The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-07-21

does not care anything about your
worldly business? tell you God knows
more about it than you do. He knows
ALI yoay perplexities; he knows what
mortgage is about to foreclose; he knows
{yhas 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 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 viii
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 1t
down by your ledger and read OF the
eternal possessions that will come to
YOU through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And when your business partner be-
travs you, and your friends turn
against you, just take that insulting
letter, put it down on the table, put
YOUR Bible beside the insulting letter,
and then read of the friendship OF Him
who sssticketh closer than brother"
| A Young accountant in New York
citv 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 seem
ed 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 Danish
ment 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, 20 Lord, thou knowst have
tried to be honest, but can not make
these things come out right! Help
; me to-day-help me this morning!
The young man arose, and hardly
knowing why he did so, opened a book
that lay on the desk, and there was q
leaf containing 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! ID
knows how heavy is the hod of bricks
that the workman carries up the ladder
: on the wall. He hears the pickax o
the miner down in the coal shaft. HI
D knows how strong the tempest strilSe
! the sailor at masthead. He sees tn
L factory girl among the spindles ant
: knows how her arms ache. He sees tn
: sewing woman in the fourth story ant
l knows how few pence she gets TO
! making a garment, and louder than a!
I the din and roar of the city comes tn
voice of sympathetic God: Cast tn
a burden upon the Lord, and He shal
sustain thee"
Then there are great many VIII
i have weight of persecution and abus
upon them. Sometimes society gets
e grudge against man. All his motive
are misinterpreted, and all his goo
e deeds are deprecated. With more wi
e tue than some of the honored and al
:. plauded, he runs only against raliler
IL and sharp criticism. When man b.
III gins to go down. he has not only tn
u force of natusal gravitation, but hun
d bred hands to help him in the precip
d tation. Men are prosecuted for the
u virtues and their successes. German
u Gus said he had just as many bitter a
IL tagonists as he had adornments. III
character sometimes is so lustrous tn;
" the weak eyes of envy and jealous
can not bear to look at it.
z, twas their integrity that put JOSEF
~ in the pit, and Daniel in the den, al
~ Shadrach in the fire, and sent John Il
=, Evangelist to desolate Patmos, Calv
~ to the castle of persecution, and Joi
40 Huss to the stake, and Korah aft
y Moses. and Saul after David, and Herr
= after Christ. Be sure if you have a,
:, thing TODD for church or state, al
- you attempt it with all your soul, t
bo lightning will strike you.
w The world always has had a cross
:" tween two thieves for the one w
- comes to save it. High and holy entt
70 prise has always been followed by abu'
" The most sublime tragedy of self sac
~ fee has come to burlesque. The gra'
," full gait of virtue is always followed
-. ~ scott and grimace and travesty. 1
io' sweetest strain of poetry ever writ
20 has come to ridiculous parody, and
=" long as there are virtue and righteo'
=. 81 ness in the world there will be son
-, thing for inquiry to grin at. All aio
~, =, the line of the ages and in all lar
~ the cry has been: Not this man,
~ Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was n
m ber."
~ And what makes the prosecutions
=: :" life worse is that they come from peo
'ss whom you have helped, from those
~ whom you loaned money or have sta
IN, ed in business, or whom you rescued
nu some great crisis. l think it has be
a. az the history of all our lives-the m
In acrimonious assault has come fr
those whom we have benefited, VIII
len we have helped, and that makes 1T
'ol the harder to bear. A man is in dam
us' of becoming cynical.
"a A clergyman of the. Universe
A church went into a neighborhood
~ the establishment of a church OF
ca denomination, and he was anxious
!. - find some one of that denominati
. of and he was pointed to certain no
~ and went there. He said to the maj
- the house: II understand you ar
Jvr;raroa1ict want Won to help