The national leader., 1889-04-06
wish I could persuade all the people
who have any kind of trouble to

wish I could persuade all the people
who have any kind of trouble to
NEVER GIVE UP.
wish they would look at the mid
night rider OF the text, and that the
four hoofs of that beast on which
Nehemiah rode might cut to pieces
all your discouragements and hardships
and trials. Give upl Who is going to
give up, when on the bosom OF God he
can have all his troubles hushedp Give
upl Never think of giving up. Are
you borne down with povertyP 4 little
child Uas found hotding her dead
mothers hand in the darkness of
tenement house, and some one coming
in, the little girl looked up, while
holding her dead mothers hand, and
said: "Oh do wish that God had made
MORE LIGHT FOR POOR FOLKS"
My dear, God Will be your light, God
will be your shelter, God will be your
home. Are you borne down with the
bereavements of life? Is the house
lonely now that the child is gomez Do
not give UP. Think of what the old
sexton said when the minister asked
him why he put so much care on the
little graves In the cemetery-so much
more care than on the larger graves,
and the sexton said, "Sir. you know
that of such is the kingdom of
heaven and I think the Saviour Is
pleased when He sees so much white
clover growing around these little
graves" But when the minister
pressed the old sexton for more satis-
factory answer, the old sexton said {,
''Sir, about these larger graves, I don't
know who are the Lords saints and
who are not, but you know sir, it IS
clean different with the BARNS" Oh,
il you have had that keen, tender, i'll
describable sorrow that comes from the
loss of child, do not give up. The
old sexton was right. 1t IS
ALL WELL WITH THE BARNS.
Or, if you have sinned, if you have
sinned grievously-sinned until you
have been cast out by the Church,
slnned until you have been cast out by
society, do not give up. Perhaps there
may be in this house one that could
truthfully utter the lamentation Of
another:
Once was pure as the snow, but fell
Fell like snowflake from heaven to hell
Fell, to be trampled as filth in the street
Fell, to be scoffed at, spit on and beat:
Praying, cursing, wishing to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread
Hating the living and fearing the dead
Do not give up. One like unto the
Son of God comes to you to-day,
saying, $50 and sin no more" while
He cries out to your assailants, "Let
him that is without sin cast the first
stone at her." Oil there is no reason
why any one in this house by reason Of
any trouble or sin, should give up.
Are you foreigner, and In a strange
land? Nehemiah was an exile. Are
you penniless? Nehemiah was poor. Are
you homesickp Nehemiah was home
sick. Are you broken-heartedY Nehe-
miah was broken-hearted. But just see
him in the text. riding along the sacri-
legged grave Of his father, and by the
Dragon we'll, and through the Fish
gate, and by the Kings pool, in and
out, in and out, the moonlight falling
on the broken masonry, which throws
long shadow at which the horse SHES,
and at the same time that moonlight
kindling up the features Of this man
till you see not only the mark of sad
reminlscence. but the courage. the
hope, the enthusiasm, of a man who
knows that Jerusalem will be rebuilded.
I pick you up to-day out of your sins
and out of your sorrow, and put you
against the warm heart of Christ.
''The eternal God is thy refuge, and
underneath are the everlasting aEms. {"