The Penn's Grove record., 1899-02-03
DR.. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

DlViNCs
Subject. "The EVIL OF seihshness'-Hcip
others to Bear Their B~urdens-1t IL a
Chrisfian's Duty I'd Encourage and
Aid His Comrades in Iife's Battle.
TExf! ''Bear We one another's burdens
and so fulfill the law Of Christ. '-Galatians
vi, 2.
Every man for himself II there be room
for only one mora passenger In the liteboat
get Ii yourself. II there be q burden to
lit, you supervise while others shoulder 1t.
You be the digit while others are the
ciphers On the right hand si~de-nothing In
themselves, but augmenting you. In oppo-
sidon to that theory of selfishness Paul ad.
Sances in my text the gospel theory, "Bear
ye one another's burdens and so fulfil the
law of Christi
Everybody has burdens. Sometimes
they come down upon the shoulders, some
times they CONF 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 lit, Paul proposes to
split up these burdens into fragments. You
take part OF mine, and I must take part of
yours, and each one will take part of the
others, and so we will fulall 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 10 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 over
eoat?" The great lawyer'went into the next
room and was in q 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
ourselvesl High up in the wall OF the tenn
pie of Baalbec there are three stones, each
weighing HOO tons. They were lifted up by
a style OF machinery that Is o among
the lost arts. But Ia my text Is the gospel
machinery, by which the vaster and the
heavier tonnage OF the worlds burden Is to
be lifted from the crushed heart Of the hui
mar race. What you and 1 most need to
learn Is the spirit Of helpfulness.
Encourage the merchant. II he have a
superior style OF goods, tell him so. II he
have with bis clerks adorned the sbow
windows and the shelves, compliment his
taste. II he have a good business locality,
u 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 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 han he
found inside. Before the night OF the day
in which you say encouraging words 10
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 q family for a whole winter without
buying a cents worth. II the merchant
be n grocer, there will be some one before
night who will come into his establishment
and taste of this and taste of thai AMI
taste of everything else, in that way steal
ing all the profits OF anything that he may
purchase-buyihg three apples while he
Is eating one orangel
Before the night Of the day when you
approve that merchant he will have a bad
debt which he will have to erase, n bad
debt made by some one who has moved
away from the neighborhood 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 who will
return to his store and say she had lost
her purse, she left it there In the store. she
brought 1t there, she did not take 1t away,
she knows 1t 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 a large supply is
going out of fashion, and there will be
some one who will come into the store and
pay q bill under protest, saying he has
paid 1t before, but the receipt has been
lost. Now, encourage that merchant, not
fearing that he will become arrogant or
pulled up, for there will be before night
an ~ oh 1,pplaosapt tpnr1a amid RI knpn him
from becoming apoplectic with plethora
Of praise.
Encourage newspaper men. II you
knew how mani annoyances they have, II
you understood that their most elaborate
article is sometimes flung out because
there Is such great pressure on the col.
umns, and that an aceurate report of u
speech is expected, although the utterance
be so indistinct the discourse is one long
stenographic guess, and hat the midnight
which fnds you asleep demands that they
be awake, n that they are sometimes
ground between the wheels OF our great
brain manufactures; slckened at the often
approach of men who want complimentary
newspaper notices or who want newspaper
retraction; one day sent to report a burial,
the next day to report a pugilistic encoun-
ter; shifted from place to place by sudden
revolution which is liable to take place
my day in our great journalistic establish
ments; precarious life becoming more and
more precarious III you understood 1t you
you would be more sympathetic. Be affa-
BILE when you have not an az 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 plumb
the pipes, or they will calclmine the cell
ings, or 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 a Job
well, tell him 1t Is ~splendidly done. The
book is we'll bound, the door Is well grained,
the chandelier is well swung, the work is
grandly accomplished. Be not among those
employers h never say anything to their
employees except to swear at them. Do not
be afraid you will make that mechanic so
pulled 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 fac, at
his wife has been sick and two of h a.
dren ave died OF scarlet fever and he has
had q felon OIL O finger of the right hand.
D denounced perhaps because the paint Is
very faint in color, not recognizing the
fact that the mechanic himself has been
cheated ont OF the right Ingredients and