The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-15

Rnt what are Won TO do with these temp.
tations? Tell every body about them
All, what silly man you would bel As
well might commander in a fort send
word TO the enemy which gate OF the cas-,
tie Is least barred as for you togo and tell
what your irailties are and what all your
temptations are. The world will only
caricature you-will only SCOT at YOU
What, then, must man doY When the
wave strikes him with terrific dash shall
we have nothing to hold on TOT In TINS
contest with 1.-THE world, the flesh and
the devil" shall a man have no help, no
counsel? Ny text intimates something
different. In those eyes that wept with
tbe Bethany sisters l see shining hope.
In that voice which spoke until thegraVe
broke and the widow of Main had back
her lost son, and the sea slept, and sor.
row stupendous woke up in the arms Of
rapture in that voice hear the com
mand and the promise, Cast thy burden
on the Lord, and he will sustain thee"
Why should you carry your burdens any
longer2 Oh, YOU weary soul, Christ has
been in all this conflict. He says: my
grace shall be sufficient for you. You
shall not be tempted above that you are
able to bear" Therefore, with all your
temptations go as these disciples did, and
tell Jesus.
Again: 1 commend the behavior OF
the disciples to all those who are abused
and slandered and prosecuted. When
Herod put John to death the disciples
knew that their own heads were not sale.
And do you know that every John has a
Herod There are persons in life who
do not wish you very we'll. Your mis-
fortunes are honey.combs to them.-
Through their teeth they hiss at you,
misinterpret your motives, and would De
glad to see you upset. No man gets
through life without pummeling Some
slander comes after you, horned and
tusked and hoofej, to gore and trample
YOU, and what are you to doP | tell you
plainly that all who serve Christ must
suffer persecution. 1t is the worst sign
in the world for you to be able to say, L
haven't an enemy in the world" A woe
is pronounced in the Bible against the
one of whom every body speaks well,
If YOU are at peace with the whole world,
and every body likes you and approves
your work, it is because you are an idler
in the Lords vineyard and are not doing
your duty. All those who have served
Christ, however eminent, have been NAL
treated at some stage of their experience,
Yon know it was 30 in the time OF
George Whitefeld, when he stood and
invited men into the kingdom of God,
What did the learned DIR. Johnson say
of him HeprOnourCe him miserable
mountebank. How was iJ when Robert
Hall stood and spoke as no uninspired
man ever did spsAk of the glories oi
heaven and as he stood Sabbath after
Sabbath, preeuhing on these themes, his
face kiudled with the glory? John Fos-
ter, Christian man, said of this mani
Robert Hall is only acting, and the
smile on his face is reflection of his
own vanity" John Wesley turned all
England upside down with Christian re.
form, and yet the punsters were after
him, and the mesnest jokes in England
were perpetrated about John Wesley.
What is true of the pulpit is true of the
pew it is true of the street; it is true OF
the shop and the store. All who live
godly in Christ Jesus must suffer perse
Cution; and set it down as the very
worst sign in all your Christian expert
enCe if you are, any of you, at peace with
the world. The religion of Christis war
1t is challenge to "the world, the flesh
and the devil !" and If you will buckle on
tie whole armor of God, you will find q
great host disputing your path between
this and heaven. But what are you go.
ing to do when you are assaulted and
slandered and abused, as l suppose near
ly all of you have been in your life Go
out and hunt up the slanderer? Ono,
you silly man. While you are explain
ing away falsehood in one place, fifty
people will just have heard Of it in other
places. counsel you to another course.
While you are not to omit any opportu.
nifty of setting yourselves right, want
to tell you this morning of one who had
the hardest things said about him, whose
sobriety was disputed, whose mission
was scouted, whose COmpanionship was
denounced, who was pursued as babe
and spit upon as man, who was howled
at after he wss dead. will have you
20 unto him with your bruised soul, in
some humble, Child-liks prayer, saying
81 see Thy wounds wounds of head,
wounds of feet, wounds of heart. Now,
look at my wounds and see what have
suffered, and through what battles | am
going, and by those wounds of Thine,
sympathize with these" And He will
sympathize and He will help. Go and
tell Jesus
Again, commend the behavior of the
disciples to all who may have been be-
reaved. How many in Garb OF mourning
If you could stand at this point where l
am standing, and look off upon this au.
dience, how many signals of sorrow you
would behold God has his own way
of taking apart family. We must get
out of the way for coming generations,
We must get off the stage that others
may come on, and for this reason there
is long procession reaching down all
the time into the valley of shadows.
The matter of emigration from time into
eternity is 80 vast an enterprise that we
cannot understand it, Every hour we
hear the clang Of the sepulchral gate.
The sod must be broken. The ground
must be plowsd for resurrection harvest.
Eternity must be peopled. The dust
must press our eyelids. G. 1t disappointed
unto all men once to die" This emigra-
tion from time into eternity keeps three.
fourths of the families of the earth in
desolation. The air is rent with fare
wells, and the black-tasseled vehicles of
death rumble through every street. The
body of the child that was folded so close
ly to the mothers heart is put away in
the cold and the darkness. The laugh.
ter freezes to the girls lip, and the rose
scatters. The boy in the harvest field
of Shunam says, "My head, my head"
and they carry him home to die on the
lap of his mother. Widowhood stands
with tragedies of woe struck into the
pallor of the cheek. 0rphansge cries in
vain for father and mother. Oh, the
nroua is rrtIal With teeth Of atOna IL