The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-08


does not care anything about your
worldly business? ! tell yon God knows
more about il than you do. He knows
all your perplexities; he knows what
mortgage is about to foreclose; he knows
what note you can not pay; he knows
what unstable goods you have on your
shelves; he knows all your trials, from
the day you took hold of the first yard
stick down to the 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 Haveloclx to be a 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 it
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, and your friends turn
against you, just take that insulting
letter, put it down on the table, 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 SEEM
ed by those books that something had
been misappropriated, and he knew be-
fore 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 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, 80 Lord, thou knowst have
tried to be honest, but I 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
leaf containing line of figures which
explained everything. Ia 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! He
knows how heavy is the hod of bricks
that the workman carries up the ladder
on the wall. He hears the piclax of
the miner down in the coal shaft. He
knows how strong the tempest strikes
the sailor 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 garment, and louder than all
the din and roar of the city comes the
voice of sympathetic 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 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 APP
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
bred hands to help him in 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 adornments. The
character sometimes is so lustrous 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 if you have any
thing to do for church or state, and
you attempt it with all your soul, the
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 grace
full gait of virtue is always followed by
scoff 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 inquiry to grin at. Allalong
the line of the ages and in all lands
the cry has been: "Not this man, but
Barabbas- Now, Barabbas was rob
ber."
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. I think it has been
the history of all our lives-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.
A clergyman of the Universalist
church went into a neighborhood for
the establishment of a church of his
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 a
! want you to help me
in the enterprise 'sWell," said the
man, 4 am a Universalist, but / have
D peculiar kind of Universalism. ="
What is that?'' asked the minister. |
We'll, y replied the other, II have been
put in the world. and / have been
cheated and slandered and outraged |