Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-06-11

! SelI-SdcrlIlcc mas come 10 DU'leSuuc.
The graceful gait of virtue is always
followed by grimace and traves5y.
The sweetest strain of poetry ever writ
ten has come to ridiculous parody. and
as long as there are virtue and right
eousness 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: IN OF this man,
but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was
n robber." And what mnkcp
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 business, or whom
| you rescued in some great crisis. !
think it has been the history of all our
| lives-thc 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 Gym
zeal.
A clergyman of the Universalist
Church went into neighborhood for
the establishment of a church of his de-
nomination, and he was anxious to find
| some one of that denomination, and he
was pointed to Il certain house, and
went there. He said to the man of the
house: Il understand you are Uni
| versalist; want you to help me in this
| enterprise" ''Well," said the man, IL
am universalist, but | have
peculiar kind of Univcrsalism."
what is that?" asked the
minister. 'Well," replied the other,
II have been out in the world, and
have been cheated and slandered and
e.,
universal damnation" The great dan
ger is that men will become cynical and
given To believe, as David was tempted
to say, that all men are liars. Oh, my
friends, do not let that be the effect
upon your souls! 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 beheaded, unfastencd his collar
on the way to 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" Oh,
how little we have to endure compared
with those who have gone before MS!
Now, if You have come across ill
treatment. let me tell you you are In
excellent company-Christ and Luther
and Calico and Columbus and John
jay and Josiah Quincy and thousands
of men and women, the best spirits Ct
earth and heaven. Bulge not one
inch, though all hell wreall upon you
It's vengeance, and you be made n target
for devils to shoot at. Do you not think
Christ knows all about persecution?
Was he not Kissed at? Was He not
struck on the cheek? Was he not pur-
sued all the days of his life? Did they
not eXpcctorate upon him? Or, to put
it in Biblical language, "Thcy spit upon
him" And can not He understand
what persecution is? Cast thy burden
upon the Lord and lie shall sustain
thee"
There are others who carry
great burdens of physical ailments.
When sudden sickness has come. and
fierce cholcras and malignant fevers
take the castles of life by storm, we APP
peal to God; but in these chronic all
mcnts which wear out the strength day
after day. and week after week. and
year after year, how little resorting to
God for solace. The people depend
upon their tOnics and their plasters and
their cordials rather than upon heaven
ly stimulauts. Oh, how few people
there are completely well! Some OF
you, by dint of perseverance and care.
have kept living to this time; but how
you have had to war against physical
ailments. Antediluvians, without med
zeal college and infirmary and apothe-
cary 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 "a
hero worthy of a palm.
The world seems to be great hos
pital, and you run against rheumatisms,
and consumptions and scrofulas and
neuralgias and scores of old diseases,
baptized by new nomenclatures.
Oh, how heavy burden sick
ness is! 1t takes the color out
of the sky and the sparkle ont of the
wave and the sweetness out of the
fruit and the lustre out of the night.
When the limbs ache. when the respi-
ration is painful, when the mouth IS
hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy
distractions, how hard it is to be pa-
tient and cheerful and aSsiduouS
Cast thy burden 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 you feel like
| giving way under the burden? His
weakness gave way under a cross.
| While you are in every possible way to
! try to restore your health, you are to
remember that more soothing than any
anodyne and more vitalizing than any
| stimulant and more strengthening than
any tonic is the prescription of the text:
! Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He
! shall sustain thee We hear great
| deal of talk now about faith cure, and
some people say it can not be done and
it is failure. | do not know but that
! the chief advance of the church is to be
in that direction. Marvellous things
come to me day by day which make me
| think that if the age of miracles is past
it is because the faith of miracles is
past.
Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the
soul Is there no way to have the bur-
den moved? o, yes. ''Cast thy burden
upon the Lord" The sinless One came
to take the consequences of our sin!
And know he is in earnest. How do
| know it? Ry the streaming temples
and the streaming hands AS he says,
Come unto me all We who are weary
and heavy laden and will give you
rest" Why will prodigals live on
swines' husks when the robe and the
ring and the fathers welcome are
ready? Why go wandering over the
great Sahara Desert of your sin when
you are invited to the gardens of God,
the trees of life, and the fountains of
living water? Why be houseless and
homeless forever when you may become
the sons and daughters of the Lord God
Almighty?