Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-08

and your friends turn against you, Just
takethe 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 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 ut
them day and night until he was nearly
frenzied 1t 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 accounts come out right he
would go into disgrace and 90 into Danish
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 come out right
Help me today-help me this morningp'
The young man arose and hardly know
ing why he did so opened 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 thaSf 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"
Second-There are a great many who
have a weight Of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets a
grudge against 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 20 down he has not
only the force of natural gravitation, but
n 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 1t. 1t was their integrity that put
Joseph in the pit, and Daniel in the den,
and Shadrach in the fire, and sent JOIN
the Evangelist to desolate Patmos, an.
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 your soul, the lightning will
strike you.
INTEGRITY ALWAYS BRINGS ABUSE.
The world always has had 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: mot
this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas
was u 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 Uniyersalist church
went into n neighborhood for the establish
ment of n church of his denomination,
and he was anxious to find some one of
that denomination, and ne was pointed to
a certain house and went there He said
to the man of the house, 81 understand
you are Universalist; want you to help
me in the enterprise" "Well," said the
man, 81 am Universalist, but | have a
peculiar kind of Universalism." "What
is that2" asked the minister "Well," re-
piled the other, 81 have been out in the
world, and have been cheated and Sian.
dered and outraged and abused until be
lieve in universal damnationp
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 souls! If you cannot
endure little persecution how do you
think our fathers endured great persecu-
tionP 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 scaifold; and when
they asked him why he did that he said,
80 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 usl
BULGE NOT ONE INCH.
Now, if you have come across i'll treat
ment, let me tell you you are in excellent
and Luther and Calico
and Columbus and John Jay and Josiah
Quincy aud 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 persecutionP
Was he not Kissed atP Was he not struck
on the cheek? Was he not pursued all the
days of his lifeP Did they not eXpectorate
upon him9 Or, to put it in Bible Ian
guage "rhey spit upon him" And can
not he understand what persecution isl
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 feyers take the castles of
life by storm, we appeal to God; bat in
THESE chrome ailments wncn wear out the
strength day after day, and week after
week. and wear after year. how little re