The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24

in the boat: Here, John,
catch this gold; there are three thou-
sand dollars; take it home to my moth
er, it will make her comfortable In her
last days" Grip, Gouge & Co. do not
do all the business in the world. All!
my friend, do you say that God does not
care anything about your worldly bust
ness? tell you God knows more about
it than you do. He knows all your per-
plexities; He knows what mortgage is
about to foreclose. He knows what note
you can not pay; He knows what UNI
saleable goods you have your shelves;
He knows all your trials, from the day
you took hold of the first yard-stick,
down to the sale of the last yard of rib
bon, and the God who helped David to
be king, and who helped Daniel to be
prime minister, and who helped Have
lock to be soldier, will help you to dis
charge all your duties. He is going to
see you through. When loss comes, and
and you find your property going, just
take this Book and put it down by your
ledger, and read of the eternal possess
sions that will come to you through our
Lord Jesus Christ And when your bus
mess partner betrays you, and your
friends turn against you, just take the
insulting letter, put it down on the la
Bile, put your Bible beside the insulting
letter, and then read Of the friendship
of Him who ''sticketh closer than a
brother"
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 ont 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 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 go into Punishment
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: 20, Lord,
Thou knowest have tried to be honest,
but can not make these things come
out right! Help me to-day-help me this
morning!" The young man arose and
hardly knowing why he did SO, opened
a book that lay on the desk, and there
was leaf containing 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? O, 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 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 garment;
and lorAler than all the din and roar OF
the city comes the voice of sympa-
thetic God: "Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and He shall sustain thee"
Second-There are great many who
have weight of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets a
grudge against a man. All his motives
are misinterpreted and his good deeds
are deprecated. With more virtue
than some ofthe honored and applauded
he runs only against raillery and SHARP
criticism. When a man begins to &C
down, he has not only the force of nat
ural gravitation, but hundred hands
to help him in the precipitation. Mer
are prosecuted for their virtues ant
their successes. Germanicus said hi
had just as many bitter antagonists a
he had adornments. The character
sometimes is so lustrous that the veal
eyes of envy and jealousy can not beal
to look at it. 1t was their integrity tina
put Joseph in the pit and Daniel in thu
den, and Shadrach in the fire, and Johl
the Evangelist to desolate Patmos, ant
Calvin to the castle of persecution, ant
John Huss to the stake, and Korah afte
Moses, and Saul after David, and Herot
after Christ. Be sure if you have any
thing to do for church or state, and yol
attempt it with all your soul, the light
ming will strike you.
The world always has had cross be
tween two thieves for the one VIII
comes to save it. High and holy enter
prise has always been followed b.
abuse. The most sublime tragedy o
self-sacrifce has come to burlesque
The graceful gait of virtue is Away
followed by grimace and travesty. TIL
sweetest strain of poetry ever writtel
has come to ridiculous parody, and a
long as there are virtue and righteous
ness in the world, there will be some
thing for iniquity to grin ut. All alon
the line of the ages, and in all lands
the cry has been: mot this man, bu
Barabbas Now, Barabbas was rol
ber." And what makes the persecutio
of life worse, is that they come fror
people whom you have helped, fror
those to whom you have loaned none
or have started in business, or whor
you rescued in some great crisis.
think it has been the history Of all on
lives-the most acrimonious assault ha
come from those whom we have ben,
flied, whom we have helped, and ths
makes it all the harder to bear. A ma
is in danger of becoming cynical.
A clergyman of the Universali'
church went into a neighborhood fc
the establishment of church of his d,
nomination, and he was anxious to fin
someone of that denomination, and