Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-06-12
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say that God does not care anything atout
your worldly busincss' ! tell you God
knows more about it than you do. lie
knows all your perplexities; he knows
what mortgage Is about to forcclose;
he knows what note you canno. pny;
be knows what unstable goods you have
on your shelves; he knows all your trials,
from the day you took hold of the first
yardstick down to the sale Of the last yard
of ribbon, and the God who helped David
to be king, aud who helped Daniel to he
prime minister, and who helped 1Iarelock
30 be "A soldier, will help you TO discharge
all your duties kle 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 read
of the eternal possessions that will come to
you through our Lord Jesus Christ. And
when your business partner betrays you,
and your friends turn against you, just
take the insultinR letter, put it down on
the table, put your Bible beside the insult
ing letter, and then read of the friend
ship of him who "sticketh closer than
brother"
TIE LORD SUSTAINED HIM.
a young accountant in New York city
got his accounts entangled He knew lie
accounts come out right, and he toiled ut
/ them day and night until lie was nearly
frenzied. 1t seemed by those books that
something had been misappropriated, aud
/ he knew before God be was honest. The last
| day came He knew if he could not that
day make bis accounts come ont right he
would go into disgrace and 10 into Danish
| nnent 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: ooh, Lord,
/ thou knOwest have tried to be honest, but
| ] cannot make these things come out right
! Help me today-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 leaf contain
| ing line of figures which explained every
thing. 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 lie 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 secs the
sewing woman in the fourth story aud
knows how few pence she gets for making
garment; and louder than all the din and
roar OF the city comes the voice of sym
pathetic God, Cast thy burden upon the
! Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
Second-There are a great many who
have a weight of persecution and abuse
Ipon them. Sometimes society gets a
grudGe against u man. All his motives
/ H.
deprecated. With more virtue than some
Of the honored and applauded, 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
4 hundred hands to help him in the pre-
;ipitation. Men are prosecuted for their
virtues and their successes. Germanicus
said he had just as many bitter antagonists
as he had adOrnmcntS. The character
sometimes is so lustrous that the weak
eyes Of envy aud 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 desolute Patmos, aud
Calvin TO the castle Of persecution, aud
John Huss to tie stake, and KOrah after
Moses, and Saul after David, and Herod
after Christ. BE sure If you have anything
to do for church or state, and you attem pit
it with al! your soul, the lightning viii
strike you.
INTEGRITY ALWAYS BRINGS ABUSE.
The world always has had "A cross be
tween two thieves for the one who come.
to save IT, High and holy enterprise ha.
always been followed by abuse The mos
sublime tragedy of self sacrifice has com,
to burlesque The graceful gait of virtu,
f,,l1
The sweetest strain Of poetry ever writer
has come to ridiculous parody, and as Ion.
as there are virtue and righteousness in tn,
world, there will be something for iniquitl
to grin at. All along the line of the ages
and in all lands, the cry has BEEN "No
this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabba
was rObber."
And what makes the prosecutions of lif
worse Is that they come from people whom
you have helped, from those to whom yol
have loaned money or have started in busi
ness or whom you rescued III some grea
crisis. / think it has been the history o
all our lves-the most acrimonious assault
has come from those whom we have Dene
fitted, whom we have helped, and tina
makes it all the harder to bear. A man j
J in danger of becoming cynical.
, A clergyman OF the Universaist churc
F. went INTO a nelKnDornOod Tor the establish
[ ment of a church of his denomination
and he was anxious TO find some one @
/ that denomination, and he was pointed t
a certain house and went there. He sal
| to the man Of the house, II UNDERSTAND
t you are Universalst; want you 10 hel
! me in the enterprise" "Well," said tn
man, 81 am a Universalist, but l have
e peculiar kind of Universalism "Wha
s is thatW asked the minister, "Well," re
!, piled the other. II have been out in tn
t world, aud have been cheated and slaL
: dered and outraged and abused until BIT
lieve in universal damnationW
. The great danger is that men will be
= como cynical and given to believe, as Da
r vid was tempted to say, that all men ar
r liars Oh my friends, do not let that
= the effect upon your soulsl II You canno
8 endure a little persecution how do yo
n think our fathers endured great persecu
9 tiont Motley, in his Dutch Republic,
:! tells us of Egmont the martyr, who, cor
s demned to be beheahed, unfastened his co
: lar on the way 10 the scaffold; and whc
!. they asked him why he did that he sale
80 they will not be detained in thei
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