Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-16
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: "The Evil of Selfshuess"-Help
Others to Bear Their Burdens-It is a
Christians Duty to Encourage and
Aid His Comrades in Life's Battle.

Aid His Comrades In L1fe's Battle.
TEXT: "Bear ye one another's burdens
and so fulfill the law Of Christ. ."-Galatians
VI, 2.
Every man for himself If there be room
for only one more passenger in the lifeboat
get in yourself. II there be a burden to
lift, you supervise while others shoulder 1t.
You be the digit while others are the
ciphers on the right hand side-nothfng IN
themselves, but augmenting you. In oppo-
sition to that theory of selflshness Paul ad-
vances in my text the gospel theory, Bear
We one another's burdens and so fulnli the
law Of Christ"
Everybody has burdens. Sometimes
they come down upon the shoulders, some
times they come down upon the mead,
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 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 fulHll the law Of
Christ.
Mrs. Appleton, Of Boston,. the daughter
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 into her sickroom. She
said to him, Father, why are you out to-
coat?" The greatIl tIlawyer.went into the next
room and was in food 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
ourselves! High up in the wall OF the tenn
pie of Baalbec there are three stones, each
weighing HOO tons. They were lifted up by
style OF machinery that Is now among
the lost arts. But In my text Is the gospel
machinery by which the vaster and the
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be lifted from the crushed heart OF the hu-
man race. What you and I most need to
learn is the spirit of helpfulness.
Encourage the merchant. II he have
superior style of goods tell him so. If he
have with his clerks adorned the show
windows and the shelves, compliment his
taste. Ifhe have good business locality,
if he have had great success, If he have
brilliant prospects for the future, recognize
all this. Be not afraid that he will become
arrogant and pulled 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 in
ferior quality and that his show window
gave promise of far better things than he
found inside. Before the night of the day
in which you say encouraging 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
a
buying cents worth. II 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 anil
taste of everything else, in that way steal
ing all the profits of anything that he may
pure hase-buying three apples while he
is eating one orange!
Before the night of the day when you
approve that merchant he will have bad
debt which he will have to erase, a bad
debt made by some one who has moved
away from the neighbour pod without Civ
ing 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 had lost
her purse; she left it there In the store. she
broug it there she did not take 1t away,
she knows it is there, leaving you to make
any delicate and complimentary inference
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 under protest, saying he has
paid it before, but the receipt has been
lost. Now, encourage that merchant, not
fearing that he will become arrogant or
pufTed up, for there will be before night
enough unpleasant words said to keep him
from becoming apoplectic with plethora
OF praise.
Encourage newspaper men. II you
knew how many annoyances they have, il
YOU understood that their most elaborate
article is sometimes flung out because
there is such great pressure on the col
Hmns, and that an accurate report OF a
speech is expected, although the utterance
be so indistinct the discourse Is one long
stenographic guess, and that the midnight
which finds you asleep demands that they
be awake, ana that they are sometimes
ground between the wheels Of our great
brain manufactures; sickened at the often
approach Of men who want complimentary
newspaper notices or who want newspaper
retraction; one day sent to report burial,
the next day to report pugilistic encoun-
ter; shifted from place to place by sudden
revolution which is liable to take place
any day In our great journalistic establish
ments: precarious life becoming more and
more precarious If you understood 1t you
you would be more sympathetic. Be affa-
BILE when you have not an ak to be sharp
ened on their grindstone. Discuss In your
mind what the nineteenth century would
be without the newspaper and give en-
couraging words to all who are engaged in
this interest, from the chief of editorial
department down to the boy that throws
the morning or evening newspaper into
your basement window.
Encourage mechanics. They will plum
the pipes, or they will calcimine the cell
ings, on they will put down the carpets, or
they will grain the doors, or they will
fashion the wardrobe. Be not among those
who never say anything to a mechanic ex-
cept to find fault. II he has done job
well, tell him it is splendidly done. The
book is we'll bound, the door is we'll grained,
the chandelier is well swung, the work is
grandIy accomplished. Be not among those
employers who never say anything to their
employees except to swear at them Do not
be afraid you will make that mechanic so
puffed up and arrogant he will never again
want to be seen with working apron or
in shirt sleeves for before the night comes
of that day when you praise him there
will be a lawsuit brought against him
because he did not finish his work as soon
as he promised it, forgetful of the fact that
his wife has been sick and two of his chill
dren have died of scarlet fever and he has
had felon ON finger Of the right hand.
Denounced perhaps because the paint is
very faint in color, not recognizing the
fact that tbs mechanic himself has been
cheated out OF the right ingredients, and
that he did not find out the trouble in
time, or scolded at because he seems to
have famed u horse by unskillful shoeing.
when he horse has for m montha Ind am vin