Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-13

through the churches and show you
men who lost fortune and health at the
same time and yet who sing all day
and dream of heaven all night. II you
have any idea that sound digestion and
steady nerves and clear eyesight. and
good hearing and plenty of friends are
necessary to make man happy, you
have miscalculated. suppose that these
oyerhanging rocks only made Jonathan
the harder and the faster to
get up and out into the sunlight, and
this combined shadow of invalidism and
financial embarrassment has often sent
a man up the quicker into the sunlight
of Gods favor and the monday of his
glorious promises.
When God Is Sought.
1t is difficult thing for q man to
feel his dependence upon God when he
has $4,000 in the bank and $50, 900
in government securities and block
of stores and three ships. "Well," the
man says to himself, 1T is silly for me
to pray, Give me this day my daily
bread, when my pantry is full and the
canals from the west are crowded with
breadstuffs destined for my store
houses" Oh, my friends, if the COM
bined misfortunes and disasters Of life
have made you climb up into the arms
of a sympathetic and compassionate
God, through all eternity you will bless
him that in this world "there was a
sharp rock on the one side and sharp
rock on the other SIDE"
Again, that man is in the crisis Of
the text who has home troubles and
outside persecution at the same time.
The world treats a man we'll just as
long as it pays to treat him we'll. AS
long as it can manufacture success out
of his bone and brain and muscle it IA
vors him. The world fattens the horse
it wants to drive. But let a man see it
his duty to cross the track of the world,
then every bush is full of horns and
tusks thrust at him. They will belittle
him. They will caricature him. They
will call his generosity self aggrandize-
ment and his piety sanctimoniousness.
The very worst persecution will some
times come upon him from those who
profess to be Christians.
John Milton-great and good John
Milton-so far forgot himself as to pray
in so many words that his enemies
might be eternally thrown down into
the darkest and deepest gulf Of hell and
be the undermost and most detected and
the lowest down vassals of perdition.
And Martin Luther so far forgot him
self as to say in regard to his theolog-
ical opponents, "Put them in whatever
sauce you please, roasted, or fried, or
baked, or stewed, or boiled, or hashed,
they are nothing but asses " All, my
friends, if John Milton or Martin Lu-
ther could come down to such scurrility
what may you not expect from less ele-
waited opponents? Now, sometimes the
world takes after them; the newspapers
take after them; public opinion takes
after them, and the unfortunate man is
lied about until all the dictionary of
Billngsgate is exhausted on him. You
often see man whom you know to be
good and pure and honest set upon by
the world and mauled by whole COM
munities, while vicious men take on
supercilious air in condemnation OF him,
as though Lord Jetfreys should write
an essay on gentleness or Henry VIII
talk about purity or King Herod take
to blessing little children.
An Inspiration.
Now, a certain amount Of persecution
rouscs mans defiance, stirs his blooc
for magnificent battle and makes hin
so times more a man than he would
have been without the persecution. 81
it was with the great reformer when III
said, II will not be put down; l VII
be heard" And so it was with Mlllard
the preacher, in the time OF Louis AL
When Louis XII sent word to him tina
unless he stopped preaching in tina
stvle he would throw him into tn
river, he replied, Tell the king that
will reach heaven sooner by water thal
he will reach it by fast horses. "A Ger
tain amount of persecution Is toni
and inspiration, but too much OF 1t ant
too long continued becomes the roc
Bozez throwing a dark shadow over
mans life. What is he to do, then! u
home, YOU say. Good advice that. ina
is lust the place for a man to 60 whe'
the world abuses him. Go home. Blesse
he God for our quiet and sympatheti
homes! But there is many man WI
has the reputation of having hom
when he has none. Through unthlns
iupness or precipitation there are man
matches made that ought never to nav
been made. An officiating priest cannt
alone unite a couple. The Lord a
mighty must proclaim banns. There al
many homes in which there Is no syn
pathy and no happiness and no goo
cheer. The clamor OF the oattle ma
NOT have been heard outside, but 20
knows. notwithstanding all the pla,
ING of the wedding March, y and a
the odor of the orange blossoms, an
, the benediction of the officiating pasto
thore has been no marriage. SO SOM
times men have awakened TO ma
one side of them the rock OF persec'
t;on and on the other side OF I VI u
. rock of domestic infelicity. Wll'' sha
snch a one do? Do as Jonathan ana
Limb. Get up the heights OF Gods COZ
ISOLATION, from which you may loe
$ 1own in triumph upon outside persec'
lion and home trouble. While good al
t oreot John Wesley was being silence
A bv the magistrates and having MS nan
' written on the board fences OF Iona!
4 IN doegerel, at that very time his WI
!. was making him as miserable as d
I, could, acting as though she were pc
- = sessed by the devil, as l suppose .
. was never doing him a kindness uh
tho doy she ran away, SO that he wre