The Brookhaven leader., 1888-08-30

Again, that man is in the crisis or the
| text who has home troubles and outside
/ persecution at tho same TIM. The world
/ treats man we'll just "a long as it pays
| best to treat him we'll. As long as IL can
| manufacture success out Of his bone and
| brain and muscle it favors him. The
worldsINeus the horse it wants To drive.
4. But let man see 1t his duty ~ cross the
/ track of the world. then cvery bush is full
/ of horns mil tu.ks thrust at him They
/ will be}i.u' 80. To- viii ctr,cotur
/ him. They will call his generosity self
/ Acknowledgement and his picty sanctim'ni-
business. TIC very worst p'rs 'rutinu will
some lime cow upo him from those who
profess "a he Christians
John Niltou-yreat and good John VI il
tou-so forgot himself M to pray, in 50
many words, that his enemies might be
etcrnallv thrown down into the darke
and deepest gulf of hell, ana be the un-
dermoSt and most dn1ecte AMI the low
est down va~slls OF Verliion! Aud Mar
tin Luther 80 gar forgot him self as to
( say. in regard to his theological oppo-
neut>:
"Put them in whatever sauce you
| please. roasted, or fried, or baked, or
/ stewed, or boiled, or hashed, they are
nothing but asses"
! All, my friends. ~ John Milton or Mar
/ tin Luther coIld come down to such sour
rility, what may vou not expect from less
elevated opponents? Now, the world
sometimes takes after them; the news
| papers takes after them; public opinion
takes after them; and the unfortunate
man is lied about until all the dictionary
/ OF BilliEsgate is exhausted on him. You
+ often see a man whom you know to be
/ = saR Nv
/ the world and mauled by whole commu-
mites, while vicious men take on a super
! cilious air in condemn alton of him; as
! though Lord Jeffreys should write an es-
/ say on gentlenesS, or Henry VIII. talk
about purity, or Herod take to blessing
/ little children.
| Now certain amount o. persecution
rouses a mans defiance, stirs his blood
/ for magnificent battle ami makes him
/ fifty times more q man than he would
| have been without the persecution. 50 1t
was with the great reformer when he
/ said:
81 will not be put down; will be
heard"
And so it was with Milliard, the preach
err, in the time of Louis XI. When Louis
NJ. sent word to him that unless he
stopped preaching in that style he would
! throw him into tho river. he replied
Tell the King that l will reach Heaven
sooner 10y water than he will reach it by
/ fast horses"
A certain amount OF persecution is
tonic aud inspiration. but too much Of It,
and too long continued becomes the rock
Bozez, throwing a dark shallow over
mans life What is he to do then? Go
horne, You say. Good advice that. That
is just The place FOR a man to go when the
world abuses him. Go home Blessed he
God tor our quiet and sympathetic homes.
But there is many a m2n who has the
T reputation Of having home when he has
none. Through unthinkingness or pre-
CipitatlOn, they" are II ANY matches made
that ought never to nave been made An
officiating priest can not alone unite q
couple. The Lord Almighty must pro-
/ claim bannS. There IS many home in
which there is no sympathy AM no hap
Iiuess and no good cheer. The clamor of
the battle may not have been heard out
eide, hat God knows, Notwithstanding all
the playing of the ''Welding March" and
all the odpr OF the orange blossoms and
the henedictiCu of the officiating pastor,
/ there has been no marriage.
Sometimes men have awakened to find
pll one lie u liltill Jtlf iDi'h 81 If'T~ttu-
ton, and on the other i lie the rock Of do
nestle infdehty. What shall such an
oue do Do as Jonathan did-climb. Get
up the heights OF G DDS cons cation, from
which we may look down in triumph up
on the outside persecution and home
trouble. While good and great John
/ Wesley was being silenced by the magis.
trates, 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-9cting as
though size were possessed with the devil,
as | suppose she was; never doing him
kindness until the day sna ran away, SO
that he wrote in his diary these words:
81 did not forsake her; have not dis
missed her: l will not recall her"
Planting one foot, John Wesley did,
| upon outside persecution and the other
foot on home trouble, he climbed into the
heights OF Christian joy, and, after
preaching forty thousand sermons and
travelling two hundred and seventy thou
sand miles, reached the heights Of Heav-
en-, though in this world he had it hard
| enough.
sharp rocl, 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
struggle for livelihood at the same time.
Without mentioning names, l speak from
observation. All, it is q hard thing for a
woman 10 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 husa
] band, 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 watch
| ing, she goes fOrth-a grave n hearse, a
coffin, behind her-tO contend FOR her cx
istence and the existence of her children.
When l see such battle as that open l
shut my eyes at the ghastliness Of the
slippers and write heartless essays about
won ems wages; bat 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 liveli-
hood, 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, bit
ter cup Of privatiOn, and give me nothing
but a windowless hut for shelter for many
years, rather than that after I am dead
there should 60 out from my home into
the pitiless world a woman's arm to fight
the Gettysburg, the Au5terli;z, the Water
loo OF life, for bread.
And yet how many women there are
fpl hat no III ~ ho-a 1,xE.aY ,,.{