El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-31
BAPTIST CHURCH
Cast Thy Burden On the Lord"


burden upon the Lord, and He shal
sustain thee.'' Ps. 1922. The follow
ing is part of the discourse:
This Is our third sermon on burden
bearing. Our first text was "EverJ
man shall bear his own burden;' sec
ond, "Bear We one auother's burden,
and today we are told to cast our bur
den on the Lord.
A vessel laden with wood and GOA
was undergoing repairs in port BY
some Acknowledgement the vessel be-
gan to hesve over. One of the work
men was caught midway his body and
pinned to the ground. The whole COM
munity turned out and sought by
every possible contrivance to hoist the
vessel enough to relieve him. But to
no avail. The tide was rising and
would float the ship soon, but alas 1t
would submerge the poor man first. A
minister was called and as he prayed
the people wept and worked and the
tide rose fast: until he felt 1t cold at
his heart, his throat, and now death in
the salt foam kissed his lips. He asked
that handkerchief be thrown over
his face that he might not see the
q weeping sobbing crowd, the words Of
his prayer were swept from HE month
by the rushing tide and he went to his
reward. He could not help himself;
the people could not help him. So
there come times when, do the best
we can, and when our brethren and
friends do the best they can, we can
| find no relief in human strength,
human sympathy or human aid.
man did? Is there no hand to rescue,
no arm to save? No one on whom We
may lay our burdens with hope that
| they can at least Tighten them? None
to the man who does not believe in this
precious book. But to those who do
believe and lean on it, there is balm
in Gillead, strong one among the
weak, q friend that sticketh closer
than brother. an omnipotent father
who careth for US and who will help US
if we cast our burdens upon him,
But now I am. talking about that
which it is hard for many to grasp
hold of.
It is harder for men to believe that
God who Is a spirit and whom we can
not see now, is real and has anything
to do with human affairs. or can really
And yet believe me, believe the mil
lions of earth's noblemeD who stand
like cloud of witnesses for six thou
sand years, there is no greater truth
nor happier experience come to men.
God hath verified it in the various de-
tails of life.
please give me something to eat, 1
am go hungry" These were the words
of q small boy to his mother. She let
her sewing fall from her hands and
and taking the little fellow in her arms
rained torrents of tears on his curly
hair as she said, "Mama is very poor,
and cannot give you anything to-
night" The little fellow was touched
to the heart as he took il the situa-
IT. -,
with kisses and the assurance that
very soon he would be asleep and for
get his hunger. After this he kneeled
to say his prayers. 1t was the Lords |
prayer he repeated after his mother.
All went we'll until they came to the |
words, ''give us this day our daily
bread" Here he paused to repeat the |
ed his blue eyes and looking up into
his mothers face said, 1--WE will never
be hungry any more. God is our
father and he will bear u.s." A fresh
hope came into the mothers heart, and
ong after the boy slept she sewed on
with a new strength. AT last she fell
asleep aud slept soundly. She had
,ast her burden on the God OF her
child. And what was her joy next
morning bright and early to have a
,entleman stop on the way to his bust
ess to arrange with her to go to his
lone and take charge of his two
boys. She had cast her
burden on the Lord and he had sup! o
,lied her need-sustained her even in
he temporal affairs of life.
A pious minister while meditating in t
ront of his window one day saw one of t
lis fostertch1ldrenf fall to the pavement 6
rom an upper story in the house. .
lu' city he ordered his daughter to go
or the child. On taking it up she
Ound that is sustained no injury, how r
yer. A neighbours wife who saw the i
all and the calm unconcern of the b
Minister reproached him severely for S
is conduct. And it is said that while C
he was scoldtng the minister one of e
er own children fell from q bench in q
be room and broke an arm. Where c
pom the minister said to her: "Do fl
GU see, good wOmar, if you imagine 81
our self to be sole guardian of your t,
hid, then you must constantly carry Il
in your arms. [ commend my b
hildren to God; and if they then fall "
hey fall into the arms of an angel" Of
}. how many the instances where fl
arents have gone along without tt
turner about their children, while
lie burden of these children rested CT
cavity on their friends, and these al
lends wonder how the parents take o,
,e situation so calmly. I'll tell you W
lie secret. They go daily to the quiet a.
1amber; they cast tue burden of their ht
1ildren on the Lord, and he sustains al
lem in patience and hope. s.r
In one of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's pl
tile books she tells of strong heart m
lat was tempted to join her lover in
/ illegitimate marriage. The details Ii
ere arranged, and in few days they IL
ere to start for Australia, But in al
e morning. as was her custom, this pr
,ung woman went on her knees before th
cd, and when she arose the spell was sh
oxen and temptation was gone for st
err Won cav that ia fiction T COW II | u,,