Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26

prosecuted for their VIZ tues and their sue
cesses Germanicus said he had just as
many bitter antagonists as he had adorn-
/ ments The character sometimes Is 50 IuS-
trous that the weak eyes of envy AMI Jeal-
ousy cannot bear to look at it. 1t was their
Integrity that put Joseph in the pit, and
Daniel in the den, and Shadrach in the fire,
and sent John the Evangelist TO deSo!ate
Patrnos, and Calvin 10 the castle OF parsecu-
ton and John Huss to the stake, and Koran
after Moses and Saul after David, and
| Herod after Christ. Be sure if you have
anything to do for church or state, and you
| attempt it with all your SOUL the lightning
will strike you.
The world always had had eros, between
two thieves for the one who comes to save
it. High and holy enterprise has always
been followed by abuse. The most sublime
| tragedy of self sacrifice has come TO bur-
| lesque. The graceful gait Of virtue is al
ways followed by grimace and travesty.
! The sweetest strain Of poetry ever written
has come to ridiculous parody, and as long
as there are virtue and Righteousness in the
world, there will be something for iniquity
I to grin at All along the line of the ages,
and In all lands, the cry has been: Not this
man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a
/ rObber."
/ And what makes the prosecutions of life
| worse is that they come from people whom
| you have helped, from those to whom you
! have loaned money or have started in bust
ness or whom you rescued in some great
crisis. think it has been the history of all
our Hves-the most acrimonious assault
has come from those whom we nave Dene-
fitted, whom we have helped, and that makes
it all the harder to bear. A man is in dan.
ger of becoming cynical.
A clergyman of the Universalist church
went into neighborhood for the establish
ment of a church Of his denomination, and
he was anxious to find some one Of that de-
nomination. and he was pointed to certain
house and went there. he said to the man
IF &hoh I11J.
versalist; want YOU to help me in the en-
terprise." "Weu," said the man, Il am q
Universalist, but [ have a peculiar kind of
Unlversalism." ''Wen," replied the other,
II have been out in the world, and have
been cheated and s'andered and outraged
and abused until believe in universal dam
natiOn~
Ihlrd-Ihere are others who carry great
burdens Of physical ailments. When sud-
den sickness has come, and fierce chOleras and
malignant fevers take the castles of life by
storm, we appeal to God; but in these chronic
ailments which wear out the strength dav
after day, and week after week, and year
after year. how little resorting to God for
solace! Then people depend upon their tonics
and their plasters and their cordials rather
than upon heavenly stimulants. Oh how
few people there are completely we'll! Some
OF you, by dlnt of perseverance and care
have kept living to this time; but how you
nave had to war against physical ailments!
Antediluvians, without medical college and
lntrmary and apOthecary shop, multiplied
their years by hundreds; but he who has
gone through the gauntlet Of disease in our
time, and has come to seventy years Of age,
is hero worthy Of a palm.
The world seems to be a great hospital,
and you against rheumatiSnlS and con-
sumptions and scrofulas and neuralgias and
scores Of old diseases baptized by new no.
menclature. Oh, how heavy burden sick
ness Isl 1t takes the color out of the sky
and the sparkle out of the wave, and the
sweetness out OF the fruit and the luStre out
of the night. When the limbs ache when
the respiration is painful, when the mouth
is hot, when the ear rOars with unhealthy
Instructions, now hard it Is to be patient
and cheerful and assiduous! Cast thy bur-
den upon the Lord" Does your head ache?
His wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt? His
were crushed of the spikes. Is your side
painful? His was struck by the spear. Do
yor zeal like giving way under the burden!
His weakness gave way under a cross.
A prominent merchant of New York said
to a member Of my family, my mother
wants her case mentioned to Mr.. Talmage"
This was the case. He said: My mother
had dreadful abscess, from which she had
suffered untold agonteS, and all surgery had
been exhausted upon her, and worse and
worse she grew until we called in few
Christian friends and proceeded to pray
about it. We commended her case to God,
and the abscesS began Immediately to De
cured. She is entirely well now and with
out knife and without any surgery" So that
casehas come to me, and there are score OF
other cases coming to our ears from all parts
of the earth. Oh, We who are sick, go to
Christ. Oh, ye who are worn out with
agonies of body, Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and He shall sustain thee"
Another burden some have to carry is the
burden Of bereavement. All! these are the
troubles that wear us out. If we lose our
property, by additional industry perhaps we
may bring back the estrange1 fortune; if we
lose our good name, perhaps by reformation
OF morals we may achieve again reputation
for integrity; but who will bring back the
dear departed? Alas me! for these empty
cradles and these trunks of childish toys that
will never be used again. Alas me- for the
empty chair and the silence in the halls that
will never echo again to those familiar foot
steps. Alas! for the cry of widowhood AMI
Orphanage.
What bitter Marahs in the wilderness,
what cities of the dead what long black
shadow from the wing of DEATH what eyes
sunken with grief, what hands tremulous
with bereavement, what instruments OF
mus c shut now because there are no fingers
to play on theml Is there no relief for such
souls? Ave, let the soul ride into the harbOr
of my text.
The soul that on Jesus hath feared for repose,
will not will not desert TO It's foes;
That soul, though all he'll shah endeavor to shake
III never, no never, no never forsahe
There are many who carry the burden OF
sir. All, We all carry it until in the appoint
ed way that burden is lifted. We need no
Bible TO prove that the whole race is ruineI
w hat a spectacle it would be if we could
tear off the mask of human defilement: or
beat a drum that would bring up the waole
army OF the worlds trausgressiOns-the de
ceptlOn, the fraud and the rapine, and the
n a