New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-08-29

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| every bush is full of thorns and tusks and
thrust at him. They will belittle him. They
| will caricature him. They will call his gener-
osity ef-aggrandizement. and his piety
sanctimoniousness. The very worst perse-
cution will some time come upon him from
| those VIII profess to be christians.
| John Milton-great and good ohm Milton
so forgot himself as to pray, in 80 many
words, that his enemies might be thrown
| down into the darkest and deepest gulf of
| hell, and be the undermost and most detected
| and the lowest down vassals of perditionl
! And Martin Luther SO far forgot himself as
! to say, in regard to his theological OPP
| ponents: 'Put them in whatever sauce you
| please, roasted, or fried or baked, or stewed,
| or boiled, or hashed, they are nothing but
| asses!" Ah my friends, if John Milton or
| Martin Luther could come down to such
| scurrillty. what you may not expect from
| less elevated opponents? Now, the world
| sometimes takes after them the newspapers
take after them; public opinion takes after
| them; and the unfortunate man is lied about
| until all the dictionary of Billingsgate is
| exhausted on him. You often see nan
| whom you know to be good. and pure, and
| honest, set upon by the world and mauled by
whole communities, while vicious men put on
| supercllious air OF condemnation ofhim; as
| though Lord Jeffreys should write an essay
on gentleness, or Henry VIII, talk about
| purity, or Herod take to blessing little
| children.
| Now, a certain amount of persecution
| roUses a mans Defiance stirs his blood for
magnificent battle, and makes him fifty times
more man than he would have been with
| out the persecution. So it was with the great
| reformer when he said: ST will not be put
down; will be heard" And SO it was with
Willard, the preacher in the time of Louis
AI. When Louis XI sent word to him that
unless he stopped preachingin that style he
|
"Tell the king that [ will reach heaven
sooner by water than he will reach it by fast
horses A certain amount of persecution
is a tonic and inspiration, but too
much oft, and too long continued, becomes
the rock Bozez, throwing dark shadow
over a mans life. What is he to do then?
Go home, you say. Good advice that. That
is just the place for a man to go when the
world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be
God for our quiet and sympathetic homes.
But there is many man who has the reputa-
ton of having a home when he has none.
Through unthinkingness of precipitation
there are many matches made that ought
never to have been made. An officiating
priest cannot alone unite a couple The
Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There
is many a home in which there is no SYM
pathy, and no happiness, and no good cheer.
The clamor of the battle may not have been
heard outside, but God knows, notWithstand-
ing. the playing of the Wedding March, .
and all the odor of the orange blossoms and
the benediction of the officiating pastor,
there has been no marriage.
Sometimes men have awakened to find on
one side OF them the rock of persecution, and
on the other side the rock of domestic infe-
lefty What shall such a one do? Do as
Jonathan did-climb. Get up the heights of
Gods consolation, from which we may look
down in triumph upon outside persecution
and home trouble While good and great
John Wesley was being silenced by the
magistrates and having his name written on
the board fences of London in doggerel, at
the same time his wife was making him as
miserable as she could-acting as though she
were possessed with the devil, as l suppose
she was; never doing him Kindness until
the day she ran away, SO that he wrote in his
diary these words: 81 did not forsake her.
have not dismissed her; | will not recall
her." Planting 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
10000 sermons, and travelling 100000 miles,
reached the heights of heaven, though in
this world he had it hard enough-''a sharp
rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the
other
Again, that woman stands in the crisis of
the :, text t., who has bereavement and struggle
for livelihood at the same time. Without
mentioning names, / speak from observation.
All, it is 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
the husband OF the father is dead. The
expenses OF the obsequies have absorbed all
that was left in the savings bank;
and wan and wasted with weeping
and watching, she goes forth-a grave, a
hearse, a coffin behind her-to contend for
her existence and the existence of her chill
dren. When see such a battle as that open
lshut my eyes at the ghastliness of the spec
tacle. 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 a livelihood
from the telegraph 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 priv alton, and give me
nothing but "a widowless hut for shelter for
many years, rather than that after am
dead there should go out from my home in
to 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 miserable way
There is a sharp rock on the one side, and
a sharp rock on the other side" What are
such to do? Somehow, let them climb up in
to the heights ofthe glorious promise: leave
thy fatherless children; will preserve them
alive; and let thy widows trust in Me-" Or
get up into the heights of that
other glorious promise: ssThe Lord
preserveth the stranger and relieyeth the wild
oW and the fatberless." Olye sewing WON
an on starting wages. O!ye widows turned
out from the once beautiful home. OF We fe-
male teachers kept on niggardly stipend OF
We despairing women, seeking in vain for
work, wandering along the docks and think
ing to throw yourself into the river last night.
o! 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 you
more than father, or mother, or husband ever
did; and instead 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 sharp rock
on the one side, and sharp rock on the 9TH
er side"
Again, that man is in the crisis of the
TEX I; who has a; wasted life on ono eide ana