Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-06-13

inu Moran alter MOSES, ana saul aiter Da-
yid, and Herod after Christ. Be sure, il you
have anything to do for church or state, and
you attempt 1t with all your soul, the light
hing Will strike you.
The world always has had O cross be-
tween two thieves for the one who comes to
ave It. High and holy enterprise has al
ways been followed by abuse. The most
Iublme tragedy of selt-sacrifice has come to
ouriesQue. The graceful gait OF virtue IS
always followed by scott and grimace and
.raSesty. The sweetest strain of poetry
sHs sss sa ss5sssqS sss aHFs
ness in the world there will be-something
'or iniquity to grin at. All along the line
,f the ages and In all lands the cry has been
Not this man, but Barabbas. Now. Bar
ibbas was robber."
And wnat makes the prosecutions of life
worse is that they come from people whom
Tou have helped, from those to whom you
oaned money or have started In business or
whom you rescued in some great crisis. 1
:hink it has been the history OF all our lives
the most acrimonious assault has come
rom those whom wa have benefited, whom
We have helped, and that makes 1t all the
harder to bear. A man is IN danger OF be-
,ominS cynical.
A clergyman OF the Universalist church
went into neighborhood for the establish
nent of a church of his denomination, and
ne was anxious TO find some one OF that de-
nomination, and he was pointed to a certain
house and went there. He said to the man
Of the house "I understand you are a Uni
versalist. want you to help ne In the en-
.erprise." "Well." said the man, 81 am
Universalist, but have q peculiar kind Of
Untversalism." "What Is that?" asked the
minister. ''Wel,H replied the other, az
nave been out in the world, and have been
cheated and slandered and outraged and
abused until believe In universal damna-
ioa -
The great danger is that men will become
CYNICAL and given to believe, as David was
tempted to say, that all mep-are liars. Oh.
ny friends, do not let that be the effect
lpon your souls! II you cannot endure a
| fathers endured persecution2 Motley, In his
/ Dutch Republic" tells US of Egmont, the
martyr, who. condemned to be beheaded,
unfastened his collar on the way to the scaf-
fold, and when they asked him why he did
that he said $50 they will not be detained
In their work l want to be ready" On,
how little We have to endure compared with
those who have gone before US
Now, If you have come across Ill treat.
m ent, let me tell you you are in excellent
complny-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 its vengeance, and you be made
target for devils to shoot at Do you not
Was He not hissed at? Was He not struck
on the cheek? Was He not pursued all the
days OF HIS life? Did they not expedorate
upon Him? Or, to put It in Bible
language. ''They spit upon Him." And cau-
not He understand what persecution is?
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
shall sustain thee"
Then there are others who carry great bur
dens 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 Col for
soiace! Then people depend upon their
tonics, and their plasters, and their cordials
rather than upon heavenly stimulants.
On, how few people there are completely
welll Some OF you, by dint of perseverance
and care have kept living to this time, but
how you have had to war against physical
ailmentsl Antediluvians, without medical
college and tuarmary and apothecary shop,
multiplied their years by hundreds, but he
who has gone through the gauntlet Of disease
in our time and has come to seventy years OF
age is a hero worthy Of palm.
The world seems to be great hospital,
and you run against rheumatisms and con-
sumptions and scrofulas and neuralgies and
scores of old diseases baptized by new no.
menclature. Oh, how heavy q burden sick
ness is II takes the color out of the sky, and
the sparkle out Of the wave, and the sweet
ness out of the fruit. and luster out of the
night. When the limbs ache, when the res
piration Is painful, when the mouth is hot,
when the ear roars with unhealthy o5struc-
tions, how hard ii is to be patient and cheer
ful and assduousl
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord" Does
your head ache? His wore the thorn. Do
your feet hurt? His were crushed of the
spikes. Is your side painful? His was struck
by the spear. Do you feel Ike giving way
under the burden? His weakness gave way
under cross. While you are in every pos
sible way to try to restore your physical
vigo-, you are to remember that more sooth-
ing than any anodyne, more yitalizing than
any stimulant and moro strengthening than
any tonic Is the prescription OF the text,
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
will sustain thee
We hear great deal Of talk now about
faith cure, and some people say il cannot
be done and it is a failure. do not know
but that the chief advance of the church Is
TO be in that direction. Marvellous things
come to me day by day which make me think
that II the age of miracles is past 1t Is be-
cause the faith OF miracles is past.
A prominent merchant of New York said
10 member of my family, "My mother
wants her case mentioned to Mr.. Talmage."
This was the case. He said my mother
had dreadful abscess, from which she had
suffered untold agonies, and all surgery had
worse she grew until We called in few
Christian friends and proceeded 10 pray
about 1t. We commended her case 70 God,
and the abscess began Immediately to be
cured. She is entirely well now and without
knife and without any surgery" So that
case has come to me, and there are a score
OF other cases coming to our ears from al
parts OF the earth. Oh, ye who are sick, &c
to Christ On. ye who are worn out witt
agonies of body, "Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and He shall sustain thee ;"
Another burden some have to carry is the
burden of bereavement. All. these are th'
troubles that wear us outi II we lose oui
property. by additional industry perhaps
we may bring back the estranged fortune.
If we lose our good name, perhaps by re-
formation OF morals we may achieve again
reputation for integrity, but who will bring
back the dear departed?
Alas, me, for these empty cradles and these
trunks of childish toys that will never be
used againl Alas me, for the empty chair
and the silence in the halls that will never
echo again to those familiar footsteps Alas
for the cry of widowhOod and orphanagel
What bitter Marahs in the wilderness, what
cities ofthe dead, what long, black shadow
from the wing of death, what eyes sunken
with grief, what hands tremulous with be-
reavement, what instruments of music shut
now because there are no fingers to play on
them! Is there no relief for such souls?
Aye, let that soul ride into the harbor OF my
text.
The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose
VIII not, VIII not desert to foes
Lhat soul, though all hell shall endeRvor to shake
II 49, -er, no never forsake.
Now, the grave is brighter than the an
,ient tomb where the lights were perpetuallv
kept burning. The sacred feet of Him who
was "the resurrection and the life" are on
me broken grave hillock, while the voices of
angels ring down the sky at the coronation
of another soul come home to glory.
Then there are many who carry the bur-
len of sin. All, we all carry It until In the
appointed way that burden is lifted. We
need no Bible to prove that the whole race is
ruined. What spectacle 1t would be II we
,ould tear off the mask of human def1lement
or beat a drum that would bring up the