The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-15
BIICAN. WILMINGTON DELAWARE MONDAY AUGUST 49, 1893.

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dfzement and hia p,esv observation-disclosures
The yerv worst perseontion viii someti,ne.
come upon him from those who profess 70
be Christians.
.John M,Iton-orost and good Ioh, Nil.
ton-co far foruot himsalf AZ Ii nrav in IN
many words that his enemies might be
externally thrown down into the darkest
and deepest Rulf Of hell, and be the under.
most and most detected. and the lowest
down yassals of perdition, And Martin
Luther SO far forgot himself az to saw In
regard to his theological opponents. put
them In whatever sauce YOU please, roast
ed or fried or baked or stewed or boiled or
hashed, they are nothing but assesr' All,
my friends, If John Milton or Martin
Luther could come down to such sourril.
ity, what may you not expect from less
elevated opponentsp Now sometimes the
world takes after them, the ncwspapers
take after them, public opinion takes after
them, and the unfortunate man ia lied
about until all the dictionary of Billings.
gate ia exhausted on him. You often aee
q man whom YOU know to be good and
pure and honest. set upon by the world
and ,pauled by whole communities. while
vicious men take on supercilious air in
condemnation of him. "a though lord
Jeffreys should write an essay on gentle
ness or Henry VIII talk about purity or
King Herod take to blessing little chill.
dren.
Persecution IL AN Inspiration.
Now a cer+a,n amornt NJ norsoc,+,on
rouses a man,s defiance st,ra Ma hIood sor
magnificent battle and makes him b0 limos
more man than ho xyould have haon
without tho noroo,,,t,on 60 a. ,yo. WITH
the great reformer when be said IT viii
not he mt down. 7 will ba bsard u And
30 A. was with Mi,lard tha nreacher IN
the time az I,ouis XII when Ton,s xI sent
word to him that unieaa he stonned n,eaoh.
ing in that stvle he would throw hin, into
tho river he ren,,od .sTel, Tho bin. tb,t :
will reach heaven sooner Inv water than be
will reecb n hv fast horsss u oorto,n
amount of nersecntion 10 a tonic and IN.
spiration. hut too much of Il and too lone
continued becomes tho rock Rozez throw.
ina A dark shadow over a man,s ,ifs
What ia he to do tbonp Go home von sav
Good advice. that That 10 iust I'm nIoca
for man to 40 when the world ahnsas
him. Go home Rlessed be God for ~,
Quiet and svmnathetic homesl nnt tbero
ia many a man who has the renntot,on ~
having a home when be has none Thronoh
unthinkincness or organization there ara
many matches made that ouoht navor tn
have been mada An ofqciat;ro ,rio.t
cannot alone unite a oounle. The Lord
Almighty must nrocloim banne Tbore
are manv homes IN which there r. M sv,n.
pathv and M banniness and M good chsor
The clamor of the hattla NAV not have
been hoard outside hit God knowa not.
withstandino all the nlav,no If the we'd.
ding march. and all the odor of the
orange blossoms. and tho bened;ction If
the officiating pastor, there has been no
marriage. So sometimes men have awak
ened to find on one side of them the rock
OF persecution and on the other side Of
them the rock of domestic infelicity. What
shall such one dor Do as Jonathan did
climb. Get up the heights Of God S con-
ISOLATION, from which you may look down
In triumph upon outside persecution and
homo trouble. While good and great John
Wesley was being silenced by the magis-
trates and having his name written OH the
board fences OF London in doggerel at |
that very time his wife was making him
as miserable as she could-acting as though |
she were possessed by the devil, as l sup. |
pose she was, never doing him kindness
until the day she ran away, SO that no
wrote in his diary these words: II did not !
torsake her. have not dismissed her.
will not recall her. Planting one foot
upon outside persecution and the other
foot on home trouble, John Wesley climb.
ed up Into the heights of Christian joy,
and after preaching 10000 sermons and
travelling 270, 900 miles reached the heights
Of heaven, though in this world he had 1t
hard enough-"a sharp rock on the one
side and sharp rock on the other"
Despairing Women,
AGAIN, that woman stands in the crisis
# the text who has beraavement and a
for livelihood at the snme time
without mentioning names. T sneal, from
,bservat,on An Il ia n hard thing for a
woman to make an honest living, even
vben bor heart 10 not troubled ara sbo
has a fair cheek. and the magnetism of an
presence But now the husband
IT the father Is dead The expenses of the
,bsequies have absorbed all that was left
n the savings bank, and, wan and wasted
With weeping and watching, she goes
orth-a grave, a hearse, coffin behind
ler-to contend for her existence and the
Existence of her children. When see such
J battle as that open, shudder at the
,hastliness of the spectacle. Men sit with
slippers and write heartless
ssays about women's wages but that
question is made up of tears and blood,
nd there Is more blood than tears. Oh,
i've woman free access to all the realms
where she can get a livelihood, from the
telegraph office to the pulpit Let men,
wages be cut down before hers are cut
own. Men have iron In their souls and
an stand It, Make tho way free to her of
he broken heart. May God put into my
and the cold, bitter cup of privation, and
I've me nothing but windowless hut for
heltcr for many years rather than that
fter am dead there should go out from
ny home into the pitiless world wom-
MS arm to fight the Gettysburg, the Aus
,rlitz, the Waterloo of life for bread And
% now many women there are seated be-
veon tho rocL ~ boroovcn,ont IN Tho o,,o
do and tho VOL ~ dost;trtion nv tha
horI I,o,a. .nI co,,,h ;,.,,,onl,, .,ais
,adox,s md dronn;n - thew mon her m;.
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