The Red Cloud chief., 1891-06-19

"a A4aA8
closer than q brother"
A young accountant in New York city
got his accounts entangied. He knew
he was honest and yet he could not
make his accounts come out right, and
he toiled ut them day and night until he
was nearly frenzied II seemed by
those books that something had been
missppropristed, and he knew before
God he wss honest The last day came.
He knew IL he could not that day make
his accounts come out right he would
go intelligence and go into Punishment
from the business establishment He
went over there very early, before there
any body 10 the place. and he knelt
downat the desk and said: 20. Lord,
Thou knowest ] have tried TO be honest,
but l cannot make these things come
out right! Help me to-day-help me
morning." The young man arose
snd hardly knowing why he did 50,
opened . book that lay o. the desk and
there was q leaf containing a line Of
figures which explained everything. In
other wosdA he cast his burden upon
the Lord and the Lord sustained him.
Young man, do you hear that?
O. yes, God has a sympathy with any
body 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 the tempest strikes the
sailor ut masthead; He sees the factory
girl among the spindlcs and knows how
her arms ache; He sees the sewing
woman 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 the voice Of
a sympathetic God: Cast thy burdens
upon the Lord and He will sustain
thee"
Second-There are a great many who
have a weight of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets a
grudge against a man. All his motives
are misinterpreted and his good deeds
are deprecated. With more virtue
than some Of the honored and ap
plaudcd, he runs only against raillery
and sharp criticism. When a man be-
gins TO go down, he has not only the
force of natural gravitation, but one
hundred hands TO help him I'm the pre-
cipitation. Men are prosecuted for
their virtues and their successes. Ger
manicus said he had Just rs many bitter
antagonists as he had adornmentA The
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the weak eyes Of envy and jealousy
can not 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 dcsOlate PatmOs. and Calvin TO the
castle Of persecution and John Huss 10
the stake, and Korah after Moses, and
Saul after David, and Herod after
Christ BE sure II you have anything
to do for church or state, and you at
tempt IL with all your soul. the light
ming will strike you.
The world always has had a cross be-
tween two thieves for the one who
comes TO save it. High and holy enter
prise 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 grimace and t~ravesty. The
sweetest strain of poetry yer written
has come TO ridiculous parody, and as
long rs there are virtue aud righteous
ness in the world there will be some
thing 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 a rob
bcr." And what makes the persecu-
tons 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. l
think it has been the history of all our
livcs-thc most acrimonious assault has
come from those whom we have bene-
fitted. whom we have helped, aud that
makes il all the harder to bear. A man
is in danger of being cynical.
A clergyman of the Univcrsalist
church went into n ncighbOrhood for
the establishment of a church of his
find some m of that denomination and
he was pointed to a certain house and
went there. lie sa d to the man Of the
house: Il understand that you are
q Universalist want you 10
help me i'm the enterprise" WELL"
said the man, ~ am u Universalist, but
nave a peculiar kind of Universalism."
What is that asked the minister.
WELL" replied the other, 81 have been
ont in the world and I have been cheated
and slandcred and outraged and
abused until believe in universal dam
nation" The great danger is that mcn
will become cynical and given to be-
lieve, as David vas tempted to say, that
all men are liars. o, my friends, do
not let that be the effect upon your
souls! IL you a not endure a little
persecution, how do you think our
fathers endured great persecution?
Motley. in his Dutch Republic, tells us
of Egmont, the martyr, who, condemned
To be beheaded, unfastcned his collar
on the way to the scaffold; and when
they asked him why he did that, he
said: 5 they will not be detained IN
their work: ! want to be ready. O,
how little We have to endure compared
with those who have gone before us!
Now, il 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 al hell wreak upon you its ven
geance, and you be made q target
for devils to shoot At. Do you not
think that Christ knows all about per-
sccution? Was He not Kissed at? Was
He not struck on the cheek? Was lie
not pursued all the days of His life?
Did they not expectorate upon Him?
OR, 10 put it in Bible language: They
spit at Him" And can not He under
stand what persecution is? Cast thy
burden upon the Lord and He shall sus-
tain thee"
Third-There are others who carry
great burdens of physical ailments
When sudden sickness has come and
fierce chcleras and malignant fevers