Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-02-03
BEARERS OFBURDENs
THE REV. Or. TALMAGE breaches
AGAINST SELFlSHNESS.

the Preachers AdmOnition.
copyright, 1899. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
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,
2, Bear ye one another's burdens and
so fulfill the law Of Christ "
Every man for himself If there bt
room for only one more passenger in the
hfeboat get in yourself If there be 8
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 selfishness Paul advances il
my text the gospel theory. "Bear ye one
another's burdens and so fulfill the Law
of Christ A"
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 we'll and bright and easy,
but each one has burden to lift, and
some of them have more than they car
lift Paul proposes to splitTup these
burdens into fragments You take part
Of mine, and must take part Of yours,
and each one will take part Of the 9th
ers, and so we viii fulfill the law OF
Christ.
Mrs. Appleton of Boston, the daugh-
ter Of Daniel Webster, was dying aftel
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
siclroom. She said to him, Father,
why are you out today in this cold
weather without an overcoat p The
great lawyer went into the next room
and was in a 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 ourselves High up in
the wall of the temple Of Baalbec there
are three stones. each weighing 1,lOO
tons They were lifted up by a 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 worlds burden
is 10 be lifted from the crushed heart OF
the human race What yon and most
need to learn is the spirit of helpful
ness.
Speak Words of announcement.
Encourage the merchant. II he have
a superior style Of goods. tell him So
If he have with his clerks adorned the
show windows and the shelves, comph-
ment his taste. If he have a good busi-
ness locality. if he have had great sue
cess. if no 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 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 VIII
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 family Tor
q 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 he may
MISUNDERSTANDING three apples while he
is eating one orangel
Before the night Of the day when you
approve that merchant he will have q
had 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 encouraging
words TO the merchant there Will De
some woman who will return to his
store and say she has lost her purse
she left it there in the store, she brought
If 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 thai
some style of goods Of which he has
large supply is going out of fashion
and there will be some one who VII
come into the store and pay bill un
der protest, saying he has paid it before
p but the receipt has been lost. Now, en-
I courage that merchant. not fearing tina
he will become arrogant or pulled up
p for there will be before night enough
, unpleasant things said to keep hin
from becoming apoplectic with pletnor'
Of praise
Encourage newspaper men. III yo'
: knew how many annoyances they have
p if Won understood that their most elaoo
rate article is sometimes flung out be
cause there is such grsat pressure o
the columns. and that an accurate re
u port Of q speech is expected altheug
the utterance be so indistinct the Gs
C course is one long stenographic guess
e and that tne midnight which finds yo
asleep demands that they be awake, an
that they are sometimes ground ot
., tween the wheels Of our great orai
manufactures: sickened at the ofte
approach Of men who want complimci
II tary newspaper notices or who war
newspaper retraction: one day sent
Il report burial. the naxt day to report
+ pugilistic encounter; shifted from pla'
# to place by sudden revolution which
liable TO take place any day in our gre'
journalistic establishments; precario'
- life becoming more and more precarlo.
= If you understood it, you would
s more sympathetic BE affable when y'
ct have not an ak to be sharpened on ths
Dr grindstone Discuss in your mind VIII
the nineteenth century would be VII
It out the newspaper and give encouragil
words to all who are engaged In u
interest, from the chief Of editorial q
partment down to the boy that thro'
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