Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-06-18

your worldly blsinessl tell Won Cod
Knows more about it than you do. He
KNOWS All yonr perple kites, he knows
Mhal mortgages ~ about TO foreclose.
ne KNOWS what note you cannot paw.
ne KNOWS what unstable goods Won have
on your shelves. he knows all your trials.
from the day YOU took bold of the first
yardstick down 10 the sale of the last ward
Of ribbon. AMI the God who helped David
to be king, ami who helped Daniel TO be
PRIME minister. and who helped Havelock
10 be a soldier, will help you to discharge
al your dnties He is going to see YOU
through When loss comes, and Won fnd
your property going. just take this Book
and put Il down by your ledger, and read
OF the eternal pos>e-ions thar will come to
you through our Lord Jesus Christ. And
When sour Business partner betrays you,
and your friends turn against you. lust
tax the Insulting i%euter, put il down on
the Table. pun yoHr Bible beside the insult
ing letter, and then read OF the friend.
snip OF him who "sticketh closer than a
BROTHER
THE LORD SUSTAINED HIM.
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 Il seemed by those books that
something had been misappropriated, and
he knew before God he was honest. The last
day came. He knew if he could not that
day make his counts come out right he
would so into disgrace and go into banish-
ment 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 ] have tried to be honest, but
cannot make these things eome out right
Help me today-help me this morningl'
The young man arose aud hardly know.
Ing why he did so opened a boob that lay
on the desk, and there was a leaf contain.
ing a 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 thatf Oh,
yes; God has a sympathy with anybody
that is in any kind of TOLL He knows
how heavy is the bod Of bricks that the
workman carries up the ladder of the wall.
he hears the pickax of the miner down in
the coal shaft; be 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 sym
pathetic God, Cast thy burden upon the
Lord. and he hall sustain thee
Second-There are a great many who
have Il 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 "A man begins TO 10 down he has not
only the force of natural gravitation, but
a 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 be had a~dornments. The character
sometimes is so lustrous that tie weak
eyes of envy and jealousy cannot bear to
look at it. IL 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. 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 -FOUR soul. the lightning will
strike you.
INTEGRITY ALWAYS BRINGS ABUSE.
The world always has bad a cross he
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 trayssty.
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 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 lives-the most acrimonious assault
has come from those whom we have bene-
fitted. 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 a 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 TO
a certain house and went there. lie SAID
to the man Of the house, II understand
YOU are a Universalist; | wan you to help
me in the enterprise" well" said the
man 81 am a Universalist, but | have a
peculiar kind of Universalism." What
Is thats" asked the minister. We'll re
plied the other. Il hav been out in the
world. and | have been cheated and Sian
dered and outraged and abused until be
lieve in universal damnationH'
The great danger is that men will be
come cynical and given to believe, as Da-
yid was tempted to say, that all men are
liars. Oh. my friends, do not let that be
tha effect mon your soulsi II you cannot
endure a little persecution how do you
think our fathers endured great persecu-
tion; Motley, in his dutch Republic,
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