News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-06-11

Knows what note you cannot pay;
he knows what unstable goods you
aave on your shelves; he knows all
7our trials, from the day you took hold
If the first yard stick down to the sale
If the last yard of ribbon, and the God
who helped David to be king, and who
helped Daniel to be prime minister, and
who helped Havelock to be soldier,
viii help you to discharge all your
iuties He is going to see you through.
When loss comes, and you find your
property going, just take this Book
and put it down by your ledger, and
'ead of the eternal possessions that will
come to you through our Lord Jesus
Christ. And when your business part
ler betrays you, and your friends turn
against you, just take the insulting let
Ter, put it down on the table, put your
Bible beside the insulting letter, and
then read of the friendship of him who
''sticketh closer than brother.
HIS ACCOUNTS TANGLED.
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. 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 establish
ment. 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 knowing
why he did so, opened book that lay
ON the desk, and there was leaf con-
tanning line of figures which explained
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 any
body that is in any kind of toll! He
knows how heavy is the bod 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 the 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 sympathetic God, Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain thee"
THE WEIGHT OF PERSECUTION.
Second-There are a great many who
have weight of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets
grudge against a man. All his motives
are misinterpreted and his good deeds
are deprecated With more virtue
than some of the honored and applaud
ed, he runs only against raillery and
sharp criticism. When a man begins
to go down he has not only the force of
natural gravitation, but a hundred
hands to help him in the precipitation.
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 lus-
trous 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 Patmos, and
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 SIRE 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
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 grimace 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: Not 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
IL,
and he was pointed to a certain house
and went there. He said to the man
of the house, II understand you are
Universalist; l want you to help Inc in
the enterprise. ''Well," said the man,
II am Universalist, but | have pc
culiar kind of universalism ''What
is thata' asked the minister ''WeIl,"
replied the other, 81 have been out in
the world and l have been cheated
and slandered and outraged and abused
until believe in universal damnation"
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 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, $50
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!"