Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-06-19
v. h. BISHOP, Island Pond, VI

The world always had had a cross between
two thieves for the one who comes to save
it. High aud holy enterprise has always
been followed by abuse. The most sublime
tragedy OF self sacrifice has come to bur-
lesque. The graceful gait of virtue is al
ways 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 DO 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 a
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 1t has been the history Of all
our ives-the most acrimonious assault
mas come from those whom we have bene-
fitted, whom we have helped, and that makes
1t all the harder to bear. A man is In dam
ger OF becoming cynical.
A clergyman Of the UniverSalist church
went into neighborhooi for the establish
ment of a church Of his denomination, and
he was anxious to find some one of that de-
nomination, and he was pointed to a certain
house and went there. He said to the man
OF the house, II understand you are a Uni
versalist; want you to help me in the en-
terprise." "Well, said the man, ~ am a
Unlversalist, but have a peculiar kind Of
Unlversalism.' well" replied the other.
II have been out in the world, and have
been cheated and s'andered and outraged
and abused until believe in universal dam
nationr
Third-There are others who carry great
burdens OF physical ailments. When sud-
den 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 resorting to God for
solace! 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
Antediluyians, without medical college and
intirmary 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 a hero worthy Of palm.
The world seems to be a great hospital,
anG YOU run against rheumatisms and con-
sumptons and scrofulas and neuralgias and
scores OF old diseases baptized by new no.
menclature Oh, how heavy a burden sick
ness is! 1t takes the color out Of the sky,
and the sparkle out Of the wave, and the
sweetness out OF the fruit and the lustre 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 cheer. ul and asSiduous Cast thy bur-
den upon the Lord" Does your head ache3
His wore the thorn. Do your feet hurtl His
were crushed of the spikes. Is your Sde
painful? His was struck by the spear. DO
you feal like giving way under the burdeni
His weakness gave way under a cross.
prominent merchant of New York said
to e member Of my family, my mother
wants her case mentioned TO Mr.. Talmage.n
This was the case. He said my mother
had a dreadful Rbscess, from which she had
suffered untold agonleS and all surgery had
been exhausted upon her, and worss 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 Immediately to bs
cured Sue is entirely well now and with
out knife and without any surgery" SO that
case has come to me- and there are score OF
other cases coming to our ears from all parts
of the earth. Oh, ye who are sick, go to
Christ! Oh We who are worn out with
agonies OF body, Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and He shall sustain thee!'
Another burden some have to carry is the
burden of bereavement. All! these are the
troubles that wear us out. II we lose our
property. by additional industry perhaps we
may bring back the estrangel fortune; II we
lose our gool name, perhaps by reformation
of morals we may achieve again reputation
for integrity; but who will brine back the
dear departed, Alas me. for these empty
cradles and these trunks of childish toys that
will never be used again. Alas me. for the
~ chair and tho Sllpppa the halls that
will never echo again to those familiar foot
steps. Alas! for the cry OF widowhood AMI
orphanage.
What bitter Marahs in the wilderness
what cities OF the dead what long black
shadow from the wing OF death, what eyes
sunken with grief, what hands tremuiouS
with bereavement, what instruments OF
music shut now because there are no fingers
to play on them! Is there no relief for such
souls? Ave, let the soul ride into the haroor
of my text.
The soul that on Jes;;s hath leaned for repose,
| will not, ! will not desert TO its foes;
That soul, though all hell shall endeayor to shake,
III never, no never, no never forsaAe.
There are many who carry the burden OK
sin. All, we all carry it until in the appoint
ed way that burden is lifted. We need no
Bible to prove that the whole race is ruined
What a spectacle it would be if We could
tear Off the mask of human defiement; or
beat drum that would bring up the whole
army OF the worlds transgresSions-the de
ception, the fraud, and the rapine, and the
murder, and the crime of all these centuriesl
Aye il | could sound the trumpet of resur-
rection in the soul of the best men in this
audience, and all the dead sins of the past
should come up, we could not endure the
sight. Sin, grim and dire, has put its clutch
upon the immortal soul, and that clutch
will never relax unless it be under the heel
of Him who came to destroy the works OF
| the devil.
oh, to have mountain of sin on the soul
Is there no way to have the burden moved'
Oh, yes. ''Ca'- thy burden upon the Lord
The sinless O.ie came to take the couse
quences of our snl And know He is in
earnest. How do know it? BY the stream
ing temples and the streaming hands as He
says, Come anto Me all ye who nre weary
and heavy laden, and will give you rest.
Why will prodigals live on swines
husks when the robe. and the ring, and the
Fathers welcome are readyS Why go wan
dering over the great Sahara desert of your
sin when you are invited to the gardens OF
God, the trees Of life aad the fountains oi
living waterf Why be houseless and home
less forever when you may become the son!
and daughters of the LSTd God Almighty