Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-05-31


than you do. He knows all your pcrplcxi-
ties IIo knows what mortgage is about
to forccosc. He knows what note you
cannot 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 yardsticlI 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 hcl,)cd lIavelock to be 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 ctcr-
nal possessions that will come to you
through our Lord Jesus Christ And
when your business partner bctrays you,
and your friends turn against you, just
take the insulting letter, put it down on
the table. put your Bible beside the insult
ing letter and then read of the friendship
of him who ''stiCketh closer than broth
or. -
A young accountant in New York city
got his accounts cntanglCd. He knew he
was honest, and vet he could not make his
accounts come ouj right, and he toilcd at
them day and night until he was r"7rly
frcnzico 1t seemed by those books that
something had been misappropriatc |, 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 ard go into ban
ishment from the business establishment.
He went over there very early, before
there was anybody in the place, and he
knelt down mt the desk and said: 80 Lord,
thou knowcsr ! have tried to be honest,
but | cannot make these things come out
right Help INC today-hclp me this morn
ing!" The young man arose, and hardly
knowing why he did SO opened book
that lay on the desk, and there was leaf
containing u lire of figures which explain
ed everything. In other words, he cast his
burden upon the Lord, and the Lord sus-
tanned him, Young man, do you hear thatf
other Crosses,
Oh, yes, God has a sympathy with any
body that is in any kind of toll He knows
how heavy is the bod of bricks that the
workman carries up the ladder on the wall
he hears the pickax of the miner down in
| the coal shaft he knows how strong the
tempest strikes the sailor at masthead, he
sees the factory girl among the spindlcs
| and knows how her arms ache, he secs 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 sym
pathetic God, Cast thy burden upon the
| Lord, and he shall sustain thee
| Then there are great many who have
n weight of persecution and abuse upon
| them. Sometimes society gets a grudgo
against a man. All his motives arc misin-
terprctcd, and all his good deeds are dcpre-
ciatod. With more virtue than some of the
honored and applauded he runs only
against raillcry and sharp criticism. When
a man begins to go down, he has not only
| the force of natural gravitation, but u hun
bred hands to help him in the prccipita-
ton. Men are prosecuted for their virtues
and their successes. Germanicus said he
had just as many bitter antagonists as he
had adornmcnts. The character sometimes
is 50 lustrous that the weak eyes Of envy
and jealousy cannot bear to look at it.
1t was their integrity that put Joseph in
the pit and Daniel in the den, and Shad-
rach in the fire and sent John the Evangcl-
ist TO dcsolate Patmos, and Calvin to the
castle of persecution, and John Huss to tho
stake, and Korah after Moses, and Saul
after David, and Hcrod after Christ BE
sure if you have anything to do for church
OF state anu you attempt ~ WIN an yOui
soul the lightning will strike You.
The world always has had a cross be
tween two thieves for the one who comes
to save it High and holy enterprise has
always bcar followed by abuse. The most
sublime tragedy of self sacrifice has come
to burlesquc, The graceful gait Of virtue
is always followed by scott and grimacC
and travcsty. The sweetest strain of poetry
ever written has come to ridiculous parody
and as long ms there are virtue and right
eousness in the world there will be some
thing for iniquity to grin at. All along tn,
line of the ages and in all lands the cry
has been; Not this man, but Barabbas
Now, Barabbas wa robber
New KIM, of Universali,m.
And what makes the prosecutions of lif
worse is that they come from peopie whom
you have helped, from those to whom yol
loaned mCney or have started in business
or whom you rescued in some great crisis
/ think it has been the history of all on
liveS--the most acrimonious assault ha
come from those whom we have benefited
whom we have helped, and that makes i
all the harder to bear. A man is in dan
ger of becoming cynical.
A clergyman of the UnivcrsaliSt clurcl
went into a neighborhood for the establish
ment of church of his denomination, ant
he was anxious to find some one of tina
denomination, and he was pointed to cer
tain house and went there He said to tn
man OF the house: Il understand you ar
a Universalist. / want you to help me il
the enterprise well, " said the man
Il am a Univcrsalist, but have pcculia
, kind of Univcrsalism. 4" What is that?
, .sked the minister. We'll" replied tn
bther, Il have been out in the world an
, | have been cheated and slandered am
outraged and abused until believe in un
vorsal damnation!"
, The great danger is that men will be
, come cynical and given to believe, q
{ David was tempted to say, that all me
, are liars. Oh, my friends, do not let tina
be the effect upon your souls! If you cal
; not endure little persecution, how do 70
, think our fathers endured great persccl
tionY Motley in his dutch Republic
tells us of Egnont, the martyr, who, cor
: demned to be bchcaded, unfastencd his a,
lar on the way to the scaffold, and whe