Connecticut western news., 1894-05-31

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 that 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 Havoluck to be a soldier will 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 it 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 betrays you, and your friends turn against you, just take the insulting letter, put it down on the table, put your Bible beside the in- sulting letter, and then read of the friendship 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 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. It seemed by those books that something had been misappropriated, 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- ment from the business establish ment He went over there very early before there was anybody in the place-and he l1nelt down at the desk and said: 70 Lord, thou knowest have tried to be honest, but cannot make these things come out rightl Help me today-help me this morningP' The young man arose, and hardly knowing why he did so opened book that lay on the desk, and there was leaf con taining 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 toill He knows how heavy is the bod of bricks that the workman carries up the ladder on the wall. He hears the pickax of tn miner down ill the coal shaft. He know how strong the tempest strikes the sail or at masthead. He sees the factory girl 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 sympa- thetic God, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.
 Then there are a great many who have weight of persecution and abuse upon them. Sometimes society gets n grudge against man. All his motives are misinterpretea, and all his good deeds are depreciated. With more vir- tue than some of the honored and ap- plauded, he runs only against raillery and sharp criticism. When man be- gins to go down, he has not only the force of natural gravitation, but hun- dred hands to help him in the precipi- tation. Men are persecuted for their virtues and their successes. Germanicus said he had just as many bitter antag- onists as he had adornments. The char acter sometimes is so lustrous that the weak eyes of envy and jealousy cannot bear to look at it.
 A Target For the Lightning.
 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 desolate Pctmos, 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 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 sacri- fee has come to burlesque The graceful gait of virtue is always followed by scoff and grimace and travesty. The sweetest strain of poetry ever written has come 10 ridiculous parody, and as long as there are virtue and 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: Mot this man, but Bar abbas Now, Barabbas was robber. "
 And what makes the prosecutions of life worse is that they come from people whom you loaned money or have start ed ill business or whom you rescued in some great crisis. I think it has been the history of all our hves-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 becoming cynical.
 Danger of Cynicism.
 A clergyman of the Universalist church went into neighborhood for the establishment of church of his de- nomination, and he was anxious to find some one of that denomination, and he was pointed to q certain house and went there. He said to the man of the house: Il understand you are Q Universalist want you to help me in the enter prise. " Well" said the man, ''I am Universalist, but 1 have a peculiar lind of Universalism 1" What is that?" asked the minister. Well, " re- piled the other, ''I have been out in the world, and 1 have been cheated and slandered and outraged and abused un- til believe in universal damnationp'
 The great danger is that men will be- come 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 little persecution, how do you think our fathers endured great persecution2 Motley, ill his Dutch Republic, tells us of Egmont, the martyr, who, condemned to be be- headed, unfastened his collar on the way to the scaffold, and when they asked him why he did that he said: ''So they will not be detained in their work. want to be ready" Oh, how little WIG have to endure compared with those who have gone before us