Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-08-31

ponentss Put them in whatever sRuce Won
please roasted, or fried, or baked. or steV5ed
or boiled, or hashed they are nothing Int
asses % An, my friends, il John aIfftOn or
Martin Luther could come 6oWa to such
I9 ct. Nhat may you Iot expect from
less elevated oppOnentst Now, the world
sometimes takes alter them; the newspapers
take after then5 public Opiai0n takes after
mem ana the unfortunate man is lied about
until all the dictionary of Bilingsgate is
exhausted on him. You often see a man
whom you know TO be good. and pure. and
honest, set upon by the world, and mauled by
34ole communities While vicious men take
on a supercliiOus air in condemnation of him:
as though Lord 5eureys should write an essay
on gentleness, or Henry VII talk about
dren.
Now, a certain amount Of persecution
Eouses man defiance stirs his blood for
magnificent battle. and makes him fifty times
more man than he would have been with
out the persecution So Ii was with the great
refOrmer when he said: 81 Will not be nut
down; I viii be heard And so il was with
Willard, the preacher, in the time OF Louis
Al When Louis XII sent word to him that
unless ne stopped preaching i'm that style he
would throw him into the river, he replied:
Tell the king that IS ID reach heaven Don
er BY water than he will reach il BY fast
horses" certain amount of persecution Is
q tonic and inspiration, but too much Of it.
anu TOO long continued, becomes the rock
BOZeZ, throwing a dark shadow over a mans
life. What is he to do then3 Go home, You
say. Good advice, that. That is just the
him. Go home. Blessed be God for our quiet
and sympathetic homes. But there is many
q man who mas the reputation Of having
nome when he has none. Through uuthink-
ingness or precipitation, there are many
matches made that ought never to have been
made. An officiating priest cannot alone
unite couple. The Lord Almighty must pro-
claim banns. There is many a home in which
there is no sympathy, and no happiness, aud
no good cheer The clamOr Of the battle may
lot have been heard outside, but God knows,
MISUNDERSTANDING
"Wedding March," and all the OdOF
Of the orange blossoms, and the benedictiOn
OF the officiating pastor, there has been no
marriage.
Sometimes men have awakened to ind on one
side Of them the rock Of persecution, and on
the other side the rock Of domestic in felicity.
What shall such an one do. Do as Jonathan
did-cimb. Get up the heights OF Gods
cOnsO!a alton, from which we may look down
In triumph upon outside persecution and
home trouble. While good and great John
Wesley was being sileuced by the ma gistrates,
and having his name written on the board
fences of London in dOggerel, at that very
time his wife was making him as miserable
as she cOuld-acting as though she were pos
sesseu wi tn the devil as i suppose she was;
never doing him a kindness until the day she
ran away, so that be wrote in his diary these
words: 81 did not fOrsake her; I have not
dismissed her: / viii not recall herr Plant
ing one foot, John Wesley did, upon outside
persecution, and the other foot on home
trouble, he climbed up into the heights OF
Christian joy, and after preaching forty
thousand sermons, aud travelling two hundred
and seventy thousand miles, reached the
heights of heaven. though in this world he
had il hard euOugh-''a sharp rock on the
one side, and sharp rock on the other"
again, that woman stands in the crisis Of
the text, who has bereavement and a struggle
for livelihood at the same time. Without
mentioning names, / speak from observation.
All, it is a hard thing for a woman to make
an honest living, even when her heart is not
troubled, and she has a fair cheek and the
magnetism of an exquisite presence. But now
the husband or the father, is dead. The ex-
Penses of the Obsequies have absorbed all
that was left in the savings bank;
and wan and wasted with weeping
and watching, she goes IOrth-a grave,
q hearse, a coffin, behind her-tO contend for
her existence and the cXis Uence of her chill
dren. When / see such q battle as that open
/ shut my eyes at the CAST mess OF the sDecta-
Gle. Men sit with embroidered slippers and
write heartless essays about WOmen's wages {;
but that question is made up of tears and
blood and there is more blood than tears.
Oh, give women free access to all the realms
where she can get livelihood, from the tele-
graph Office to the pulpit. Let mems wages
be cut down before hers are cut down. Men
have iron in their souls and can stand it
Make the way free to her Of the broken heart
May God put into my hand the cold, bitter
cup of privatOn, and give me nothing but
windOWless hut for shelter for many years
rather than that after 1 am dead there should
90 out from my home into the pitiless world
a wOman's arm to fight the Gettysburg. the
Austerlitz, the Waterloo Of life, for bread.
And yet how many women there are seated
between the rock of bereavement On the one
side, and the rock of restitution on the other,
BOZez and Seneh interlOcking their shadow
and dropping them upon her mis- rable way
''Ihere is sharp rock on the one side. and n
sharp rock on the other side" What are
such to doc Somehow, let them climb up in
to the heights Of the glorious promise
Leave thy fatherless children; / ~ill preserve
them alive, and let thy widows trust in Me.'
Or get up into the heights of that other glOr-
iOus PROMISE: The Lord preserveth the
stranger and relieveth the widow and the
fatherless." o We sewing women on starving
once beautiful home o Ye female teachers,
kept on niggardlY stipend. 0 We despaTing
woman, seeking in vain for work, wandering
along the docks. ana thinking TO
throw yourself into the river last
night OIL We women of weak nerves and
aching sides, and short breath and broken
heart, you need something more than human
sympathy; you need the sympathy Of God.
Climb up into His arms. He knows it all.
and he loves on more than father or moth
eT, or husband ever could or ever did: and in
stead Of sitting down, wringing your hands
in despair, you had better begin to climb.
There are heights Of consolation for you,
/ though now 'there is a sharp rock on the one
side, and a sharp rock on the other side"
again, that man is in The crisis of the text
who has a wasted life on The one side. anu an
Illuminated eternity on the other. Though a
man may all his life have cultured delfbera-
| ton and self-pOise, If he gets into that posi-
ton all his self possession is gone. There
are all the wrong thoughts OF his existence,
all the wrong deeds, all the wrong words
strata above strata, granite pOnderOus. ever
shadOwing. That rock call BoZeZ. On the
other side are ali the contributions of the
future, the thrones of judgment. the eternal
ages, angry with his long defiance. That
rock 1 shall call Seneh. Between these two
rocks Lord Byron persisted, and Alcibiades
persisted, and Her0d persisted aud ten thou
sand mes ten thousand have persisted. o.
man immortal man redeemed, man blood
bought climb up out of those shadows.
Climb up By the way of the Cross Have
your wasted life forgiven; have your eternal
life secured. This morning just take one
look to the past and see what it has been.
IL IL