Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-03-10
AN0THER'S BURDENS.
DR.. Talmage Asks Us to Assist the
Heavy Laden.
We Should beware of Selhshness-
Kind Words Are as Cold Water
to a Thirsty SouI-Help
the Needy.
(Washlngton,

how 1t Is possible TO help others who
are under the pressing load of fatigue
ard care and responsibility. The text
is Galatians Il, 2: Bear We one an
others burdens, and so fulfill the law
OF Christ"
Every man for himself! If there be
room for only one more passengerin the
llfeboat, get in yourself. II there be
burden to lift, you supervise while
Others shoulder 1t, You be the digit
while others are the ciphers on the
right hand side-nothing themselves,
but augmenting you. In opposition TO
that theory of selfshness Paul nd
vances in my text the gospel theory:
"Bear ye one another's burdens, 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 assem-
bly,, 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
the 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 10 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,l0o
tons. They were lifted by 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 | most
need to learn is the spirit OF helpful
ness.
Encourage the merchant. If he have
superior style OF goods, tell him so. If
he have with his clerks adorned the
show windows and the shelves, COM
pliment his taste. II he have good
business locality, II he have had great
success, II he have brilliant prospects
for the future, recognize all this. BE
not afraid that he will become arrogant
and puffed up by your approval. Before
night some shopgoing person will come
in and tell him that his prices are exor-
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
of the day in which you say encourag-
ing words to that merchant there will
be some crank, male or female, who viii
come into the store and depreciate
everythlngand haul down enough goods
from the shelves to fit out family for
a whole winter without buying cents
worth. II the merchant be a grocer,
there will he some one before night who
will come into his establishment 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-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,
bad debt made by some one who has
moved away from the neighborhood
without giving any hint of the place Of
destination. Before the night Of the
day when you have uttered encourag-
| ing words to the merchant there will be
some woman who will return to his
store and say she has lost her purse;
she left 1t there In the store, she brought
IL there, she did not take II away, she
knows it is there, leaving you to make
any delicate and mplimentary infer
ence 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 pro-
test, saying he has paid II before, but
the receipt has been lost. Now, cncour-
age that merchant, not fearing that he
will become arrogant or puffed up, for
there wiH be before night enough un-
pleasant things said to keep him from
becoming apoplectic with plethora of
praise.
| Encourage newspaper men. III you
knew how many annoyances they have.
| II you understood that their most elab-
crate article Is sometimes fung out be-
cause there is such great pressure on
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 stenograp phic guess.
and that the midnight which finds you
asleep demands thattheY be awake, and
that they are sometimes ground be-
tween the wheels OF our great braitl
manufactures; sickened at the often
approach of men who want complimer-
tary newsGh2er notices, or who want
newspaper retraction; one day sent 10
report burial. the next day to report
a pugiiistic encounter; shifted from
place TO place by sudden revolution
which 10 liable 10 take place any day in
our great journalistic establishments;
preearlous life becoming more and
more precarious--if you understood il
I, you would be more sytnpathetic. Be
sffsble when you have rot an ak to be