Connecticut western news., 1883-09-05


 me vibrated To those divinest words whether I spoke, Or whether others spoke, I never knew" My Father, o my Father" Beams of love, The roper cussion of his beams of love, Filled every chamber of my soul with light, As in pure waves face answers back to face Nor tho eternity unfold the powers Of knowledge, land to know him is love) Can beatifc blessedness transcend The raptures of that welcome" My child'' ......" My Father" Heaven has noth- ing more."
 Thus the name of Jesus started an i'm pulse of tenderness in this cold, bloody world, where even the temples of God were grim with ghastly horrors, and where justice had become 8 demon of vengeance-an impulse of tenderness, which is swelling into 8 tidal wave among the priest ridden nations.
 This, then, is the first idea connected with the name of Jesus. Then follows in immediate succession and the closest relationship, the perfect idea of man. hood. If God is Father, then the ele- ments of the ideal man are in him. Egypt tired to reveal that ideal; but she failed. Greece tried; she failed. Rome tried; she failed. Philosophy tried; it failed. Science is trying; she is failing. Jesus alone presents the complete ] and harmonious elements of manhood, and he embodied them perfectly in himself and forever. Jesus is the mod el man of the race.
 The third idea connected with the name of Jesus is immortality. He con- quers death, and the light of an immor- tai sun bursts from his tomb.
 The fourth idea standing out in this name, is salvation from sin.
 The fifth idea is perfect aud immuta- ble justice. That name has given to the world conscience.
 The sixth idea is universal fraternity. The Chinese, fallen among thieves is my brother, let congress enact what laws 1t pleases.
 The seventh idea is the final victory of truth and righteousness-the judg- ment of the world. This is prophecy we wait for its accomplishment
 Now whatever we may say, or think, about the super naturalism of the gospel, still one thing we must admit that these ideas come to the world through this name. In it new sun bursts on the world. Time begins anew with Jesus.
 2nd-But this name not onlyrepresents these great ideas, but it represents the grandest of all enterprises. This is true among men; certain names stand as representatives of great enterprises. The name Dewitt Clinton suggests that great national work of connecting the waters of the Atlantic with the great lakes DeLesseps stands for the con- nection of the waters of the Red Sea with those of the Mediterranian. The name of Morse is whispered around the world etc. etc.
 But what are these and all the great enterprises of time in comparison to those which Jesus has in hand?
 Enterprises are ideas utilized-re- duced to practice. With Jesus it is the ideas of the Fatherhood of anhood-immor- tality- salvation of world from sin perfect and immutable justice-the uni versal fraternity of the race-the final victory and eternal judgment, reduced to practice utilized in a world of sin and death. What an enterprise is this ]! In grandeur and glory it is beyond the conception of man, an enterprise of join ing dead race with the Almighty Fla ther by link of human fesh-an en- terprise of making dead soul as live as an angel-an enterprise of fraterniz- ing fighting, blood d-thirsty race, which has killed more of its own members than all the lions and tigers and hyenas and bears and poisonous reptiles in all the history of time-an enterprise, not of connecting the waters of two seas, but an enterprise of connecting time and eternity, heaven and earth, and laying a telegraphic wire between them. What an enterprise One that spans and em- braces eternity in its inception, contin- uation and mpletion-too big for ma ny to see.
 3d-Aga1n, names sometimes stand for great heroisms, instucting and thrilling the nations for generations and ages. We love to think and read about heroes and heroines. We reverence the dog who plunges into the water to save the drowning child. In city where I re- sided, young lady, elegantly dressed, was passing down cue of the streets when horse and carriage without driv- CT, came dashing on in the pathway of the horse was child playing the lady sprang into the street, with her gloved hand seized the horse and held him still. She was heroine We love to think of her.
 A young lady is riding out on the bluffs of California, her horse snuffing the breeze, is bearing her gaily on. The music of the sea is in her ear life and joy beaming in her eye. As she looks down upon the waves, she sees a wreck and human beings struggling for life. She reins in her steed, dashes down the bluff, like Putnam down the stairs, plunges into the water, becomes