Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-18

your worldly businessi | tell you God
knows more about IL than you do. He
knows all your perplexities; ne knows
what mortgage Is about 70 foreclose;
he knows what note You cannot pay;
be knows what unstable goods you have
on your shelves; he knows all your trials,
from the day you took hold Of the first
yardstick down TO the sale Of the last yard
of ribbon, and the God who helped David
to be king. and who helped Daniel to be
prime minister, and who helped Havelock
to be soldier, will help you to discharge
all your duties. He Is going to see you
through. When loss comes, and you find
your property going, Just take this Book
and put 1t down by your ledger, and read
of the 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 insulting letter, put it down on
the table, put your Bible beside the insult
ing letter, and then read of the friend
ship Of him who "sticketh closer than a
brother"
THE LORD SUSTAINED HIN.
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 he was nearly
frenZied. 1t seemed by those books that
something had been Incorporated, 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 banish-
bo h,g hlich Ia
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 have tried to be honest, but
cannot make these things come out right
Help me today-help me this morningp'
The young man arose and hardly know
ing why he did SO opened a book that lay
on the desk, and there was leaf contain
ing line of figures which explained every
thing. In other words, he cast his burden
upon the Lord and the Lord sustained
him. Young man, do you hear thati oh,
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 pickax 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 SYM
pathetic God, Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
Cacnpd-Thara ryroot poopu Eubo
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
deprecated. With more virtue than some
of the honored and applauded, he runs
only against raillery and sharp criticism.
When man begins to go down he has not
only the force of natural gravitation, but
hundred hands to help him in the pre-
cipitation. 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. 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 desolate Patmos, anil
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 attemp
itwith all your soul, the lightning will
strike you.
INTEGRITY ALWAYS BRINGS ABUSE.
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
sublime tragedy of self sacrifice has come
to burlesque. 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 iniquity
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 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
uGSS, VI WuOu NOu LCSCuOu lA great
crisis. / think it has been the history Of
all our lives-the most acrimonious assault
has come from those whom we have bene-
fited, 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
ment Of a church of his denomination
and he was anxious to find some one Of
that denomination, and he was pointed tc
a certain house and went there. He said
to the man of the house, II understand
you are Universalist; want you to helr
me in the enterprise" "Well," said the
man, 81 am Universalist, but l have 8
peculiar kind of Universalism." "What
is that" asked the miAister. "Well," re
piled the other, II have been out in the
world; and have been cheated and Sian
dered and outraged and abused until be
lieve in universal damnation"
The great danger is that men will be.
come cynical and given to believe, as Da-
vid was tempted to say, that all men are
liars, Oh, my friends, do not let that be
the effect upon your soulsl If you cannot
endure little persecution how do you
think our fathers endured great persecu.
tionS Motley, in his dutch Republic, u
tells us of Egmont the martyr, who, con
demned to be beheaded, unfastened his col
lar on the way to the scaffold; and wher
they asked him why he did that he said
$50 they will not be detained in theil
work; want to be ready" Oh, how little
we have to endure compared with those
who have gone before usl
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