The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-20

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Now, what is such man to do? In the
name of Almighty God, | will tell him
what to do. Do Us Jonathan did-climb,
climb up into the sunlight of Gods favor
and consolation. | can 20 through the
churches and show YOU men who lost
fortune and health at the same time, and
yet who sing all day and dream OF heaven
all night. II you have any idea that sound
digestion, and steady nerves, and clear
eyesight, and good hearing and plenty OF
friends are necessary to make u man hap
py you have miscalculated. suppose
that these ovcrhanging rocks only made
Jonathan scramble the harder and the
faster TO get up and out into the sunlight
and this combined shadow oiinvaidism and
financial embarrassment has often sent q
man up the quicker into the sunlight of
Gods favor and the MONDAY OF his glori-
Gus promises. II is difficult thing for a
man to feel his dependence upon God
when he has $4,000 in the bank and $780,
OOOin government securities, and block
of stores and three ships. "Well," the
man says 10 himself, ut is silly for me TO
pray Give me this day my daily bread
when my pantry is full and the canals
from the west are crowded with breadstulls
destined for my storehouses." Oh, my
friends, II the combined misiortunes and
disasters Of life have made you climb up
into the arms Of sympathetic aud COM
passionate God, through all eternity you
will bless him that in this world there
was sharp rock on the one side and
sharp rock on the other side"
Again, that man is in the crisis OF the
text who has home troubles and outside
persecution at the same time. The world
treats a man well Just as long as il pays
best 10 treat him well. As long rs il can
manufacture success out of his bone, and
brain, and muscle, it favors him. The
world fattens the horse II wants 10 drive.
But let man see il 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 his generosity self
aggrandizement, and his piety sanctimoni-
business. The very worst persecution will
some tine come upon him from those who
| profess TO be Christians.
John Milton-great and good John Mil
ton-so forgot himself rs TO pray, in 20
many words, that his enemies might be
eternally thrown down into the darkest
and deepest gulf Of hell, and be the un-
dcrmost and most detected and the lowest
down vassals Of perdition And Martin
Luther 40 far forgot himself rs 10 say, in
regard to his theological opponents, "Put
! them in whatever sauce YOU please roasted
or fried, or baked or stewcd, or boiled OF
hashed; they are nothing but asses ~
An, my friends, II John Milton OF Martin
Luther could come down to such sour
rility, what may you not expect from
less elevated oppononts2 Now, the world
sometimes takes after them; the news
papers take after them; public opinion
takes after them, and the unfortunate man
is lied about until all the dictionary oI
Billiuggato Is exhausted on him. You
often see man whom you know 10 bc
good, and pure and honest, set upon by
the world, and maulcd by whole com.
munitics, while wicked men take ON q
supercilious air in condemnation Of him
as though Lord Joilrcys should write an
essay on gcntlcncss, or Henry VIII. tnlh
about purity, or llerOd take TO blcssin.
little children.
Now, a certain amount Of persecution
ronses a mans defiance stirs his blood iol
magnificent battle and makes him fifty
times more q man than hc would hav,
been without the persecution. 80 i wa
with the great rciormor when ne said: 81
will not be- put down; | will be heard. >
And ~ Il was with Millard, the preacher
In the time Of Louis NJ, When Louis y
sent word 10 him that unless he sluppc,
preaching In that style he would throw
him into the river, he replied: 'Iell th'
King that | will reach heaven sooner by
water than he will reach II by fast horses
A certain amount Of persecution j. q toni,
and inspiration, but too much Of u, anJ
too long continued, becomes the rocl
Bozez, throwing q dark shadow over
mans life. What is hc 20 dp them 90
home. Won say. Good advice, that. Iha
is Just thc place for a man 20 20 when th
! world abuses him. 60 home. Blessed h
! God for our quiet and sympathetic homes
! liut thcrr Is many man who has the rrp
I utation oi having home when ho hn
. none. Through unthinkingncss or Pre-
{ | cipitntiun there are many matches mad
/ that ought never TO have been made. NJ
, I officiating priest cannot alone unite
- rbuplc. Tho Lord Almighty must pro
I claim the hlunA There i8 many q HON
: I'm which there Is no sympathy, and ~
% haupinrg,. and no good cheer. The clam1
) OF ,hc battle may not have been heard oul
d side. bat ~ui knows, notwithstanding a
/, the pIa,ing 0f the "WCldIng March, ~ an
! an tur oior of the orange blossoms, an
the bonclcii0n oi the officiating paslJl
4 there has been no marriage.
n Sometimes men have awakened to I'm
10 on one silc Of them the rock Of pcrscct
% ton and on the other side the rock OF d
u mr.tir iuit'irIiy. What shall such an on
70 do9 Do as jonathan did=ciimb. Get u
5 tbc hIgh,s Ol Coils consolation, irpI
c which we may look down in trump
u upnn outside persecution and home irnn
b blr. While eJoi aud great john Wcs.c
e WIS hciug siIcnrci by the magistrate
70 und having his nlmo written on tire boat
p frurrs oi lpuf1u in dpgpcrrl, NJ that vci
- time his wife was mlkinghim ~ miscmh
y as slp could acting 1s though she We
plsscss'd with the devil AS ] suppose n
2 was never doing him kindness un'
l7 ihu ,ly she ran away, sO that be- wrote
~ b. I.afy these woulE ~ lid not loral
' hpr lave not dismissed her will u
D. recall hrrn Planting one foot, as Jol
~ Wesley d.d, upon outside pCrccuii,
pi and ihc other foot on home trouble.
cNmNod up into tho nights ot Chusil
'' inv. anil. 1ior preaching 1000 srm0
N and travelling 10000 miles, reached q
,' Ilrh,s Of heaven though In this world
H hld 70 h1rl cn0nrh-''a sharp rock on 9
:, ono silr nni q sharp rock on the other
N At,in. that woman stands In the cri
. of Inc iext who has bereavement an.
~ strulslr ilf livelihood ai the same 900
~ Without mentioning names, ! speak w.
=, observation. Ah. it is q hard thing lp
~ woman 90 make an honest living, oV
~ when her heart u not troubled, ana
w I Itts "a f,fr Fbpak aud the magnetism ~