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from the ship was to go down, that
man shouted to comrade in the boat:
''Here, John, catch this gold; there are
three thousand dollars; take it home
to my old mother, it will make her com
Portable in her last days" Grip, Gouge
& Co. do not do all the business of the
world. All! my friend do you say that
God does not care anything about your
worldly business? l tell. you God
knows more about it than you do.
He knows all your perpleXities; He
knows what mortgage is about to
! foreclose; He knows what note you
can not pay; He knows what unstable
goods you have on 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 ribbon,
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
you find your property going, just take
this book and put it down by your
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sions that will come to you through our
Lord Jesus Christ. And when your
business partner betrays you, just take
the insulting 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
a brother"
! ant iJ,N NaJ VO,. ysif
got his accounts entangled. He knew
he was honest, and yet he could not
make his accounts come out right, and
he toiled at them day and night until he
was nearly frenzied. It seemed by those
books that something had been misap-
propriated, 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 banishment
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 l 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 book that lay on the desk, and
there was a leaf containing a 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 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
the masthead; He sees the factory girl
among the spindles, and knows how
her arms ache; He'sees the sewing wom-
an in the fourth story, 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
a sympathetic God: Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and He shall sustain
thee"
2. There are great many who have
a weight of persecution and abuse upon
them. sometimes society gets grudge
against man. All his motives are mis-
interpreted and his good deeds are de-
preciated. With more virtue than some
of the honored and applauded, he runs
only against rallery and sharp criticism.
When man begins to go down, he has
not only the force of natural gravita-
ton, but hundred hands to help him
in the precipitation. Men are prosecuted
for their virtues and their successes.
Germanicus 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 can not bear to look at it.
1t wastheir'integrity that put Joseph in
the pit, and Daniel in the den, and Shad-
: rach in the fire, and sent John the
evangelist to desolate Patmos, and Cal
vl'u to the castle of persecution, and
Joh'n Huss to the stake, and Korah after
Nose S, and Saul after David and Herod
after [ 'hrist. Be sure if you have any
thing to do for church or state, and Won
attempt il with all your soul, the light
ming will trilze you.
The world always has had a cross be-
tween two thieves for the one who
comes to save it. High and holy enter.
rriVe has alw ays been followed bv
abuse. The most sublime tragedy OF
self-sacrifce has come to burlesolre.
The graceful gait of virtue is always
followed by grimace and tlavesty. The
sweetest strain of poetry ever written
has come to ridiculous pa rody, and as
long as there are virtue anal righteous
ness 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:
Not this man, but Barabbas. Now,
Barabbas was q 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
business, or whom you have rescued in
some great crisis. I think it has been
the history of all our fives-the most
acrimonious assault has come from
those whom you have benefited, whom
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