some
rank, male or female, who will come
into the store and depreciate every
thing and haul down enough goods
from the shelves to fit out a family
for a whole winter without buying a
cents worth. If the merchant be a
grocer, there will be some one before
night who will come into his estab-
lishment 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-buy-
ing three apples while he is eating one
orange!
Before the night of the day when
you approve that merchant he will
nave a bad debt which he will have
to erase, a bad debt made by some
one who has moved way 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 mer-
chant 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 inference that you wish
to make. Before night hat merchant
will near that some style Of goods Of
which he has a large supply is going
out Of fashion, n there will be some
one who will come into the store and
pay a bill under protest, saying he has
paid it before, but the receipt has been
lost. Now, that merchant.
not fearing hat he will become AFRO
giant or puffed up. for there will be be-
fore night enough unpleasant things
said to keep him from becoming ap-
oplectic with plethories of praise.
Encourage newspaper men. If you
knew how many annOyanceS they
have, if you understood that their most
elaborate article is sometimes flung out
because there is such great pressure
on the columns, and that an accurate
report of a speech is expected although
the utterance be SO indistinct the dis
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and that the midnight which finds
you asleep demands hat they be
awake, and hat they are sometimes
ground between the wheels of our great
brain manufactures; sickened at the
often approach of men who want COM
plimentary newspaper notices or who
want ewSpap retraction; one day
sent to report a burial, the next day
to report a. pugiiistic encounter; shift
ed from place to place by sudden rev.