The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-08

70 be king and who helped Daniel 70 D
prime minister, and who helped Havelocl
to be soldier will help you TO discharge al
your duties. He is going TO see yot
through When loss comes, and you find
your property going, just take this book anc
put it down by your ledger, and READ OF tne
eternal possessions that will come TO you
through our Lord Jesus Christ And when
your business partner betrays you, and your
friends turn against you, just take the III
sulting letter, put it down on the table pu,
your Bible beside the insulting letter, and
then read Of the friendship of him who
''sticketh closer than brother"
A Young accountant in New York city
got his accounts entangled. He knew he
was honest, and yet he could not make his
accounts come out right, and he toiled at
them day and night until be was nearly
frenzied. 1t seemed by those books that
something had been misappropriated, and
he knew before God he was honest. The
last day came. He knew if be could not
that day make his accounts come out right
he would 60 into disgrace, and go into ban
ishment from the business establishment.
He went over there very early, before there
was anybody in the place, and he knelt
down at the desk and said: 30, Lord. thou
knowest have tried to be honest, but can
not make these things come out right!
Help me ro-day-help me this morn
ing" The young man arose, and
hardly knowing why he did so, opened
a book that lay on the desk, and there
was a leaf containing a line Of figures
which explained everything. In other
words, he cast his burden upon the
Lord, and the Lord sustained him. Young
man, do you hear thati o. yes, God has a
sympathy with anybody that is in any kind
of toll. He knows how heavy is the hod OF
bricks that the workman carries up the
ladder of the wall; he hears the pick-ax Of
the miner down in the coal shaft; he knows
how strong the tempest strikes the sailor at
masthead; he sees the factory girl among
the spindles, and knows how her arms ache (;
he sees the sewing woman in the fourth
story. and knows how few pence she gets
for making a garment; and louder than all
the din and roar of the city comes the voice
of a sympathetic God: Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
Second, There are a great many who
have a weight Of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets a
grudge against a man. All his motives are
misinterpreted and his good deeds are de-
spreciated. With more virtue than some of
+, the honored and applauded, he runs only
against raillery and sharp criticism. When
a man begins TO 60 down, he has not only
the force of natural gravitation, but a
hundred hands to help him in the precipita-
ton. Men are prosecuted for their
virtues and their successes. Germanicus
said he had Just as many bitter an
tagonists as he had adornments. The
character sometimes is so lustrous that
the weak eyes of envy and jealousy cannot
bear to look at 1t. 1t was their integrity
that put Joseph in the pit, and Daniel in the
den, and Shadrich in the fire, and sent John
the Evangelist to desolate Patmos, and
Calvin to the castle of persecution, and
John Huss to the stake. and Korah 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 ligh timing
will strike you.
The world always has had a cross be-
tween two thieves for the one who comes to
save it. High and holy enterprise has
always been followed by abuse. The most
Bublime tragedy Of self-sacrifice has come to
burlesque. The graceful gait of virtue is
Is always followed by grimace and trav-
esty. The sweetest strain of poetry ever
written has come to ridiculous parody, and
as long as there are virtue and righteous
ness in the world, there will be something
for iniquity to grin at. All along the line
of the ages, and in all lands, the cry has
been: mot 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,
or have started in business, or whom you
rescued in some great crisis. l think it has
been the history of all our lives-the most
acrimonious assault has come from those
whom we have benefited, whom we have
helped, and that makes it all the harder to
bear. A man is in danger OF becoming
cynical.
A clergyman of the Universalist church
went into neighborhood for the establish
vTaant of a Church of his denomination and
he was anxious to find some one Of that de-
nomination, and he was pointed to a GER
tain house, and went there. He said to the
man of the house 81 understand you are
Universalist; want you to help me in
the enterprise" "Well, !" said the man, 81
am Universalist, but have peculiar
kind Of Universalisn." "What is that %
other. Il have been out in the world,
and / have been cheated and slandered
and outraged and abused until !
believe in universal damnation!" The
great danger is that men will become Gym
ical and given TO believe, as David was
tempted to say, that all men are liars. o,
my friends, do not let that be the effect
upon your soulsl If you cannot endure a
little persecution, how do you think our
fathers endured great persecution Motley
in his Dutch Republic. /" tells us of Egmont
the martyr, who, condemned to be be.
headed, unfastened his collar on the way tx
the scaffold; and when they asked him why
he did that, he said: $50 they will not be
detained in their work; want to be ready.
o, how little we have to endure compared
with those who have gone before usl
Now. Ii you have come across ill-treat-
ment, let me tell you you are in excellent
company-Chrlst and Luther and GalileC
and Columbus and John Jay and JOSIAH
Quincy and thousands of meI
and women, the best spirits o.
earth and heaven. Bulge no
one inch, though all hell wreak upon 20,
its vengeance, and you be made q target TO
devils to shoot at. Do you not think Chris
knows all about persecution2 Was he no
Missed ati Was he not struck on the cheek
Was he not pursued all the days of his life
Did they not expectorate upon him2 Or, t,
put it in Bible language, "They spit upol
him" And cannot he understand wha
persecution iss Cast thy burden upon tn,
Lord and he shall sustain thee"
Third, there are others who carry grea
burdens of physical ailments. When suddel
sickness has come, and fierce choleras an
malignant fevers take the castles of life b
storm we appeal to God; but in thes
chronic ailments which wear out tn
strength day after day and week after wee
and year after year. how little resorting t
God for solacei Then people depend upo
their tonics and their plasters and thei
cordials rather than upon heavenly stimu
lants. Oh, how few people there are CON
pleteIV we'll Some of VOu nv diut ~ no,