Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-11

| friends turn against you just take tine in
! your Bible beside the insulting letter are
then read of the friendship of him wht
'st;cketh closer than brother
YOUNG ACCOUNTANT
| in New York City got his accounts en-
| tangled. He knew he was honest, and vet
| he could not make his accounts come out
| right, and he toiled nj them day and night
until he was nearly frenzied. 1t seemed by
| those books that something had been mis-,
| appropriated, and he knew before God he
was honest. The last day came. He knew
if he could not that day make his accounts
come out right, he would go into disgrace
and go into Punishment 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: ''Oh. Lord, thou knowest l have
tried to be honest, but l cannot make these
things come out right Help me to-day
help me this morning." The young man
arose and hardly knowing why he did so,
opened book that lay on the desk, and
there was leaf containing 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 thatl Oh, yes, God has SYM
patty with anybody that is in any kind OF
toll! He knows how heavy is the hod of
bricks that the workman carries up the lad
der of the wall he hears the pickaXe 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 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"
WEIGHT OF PERSECUTION.
9. There are great many who
have weight of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets
misinterpreted and his good deeds are de-
preciated. With more virtue than some of
the honored and applauGed, he runs only
against raillery and sharp criticism. When
man begins 10 go down, he has not only
the force of natural gravitation but a hun
dred hands to help him in the precipitation.
Men are prosecuted for their virtues and
their successes. Germanicus said he had
just as many bitter antagonists as he had
adornments. The character sometimes is
so lustrous that the weak eyes of envy and
jealousy cannot bear TO look at it, II was
their integrity that put Joseph in the pit,
and Daniel in the den, and Shradrach III the
fire, and sent John the Evangelist to desc
late PatmoS, and Calvin to the castle of
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
lightning will strike you.
The world always has had a cross 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-sacritice has come to bur-
leSque.
THE GRACEFUL GAIT OF VIRTUE
is always 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 in
EQUITY to grin at. All along the line of the
ages, and in all lands, the cry has been:
Not this man. but Barabbas. Now, Barab-
Das was j robber." And what makes the
of life worse is that they come
from people whom you have helped, from
hose to whom you have loaned money or
nave started in business, or whom you res
:ued in some great crisis. | think it haS..been
he history of all our lives-the most acri-
nonious assault has come from those whom
we have benefited, whom we have helped,
and that makes it all the harder to bear A
Han Is III udlSer Vi DecOullEg cynical.
A clergyman of the Universalist church
vent into neighborhood for the establish
nent of church OF his denomination, and
lie was anxious to find some one of that de-
and he was pointed to 4 certain
louse and went there. He said to the man
VI the house: II understand you are a Uni |
l want you to help me in the en- |
erprise." ''Well," said the man, Il am a |
but / have a peculiar kind of |
hat Ic hnt cl-fal +l>l
Minister Well replied the other Il |
AVE been out in the world, and have been |
heated and slandered and outraged and |
bused until | believe in universal damna-
ion!"
THE GREAT DANGER
: that men will become cynical and given |
o believe, as David was tempted to say, |
hat all men are liars Oh. my friends, do
OF let that be the effect upon your souls,
you can not endure little persecution
ow do you think our fathers endured great
ersecutiong Motley, in his Dutch Repub-
C, tells us of Egmont, the martyr, who,
to be beheaded. unfastensd his |
ollar on the way to the scafold; and when
ley asked him why he did that, he said:
So they will not be detained in their work,
want to be ready" Oh, how little we
ave 10 endure compared with those who
ave gone before US.
Now, if you have come across ill-treat-
lent, let me tell you you are in excellent
and Luther and Calico
nd Columbus and John Jay and Josiah
uincy and thousands of men and women.
le best spirits of earth and heaven.
Judge not one inch, though all hell wreak
pom you its vengeance, and you be made
.rget for devils to shoot al. Do YOU not |
link Christ knows all about persecution2
Jas He not Kissed att Was He not struck |
/ the cheek! Was He not pursued all the
ays of his lfe9 Did they not expectorate
pom Himl Or, to put it in Bible language,
They spit upon Him And cannot He
lderstand what persecution is? Coast thy |
Irden upon the Lord and He shall sustain
lee'
BURDENS oR PHYSICAL AILMENTS.
3. There are others who carry great bur- |
ms of physical ailments When sudden |
ckness has come, and fierce choleras and |
alignant fevers take the castles of life by
orm. we appeal to God; but in these
Ironic ailments which wear out the
rength day after day, and week after
eek, and year after year. how little resort
g to God for solace! Then people depend
BON their tonics and their plasters and |
eir cordials rather than upon heavenly
imulants. Oh how few people there are
well. Some of you by dint of
and care, have kept living to
is time; but how you have had to war
ainst physical ailments Antediluvians,
lthout medical college and infirmary and
othecary shop, multiplied their years by
but he who has gone through the
untlet of disease in our time. and has
me to seventy years of age, is hero
orthy of palm.
The world seems to be a great hospital,