The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-20

say that God does not care anything about
your worldly businessf l tell you God
knows more about it than you do. He
knows all your perplexities; ne 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
yardstick 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 soldier, will help you to discharge
all your duties. He is going to you
through. When loss comes, and you find
your property going, just take this Book
and putlit down by your ledger, and read
of the eternal possessions that will come to
you through our Lord Jesus Christ. And
when your bus ness partner betrays you,
and your friends turn against 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
brother"
THE LORD SUSTAINED HIM.
A young accountant in New York city
got his accounts entangled. He knew he
washopest. .sand yet he could not make, his
accounts come out right, and he toiled at
frenzied 1t seemed by those books that
something had. been rmisappropriated, 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 banish-
mept 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: s"Oh, Lord,
thou knowest have tried to be honest, but
i cannot make these things come out right
Help me today-help me this morningp'
The young man arose and hardly know
ing why he did So opened a book that lay
on the desk, and there was a leaf contain
ing line of figures which explained every
thing. 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 masthead; he
sees the factory4girl 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 making
a garment; and louder than all the din and
roar of the city comes the voice of a SYM
spaIneLlc CaSL-GQy DQrQ6n upon the
Lord. and he shall sustain thee"
b Second-There are a great many who
have aweight of persecution and abuse
upon them. ..Sometimes, society gets
grudge against a man. All his motives
are misinterpreted, and his good deeds are
dspreciated.,. With more virtue than some
eef the ghonored and applauded, he runs
only against raillery and sharp criticism.
When man begins to go down he has not
no of 1ofn ifoff hrrf
a hundred hands to help him in the pre-
,cipitation. Men are prosecuted for their
virtues and their successes. Germauicusi
1 said he hadyjust IS many bitter antagonists
as he had adornments. The character.
sometimes Is SO fustrous that the weak
eyes,of,enyy and jealousy cannot bear to
| look at'it. Itswas their sintegrity that put
Joseph in the pit, and Daniel in the den,
sanda Shadrach- infthe fire, and sent John
the ilRsangelist ito desolate Il Patmos, and
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 if you have anything
to do for church or state, and you attern pit
it with all your soul, the lightning win
strike you. ,,tii
INTEGRITY ALWAYS BRINGS ABUSE.
y & Theworld always has had a cross be-
tween two thieves. for the one who comes
to save it. High and holy enterprise has
always been followed by abuse. The most
sublime tragedy of self sacrifice has come
to burIesque. 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 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: 'tNot
this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas
was q robber." se
And what makes the prosecutions Of life
worse is that they come from people whom
you have helped, from those to whom you
1 have loaned money or have started in bust
ness, or whom you rescued in some great
crisis think it has been the history of
all our lives-the most acrimonious assault
has come from those whom we have bene-
fitted, whom I'VE have helped, and that
makes it all the harder to bear. A man is
in danger of becoming cynical "a
A clergyman of the Universalist church
went into a neighborhood for the establish
ment of a church of his denomination,
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, 81 understand
you are Universalist; / want you to help
me in the enterprise" well, - said the
man, 81 am Universalist, but have
| peculiar. kind of Uniyersalism. -. is.fWhat
is that?" asked the minister t'Well," re-
piled the other, 81 have been out in the
world, and have been cheated and SIAN
dered and outraged and abused until be-
lieve in universal damnationp lalses,sso
The great danger is that men will be-,
come cynical and given to believe, as Da-
yid was tempted to say, that all men are
liars. oh, my friends, do, not let that be
the effect upon your soulst.sH you cannot
endure little persecution how do you
think our fathers endured great persecul
tion2 Motley, in his "Dutch Republic
tells us of Egmont the martyr, who, con-