The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-02-24
ANOTHER'S BURDENS.
Or. Taimage Asks Us to Assist the
Heavy Laden.
We Should Hcwnre Of seIfahncss-
Niud Words Are n Cold Nutcr
to Thirsty souI-Hclp
the Needy.

CNashirrtOn. Jan. 29.-Copyricht. 1erq)
ln this discourse Dr. Talmage shows
how it is possible TO help others who
are under the pressing load of fatigue
and care aud responsibility. The text
is Galatians ST.. 2: Bear ye one an
F others burdens and so fulfill the law
+ OF Christ"
Every man for himself II there be
room for only one more passcugcrin the
lifcboat. get in yourself If there be
burden TO lift. you supervise while
others shoulder it. You be the digit
while others are the ciphers ON the
right hand Observation-Disclosures
but augmenting you. I'm opposition to
that theory Of seiishness Paul adj
'ances in my text the gospel theory:
Bear ye one anothcr'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-
by. they all seem well and bright and
easy. but each one has a burden 10 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 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 sic}room. She said TO him:
Father. why are you out to-day in this
cold weather without an oyercoat Q"
The great lawyer went into the next
room and was in a food of tears. say
.ug: 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 i'm
the wall of the temple of Baaibec there
are three stones. each weighing l.100
tons. They were lifted by a style of
machinery that is now among the lost
arts. But in my text is the gospel ma
chnery. by which the yaster and heav-
Ger 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
a superior style of goods. tell him so. II
he have with his clerks adorned the
show windows and the shelves, COM
piiment his taste. If be have a 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 mp by your approval Before
night some shopgoing person will come
I'm 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 be found inside. Before the night
of the day i'm which you say encourag-
ing words to that merchant there will
be some crank, male or female, who wiA
come into the store and depreciate
haul down enough goods
from the shelves to fit out family for
a whole winter without buying a cents
worth. If 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 and taste
Of everything else, in that way stealing
all the profits Of anything that be may
ourchase-buying three apples while he
Is eating one orange!
Before the night Of the day when YOU
approve that merchant be will have
Dad debt which he will have 10 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
lay when you have uttered encourag- /
ng words 10 the merchant there viii be- /
ZONE woman who viii return 10 his /
tore and say she has lost her purse; /
he left il there in the store, she brought /
{ there. she did not take il away. she
Knows It is there, leaving you to make
ny delicate and complimentary infer
nee that you wish TO make. Before
light that merchant will hear that
ONE style of goods of which he has
arge supply is going out Of fashion, and
here will be some one who will come
nto the store and pay bill under pro-
est, saying he has paid it before, but
he receipt has been lost Now. encour-
ge that merchant, not fearing that he
viii become arrogant or pulled up, for
here wiz be before night enough un-
leasant things said to keep him from
ecoming apoplectic with plethora Of
raise.
Encourage newspaper men. If you
new how many annoyances they have,
you understood that their most elab-
rate article is sometimes flung out be-
ause there is such great pressure on
be columns and that an accurate re-
ort of speech Is expected. although
be- utterance be SO indistinct. the dis
curse is one long stenographic guess,
nd that the midnight which finds you
sleep demands that they be awake. and
hat they are sometimes ground be-
Heen the wheels of our great brain
sickencd at the often
pproach Of men who want complimen-
Try newspaper notices. OF who want
ewspaper retraction; one day sent to
port a burial. the next day 10 report
pugilistic encounter; shifted from
lace to place by sudden revolution
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