The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-01-30
BEAR OTHERS, LOADS
DR.. rALMAoE TELLS Us TO BEWARE
OF sELFisHNEsa.

OF sgLFisHNEsa.
Lift Part of the Burden From the
Shoulders Of the Heavy Laden-Ekina
! Words Are as Cool water to .
Thirsty Soul.
Copyright, 1899. by American PRESS Asso.
ciation.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-In this discourse
Dr.. Talmage shows how it is possible to
help others who arc under the pressing
load Of fatigue and care and responsibility
The text Is Galatians vi, 2, "Bear ye ono
/ another's burdens, and SO fulfill the law
Of Christ"
Every man for himself II there be
room for only one more passenger in the
lifeboat get in yourself. II there be q
burden to lift, you supervise while others
shoulder 1t. You be the digit while others
are the ciphers on the right hand side
nothing in themselves but augmenting
you. In opposition to that theory Of self
ishness Paul advances In my text the gos
pei theory, "Bear ye one another's bur.
dens, and so fulfill the law Of Christ"
Everybody has burdens. Sometimes
they come down upon the shoulders, some.
times 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 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 I
must take part Of yours, and each one will
&alr Axxft g..
fl, the lsw Of Christ.
Mrs. Appleton Of Boston, the daughter
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 to him, Father, why are you
out today In this cold weather without an
overcoatS" Tho great lawyer went into
the next room and was in flood of tears,
saying, dying herself, yet thinking only
of NO." Oh, how much more beautiful is
care for others than this everlasting TAX
ing caro- Of ourselves High up In tho
wall of the temple Of Baalbec there are
three stones each weighing LOO tons.
They were lifted by style of machinery
that is now among the lost arts. But in
my text is the gospel machinery, by which
the yaster and the heavier tonnage Of the
worlds burden is to DO lifted from the
crushed heart Of the human race What
you and most need to learn Is the spirit
of helpfulness
Scatter Kind Words.
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, compliment his
taste. If he have good business locality,
If he have had great success, if he have
brilliant prospects for the future, recog-
nize 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 exorbitant and that his goods
are Of an inferior quality and that his
show window gave promise of far better
things than he found inside. Before tho
night of the day in which you say encour-
aging words to that merchant there will
be some crank, male Or female, who will
come into the store and depreciate every
thing and haul down enough goods from
the shelves to fit out n family for a Whole
winter without buying cents worth. If
the merchant DO 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 any,
thing that he may purchase-buying three
apples while he Is eating one orangel
Before tho night Of the day when you
approve that merchant he will have q bad
debt which no will have to erase, 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
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 1t there, she did not take it
away, she knows it 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 q large sup
ply is going out of fashion, and there will
be some one who will come into the store
and pay bill under protest, saying he
has paid it 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
enough unpleasant things said to keep him
from becoming apoplectic with plethora of
praise.
Encourage Your yeighbor.
Encourage newspaper men. If you knew
how many annoyances they have, if you
understood that their most elaborate ar
ticlo Is sometimes flung out because there
is such great pressure on the columns and
that IN accurate report Of IL speech Is cx-
pected, although the uttcrance be SO indis-
tinct, tho discourse is one long steno-
graphic guess, and that the midnight
which finds you asleep demands that they
be awake, and that they are sometimes
ground between the wheels of our great
brain manufactures; sickcned at the often
approach of men who want complimentary
newspaper notices, or who want newspa-
per rctracton ono day sent to report
burial, tho next day to report pugilistio
encounter; shifted from place to place by
sudden revolution which is liable to take
place any day in our great journalistic
establishments; precarious life becoming
moro and more precarious-if you under
stood it you would be more sympathetic
Be affablo when you have not an AK to be
sharpcncd on their grindstone Discuss
in your mind what the nineteenth century
would be without the newspaper and give
encouraging 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 calcimine the cell
ings, or they will put down tho carpets, or
they will grain the doors, or they will
fashion the wardrobe. Be not among those
who never say anything to mechanic ex-
cept to find fault. II he has done n job
well, tell him it is splendidly done The
book Is well bound, the door is well grain
ed, tho chandelier Is well swung, the work
Is grandly accomplished Be not among
those employers who never say anything
to their e .Hr.eye:=>-s=seF71 60 swear at them.
Do not be afraid you will make that
mechanic go pulled up and arrogant no
will never again want to be seen with
working apron or in shirt sleeves, for be-
fore the night comes Of that day when you
praise him there will be lawsuit brought
against him because he did not finish his
ip,1 fail