The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-06-06

tOaE Young na0 SlcuL6U W z CUuilouC III
the boat: Here, John, catch this gold.
There are $4,000. Take It home to my
old mother. It VIII MAKE her COmtorta-
bic N her last days" Grip, Gouge &
Co. do net do all the business OF the
wCr,d.
Alb, my friend, do you say that God
does not care anything about your world
" business? tell Vcu God knows more
ABOUT it than you do. He kDoWs ali your
perplexities. HeBnows what mortgage
is about to forecl0se. He knows what
note you cannot pay. He knows what
unstable goods you have on your
shelly, S. 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 G d who belpsd David
TO be klrg. and who helped Daniel to be
prime minister, and who helped Have
lock 10 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 pro
perty going, just take this book and put
It down by your ledger and read OF the
eternHl possessions that Will como to
you through cur Lord Jesus Christ.
And when your business partner betrays
you, and your friends turn against you,
Just take the insulting letter, put 1t down
on the table, put your Bible beside the
Insulting letter and then read Of the
friendship Of him who ''sticketh closer
than brother"
A Young accountant IN New York city
cot his accounts entaDgled. He knew
he was honest. aud vet be could not
make his accounts come out right, and
he toiled at them day and night until he
was nearly trenzisd. 1t seemed by those
books that something had keen misap-
propnated, and be knew before God he
vas honest. The last day came. He
knew if he could cot that day make his
accounts come cut right be would 60
into disgrace and 60 into Punishment
from the business eSta 5lishment. He
went over there very early, before there
was anybody in the place, and he knelt
down at the desk and said: 30 Lord,
thou knowest have tried to be honest,
but l cannot make these things come
out right! Helpme today-help me this
morning!n The young man arose, and
hardly knowing why be did so opened a
book that lay on the desk, and there was
leaf containing lire OF figures which
explained everything. In other words,
he cast his burden upon the Lord, and
the Logd sustained him. Young man.
do you hear that?
oh, yes, God has sympathy witt
anybody that is ID any kind Ct toll. He
knows how heavy is the he'd 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 know;
how strong the tempest strikes the sail
or at masthead, he sees the factory sir
among the spindleS and knows how bel
arms ache, he sees the sewing woman
in the fourth story and knows how fe6
pence she gets for makinga garment
and louder than all the din and roar O.
the city comes the voice ola sympathetic
God, Cast thy burden upon tho Lord
Then there are a great many who
have weight of persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets g
grudge against man. All his motives
are mIsinterpre ed, and all his gooC
deeds are deprecated. With more Vir
ture than some Of the honored and ap
plauded he runs only against raillerY anC
sharp criticism. When a man begins &c
90 down, he has not only the force Of ma
tural gravitation, but a hundred hands
to help him in the precipitation. Mer
are prosecuted for their virtues and THEN
successes. Germanicus said be had jus
as many bitter antagonists as he had ad
ornments. The character sometimes
is so lustrous that the weak eyes Of envy
and jealousy cannot be ar to look att.
It was their integrity that put Joseph
in the pit, and DAME! 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, aud Korah after
Moses, and Saul after David, and Hernd
after Christ. Be sure if you haVe~any-
thing to do for church Or state and you
attempt 1t with all yo,af1soul the light
Ming will st-:ke you.
Tie, mUcld always has had 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 burleseue. The graceful
gait Of 7lrture is always followed by
sccf' and grimace and tra7esty. The
sweetest strain of poetry ever written
has come to ridiculous parody, and as
long as there are virtue aud righteous.
ness in the world there Will be something
for iniqujtY to grin at. All along the
line of the ages and in all lands the Cry
has beer: mot this man. but Barab-
bas. Now, Barabbas vas roboer."
And what makes the prosecutions oi
life worse is that they come from people
whom you have helped, from those to
whom you loaned money or have started
IN business, or whom you rescued IN
some great crisis. I think it has been
the history of all our lives-tbe 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 becom-
ngcYnical.
4 clergyman OF the UniVersalist
church went into neighborhood for the
establishment OF a church Of his denomi.
nation, 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:
II understand you are Universalist. I
want you to help me ia the enterprise" "
We'll" said the man, Il am a Unver-
salist, but I have peculiar kind of Uni.
versahsm." "What is that?" asked the
minister. "Well," replied the other. 81
have been cut in the world, and I have
besn cheated and slandered and outraged
and abused until I believe in universal
damnation!"
The great danger is that men will be-
come cynical and given to believe, as
David was tempted to say, that all men
are liars. Oh, my friends, do not let
that be the effect upon your souls! II