_Association (A Benefit Club Sermon)._--1. This plan of bearing one another's burdens is not only good in benefit clubs--it is good in families, in parishes, in nations, in the Church of God. What is there bearing on this matter of prudence that makes one of the greatest differences between a man and a brute beast? Many beasts have forethought: the sleep-mouse hoards up acorns against the winter, the fox will hide the game he cannot eat. The difference between man and beast is, that the beast has forethought only for himself, but the man has forethought for others also. 2. Just the same with nations. If the king and nobles give their whole minds to making good laws, and seeing justice done to all, and workmen fairly paid, and if the poor in their turn are loyal and ready to fight and work for their king and their nobles, then will not that country be a happy and a great country? 3. Just the same way with Christ's Church, the company of true Christian men. If the people love and help each other, and obey their ministers and pray for them, and if the ministers labour earnestly after the souls and bodies of their people, and Christ in heaven helps both minister and people with His Spirit and His providence and protection, if all in the whole Church bear each other's burdens, then Christ's Church will stand, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.--_Charles Kingsley._ _Burden-bearing._ +I. Different kinds of burdens.+--1. _Those that are necessary._ 2. _Those that are superfluous._ 3. _Those that are imaginary._ +II. What shall we do with them?+--1. _Reduce their number to the limits of necessity._ 2. _Some of these we are expected to carry ourselves._ 3. _Some we may expect our friends to help us to carry._ 4. _We may take them all to the Lord that He may either remove them or sustain us under them._ +Lessons.+--1. _With grace burdens are removed or lightened._ 2. _In what way can we best help others with their burdens?_ "Thou lightenest thy load by lightening his." 3. _Let our burdens be reduced to light running order._--_Homiletic Monthly._ _Practical Christian Sympathy._ +I. Consider the burdens you can bear for others.+--All have to bear burdens. Some man can only bear for himself. Others he can be helped to bear, such as the burden of carnal tendency, persecution, anxiety over loved ones, affliction that is not punishment. +II. Consider how we may bear the burdens of others.+--1. _We can bear them on our hearts in prayer._ 2. _We can lighten the burden by friendly help._ 3. _We can by the strength of our sympathies come under the burdens of others._ +III. Bearing the burdens of others is the chief way by which we can fulfil the law of Christ.+--Nothing will give us such a resemblance to Him. He lives solely for others. He came voluntarily under the burden of man's miseries, sacrificing Himself for the race.