Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-06-08

between two thieves for the one who
comes to save it. High and holy en-
terprise 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 grinace and travesty. The
sweetest strain of poetry ever written
has come to ridiculous parody, and as
/ long as there are virtue and righteous
ness in the world there will be some
thing 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 a rob
| ber."
And what makes the persecution of
life worse is that they come from peo-
pie 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
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.
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, II understand you are a
Universalist; | want you TO help me in
the enterprise" =" well, said the man,
Il am Universalist, but l have pc
culiar kind of universalism. what
is thatF' asked the minister "Well,
replied the other II have been out in
the world. and l have been cheated
and slandered and outraged and abused
until believe in universal dannatiOnW
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 souls!
If you cannot endure a little persecu-
ton, how do you think our fathers en-
dured great persecution2 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, 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 usm
Now, if you have come across i'll
treatment, let me tell you you are in
excellent company-Christ and Luther
and Galileo 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 wreck upon you
its vengeance, and you be made a tar
get for devils to shoot at. Do you not
think Christ knows all about persecu-
ton? Was he not hissed at? Was he
not struck on the cheek Was he not
pursued all the days of his lifel Did
they not eXpectorate upon him2 Or,
to put it in Bible language, "They spit
upon him." And cannot he under
stand what persecution is3 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 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 week,
and year after year. how little resort
ing to God for solace! Then people
depend upon their tonics, and thei
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! Antedh~vians, with
out medical college and infirmary anC
apothecary shop multiplied their year.
by hundreds, but he who has gone
through the gantlet of disease in on
} time, and has come to seventy years o
J age, is hero worthy of palm.
} The world seems 10 be great hos
pital, and you run against rheumatism
; and consumptions and scrofulas ant
neuralrias and scores of old disease
r baptized by new nomenclature. Oh
how heavy a burden sickness is!
3 takes the color out of the sky and tn
: sparkle out of the wave and the sweet
/ ness out of the fruit and the luster on
of the night, When the limbs ache
when the respiration is painful, whe
D the mouth is hot, when the ear roar
e with unhealthy distractions, how har
a it is to be patient and cheerful and a.
$ siduous Cast thy burden upon III
; Lord" Does your head achei IL
Q wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt
J. His were crushed of the spikes. Is you
d side painfull His was struck by tn
5 spear. Do you feel like giving wa
# under the burdenl His weakness CAV
d way under the cross.
!. While you are in every possible wa
y to try TO restore your physical vigo
Il YOU are to remember that more sootl
Is ing than any anodyne, and more vita
izing than any stimulant, and moi
s. STRENGTHENING than any tonic is Il
a prescription of the text, Cast thy bu