Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-08
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AN ACCOUNTANTS PLIGHT.

knew he was honest, and yet he cOulu
not make his accounts come out right,
and he toiled at them day and night
until he WIS nearly frenzied. 1t seemed
by those books that something had
been misappropriated, and he knew be-
fore 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 go into
Punishment from the business estao-
lishment. 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 l
have tried to be honest, but l cannot
make these things come out right!
Help me to-day-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 a leaf
containing line of figures which ex-
planned everything. In other words, he
cast his burden upon the Lord, and the
Lord sustained him. Young man. do
YOU hear that? Oh, yes. God has
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 lad
der TO the wall; He hears the pickaXe 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 max
ing garment; and louder than all the
din and roar of the city comes the voice
Of a sympathetic God: Cast thy burden
upon the Lord and he shall sustain
thee"
BURDENS OF PROSECUTIONS.
Second: There are a great many who
have weight Of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets a
grudge against man. All his motives
are misnterpreted 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 go
down he has not only the force of
natural gravitation, but hundred
hands to help him in the precipitation.
Men are prosecuted for their virtues
and their successes. GermanicuS said
he had inst 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 it. 1t 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 Pat
| mos, and Calvin to the castle OF persecu-
ton, and John Huss to the stake, and
Korah after Moses, and Saul after Da-
vid, 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.
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-sacrifce
| 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: "Not 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, and those to
whom you have loaned money or have
started in business, or whom you res
cued in some crisis. l think it has been
the history of all our lives-the 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 cynical.
DON'T BE CYNICAL.
A clergyman of the UniverSaliSt
Church went into a neighbOrhood for
! the establishment OF his denomination,
and he was anxious to find some one of
that denomination, and he was pointed
TO certain house, and went there. He
said to the man of the house; Il under.
stand you are Universalist; l want you
| to help me in the enterprise" "Well,"
said the man, Il am UniversaliSt, but
l have peculiar kind of UniverSaliSm."
"What is that?" asked the minister.
"Well," replied the other, 6! have been
out in the world and l have been
| cheated and slandered and outraged and
1 abused until l believe in universal
damnation" The great danger is that
men will become cynical. and CIV
en- to believe, as David was tempted to
say, that all men all liars. Oh, my
| friends, do not let that be the effect
upon your souls! II 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, con-
demned to be beheaded, unfastened his
collar on the way to the scaffold; 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 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 eX
cellent ompany-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. Bulge not one inch,
though all hell wreak upon you its ven
geance, and you be made target for
devils to shoot at. Do you not think
Christ knows all about persecution?
| Was he not Kissed at? Was he not