The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-06-11
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the line OF the ages, and in Ill lands,
the cry has been: Not this man, but
Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was rob
Der"
And what makes the persecution Of /
life worse is that they come from peo- /
pie whom you have helped, from those i
10 whom you have loaned money or .
have started in business, or whom you /
rescued in some great crisis. | think it /
las been tie history of all our lives
the most acrimonious assault has come /,
from those whom we have benefited, /
whom we lave helped, and that makes
it all the harder to bear. A man is in
danger Of becoming cynical.
BELIEVED IN UNIVERSAL DAMNATION. /
4 Clergyman Of the Universalist
church went into n neighborhood for
the establishment Of church OF his
denomination, and he was anxious to
find some one of that denomination,
and he was pointed TO a certain house
and went there. lie said TO the man
of the house, Il understand you are
UniversaIist; want you to help me in
the enterprise. 'Weli," said the man,
II am Universalist, but I have n pc
CELLAR kind of universalisn. What
is thatp' asked the minister. We'll,
replied the other, II have been out in
the world, and | have been cheated
and slandered and outraged and abused
until / believe in universal dannationW
The great danger is that men will be-
come cynical and given to believe, as
David was tempted to say, that al
men are liars. Oh, my friends, do not
let that be the effect upon your souls!
If you cannot endure a little persecu-
ton, how do you think our fathers en-
dured great persecution? Motley, in
his Dutch Republic" tells us of Egg
mont, the martyr, who, condemned to
be beheaded, unfastened his collar on
the way to the scaffold, and when they
asked him why he did that he said, $50
they will not be detained in their work !;
l want to be ready" Oh, how little we
have to endure compared with those
who have gone before usl"
Now, if you have come across i'll
treatment, let me tell you you are in
! excellent company-Christ and Luther
and Calico and Columbus and John
Jay and Josiah Quincy and thousands
of men and women, the best spirits of
earth and heaven. Bulge not one
inch, though all hell wreck upon you
its vengeance, and you be made tar
get for devils to shoot at. Do you not
think Christ knows adj about persecu-
tion2 Was he not Kissed at? Was he
not struck on the cheek? Was he not
pursued all the days of his life? Did
they not expectorate upon him2 Or,
to put it in Bible language, '"They spit
upon him." And cannot he under
stand what persecution is? Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shall sus
tain thee"
THE BURDEN OF SICKNESS.
Third-There are others who carry
great burdens Of physical ailments
When sudden sickness has come, anG
fierce choleras and malignant fever.
take the castles of life by storm, We
appeal to God: but in these chronic
day after day, and week after week
and year after year, how little resort
ing to God for solacel Then peopl,
depend upon their tonics, and thei
. plasters, and their cordials, rather thar
upon heavenly stimulants. Oh, how
few people there are completely well
Some of you, by dint of perseverance,
and care, have kept living to this time
: but how you have had to war agains
physical ailments Antediluvians, with
out medical college and infirmary ant
E apothecary shop, multiplied their year
by hundreds, but he who has gon,
through the gauntlet of disease in GU
time, and has come to seventy years o
age, is hero worthy of palm.
The world seems to be great hos
? pital, and you run against rheumatism
and consumptions and scrofulas ant
} neuralgias and scores of old disease
| baptized by new nomenclature. Oh
/ how heavy a burden sickness isl !
. takes the color out of the sky and tn
sparkle out of the wave and the sweet
=, ness out of the fruit and the luster on
of the night. When the limbs ache
when the respiration is painful, whe
the mouth is hot, when the ear roar
with unhealthy distinctions, how har
it is to be patient and cheerful and a.
: siduousl Cast thy burden upon th
Lord" Does your head ache? Hi
, | wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt
His were crushed of the spikes. Is you
!, side painful2 His was struck by th
o spear. Do you feel like giving wa
under the burden9 His weakness CAV
way under the cross
, While you are in every possible wa
to try to restore your physical vigol
you are to remember that more sootl
!. ing than any anodyne, and more vita
izing than any stimulant, and NOR
3 strengthening than any tonic is til
g prescription of the text, Cast thy bu
q den upon the Lord, and he shall su
r tain thee" We hear a great deal
q talk now about faith cure, and som
). people say it cannot be done and it
n a failure. do not know but that til
Y chief advance of the church is to be
n that direction. Marvellous things CON
r to me day by day which make me thin
that If the age of miracles is past it
n because the faith, of miracles is past.
q A SAMPLE CASE
s A prominent merchant of New Yor
e said to a member of my family, IN
II mother wants her case mentioned I
. Mr.. Talmage" THIS was.the case II
u said: my mother had a dreadful al
!, scess, from which she had Suffered ur
- told agonies, and all surgery had bee
exhausted upon her, and worse an
20 worse she grew until we called in fe
d Christian friends and proceeded to pra
II about it. We commended her case |
st God and the abscess began,immediat
II ly to be cured She is entirely we
le now, and without knife and withol
<, any surgery" So that case has con