Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-06-12

l YOU through our l40fu jesus knElSbs Anu
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
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 he was nearly
frenzied. It seemed by those books that
something had been misappropriated, aud
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 20 into Danish
nent 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
l cannot make these things come out right
Help ME today-help me this morning"
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 thaty oh
yes; God has n sympathy with anybody
that is in any kind of TOLL lie 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; lie knows how strong the
tempest strikes the sailor at masthead; be
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 anc
roar of the city comes the voice of a sym
pathetic God, Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
Second-There are u great many who
have a weight of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets a
grudCe against man. All his motives
are misinterpreted, and his good deeds art
deprecated. With more virtue than some
of the honored and appauded, he runs
only against raillery and sharp criticism.
When man begins to 20 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 adornnents. The character |
sometimes is so lustrOus that the weak |
eyes of envy and jealousy cannot bear t.
look at it. It 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 HeroC |
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.
INTEGRITY ALWAYS BRINGS ABUSE.
The world always has had a cross be
tween two thieves for the one who GOMEZ
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 travssty
The sweetest strain of poetry ever writer
has come to ridiculous parody, and as long
as there are virtue and righteousness in tbs
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; moi
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
ness, or whom you rescued in some great
crisis | think it has been the history o.
all our lives-the most acrimonious assault
has come from those whom we have bene
flied, whom we have helped, and thai
makes it all the harder to bear. A man Is
in danger of becoming cynical.
A clergyman of the Universalist chHch
went into a neighborhOol for the establish.
ment of a church of his denomination
and he was anxious to find some one o.
that denomination and he was pointed Il
a certain house and went there. He said
to the man Of the house, II understand
you are a Universalist; want you to helI
me in the enterprise" "Well, said the
man, 81 am Universalist, but l have
peculiar kind of Universalism." 'What
is that?" asked the minister "Well, " re
piled the other, II have been out in thu
world, and have been cheated and Sian
dered and outraged and abused until I be
lieve in universal damnatiOnw
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.
ton? Motley, in his Dutch Republic"
tells us of Egmont the martyr, who, con.
demned to be beheaded, unfastened his col
lar on the way to the scaffold; and when
they asked him why he did that he said
so 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
BULGE NOT ONE INCH.
Now, if you have come across ill treat
ment, let me tell you you are in excellent
and Luther and Calico
and Columbus and John Jay and Josiah
Quincy and thousands of men and women,
the best spirits of earth and heaven.
Bulge not one inch, though all hell wreak
upon you its vengeance, and you be made
a target for devils to shoot at. Do you not
think Christ knows all about persecution?
Was he not Missed at? Was he not struck
on the cheek? Was he not pursued all the
days of his life? Did they not expectorate
upon him2 Or, to put it in Bible Ian
guage "They spit upon him." And can
not he understand what persecution is!
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he
shall sustain thee"
Third-There are others who carry great
burdens of physical ailments. When sud
den sickness has come, and fierce choleras
and malignant fevers take the castles Of
life by storm, we appeal to God; but in
these chronic ailments which wear out the
strength day after day, and week after
weak, and year after year, how little re-
sorting to God for solacsl Then people de-
pend upon their tonics and their plasters
and their cordials rather than upon heav-
emily stimulants Oh, how few people
there are completely Welt Some Of yon, by
dint of perseverance and care, have kept
living to this time; but how you have had
to war against physical ailmentsI. Ante
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