Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-08-30

world fattenS the hoi.,e IL wants 10 drive.
But let man see it his duty to cross the
track of the world, then every bush Is full
of horns and tusks thrust at him. They
will belittle him. They will caricature
him. They will call mis- generosity self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and his piety sanctimo-
niousness. The very worst persecution
will some time come npon him from those
who profess to be Christians.
John Milton-great and good John Mil
ton-so forgot himself as to pray, in so
many words, that his enemies might be
eternally thrown down into the darkest
and deepest gulf of he'll, and be the under
most and most detected and the Lowest
down vsssals OF perdition. And Martin
Luther SO far forgot himself as TO say, in
regard to his theological opponents: Put
them in whatever sauce you please, roast
ed, or fried, or baked, or stewed or boiled,
or hashed, they are nothing but asses"
All, my friends, if John Milton or Martin
Luther could come down TO such scurrility
what may you not expect from less eie-
waited opponents: Now, the world some
times takes after them; the newspapers
take after them: public opinion takes
after them. and the unfortunate man
is lied about until all the diction-
him. You often see a man whom
YOU know to he good and pure, and
honest, set upon by the world. and mauled
by whole communities, while vicious men
take on q superciiious air in condemnation
of him, as Though Lord Jeifreys should
write an essay on gsntleDess, or Henry
VIII. tall: about parity, o. Herod take to
blessing little children.
Now, a certain amount of persecution
arouses a mans defiance. stirs his blood
for magnificent battle, and makes him
fifty times more man than he would have
been without the persecution. SO it was
with the great reformer when he said: Il
will not be put down; | viii be heard"
And so it was with -diilaTd, :he preacher,
in the time of Louis Xi. When Louis II.
sent word 70 him that unless he stopped
preaching in that style he would throw
him into the river. he replied: Tell the
King that | will reach Heaven sooner by
water than ne will reach It by fast horses.'
a certain amount Of persecution IS
tonic and inspiration, bat TOO much OF 1t
and too long continued becomes the rock
Bozez, throwing a dark shadow over
mans life. What is he to do then? Go
home, you say. Good advice, that. That
is just the place for n 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
reputation of having home when he has
none. Through unthinkingness or precip-
itatiOn there are many matches made that
never ought to have been made. An
officiating priest can not alone unite
couple. The Lord Almighty must pro-
claim bans. There is many a home in
which there is no sympathy and no happi-
ness and no good cheer. The clainor Of
the battle may not have been heard out
side. but God knows. notwithstanding all
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 persecu-
ton, and ON the other side the rock of do
nestle infelicity. What shall such a one
do? Do as Jonathan did-cliInb. Get up
the heights of Gods consolation, from
which we may look down in triumph upon
outside persecution ana 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 thatve
time his wife was making him as miserable
as she cOuld-acting as though she were
possessed with the devil, as ] suppose she
was; never doing him kindness until the
day she ran away, so that he wrote in his
diary these words: ~ did not forsake her;
have not dismissed her: will not recall
her." Planting one foot, John Wesley did,
upon outside persecution the other foot on
home trouble. he climbed up into the
.xl RI
ing 10000 sermons and travelling 10000
miles. reached the heights of Heaven.
though in this world he had it hard enough
Ia sharp rock on the one side and a
sharp rock on the other"
Again, that woman stands in the crisis
of the text, who has bereavement and q
struggle for a livelihood at the same time.
Without mentioning names, speak from
observation. All, it is hard thing for
woman to make an honest living, even
when her heart is not troubled and she
has fair cheek and the magnetism OF an
exquisite presence. But now the husband
or the father is dead. The expenses OF the
obsequies have absorbed all that was left
in the savings bank, and wan and waste
with weeping and watching. she goes forth
"a grave, a hearss. coffin behind her-to
contend for her existence and the existence
of her children. When | see such battle
as that open l shut my eyes at the ghastl-
ness of the spectacle. Men sit with EN-
broidered slippers and write hesrtless es-
SAYS about women 'swa ges, but that question
is made up of tears and blood and there is
more blood than tears. o, give woman
free access to all the realms where she can
get 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
heart. May God put into my hand the
cold, bitter cup OF privation and give ME
nothing but windowless hut FOR shelter
for many Years rather than that after am
dead there should go out from INV home
into the pitiless world a woInan's arm to
fight the Gettysburg, the AusteTlitz, 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 destitation
on the other. Bozez and Ssneh interiock-
ing their shadows and dropping them unon
her miserable way. There is sharp
rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on
the other side" What are such to do?
Somehow, let them climb up into the
heights of the glorious promise: Leave
thy fatherless children: l will preserve
them alive, and let thy widows trust in
Me-" Or get up into the heights of tha.
other glorious promise: THE Lord pre-
serveth the stranger and reiieveth the