Connecticut western news., 1884-09-03

If people to the encampment. The | number in attendance was variously es- imated, the lowest figures being about | 5000. At 9, A M, a love feast was held, con- tinuing II hours. At 10:30, A M, the bell announced the arrival of the time for preaching service. The service com by the choir singing, "I will sing you song of that beautiful land" and 'I was glad when they said unto me, let's go up to the house of the Lord. also the 684th hymn, "From ev- cry stormy wind that blows.'
 Rev Chas. R. North offered prayer and also read the 9th chapter of St. Mark, commencing at the 21st verse.
 The Presiding Elder then said that every person attending the meetings during the past week had remarked, "what precious meetings we have had. The Elder said, i've have had a rain of righteousness, also rain from the clouds which drove us into our cottages. It has made us spiritually richer but f. nancially poorer. Thirty dollars were then pledged in sums of one dollar by the audience and the baskets were al- so passed for the collection of smaller amounts. While the collections were being taken the choir sang 'Is my name written there"and ''Galilee, 'also the 710 hymn, Prayer is the souls sincere de- sire"
 Rev Dr Vail, pastor of St James church of Harlem, then preached from the text, Mark V, 35, '"Thy daugh- ter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?" His subject was the limitation of prayer. The dis course was an able one and interspersed with frequent illustrations. He com pared prayer with the first telegraphic cable laid across the Atlantic. It was first hope, then doubt, then a great success, The following points were made and fully sustained by illustra- tions and comparisons. The limitations that men put on prayer-There can be ID prayer without primary faith-The answer to prayer is no trouble to God The power of prayer is not so much in your faith as in Gods heart, ever ready to give good gifts to his children-The strength of prayer is in God, not us The arch of Gods love is like the arch of the Mammoth cave in Kentucky: the arch of the cave does not rest on the stalagmites but was secure before they were formed, likewise the arch of Gods love has always been sure, and steadfast and does not rest on any human props Prayer although feeble at first grows in strength, Illustrated by building the sus- pension bridge at Niagara. A kite first carried thread across the gulf, the thread a cord, the cord rope and so on until the mighty cables were completed that will support railroad train When the sin-sick soul says, "I will gc to him, lol he comes to me.
 After prayer by the speaker the choil sang the 688th hymn, Sweet hour ot prayer" This closed the morning ser vice.
 Sunday afternoon a large audience as sembled to hear Miss Greenwood's ser mon on Gospel Temperance" The services commenced by singing hymn | 319, ''There is a fountain filled with blood" Prayer was then offered, ther Miss Greenwood read the 14th chapter of Romans, commencing with the 10th verse. After the collection had been taken and another hymn sung, Miss Greenwood announced her text, Rom. ans XIV, 21. 'It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, ol IS offended, or is made weak"
 A synopsis of the sermon cannot con, vey an idea of its beauty, its depth oi thought or it's apt illustrations. It was fund of information, logic and argu ment and the audience were moved tc tears, and they were held in rapt atten tion until its close. We can only men tion few leading thoughts as follows:- The stumbling blocks used in ancien warfare-our stumbling blocks, sorrow distress and disappointment-the stun bling blocks that God places in our way and those we place in our own way the life of Jacob and the stumbling blocks that brought him to God-th, life of David, of Cowper, Milton ant others, whose afiictions proved bless ings in disguise-stumbling blocks ar, placed in our way by infinite love tha We may be kept in the right path-Jo seph Cook says $7O0, GOO, 900 are annu ally expended for the army anC navy, for education, religion and other purposes, but $500, ,000, 00t are annually spent for intoxicatin: drink-Babylon went down and so vii our nation if we turn away from God the power of appetite and ayarice illus trated by several anecdotes-alcohol ab sorbs the water in the human system statistics of the evil of intemperance- the remedy-Dr Chalmers said. "Sirs, W, know enough of the evil, in Gods nam, give us the remedy"-the history of tn,
 ". CT. U.-the history of the women
 crusade and many incidents connected with it-temperance meetings at Dan
 bury where 1900 matters attended anC 750 joined the temperance club-w, must save the rising generation ant temperance education mustbe commenc ed at home-parents must teach thei
 children self-control and prompt obedi anoa fboD fbov will no ont into tb,