Connecticut western news., 1891-06-10

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 To educate their children, to put the wing of protection over their house. holds, to have something left, so when they pass out of this life their wives and children will not have to go to the poorhouse-thati is the way translate this energy in the street and store-the vast majority of that energy. Grip, Gouge < Co., do not do all the busi- ness. Some of us remember when the Central America was coming home from California it was wrecked. Presi dent Arthur's father-in-law was the heroic captain of that ship, and went down with most of the passengers.
 Some of them got off into lifeboats, but there was young man returning from California who had a bag of gold in his hand, and. as the last boax showed of from the ship that was to go down that man shouted to com rade in the boat: Here, John, catch this gold There are three thousand dollars Take it home to my old mother It will make her comfortable in her last days" Grip, Gouge & Co. do not do all the business of the world. Ahl my friend. do you say that God does not care anything about your worldly business9 tell you God knows more about it than you do. He knows all your perplexities; he knows what mortgagee is about to foreclose; he knows what note you cannot 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 Havelock to be a soldier, will help you to discharge 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 ledger, and read of the eternal possessions that will come to you through our Lord Jesus Christ. And when your business part ner betrays you, and your friends turn against you, just take the insulting let ter, put it down on the table, put your Bible beside the insulting letter, and then read of the friendship of him who 'tsticketh closer than a brother"
 HIS ACCOUNTS TANGLED.
 A young accountant in New York city 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 misappropriated, and he knew be- fore 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 establish ment. 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 rightl Help me today-help me this morningl" The young man arose, and hardly knowing why he did so, opened a book that lay on the desk, and there was leaf con- taining 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 that9 Oh, yes, God has sympathy with any body that is in any kind of toll! He knows how heavy is the bod 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 woman in the fourth story and knows how few pence she gets for I making a garment, and louder than all the din and roar of the city comes the voice of sympathetic God, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee."
 THE WEIGHT OF PERSECUTION.
 Second-There are Q great many who
 
 upon them. Sometimes society gets a grudge against man. All his motives are misinterpreted and his good deeds are depreciated. With more virtue than some of the honored and applaud ed, he runs only against raillery and sharp criticism When 8 man begins to go down he has not only the force of natural gravitation, but a hundred hands to help him in the precipitation. Men are persecuted for their virtues and their successes. Germanicus said he had just as many bitter antagonists as he had adornments.
 The character sometimes is so lus- trous that the weak eyes of envy and jealousy cannot bear to look at it. It 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 Patmos, and Calvin to the castle of persecution, and 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 had a cro1 between two thieves for the one who comes to save it. High and holy en- terprise has always been followed by abuse The most sublime tragedy of self sacrifice has come to burlesque. The graceful gait of virtue is always followed by grinace and travesty. The sweetest strain of poetry ever written has co,na to ridicul01s nar0dy and as