Telegram-herald., 1891-06-08

yca chroaz1 oLF LssEa Jesus CariSI- And
waen your business partner DsErays yea,
aud year f-frads tEga against you. JUST
take The l,s1itsnz letter, Prs Il down Oh
TIE table, pgs your B.5le BESIDE the Insult
lag szss~c, and thea real of ths freed
snip Of Ei4 Sao -'sEisAsSa closer tA2E a
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TEE LORD sCSTAIsED H!sL
A young accountant 81 New York city
got hts A<couats entangl-d. He kns. be
was honest. And yet be eoait not make ais
accounts come out Figaf, and he Goil~d st
thea day sGd night aata he was nearly
fEsaxted. L sesBasd by those books that
seIaetnieg Aaa beun missPpFopriatsd, sad
be Anew before 6cd he was hoEest The last
cav came. lie knew II hs could not that
Cay make his accounts cone oct Fsght be
would % into Disgrace and go into banisa-
meat from the business establishment. he
went over there very early, before there
was anybody N the place, and he knelt
down az the deck and said. oh, lord,
thou knOwest l have tried 10 De honest, bsIt
| cannot make these things come oct right.
Aeip me today-help me this morning.
The young man arose and hardly know
Ing why he did SO opened book that lay
on the desk. and there was leaf contain
ing line of figures y icA explained every
taing. Ia other words, he cas-. his burden
Cpou the Lord and the Lord sustained
hsm. Young man. do you hear THAR Uh,
yes; God has sympathy with anybody
that IS in any Kind OF toll, he knows
how heavy Is the he'd OF bricks that the
work man carries up the ladder of the wall:
he hears the pickax OF the miner down in
the coal shaft; ne knows how strong the
tempest strikes the sailor at masthead, hs
sees che factory girl among the spindles
and knows bow her arms ache; he sees the
sewing woman in the fourth story and
| 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 ne shall sustain thee"
Second-There are great many who
have a weight of persecution and abuse
upon them Sometimes society gets u
grudg- against a man. All his motives
are misinterpreted. and his good deeds are
depreciated With more virtue than so,ne
of the honored and applauded, he runs
only against raiAlery and sharp criticism.
| When a man begins TO go down ne has not
| only the force OF natural gravitation, bu:
| a hundred hands to help him in the pre-
cipitation- Men are prosecuted for their
| virtues and their successes. Germanicus
said he had just "a many bitter antagonists
| as he had adornments. The character
sometimes is so lustrous that the weak
eyes of envy and jealousy cannot bear TO
| look at 10. 10 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 desolate Patnos, ana
| 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 il you have anything
TO do for church or $ ate, and you atte,n pt
| it with all your soul. the lightning will
strike you.
| INTEGRITY ALWAYS BEINGS ABUSE.
| The world always has had a cross be-
tween two thieves FOR the one who comes
to save it High and holy enterprise he,
always been followed by abuse. The most
sublime tragedy Of self sacrifice has conc
to burlcsque. The graceful gait of virtue
is always followed by grimace and travssty.
The sweetest strain OF poetry ever written
has como to ridiculous parody, 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 lands, the cry has been: mo,
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 il has been the history ol
all our lives-the most acrimonious assault
| has come from those whom we have pene
fitted. whom we have helped, and that
makes il all the harder to bear. A man i,
in danger Of becoming cynical.
A clergyman of the Universalist church
went into u nciehborhooa for the establish
rcnt OF q church OF his denomination
and he was anxious to find some one o.
that denomination, aud he was pointed u
a certain house and went there He SAID
to the man Of the house, II understand
you are q Uniyersalst; want you to heir
me in the enterprise" WELL" said tn;
man, II am n Universalist, but | have
peculiar kind of Universalism" hal
is tbatf" asked the minister. well, re
piled the other, II have been out in th,
world, aud have been cheated and sian
dcred and outraged and abused until be
lieve in universal dam Iationv
The great danger is that men will he
come cynical and given to believe, as Da
vid was tempted 10 say, that all men ART
liars. Oh. my friends, DO not Jet that b.
tho effect upon your souls! IL you came
endure a little persecution how do yoJ
think cur fathers endured great persecu
tiouf Motley, In his Dutch Republic,
tells US Of E-mont the martyr, who, con
demue-l TO be behcaded, unfastcned his col
lar on the way to the scaffold; and whe.
they asked him why he did that he said
80 they rilI not be detained in thei
work: want TO be ready Oh, how iittl
we have TO endure compared with thos
who have gone before usl
BULGE Eor ONE IscH.
Now, III you hare come across Ill trest
nent, let me tell you you arc in excei.en
conapany-Christ and Luther and Galilei
aud Columbus and John Jay and JOSIAH
I Quincy and thousands OF men aud women
the best spirits OF earth and heaven
lsudg7e not one inch, though all hell wrenl
EpoH you its vengeance, and you be mad
target for devils 20 shoot at. DO yOu no
think Christ knows al about persecution
Was he not Kissed at7 Was be not strSsci
IN the cheeki Was he not pursued al ta'
days o. his lifes Did they not expectorat
upon AIM Or, 20 put IL in Bible Ian
graEe. They spit upon him. And car
nas Re understand what persecution ia
Cast tir burden upon the Lord, and b
shall srssain thee f"
Thir6-There are others who carry grea
burdens OK physical aiimests. When sud
den sick ness has come. aud fierce cholera
and mall snans levers take the castles 0
lie by storm, we appeal 10 God. bEs J.