The Penn's Grove record., 1894-06-01
PENIS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. JUNE /. 1894.

OF the city comes the voice of n sympathetic
God, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and
He shall sustain thee"
Then there are a great many who have a
weight OF persecution and abuse upon them.
Sometimes society gets a grudge against 4
man. All his motives are misinterpreted
and all his good deeds are Deprecated
with more virtue than some of the honored
and a~pplauded, he runs only against ~raillery
and sharp criticism. When a man begins TO
go down, he has not only the force OF natural
gravitatton, but a hundred hands to help
him in the precipitation. Men are perse-
cuted Tor their virtues and their successes,
I~GermanicIs said he had Just as many bitter
antagonists as he had adornments. The
character sometimes is so ~lustrous that the
weak eyes of envy and Jealousy cannot bear
1t was their integrity that put joseph in
the pit, and Daniel in the den, and Shadrach
n the fire, and sent John tho Evangelist to
1esolate Patmos, and Calvin to the castle of
persecution, and John Huss to the stake,
and Korah after Moses, and Saul after Da-
yid, and Herod after Christ. Be sure. if you
have anything to do for church or state, and
you attempt 1t with all your soul, the light
sing will strike you.
h world always has had a cross be-
sween two thieves for the one who comes to
ave 1t. High n holy enterprise has al
ways been followed by abuse. The most
sublime tragedy Of self-sacriflce has come to
ourlesque. The graceful gait Of virtue is
always followed by scoff and 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 something
Tor iniquity to grin ut. All along the line
Of the ages and in all lands the cry has baen
moi this man, but Barabbas. Now. Bar.
Abbas was a robber."
And what moEaa tba par,o,r4;anz 81 liro
worse is that they come from people whom
you have helped, from those to whom you
loaned money or have started In business or
whom you rescued in some great crisis. 1
think it has been the history OF all our lives
the most acrimonious assault has come
from those whom we have benefited, whom
We have helped, and that makes it all the
harder to bear. A man Is in danger of be-
coming cynical.
A clergyman OF the Uniyersalist church
went into q neighborhood for the establish
ment OF a a church of his denomination, and
he was anxious, to find some one of that de-
nomination, and he was pointed to n certain
house and went there. He said to the man
Of the house 81 understand you are a Uni
versalist; / want you to help re in the en-
terrrise." swell" said the man, az am a
Universalist, but L have a peculiar kind Of
Univer5alism." "What is that2" asked the
minister. "Well,' replied the other, 'I
have been out in the world, and I have been
cheated and slandered and outraged and
abused until I believe in universal damna-
tionr
The great danger is that men will become
cynical and given to believe, as David was
tempted to say, that all men are liars. Oh,
my friends, do not let that be the effect
upon your souls! If you cannot endure a
little persecution, how do you think our
fathers endured persecution? Motley, in his
Clutch Republic" tells us of Egmont, the
martyr, who, condemned to be beheaded,
nnfasteued his collar on the way to the scat
fold, and whom they asked him why he did
that he said $50 they will not be detained
In their work. l want to be ready" Oh.
how little We have to endure compared with
those who have gone before u.s.
Now, If you have come across i'll treat,
ment, let me tell you You are in excellent
company-Christ and Luther and Galilei an |
Columbus and John Jay and Josiah Quincr
and thousands of men and women, the bss.
spirits of earth and heaven.
Bulge not one inch, though all hell wreal
upon you its vengeance, and you be made a
target for devils to shoot at. Do you NOT
think Christ knew all about persecution?
on the cheek? Was He not pursued all the
days of His life2 Did they not expectorate
upon Him? Or, to put It In Bibls
language, ''fhey spit upon Him." And can
not He understand what persecution is?
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
shall sustain thee"
Then there are others who carry great bur.
dens Of physical ailments. When sudden
sickness has come, and fierce choleras AMI
malignant fevers take tho castles of life by
storm, we appeal to Go !, but In these chronic
ailments which Wear out the strength day
after day, and week after week, and year
after year, how little resorting TO God for
: nIN. ~~-I ~
tones, and their plasters, and their cordials
rather than upon heavenly stimulants.
oh, how few people there are completely
| well! Some Of you, by dint of perseverance,
and care have kept living to this time, but
how you have had to war against physical
ailments! Antediluvians, without medical
college and infrmary and apothecary shop,
multiplied their years by hundreds, but he
who has gone through the gauntlet Of disease
in our time and has come to seventy years of
age Is q hero worthy of a palm.
The world seems to be a great hospital,
and you run against rheumatisms and con-
sumptions and scrofulas and neuralgias and
scores OF old diseases baptized by new no.
menclature. oh, how heavy a burden sick
! ness Is 1t takes the color out of the sky, and
the sparkle out of the wave, and the sweet
ness out Of the fruit, and luster out OF the
night. When the limbs ache, when the res
piration Is painful, when the mouth is hot,
when the ear roars with unhealthy obstruc-
lions, how hard 1t is to be patient and cheer
full and assiduous!
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord" Does
your head ache? His wore the thorn. Do
your feet hurt? His were crushed OF the
spikes. Is your side PAINFUL His was struck
by the spear. Do you feel like giving way
under the burden? His weakness gave way
under a cross. While you are in every pos
sible way to try to restore your physical
vigor, you are to remember that more sooth-
ing than any anodyne, more vitalizing than
any stimulant and more strengthening than
any tonic is the prescription OF the text.
.''Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
will sustain thee"
We hear a great deal of talk now about
faith cure, and some people say it cannot
be done and 1t is a failure. l do not know
but that the chief advance OF the church is
to be In that direction. Marvellous things
come to me day by day which make me think
that II the age of miracles is past it is be-
cause the faith OF miracles Is past.
A prominent merchant of New York said
to a member of my family, "MY mother
wants her case mentioned to Mr.. TalmaSe.
This was the case. He said MY mothe9
had a dreadful abscess, from which she had
suffered untold agonies, and all surgery had
been exhausted upon her, II worse and
worse she grew until we called in q few
Christian friends and proceeded TO pray
about 1t. We commended her ease to Col,
and the abscess began Immediately to be
cured. She Is entirely well now and without
knife and without any surgery" So that
ease has come to me, and there are a score
OF other cases coming to our ears from al
parts OF the earth. oh, ye who are sick, go
to Christ Oh, ye who nre worn out witt
agonies of body, 'tCast thy burden upon the
Lord, and He shall sustain thee"
Another burden some have TO carry is the
burden of bereavement. All. these are thu
troubles that wear Us outl II we lose oui
property, by additional industry perhaps
| we may bring back the estranged fortune.
II we lose our good name, perhaps by re-
formation of morals we may achieve again
reputation for integrity, but who will bring
back the dear ~departed2
Alas, me, for these empty cradles and these
trunks OF childish toys that will never be
used againl Alas me, for the empty chair
and the silence In the halls that will never
echo again to those familiar footsteps | Alas I
! for fhn cry nf widnwhond md prnhanaOa I