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promise, BLESSED are they that are ner.
secuted for righteousness sake. for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven INIT
they do not realize the fact that this
principle applies to worldly as we'll as
spiritual success. It is true in all d.
partments. Men rise to high official No.
sitions through Misrepresentation. PM
lie abuse is all that some of our nnhI;c
men have had to rely upon for their ele.
walton. 1t has brought to them what
talent and executive force could NOT
have achieved. Many of those who are
making great effort for place and power
will never succeed just because thew
are not of enough Importance to be
abused. 1t is the nature of men-that 10
of all generous and reasonable men-to
gather about those who are persecuted
and defend them, and they are apt to
forget the fault of those who are the
subjects OF attack while attempting to
drive back the slanderers. Persecution
is elevation. Helen Stirk, the Scotch
martyr, standing with her husband at
the place of execution, said: Husband.
let us rejoice today. We have lived to-
gether many happy years. This is the
happiest time of all our life. You see
we are to be happy together forever. Be
brave now, be brave. 1 will not say
Good night to you, for we shall soon
be in the kingdom of our Father togeth-
er. Persecution shows the heroes and
heroines. l go into another department.,
and l find that those great denomina-
lions of Christians which have been
most abused have spread the most
rapidly.
No good man was ever more violently
maltreated than John Wesley-belied
and caricatured and slandered until one
day he stood in a pulpit in London, and
a man arose in the audience and said,
"You were drunk last night" and John
Wesley said: ''Thank God, the whole
catalogue is now complete. I have been
charged with everything but thati" His
followers were hooted at and maligned
and called by every detestable name that
internal ingenuity could invent, but the
hotter the persecution the more rapidly
they spread until you know what a
great host they have become and what a
tremendous force for God and the truth
they are welding all the world over. 1t
was persecution that gave Scotland to
Presbyterianism. 1t was persecution
that gave our land first to civil liberty
and afterward to religious freedom.
Yea, I might go farther back and say it
was persecution that gave the world the
great salvation of the gospel. The ribald
mockery, the hungering and thirsting,
the unjust charge, the ignominious
death, when all the force of hell's fury
was hurled against the cross, was the
introduction of that religion which is
yet to be the earth's deliverance and our
eternal salvation. The state sometimes
said to the church, Come, take my
hand, and I will help you" What was
the result? The church went back, and
it lost its estate of holiness, and it be-
came ineffective. At other times the
state said to the church, 81 will crush
you" What has been the result? After
the storms have spent their fury the
church, so far from having lost any Of
its force, has increased and is worth in
finitely more after the assault than be-
fore. Read all history and you will find
that true. The church is far more in
debted to the opposition of civil govern
ment than to its approval. The fires OF the
stake have only been the torches which
Christ held in his hand, by the light of
which the church has marched to her
present glorious position. In the sound
of racks and implements of torture !
hear the rumbling of the gospel chariot.
The scaffolds of m~artyrdom have been
the stairs by which the church mounted.
A Thousand Tongues.
Learn also from our subject that sin
will come to exposure. Long, long ago
had those brothers sold Joseph into
Egypt. They had made the old father
believe that his favorite child was dead,
They had suppressed the crime, and it
was a profound secret well kept by the
brothers. But suddenly the secret is out.
The old father hears that his son is In
Egypt, having been sold there by the
malice of his own brothers. How their
cheeks must have burned and their hearts
sunk at the flaming out of this long sup
pressed crime. The smallest iniquity
has a thousand tongues, and they will
blab out exposure. Saul was sent to de-
stroy the Canaanites, their sheep and
sheir oxen, but when he got down there
among the pastures he saw some fine
sheep and oxen too fat to kill, SO he
thought he would steal them. Nobody
would know it. He drove these stolen
sheep and oxen toward home, but stop
ped to report to the prophet how he had
executed his mission, when in the dis
tance the sheep began to bleat and the
oxen to below. The secret was out, and
Samuel said to the blushing and CON-
fused Saul, "What meaneth the bleating
of the sheep that ! hear and the below
ing of the cattle?" All, my nearer, you
cannot keep an iniquity still. At just
the wrong time the sheep will bleat
and the x will below. Achan cannot
steal the Babylonish garment without
being stoned to death, nor Arnold betray
his country without having his neck
stretched. Look over the police arrests.
These thieves, these burglars, these
counterfeiters, these highwaymen, these
assassins, they all thought they could
bury their iniquity 10 deep down it
would never come to resurrection, but
there was sDme shoe that answered to
the print in the soil, some false keys
found in their possession, some bloody
knife that whispered of the death, and
the public indignation and the anathema
of outraged law hurled them into the
dungeon or hoisted them on the gallows.
Francis /, king of France, stood Y
selling with his officers how he could
take his army into Italy, when Ameril,
the fool of the court, leaped out from a
corner of the room and said, 'You had
better be consulting how you will get
your army back" And it was found
that Francis I, and not Ameril, was the
fool, Instead of consulting as to the best
way of getting into sin, you had better
consult as to whether you will be able
to get out of it. If the world does not