Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-08

| friends turn against You just rake the in
| sulting letter, 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
4 roCSG ACCOUNTANT
| ii New York City got his accounts ell
| tangled. He knew he was honest, and yet
! he could not make his accounts come out
! right. and he tOiled al them day and night
| until he was nearly trenZied. It seemed by
| those books that something had been mis-
| appropriated and he knew before God he
was honest The last day came. He knew
| il ne could not that day make his accounts
come out right, he would go into disgrace
| and 20 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
J said: oh, Lord, thou knowest | have
! tried TO be honest. but I 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. 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 sym
| pathy with anybody that is IN any kind OF
| toll lie knows how heavy IS the bod of
| bricks that the workman carries up the lad
| der of the wall: he hears the pickaXe of the
| miner down il the coal shaft; he knows
| how strong the tempest strikes the sailor
| at masthead he sees the factory girl among
| the spindles, and knows now her arms
| ache he sees the sewing woman in the
| fourth storv, 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 4 sympathetic God: Cast thy
| burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain
| thee.
WEIGHT OF PERSECUTION.
| 2 There are Il great many who
| have weight of persecution and abuse
! upon them Sometimes society gets Il
| erudge against a man. All his motives are
| miSinterpreted and his good deeds are de-
| preciateG. With more virtue than some Of
| the hOnored and applauded. he runs only
| against ralllery and sharp criticism. y III
| q man begins to go down, he has NOT 'HiE
| the force of natural gravitatiou bu. = Ltht-
| dred hands TO help him in the precipitation.
| Men are prosecuted for their virtues and
their successes. Germauicus said he had
| lust as many bitter antagonists as he had
| adormmentS. The character sometimes is
| so lustrOus that the weak eyes OF envy and
| jealousy cannot bear to look at it. II was
| their integrity that put Joseph IN the PIT,
| and Daniel in the den, and Shradrach IN the
| fire, and sent John the Evangelist 10 desc
-. late Patmos, and Calvin 10 the castle of
|
! and korah after Moses, and Saul after
| David and Herod after Christ. Be sure it
| Won have anything to do for church or state
| and YOU attempt il 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 enterprise mas always
| been followed by abuse. The most sublime
| tragedy of self-sacriice has come 10 our
leSquc.
TUE Graceful GAIT OF VIRTUE
! is always followed by grimace and tlaveSty.
| The sweetest strain of poetry ever written
| has come to ridiculous parOds and Us long
| as there are virtue and righteousness IN
! the world there will be something for in
| EQUITY to grin at All along the line oil the
ages and in all lands, the cry has been:
Not this man, but Barabbas Now Barab-
has was Il robber." And what makes the
prosecutions of life worse Is that they come
from people whom you haze helped, from
those TO whom YOU have loaned money or
have started in business or whom you res
cued in some great crisis. l think it haS..been
the history of all our llVes-the most acl1-
monious 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.
4 clergyman Of the CniYerSaist church
went into 4 neighbOrhood for the establish
ment of 4 church OF his denomination. and
he was anxious to find some one of that de
nomination. and he was pointed to i certain
house and went there. He said to the man
of the house: L understand you are Uni
versalist: / want you 10 help me in the en-
terprise'' Well" said the man, Il am i
UniversaIist, but have peculiar kind of
I-niyersalism' What is that asked TIE
minister. Well replied the other, u
have been out in the world, and | have been
cheated and slandered and outraged and
abused until I believe in universal damna-
tiOn,'
THE GREAT DANGER
is that men will become cynical and given
10 believe, as David was tempted to say,
that all men are liars. Oh. my friends, do
not let that be the effect upon your souls!
II YOU can not endure little persecution
how do YOU think our fathers endured great
persecution? Motley, in his Dutch Repub-
lie, tells us Of Egmont, 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:
so 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 ill-treat-
lnent. let me tell You you are in excellent
company--Christ and Luther and Calico
ana Columbus and John jay and Josiah
Quincy and thousands of men and women
the best Spirits OF earJn ana heaven.
Bulge not one inch. though all hell wreak
upon you its vengeance and you be made
target for devils 10 shoot at. DO you not
think Christ knows all about persecution,
Was He not Kissed at, Was He not struck
on the cheek, Was He not pursued all the
days of his life? Did they not eypectofate
upon Him? Or, to put il in Bible language,
They spit upon Him" And cannot He
understand what persecution is, Cast thy
burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain
thee"
BURDENS oE PHYSICAL AILMENTS.
9. There are others who carry great bur-
dens Of physical ailments. When sudden
sickness has come, and fierce choleras and
malignant fevers take the castles of life by
storm, we appeal 10 God; but in these
chronic ailments which wear out the
strength day after day, and week after
week, and year after year, how little resort
ing 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 10
this time; but how you have had to war
against physical ailments. Antediluvians,
without medical college and infirmary and
apothecary shop multiplied their years by
hundreds: but he who has gone through the
gauntlet of disease IN our time, and has
CONS to seventy years of age, is hero
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