The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-30

/ put your bible beside the insulting letter
/ and then read of the friendship of Him
who ''sticketh closer than a brother"
| 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. 1t seemed by those
books that something had been misap-
! propriated. 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 so into Punishment
( from the business establishment. 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 knowest / have tried TO be honest,
! but l cannot make these things come out
| right, Help me today-help me this MORN
/ ing The young man arose, and hardly
/ knowing why he did so opened a book
/ that lay on the desk. and there was a
/ 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?
other Crosses.
| Oh. yes. God has a sympathy with any
| body that is in any kind of toll. He knows
/ how heavy is the hod 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, ne 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 sympathetic 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 a grudge
| against a man. All his motives are
misinterpreted, and all his good deeds
are deprecated. With more virtue than
some Of the honored and applauded he
runs only against raillery and sharp criti-
| ciSm. When a man begins to go down,
| he has not only the force OF natural
g1avitatiOn, but a hundred hands TO
| help him i'm the precipitation. Men are
| prosecuted for their virtues and their
successes. Germanicus said he had just
| as many bitter antagonists as he had
| adOTnments. The character sometimes is
| so luStrOus that the weak eyes of envy
and Jealousy cannot bear TO look at il.
1t was their integrity that put Joseph
| in the pit and Daniel in the den, and
ShadTach in the fire. and sent John the
| evangelist to desolate Patmos. and Cal
| win 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 viii strike you.
The world always has had a cross be-
| tween two thieves for the one who comes
70 save. High and holy enterprise has
always been followed by abuse The
most sublime tragedy of self-sacrifice
has come to burlesque. The graceful
gait Of virtue is always followed by
scott and grimace and travesty The
| sweetest strain Of poetry ever written
has come to 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 Barab-
has, Now BaTabbaS was a rObber"
New Kind of UniversnIisn
And what makes the prosecutions of
life worse is that they come from people
whom You have helped. from those to
whom you loaned money or have started
| in business. or whom YOU rescued in some
| great crisis. 1 think it has been the his
tory Of all our lives-the most acrimon-
| ious 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
a clergyman of the universalist church
went into a neighbOrhOOd for the estab-
lishment of a church Of his denomination,
and he was anxious To find some one of
that denomination, and he was pointed
To a certain house and went there He
said to the man of the house: Il under
stand you are a universalist' We'll"
said the man. Il am uniVersalst, but I
have a peculiar kind of universalism."
What is that?" asked the minister.
well" replied the other, Il have been
out in the world, and / have been cheated
| and slandered and outraged and abused
until / believe in universal damnationr'
The great danger is that men will be-
come cynical and given to believe, as
| David was tempted TO say that all men
be the effect upon your sOulsi If you
cannot endure a little persecution, how do
you think our fathers endured great per-
| secutiOn? Motley in his Dutch Repub-
lic," tells us of Egmont the martyr, who,
condemned to be beheaded, 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. l want to be ready Oh.
how little we have to endure compared
with those who have gone before u.s.
In-Treatment.
Now, II you nave 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 it's vengeance and you
be made a target for devils to shoot
at Do you think Christ knew all about
| persecu ton? 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 cannot he under
stand 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 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 depended upon
| their tOnics. and their plasters, and
their cordials rather than upon heav-
| emily stimulants.
Oh, how few people there are COM
pletely WELL Some of you, by dint of
| perseverance md care have kept liy-
Ill.