The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-06-08

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''What is that?' asked the minister.
''Well," replied the other, II have been
out in the world and l have been
cheated and slandered and outraged
and abused until believe in univer. al
damnatiOnr'
The great danger is that men will he
come cynical and given to believe. as
David was tempted to say, that all men
are liars. On, my friends, do not let
that be the effect upon your souls! If
you can not endure little persecution,
how do you think our fathers endured
great prosecutions? Motley. in 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:
$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 us!
Now, if you have come across i'll
treatment. let me tell you. you are in
excellent company-Christ and Luther
and Galilei and Columbus and John
Jay and Josiah Quincy and thousands
of men and women, the best spirits of
earth and Heaven.
Bulge not one inch, though all hell
wreak upon you its vengeance. and you
be made target for devils to shoot at.
Do you not think Christ knew all about
persecution? Was he not Missed at?
Was He not struck on the cheek? Was
He not pursued all the days of His life?
Did they not expectorate upon him?
Or. to put it in Bible language. ''They
spit upon Him." And can not He I'M
derstand what persecution is? Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall
sustain thee
| Then there are others who carry
great burdens of physical ailments.
When sudden sickness has come, and
fierce chOleras and malignant fevers
take the castles of life by storm, we APP
peal to God, but in these chronic all
ments which wear out the strength day
after day, and week after week, and
year after year. how little resorting to
God for sOlace! Then people depend
upon their tonics, and their plasters,
and their cordials, rather than upon
heavenly stimulants.
Oh, how few people there are COM
pletely 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! Ante
diluvians, without medical college and
infrmary and apOthecary shop. multi
piled their years by hundreds, but he
who has gone through the gauntlet of
disease in our time and has come to 20
years of age is a hero worthy of
palm.
The world seems to be a great hospi-
tai, and you run against rheumatisms
and consumptiOns and scrOfulas and
neuralgias and scores of old diseases
baptized by new nomenclature. Oh,
now heavy a burden sickness 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 the luster out
of the night. When the limbs ache,
when the respiration is painful, when
the mouth is hot, when the ear roars
with unhealthy distractions, how hard
it is to be patient and cheerful and as
siduous!
''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 un-
der the cross. While you are in every
possible way to try to restore your
physical vigor, you are to remember
that more soothing 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 can not be done and it is failure. I
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 if the
age of miracles is past it is because 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.. damage.
This was the case. He said: my
mother had dreadful abscess, from
which she had suffered untold agonies,
and all surgery had been exhausted up
on her, and worse and worse she grew
until we called in few Christian
friends and proceeded to pray about it.
We commended her case to God, and
the abscess began Immediately to be
cured. She is entirely well now. and
without knife and without any surg
cry" So that case has come to me,
and there are a score of other cases
coming to our ears from all parts of
the earth. Oh. aye who are sick, go to
Christ! Oh, We who are worn out with
agonies of body, Cast thy burden up
on the Lord, and he shall sustain
thee!'
Now, the grave is brighter than the
ancient tomb where the lights were |