Connecticut western news., 1883-09-05

is planted on the mountain tops. Co.,
 lumbus takes possession of the new
 world in the name of Jesus. To-day
 the sailor calls upon this name in the
 midst of the storm, as he rides the
 mountain wave, or as he swings in his
 hammock. To-day the miner, hundreds
 and thousands of feet down in the bow
 els of the earth, calls upon this name.
 The prisoner, in his cell whispers this
 glorious name. It is the star-name in
 all the iteratures of the world. The
 literature of England -France-Germa- ny-Italy- -Spain-Holland- Russia Sweden-Norway and America; these iteratures are all made rich and immortal by the name of the Carpenter of Nazareth. It has now belted the
 world with zone of light, licking gov ernments into popular end humane shape melting shackles from millions of slaves-turning night into day in the dark and bloody corners of the world ; and no book has been spread so broad cast among the nations, as the Book which contains the name of Jesus And yet we are not slow to admit that sci ence has achieved much. We admit that superstitions are fleeing before her. Banquo's ghost goes down at the bid ding of science. Those gory locks have obeyed and foolish Macbeths have ceas- ed to tremble. The ghost world is now one of myths; the fairy world now one of beautiful allegories for children. The charming Medusa, whose hairs supersti- tion had changed into hissing snakes, has been killed by the perseus of science, or changed into the fairy thing she was when nature praduced her-knowledge turning back the miracle of snakes into miracles of beauty. Science has bridged the oceans-annihilated distance weighed the stars s-measured the com cts fight-determin the speed of the sunbeam - makes the winds do its bidding-catches the hghtning's flash and makes it tongue, and gives it voice, speaking to the ends of the earth, etc, etc; but all the splendors of science, like perpetually ascending sun, have failed to clip single ray of glory from the auriole of that name, so dear and precious to us to-day. It bears not only these meridian splendors, but seems, in the midst of this effulgence of scientific knowledge, to impart more than it receives. In the brightest light of science-in it's most electric blaze still this name burns like @ sun, and seems to be continually in the as- cendant.
 Criticism has thrust its polished scim- etar at this name, with more or less ma- lightly; but at the point where it strikes, a newand clearer light beams forth, add ing to the glory which already gilded it. Strike that name and stars of light and love twinkle around it. Use 1t as foot ball and at each impact it takes on larg- CT dimentions, and rises to a greater height, until like the stone cut out of the mountains without hands 1t fills the whole earth It has received many wound, but the scar becomes a star in the diadem that crowns it.
 When many clubs are found at the roots of an apple tree,. we conclude there must be good fruit there and if clubs in this case indicate good fruit, then the gospel of Christ must be splendidly vindicated clubs in any number and in any form; and they have not ceased to be thrown from the begin ming until now. Some of the clubs have hit, awakening the defenders of the gospel to new diligence; while oth- CTS have proved boomerangs, turning in the atmosphere of truth and striking those that hurled them, square in the face. And thus the adversaries of this name have been compelled to vindicate it's honor and glory.
 Where is there name like this ? Aristotle vaulted at once into the high est position in the world of thought, and maintained that position for 25OO years. Bacon at last rivaled him /; but neither Plato, or Aristotle, or Bacon have displaced the name of Jesus, and the latter bor- rows not single ray from the former.
 But why need I particularize ? All the names of earth and all the names of heaven are lost in the light of this one, as the stars are lost in the blaze of the sun.
 Ptolemy Soter erected a great and high tower in the harbor of Alexandria, of white marble. Fires were kept burn ing on its top in the night for the sail ors to guide their way through the dark ness. Hence it was called Pharos. The King commanded his name to be deeply cut in the marble, thus, King Ptoleny to Me Gods, tue saoioaa's, tor tue 6e'eetH ot Me saiZors.' The architect justly thought the honor belonged to him, so he sunk place in the marble for his own name and engraved it thus, Sos tratus the Cindian, the son of Dexi-
 phaius, to the Gods, the saviours, fo1
 the benefit of the sailors" He filled up
 the sunken place with mortar, making
 it very hard, on which he engraved the
 name of the King as above. In time
 the winds blew, the rain descended and
 the waves lashed the marble tower, and
 washed away the mortar containing the
 Kings name and left the name of the architect in bold relief for all eyes t6