Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-06-01

the Gay you lOOh uOlu VI eAAO hAoe JseAN
stick 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
helped Havelock 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 1t
down by your ledger and read OF the
eternal possessions that will come to you
through our Lord Jesus Christ. And
when your business partner betrays you,
and your friends turn against you, just
take the insulting letter, put it down on
the table, put your Bible beside the in
sulting letter, and then read Of the
friendship Of him who "sticketh closer
than O brother"
The Lord Sustained Him.
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
misappropriated, 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
90 into disgrace and go into Danish
ment from the business establish
ment 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 morningP' The
young man arose, and hardly knowing
why he did so opened book that lay
on the desk, and there was leaf con-
tanning 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?
Oh, yes, God has sympathy with
anybody 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 sail
or at 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 a garment,
and louder than all the din and roar OF
the city comes the voice OF a sympa-
thetic God, Cast thy burden upon the
Lord and he shall sustain thee
Then there are a great many who
have a weight Of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets
grudge against a man. All his motives
are misinterpreted, and all his good
deeds are deprecated With more vir-
tue than some Of the honored and APP
plauded. he runs only against raillery
and sharp criticism. When a man be-
gins to 20 down, he has not only the
force of natural gravitation, but a hun
bred hands to help him in the precipl-
tation. Men arc prosecuted for their
virtues and their successes. Germanicus
said he had Just as many bitter antag-
onists as he had adornments The char
acter sometimes is so lustrous that the
weak eyes Of envy and jealousy cannot
bear to look at it.
A Target For the Lightning.
1t was their integrity that put Joseph
in the pit, and Daniel In the den, and
Shadrach in the fire, and sent John the
Evangelist to desolate Patmos, and CAL
vim 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 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 enter
prise has always been followed by abuse
The most sublime tragedy OF self sacri-
fee has come TO burlesque The graceful
gait Of virtue Is always followed by
scott and grimace and trayesty. 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 Bar.
abbas. Now, Barabbas was robber. "
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 start
ed in business or whom you rescued in
some great crisis. l think it has been
the history Of all our liyes-the most
acrimonious 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.
Danger of CynIcism.
A clergyman Of the Universalist
church went into a neighborhood for
the establishment of q church of his de-
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 understand you are Universalist
[ want you to help me in the enter.
prise " well" said the man, II am
q Universalist, but l have peculiar
kind Of Universalism. " What Is
hiatt" asked the minister. We'll, " re.
Piled the other, Il have been out in the
world, and l have been cheated and
,landered and outraged and abused I'M
III | believe in universal damnationP
The great danger is that men will be-
come cynical and given to believe, as
David was tempted to say. that all men
ire liars. Oh. my friends, do not let
hat be the effect upon your soulsl II
you cannot endure little persecution,
low do you think our fathers endured
great persecution Motley. In his
Dutch Republic, tells us Of Egmont
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