Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-06-02
j. II. MILLER & SONS.
Danger Of Cynicism.

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 a neighborhood for
the establishment Of O chufch of his de-
nomination, and lie 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 hcuse:
Il understand you are a Universa!ist.
l want you to help mo in the enser-
prise" well" said the man, 81 am
a Universalist, but / have a pecuiiar
kind of Universalism. "What is
that?" asked the minister. well" re-
piled the other, 81 have been out in the
world, and hare been cheated and
slandered and outraged and abused un-
til / believe in universal damnation!"
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 soulsl Ii
you cannot endure a little persecution,
how do you think our fathers endured
great persecution? 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: 80
they will not be detained in their work.
1 want to be ready" Oh, how little we
have to endure compared with those
who have gone before usl
Now, if you have come cross i'll treat
ment, let me tell you you are in excel
lent 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.
Christ Can Understand.
Bulge not one inch, though all hell
wreak upon you its vengeance, and you
be made a target for devils to shoot at.
persecution? Was he not Kissed 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 cannot he understand
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 appeal to
God, but in these chronic ailments
day, and week after week, and year aft
er year, how little resorting to God for
solacel Then people depend upon their
tonics, and their plasters, and their cor
dials rather than upon heavenly stimu-
lants.
Oh, how few people there arc com
pletely we'll! Some of you, by Gint Of
perseverance and care, have kept living
to this time, but how you have had to
wal against physical ailmentsl Antedi-
l~uviaus, without medical college and in
Urinary and apothecary shop, multiplied
their years by hundreds, but he who
has gone through the gantlet of disease
in our time and has come to 70 years of
age is q hero worthy Of a palm.
The world seems to be a great hospi-
tai, and you run against rlieumatisms
and consumptions and scrofulas and
neuralgias and scores of old diseases
baptized by new nomenclature. Oh,
how heavy q burden sickness is! 1t
takes the color out of the sky, and tho
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
tho mouth is hot, when the car roars
with unhealthy distractions, how hard
it is to be patient and cheerful and as
siduousi
The Faith Cure.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord"
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