Milford chronicle., 1888-08-24
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, AUGUST a. 1888.


those who profess TO be Christians.
John Ailton-great and good John Milton
so forgot himself as to pray, in so many
words that his enemies might be eternally
thrown down into the darkest and deepest
eulf of hell, and be tho undermost and most
detected and the lowest down vassals OF per-
ditionl Aud Martin Luther so far iorgot
himself cs to say, in regard to his theoloslcal
opponents: "Put them in whatever sauce you
please, roasted, or fried, or baked, or stewed,
or olcd. or hashed, they are nothing but
assesr All my friends, if John Milton or
Martin Luther could down to such sour
rility, what may you not expect from
less elevated opponentsl Now, the
world sometimes takes after them;
the newspapers take after them public opln-
ion takes after them; and the unfortunate
man is lied about until all the dictionary OF
Billnescatc is exhausted on him. You often
see a man whom YOU know to be coed, and
pure, and honest. set upon by the world and
mauled by whole communities, while vicious
men take on a supercilious air IN condenlha-
ton Of him; rs though Lord Jefreys should
write an essay on gentleness. or Henry VII
talk about purity, or Herod take to blessing
little children.
Now. a certain amount Of persecution
rouses n mans defiance, stirs his blood Tor
magnificent battle, and makes him ltty
times moro man than he would have been
without the persecution. So it was with the
I great reforlner when he said; Il Will not be
/ put down; l will be heard" And SO 1t was
/ with Millard, the preacher, in the time ot
/ louis XI When Louis &l sent word to him
/ that unless LIE stopped preaching in that
style Le would throw him into the river, no
replied: ''Tell tho king that ! will reach
heaven sooner by water than he Will reaeh II
by fast horses" \ certain amount OF perse-
cution is a tonic and inspiration, but 100
much Of it, and too long continued, be-
comes the rock Bozcz, throwing dark
shadow over a mans life. What is he to do
them Go home, you say. Good advice,
that That is just the place for man to 60
when the world abuses him Go home.
Blessed be God for our quiet and sympathetic
homes. But there is many a man who has
the reputation of having home when he has
none Through unthinidnsness or preciplta-
tion. there arc many matches made Ehab
ought never to have been made. An oliici-
a4ing priest cannot alone unite a couple. Inc
Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There
is many a home in which there Is no sym
nathy, and no happiness, and 10 good cheer'
TIE clamor Of the battle may not have Been
heard outside, bat God knows, noty7i thstand.
ir,- au the plavin. of the wedding March"
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 ana
on the other side the rock OF domestic inteilc'
ity. What shall such q one dol Do as
J Jonathan did-clim5 Get up the heights OF
Z Gods consolation, from which we may look
down in triumph upon outside persecution
and home trouble While good and great
{ Jobu Wesley was being silenced by the
t magistrates, and having his name written on
e the board fences Of London IN doggereli aE
Q that very time his wife was making nlin as
r miserable as she could acting as Trough
) She were possessed with the devil, as
y / suppose She was; never doing INN q
D kindness until tine day she ran away, SC
; that he wrote in his diary these words
% 81 did not forsaIe her; | have not DIS
= missed her: l will not recall her" Planting
10 one foot, John Wesley did, upon outsld'
i persecution, and the other foot upon homC
u trouble. lie climbed up into the heights oi
il Christian joy and after preaching forty
IS thousand sermons and travelling two hundred
R and seventy thousand miles, reached th'
heights Of heaven though in this world h'
A. bsd it hard enough-"'a sharp rock on TIM
st one side, and a sharp rock on the other.
10 A-ain, that woman stands in the crisis
e, the text, who has bereavement and a stfuggb
in for a livelihood at tine same time. Withou
Is mentioning names, Ispeak from observation
ID All it is a hard thing for a woman to max
n an honest living, even when her heart Is no
es troubled, and she has fair cheek and th
SC ranuetism of an exquisite presence. Bu
or now the husband, or the father, is dead. IN
he | expenses of the obsequies have absorbed q
~ that was left in the savings bank; ana wa
n and wasted with weeping and watching, sh
in coes forth--a grave, hearse, coini
behind her-to contend for her existenc
no and tho existence of her children. When
#. 500 snch n battle as that open l shut my ey'
lis at the ghastliness Of the spectacle. Men
n with embroidered slippers and write hear
ito less essays about women's wages, but thi
be question is made up of tears and blood, an
lie There is more blood than tears. Oh, gi'
;at ,ror,en free access To all the realms whei
1W she can get livelihood, from the telegral
nd office TO the pulpit Let mems wages be c
,w town before hers are cut down Men ha'
ith iron in their souls and CEN stand It, MAJ
or tbe vav free to her of the broken heai
lis Nav God put into my hand the cold, bitu
ras cup of privation and give me nothing but
len windowless hut for shelter for many yea
In rather than that after am dead there shou
1a- 20 ont from my home INTO the pitiless wor
led n yvouaan's arm to fight the Gettysburg I
IN Austerlitz, the Waterloo Of life for bread
led And vet how many women there are seat
;se. between the rock of bereavement on the o
md side and the rock Of destitution on the oth'
wo Bozez and Seneh interlocking their shad'
ave and dropping them upon lgr s1isfJa0le VIZ
mt, There is a sharp rock ON the one slde, a
not n sbaf7o rock on the other side" What {
ave such to dot Somehow, let them eIlho
he into the heights Of the glorious promi
md Leave tiny fatherless children; l will p
at servo them alive, and let tisy widows trust
are. me" Or get up into the heights OF Il
on ,s.her glorious promise: The Lord prese
hey eth tho stranger AMI relieveJE the widow q
non the fatherlessn .! ye sewing woman
lere starving wages. OF ye widows turn
arp ont from the once beautiful hoi
OF We female feuchers, kept on 4
the gardly stipend. Oi ye despairing WON
hat seeking in vain for work, wandering el'
, up the docks, and thinking to throw yourS
ola into tho river last night. OF ye women
and weak nerves and aching sides, and 81
h at breath and broken heart, you need someth
and more than human sympathy; you need
any sympathy Of God. CliIab up into his ar
rve4 He knows it all, and be loves you more c
and father, or mother, or husband ever could
% y ever did, and instead Of sitting do'
sup wringing your hands in despair, you
better begin TO cllinD 1ueIe dIe nSi5He
s.er consolation for you, though now there
tnlS sharp rock on the one side, and sharp +
lclal on the other side"
the Again. that man is in the crisis Of the
avor ,rta bas n ,vastsd life on the one side.
lous anunilluniined eternity on the other, Tho
tof man may all his life have cultured dell
ipon alton and self poise, if he gets into that
lais sition all his self possession is gone II
= ~ are all the wrong thoughts Of his existe
1orss all the wrong deeds, all the wrong wor'
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