The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-03-09
MOTHERS BURDENS.
NJ. Talmage Asks Us to Assist the
Heavy Laden.
-. should Beware Of selhshness-
u,-a Words Are as Cold Water
to Thirsty soul-HelD
the Needy.

rw..b,nrton, Copyright, 1897
!, this discourse DR.. Talmage shows
IA. IT is possible to help others who
9. under the pressing load of fatigue
and care and responsibility. The text
&. galatians vi, 2: Bear ye one an
asher,. burdens, and SO fulfill the law
Of Christ"
Every man for himself! If there be
room for only one more passengerinthe
lifeboat, get in yourself. If there be
. burden to lift, you supervise while
o.lsers shoulder it. You be the digit
while others are the ciphers on the
r,eht hand side-nothingi in themselves,
but augmenting you. In opposition to
that theory of selfishness Paul ad-
yances in my text the gospel theory:
sBear We one another's burdens, and 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-
biz, they all seem well 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
tie others, 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
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-day in this
cold weather without an overcoat?'
The great lawyer went into the next
{ room and was in. food of tears, say
ing: "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 temple of Baalbec there
are three stones, each weighing 1,100
tons. They were lifted by n style of
machinery that is now among the lost
arts. But in my text is the gospel ma
chinery, by which the vaster and heav-
Ter tonnage of the worlds burdens is to
be lifted from the crushed heart of the
human race. What you and l most
need to learn is the spirit of helpful
ness.
Encourage the merchant. If be have
q superior style Of goods, tell him so. Ii
be have with his clerks adorned the
show windows and the shelves, COM
pliment his taste. If he have good
business locality, il he have had great
success, il he have brilliant prospects
for the future, recognize all this. BE
notafraid that he will become arrogant
and puffed up by your approval. Before
night some shopgoing person will come
n and tell him that his prices are exor-
hitant and that his goods are Of an in
ierior quality and that his show win
J. dow gave promise of far better things
Than be found inside. Before the night
Ut the day in which you say encourag-
Ing words to that merchant there will
i be some crank, male or female, who will
come into the store and depreciate
tverything and haul down enough goods
Z nom the shelves to fit out family fol
awhole winter without buying cents
worth. If the merchant be grocer
there will be some one before night who
will come into his establishment and
taste OF this and taste of that and taste
ofeverything else, in that way stealing
all the profits of anything that he MAJ
Z purchase-buying three apples while h.
y eating one orange!
Before the night of the day when yor
approve that merchant he will have ,
bad debt which he will have to erase,
Dad debt made by some one who ha!
moved away from the neighborhoot
without giving any hint of the place o
destination. Before the night of th
DAY when you have uttered encourag
Mg words to the merchant there will b.
some woman who will return to hi
store and say she has lost her purse
ske left 1t there in the store, she brough
y there. she did not take it away, sh
knows it is there, leaving you to max
aay delicate and complimentary infer
ence that you wish to make. Befor
night that merchant will hear tha
some style of goods of which lie has
iarge supply is going out of fashion, an
there will be some one who will com
INTO the store and pay bill under pre-
3 test saying be has paid it before, bu
The receipt has been lost Now, encoul
age that merchant, not fearing that b
VIII become arrogant or puffed up, fo
there will be before night enough III
peasant things said to keep him fro,
pesoming apoplectic with plethora {
praise.
encourage newspaper men. If yo
new how many annoyances they hav,
z you understood that their most elal
ss efate article is sometimes flung out b,
eaese there is such great pressure o
&ne columns and that an accurate r,
4oft OF speech is expected, althoug
sne ufterance be so indistinct, the al
sesrse is one long sterographic CUES
IN me that the midnight which finds &c