Connecticut western news., 1891-06-10
it all the harder to bear. A man is in danger of becoming cynical.

BELIEVED IN UNIVERSAL DAMNATIoN
 A clergyman of the Universalist church went into a neighborhood for the establishment 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. He said to the man of the house, 'l understand you are Universalist; 1 want you to help me in the enterprise" Well" said the man, ''I am a Universalist, but 1 have a pc culiar kind of universalism." What is that2' asked the minister. Well" replied the other, "I have been out in the world, and have been cheated and slandered and outraged and abused until believe in universal damnationr The great danger is that men will be- come 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 soulsl
 If you cannot endure a little persecu- tion, how do you think our fathers en- dured great persecution? Motley, in his Dutch Republic" tells us of Egg mont, the martyr, who, condemned to be beheaded, unfastened his collar on the way to the scaffold, and when they 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 have to endure compared with those who have gone before us"
 Now, if you have come across i'll 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 of earth and heaven. Budge not one inch, though all hell wreck upon you it's vengeance, and you be made tar get for devils to shoot at. Do you not think Christ knows all about persecu- tion2 Was he not hissed at9 Was he not struck on the cheek2 Was he not pursued all the days of his ife2 Did they not expectorate upon him9 Or, to put it in Bible language, "They spit upon him." And cannot he under stand what persecution is9 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sus- tain thee."
 THE BURDEN OF SICKNESS.
 Third-There are others who carry great burdens of physical ailments. When sudden sickness has come, and fierce choleras and malignant levers 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 week, and year after year, how little resort ing to God for solacel Then people depend upon their tonics, and their plasters, and their cordials, rather than upon heavenly stimulants. 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, with out medical college and infirmary and apothecary shop, multiplied their years by hundreds, but he who has gone through the gantlet of disease in our time, and has come to seventy years of age, is hero worthy of Q 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 nomenclature. Oh, how heavy a burden sickness isl It takes the color out of the sky and the sparkle out of the wave and the sweet ness out of the fruit and the luster out of the night. When the limbs ache, when the respiration is painful, when the mouth is hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy Instructions, how hard it is to be patient and cheerful and as siduousl Cast thy burden upon the Lord" Does your head ache2 His wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt! His were crushed of the spikes Is your side painful2 His was struck by the spear. Do you feel like giving way under the burden2 His weakness gave way under the cross. .-
 While you are in every possible way to try to restore your physical vigor, you are to remember that more sooth- ing than any anodyne, and more vital izing than any sti1nulant, and more strengthening than any tonic is the prescription of the text, Cast thy bur den upon the Lord, and he shall sus- tain thee" We hear a great deal of talk now about faith cure, and some people say it cannot be done and it is a 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 methink that if the age of miracles is past it is because the faith of miracles is past.
 A SAMPLE CASE.
 A prominent merchant of New York said to member of my family, My mother wants her case mentioned to Mr. Talmage." This was the case. He said: My mother had a dreadful ab- scess, from which she had suffered un- told agonies, and all surgery had been exhausted upon her, and worse and worse she grew until we called in few Christian friends and proceeded to pray about it. We commended her case to God and the abscess began immediate ly to be cured She is entirely well nov, and without knife and without any surgery" So that case has come to me, and there are a score of other cases coming to our ears from all parts of the earth. Oh, ye who are sick, go to Christ! Oh, ye who are worn out with agonies of body, least thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
 THE BURDEN OF BEREAVEMENT.
 Another burden some have to carry