The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-16

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ent. Why should you carry your burdens
any longer? o 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 tempta-
tions go, as these Disciples did, and tell
Jesus"
Again, 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 safe. And do
you know that every John has Herodi
There are persons in life who do not wish
you very well. Your misfortunes are
honeycombs to them, Through their teeth
they hiss at you, misinterpret your mo-
tives, and would be glad to see you upset
No man gets through life without having
pummeling. Some slanderer comes
after you horned and tusked and hoofed to
gore and trample you; and what are you
to do? Itellyou plainly that all who serve
Christ must suffer persecution. 1t is the
worst sign in the world for you to be able
to say: "I haven't an enemy in the
world" A woe is pronounced in the Bible
against the one Of whom everybody speaks
well. If you are at peace with all the
world and everybody likes you and ap.
proves 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 maltreated at some stage Of their ex.
perience.
All who will live godly in Christ Jesus
must suffer persecution. And set it down
as the very worst sign in all your Christian
experience II you are at peace with all the
world. The religion of Christ is war. 1t
is challenge to the world, the flesh and
the devil, and if you will buckle on the
whole armor of God you will find great
host disputing your path between this and
Heaven. But what are you to do when
you are assaulted and slandered and
abused, as l suppose nearly all of you
have been in your life? Go out and hunt
up the slanderer? Oh, no; silly man!
hood in one place fifty people will have
heard it IN other places. counsel you to
another course. While you are not to
omit any opportunity of setting yourselves
right, l want to tell you of One who had
the hardest things said about Him, whose
sobriety was disputed, whose mission was
secuted, whose companionship was de-
nounced, who was pursued as babe and
spit upon as a man, who was howled at
after He was dead. / will have you go to
Him with your bruised soul in some hum.
BILE, childlike prayer, saying: ~ see Thy
wonnds-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
God has His own way of taking apart a
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. This matter of emigra-
tion from time into eternity is so vast
an enterprise that we can not understand
it. Every hour we hear the clang of the
sepulchral gate. The sod must be broken
The ground must be plowed for resurrec
tion harvest. Eternity must be peopled
The dust must press our eyelids. SIT is
appointed unto all men once to die" Thii
emigration from time into eternity keeps
three-fourths of the families of the earth
in desolation
Between the closing gates Of the sepul
cher our hearts are mangled and crushed
Is there any earthly solace? None. w,
come to the obsoquies. We sit with tn,
grief-stricken. We talk pathetically t,
their soul. But soon the obsequies hav
passed, and the carriages have us again a
J the door, the friends who stayed for fey
! days are gone, and the heart sits in desc
| lation listening for the little feet that vii
never again patter through the hall, O
, looking for the entrance of those who vii
. never come again, signing into the darl
, ness. ,s
Has God turned US out on the barre
commons to die? Oh, no, mol He has mo-
| He comes with sympathy and kindnes
! and love. He understands all our grie
, He is the only one that can fully symp,
, thize. Go and tell Jesus. Sometime
when we have trouble we 60 to our friends
and they try to sympathize, but they ca
not understand 1t. But Christ sees a
: over 1t. He not only counts the tears an
} records the groans, but before the teal
/ started, before the groans began, Chril
} saw the inmost hiding-place of your so
row, and He takes it and He weighs |
and He measures it, and He pities it wit
an all-absorbing pity. Bone of our bon
flesh of our flesh, heart of our heart, SO
row of our sorrow. AS long as He remer
) bers Lazarus grave He will stand by yc
in the cemetery. AS long as He remen
: bers His own heart-break, He will stan
, by you in the laceration Of your affection
: When He forgets the footsore way, IL
sleepless nights, the weary body, the ay
2 full cross, the solemn grave, then He wi
{ forget you, but not till then.
! 1t is often that our friends have no pov
er to relieve us. They would very muc
. like to do it, but they can not disentang
. our finances; they can not cure our sic
: ness and raise our dead. But He to who
the Disciples went has-all power in Hea
en- and on earth. At our call He will ba