Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-12

He is gong TO see YOU olAouSh'
loss comes and you lind your properly
going. Just take this Book ana pun IL
down by your ledger, and READ Oh the
eternal possessions that VIII come W you
through our Lord Jesus Christ. AND
when your business partner betrays
Won. and YOUR friends turn against you,
inst take the insulting letter, and then
read of the friendship of him VINO
ssticketh closer than brother"
A Young accountant in New York city
GOT his accounts entanglcd. He knew
he was honest, and yet he could not
make his accounts come out right, and
he tolcd at them day and night until he
was nearly frenzicd. Itsecmed by those
books that something had boon misap-
propriatcd, 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 weuld 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: 'Oh. Lord.
thou knowest have tried to be honest.
but cannot 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
book that lay on the desk, and there was
a leaf containing line of figures which
explained everything.
Second-There are a great many who
have weight of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets q
grudge against man. All his motives
are misintcrprcted and his good deeds
are deprecated. With more virtue than
some of the honorcd 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
gravtation, but hundred hands to help
him in the precipitation. Men are per-
secuted for their virtues and their sue
cesses. Gernlanicus said he had just as
many bitter antagonists as he had adorn-
ments.
The character sometimes is SO luStrous
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 Shadr ach in the
fire, and sent John the Evangelist to des-
olate Patn.os, 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 sure
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 cross between
two thieves for the one who comes to
save it. High and holy enterprise has
always been followed by abuse The
most sublime tragedy of self-sacrifce has
come to buresque. The graceful gait of
virtue is always followed by grimace and
travesty. The sweetest strain of poetry
ever written has come to ridiculous paro-
dy, and as long as there are virtue and
Righteousness in the world there will be
something for iniquity to grin at. All
along the line of the ages, and in all
but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a
robber'
And what makes the persecution 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 business, or whom you rescued
in some great crisis. think it has been
the history of all our lives-the most ac-
rimonions 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 becom-
ing synical.
A clergyman of the Universalist
church went into neighborhood for the
establishment of church of his de-
nomination, 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 Universalst;
I want you to help me in the enter
prise" ''Well," said the man, 81 am
Universalist. but have a peculiar kind
of universalism." ''What is that?"
asked the minister. ''Wcll," replied the
other, 81 have been out in the world,
and have been cheated and slandercd
and outraged and abused until l believe
in universal damnation!'' The great
danger is that men will become cynical
and given to believe, as David was
tempted 70 say. that all men are liars.
Oh, my friends, do not let that be the
effect upon your souls!
cution, how doyou think our fathers en-
dured great prosecutions? Motley, in
his Clutch Republic tells usof Egg
mont, the martyr, who condemned to
| be behcadcd, unfastened his collar on
| the way to the scatfold, and when they
asked him WHY he did that he said, $50
they will not be detained in their work;
l want to be ready Oh, how little we
have to endure compared with those who
! have gone before us.''
| Now, if you have come across i'll
| treatment, let me tell you you are in
excellent company-Christ and Luther
! and Calico 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 it's
vengeance, and you be made a target for
devils to shoot at. Do you not think
Christ knows all about persecution?
| Was He not Missed at? Was He not
struck on the cheek? Was He not pur-
sued all the days of his life? Did thew
not expectorate upon Him? Or, to put it
I; i'll Bible language, ''Thcy spit upon
Him. And cannot He understand what
persecution is? Cast thy burden upon
the Lord, and He shall sustain thee
Third-Thcre are others who carry
great burdens of physical ailments.
When sudden sickness has come, and
1lerce cholera and malignant fcvers take
the castle OF life by storm. we appeal to
God: but in these chronic ailments which
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