Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-30
BEARERS OFBURDENS
THE REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches
AGAINST SELFIS-INESS.

Speak Encouraging and Helpful
Words to Those With Whom You
Meet In the Daily Walks of Life Is
the Preachers AdmOnition.
ICopyright. 1899, by American Press Asso-
ciation.1
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows how it is pos
sible to help others who are under the
pressing load of fatigue and care and
responsibility. The text is Galatians vi,
9, Bear ye one another's burdens and
SO fulfill the law of Christ. "
Every man for himselfl If there be
room for only one more passenger in the
1ifeboat get in yourself. If there be
burden to lift, you supervise while 9th
ers shoulder it. You be the digit while
Others are the ciphers on the right hand
side-nothing in themselves, but aug
menting you. In opposition to that
theory of selfshness Paul advances 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 assembly,
they all seem well 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 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
sickroom. She said to him, "Father,
why are you out today in this cold
weather without an overcoatf' The
great lawyer went into the next room
and was in a flood of tears, saying,
s'Dying herself, yet thinking only of
me-" Oh, how much more beautiful is
care for others than this everlasting
taking care Of ourselvesi High up in
the wall of the temple of Baalbec there
are three stones, each weighing LOO
tons They were lifted up 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 the
heavier tonnage of the world burden
rs to be lifted from the crushed heart of
the human race. What you and most
need to learn is the spirit of helpful
ness.
Speak Words OF Encouragement.
Encourage the merchant. If he have
. superior style of goods, tell him So
af he have with his clerks adorned the
show windows and the shelves, compli-
ment his taste. If he have good bust
ness locality, if he have had great sue
cess, if 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
might some shopgoing person will come
In and tell him that his prices are ex-
orbitant and that his goods are of an
inferior 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
will come into the store and depreciate
everything 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 grocer,
there will be 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
rs eating one orangel
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 neighborhood
without giving any hint of the place of
destination. Before the night of the day
when you have uttered encouraging
words to the merchant 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
st there, she did not take it away, she
knows it is there, leaving you to make
any delicate and complimentary 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 un~
der protest, saying he has paid it before,
but the receipt has been lost. Now, en-
courage that merchant, not fearing that
he will become arrogant or pUfed up,
for there will be before night enough
unpleasant things said to keep him
from becoming apoplectic with plethora
of praise.
Encourage newspaper men If you
knew how many annoyances they have.
IF you understood that their most elabo-