The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-06-16

OF ribbon and t-sc To-. who helped
David to he king. and who helped
Daniel to be prime minister. and who
helped Haveloch to be soldier will
help you TO discharge all your duties.
lie Is going To see You through. When
loss comes. and you find your property
going. just take t:lis book and put il
down by your ledger and read of the
eternal possessions that viii come to
you through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And when your business partner be-
trays you. AMI your friends turn
against YOU. just take that insulting
letter. pat it down on the table. put
your Bible beside tine insulting letter,
and then read of the friendship of Him
who ''sticloeth closer than : BROTHER
A Young accountant in New York
city got his accounts entangled. lie
knew he was honest. and yet he could
not make his accounts come ont right.
and he toiled ut them day and night
until he was nearly frenzicd. II seem
cd by those books that something had
been misappropriatcd. and he knew be-
fore God he was honest. The last day
came. He knew il I've could not
that day make his accounts
come out right he would go
into disgrace and go into banish-
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 knowst have
tried to be honest. but can not make
these things come out right! Help
me to-day-help me this morning.
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 n 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 a sympathy with
anybody that is in any kind of toll! lie
knows how heavy is the hod of bricks
that the workman carries up the ladder
on the wall. He hears the piclsax OF
the miner down in the coal shaft. He
knows how strong the tempest strike.
the sailor at masthead. He sees the
factory girl among the spindles ano
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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 great many who
have a weight of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets a
grudge against man. All his motives
are misinterpreted, and all his good
deeds are deprecated. With more vir-
tue than some of the honored and ap.
plauded. he runs only against raillery
and sharp criticism. When a man be.
gins to go down. he has not only the
force of natural gravitation, but hun.
dred hands to help him i'm the precipi-
tation. Men are prosecuted for their
virtues and their successes. Germani.
Gus said he had just as many bitter an
tagonists as he had adornmeuts. The
character sometimes is so lustr Gus that
the weak eyes of envy and jealousy
can not bear to look at it.
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, Calvin
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 il you have any
| thing 10 do for church or 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 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
full gait of virtue is always followed by
scoff and grimace and travesty. The
sweetest strain of poetry ever writer
has come to ridiculous parody, and a,
long rs there are virtue and righteous
ness in the world there will be some
thing for inquiry to grin at. All along
the line of the ages and in all land'
the cry has been: Not this man, bu'
Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was rob
ber."
| And what makes the prosecutions o
life worse is that they come from peopl,
whom you have helped. from those I,
whom you loaned money or have start
ed in business, or whom you rescued il
some great crisis. think it has beer
the history of all our livcs-the mos
acrimonious assault has come from
those whom we have benefited, whom
we have helped, and that makes il al
the harder to bear. A man is in DANCE
of becoming cynical.
| A clergyman of the Universalis
| church went into a neighborhood 70
the establishment of church of hi
denomination, and he was anxious I
find some one of that denomination
and he was pointed to n certain hous
and went there. lie said to the man @
the house: II understand you are
Universalist, Iwant you to help IN
in the enterprise" ''Well,'' said tn
man, ~ am Universalist, but / hav
peculiar kind of Universalism.
what is that?" asked the minister
"Well," replied the other, Il have bee
out in the world, and i have bee
cheated and slandered and outrage
and abused until believe in universe
damnationr
The great danger is that men will bt
come cynical and given to believe, a
David was tempted to say, that all me
are liars. Oh, my friends, do not IL
that be the effect upon your souls.
You can not endure a little persecution
how do you think our fathers endure
great prosecutions? Motley, in h
Dutch Republic" tells us of Egmon
the martyr, who, condemned to be b,
headed, unfastened his collar on TIL
way to the scaffold, and when the
asked him why he did that he sait
so they will not be detained in the
work. want to be ready" Oh, ho'
little we have To endure compared wit
those who have gone before us!
Now, if you have come across i
treatment, let me tell you. You are i
excellent company-Christ and Luthe
and Galilei and Columbus and joh
Jay and Josiah Quincy and thousand
of men and women, the best spirits ,
earth and Heaven.
Bulge not one inch, though all he
wreak upon you its vengeance. and yo
he made a target for devils to shoot "A
Do you not think Christ knew all abor
| persecution? Was he not Missed n
Was He not struck on the cheek? Wa
He not pursued all the days of His lif,
Did they not eNpectorate upon hin
Or, to put it in Bible language, The
spit upon Him" And can not lie III
derstand what persecution is? Ca:
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