The Brookhaven leader., 1891-06-18


world. Ali my friend, do you say that
God does not care anything about your
worldly business? I tell You God
knows more about It than you do.
lie 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 vard-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
ledger, and read of the eternal posses
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"
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. 1t 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: ''Oh, Lord,
thou knowest have tried to be honest,
but car not make these things come
out right. Help me to-day-help me
this morningr' The young man arose,
and hardly knowing why he did so,
opened book that lay on the desk, and
there was 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 a 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
sympathetic God: Cast thy burden
upoI the Lord, and He shall sustain
thee"
q. 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 a man begins to go down, he has
not only the force of natural gravita-
ton, but a 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 was their 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
vim 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 If you have any
thing to do for church or state, and you
attempt it 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 travesty. The
sweetest strain of poetry ever written
has come to ridiculous parody, and as
long as there are virtue and righteous-
ness in the world there will be
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 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. think it has been
the history of all our lives-the most
assault has come from
those whom you have benefited, whom
we have helped, and that makes it all
the harder to bear. man is in danger
of becoming cynical.
A clergyman of the Universalist
church went into neighborhood for
the establishment of church of his
and he was anxious to
find some one of that denomination,
and he was pointed to certain house,
and went there He said to the man of
the house: II understand you are a
| want you to help me in
the enterprise" ''Well, said the man,
81 am Universalist, but l have Pc
culiar kind of Universalism. 'sWhat
= tbat?" asked the minister. "Well,"
replied the other, 81 have been out in
the world, and have been