The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-28

Help me today--heIp me this morning!' The
young man arose., and hardly knowing why
desk, and there was a leaf containing a
line OF flgures which explained everything.
Lord, and the Lord sustained him. Young
man. DO you hear that?
Oh. yes, God has a sympathy with any
body that is in any kind of toll! He knows
how heavy is. the hou OF bricks that the
workman carries up the ladder on the wall;
tempest strikes the sailor at the 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
roar OF the city comes the voice of a SYM
pathetic Goa: Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and he shall sustain thee"
Then there great many who have
weight OF persecution and abuse upon
them. Sometimes society gets d grudge
against d man. All his motives m5In-
terpreted and all his good deeds are de.
preciated With more virtue than some of
the honored and applauded, he runs only
against raillery ana sharp criticism. When
a man begins to go down. he has not only
the force OF natural sravity, but hun
their success. Ger:lsnicus SAID he had just
as many bitter antagonists as he had adorn-
ments. The character some zines is 50 us-
tfouS that the weak eyes OF envy and Jeal-
=, 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 evange-
list, TO desolate Patmos, and Calvin to the
castle of persecution. and John Euss to the
stake, and Koran after Moses, and Saul after
David, and Herod after Christ BE sure if
you have anything to 90 Tor Chufcn OF
state, and you attempt it with all your soul,
the lightning will strike you.
The world always has had a cross be-
tween two thieves Tor the one who comes
to save it. High and holy enterprise has
always been followed by abuse The most
sublime tragedy Of selt-SacriIe mas come
TO burlesque. The graceful gait OF virtue
is always followed by scott and grimace
and travesty. The sweetest strain of poet
parody, and as long as there are virtue
H'ld ri '!'tec usneSS IN the world there VIII
along the line OF the ages, and IN an lands
the cry has been; mot This man, but
bdra bpas. Now, Barabbas was robber
ana what MAKES une prosecutions of ilie
worse, is that they come from people whom
you have helped, from those to whom
you loaned money or have started in bust
ness, or whom you rescued in some great
crisis. I think it has been the history OF
all our lives-the most acrimonious assault
has come from those whom we have bene-
flied, whom we have helped ana thal
makes it all the harder to bear. A man is
in danger of becoming cynical.
A clergyman of the Unversalist church
went into a neighborhood for the estab-
lshment of a church of his denomination,
and he anxious to find some one OF
certain house, and went there He said
to the man of the house: Il understand you
ARE ho unHsrsa Wapt y9a to the hsP man, me
II am a Universalist, but | have a peculiar
kind of Universalism...'' r,W y is that
asked the minister. I'VE ll,' replied the
ether. II have been out in the world, and
| have been cheated and slandered and
outraged and abused until | believe in uni
verSal ldamnatiOn!
come cynical and given to believe, as Da-
vid 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 a little persecution, how do you
think our fathers endured great persecu-
ton? Motley, in his Dutch republic tells
us of Egmont, the martyr, who, condemn
ed to be beheaded, unfastened his collar on
asked him why he did that, he said: so
they will not be detained in their work;
want to be read ra on how tbot te w Te
have gone before us!
Now, if you have come across ill-treat-
ment, let rue tell you You are in excellent
and Columbus and John Jay and Josiah
Quincy and thousands Of men and Wo-
men, the bcst spnits Of earth and heaven.
Bulge not ono inch, though ali hell
wreak upon You its vengeance and you be
made target for devils to shoot at. DO
you not think Ci..ist knew all about perse-
not struck en- the check? Was he not pur-
sued all the days of his life? Did they
in Bible language, They spit upon him"
And cannot he understand what persecution
is. east my DEruetl upon the Lore, ana
He shall sustain thee
Then there are others who carry great
burdens of physical ailments. When sud-
den sickness has come and fierce choieras
and malignant fevers take the Castle life
by storm we appeal to God, but in these
chronic ailments which wear out the
week and year after year how little resort
ing to God for soIace! Then people depend
upon their tonics and their plasters and
their cordials rather than upon heavenly
stimuants.
Oh how few people there are completely
well! Some of you by dint of perseverance
and care, have kept living until this time
but how you have had to war against phys
ical ailments! Antediluvians, without med
zeal college and infirmary and apothecary
shop, multiplied their years by hundreds,
but he who has gone through the gauntlet
of disease in time and has come to
seventy years of age is q hero worthy Of
d palm.
The world seems to be a great hospital
and you run against rheumatisms and con-
symptoms ana ScfoiulaS ana scores OF ora
dseaser baptized by new nomenclature.
Oh, how heavy a burden sickness is! 1t
takes the color out of the sky and the
sparkle out of the wave and the sweetness
out of the fruit and the luster out OF the
night. When the limbs ache, when the respI-
ration is painful, when the mouth is hot,
when the air roars with unhealthy 0bstruc-
tons, how hard it is to be patient and
cheerful and assiduous,
Cast thy burden upon the Lord" Does
your head ache? His wore the thorn. 10
your feet hurt? His crushed OF the
spikes. Is your side painful? His was
ing way under the burden? His weakness
gave way under the cross. While you are
IN every possible way to try to restore your
more soothing than any anodyne, more
vitalizing than any tonic IS The prescripuon
of the text: Cast thy burden upon the Lord
and he will sustain thee"
We hear Il great deal of talk now about
fath 6 cure ana sof R9Ppe say 9 not n
but that the chief advance OF the church