Connecticut western news., 1886-08-25

magnificent generosity through which he fell. That attorney at the bar for weeks has been standing in a poorly ventilated court room, listening to the testimony and contest ing in the dry technicalities of the law, and now the time has come for him to wind up, and he must plead for the life of his client, and his nervous system is all gone. If he fails in that speech then his client perishes: If he can have eloquence enough in that hour his client is saved. He stimulates. He must keep up. He says; "I must keep up." Having large practice you see how he is inthralled. You may criticse his judgment, but remember the process. Do not be hard. That journalist has had ex- report speeches and orations that keep him up till very late hour. He has gone with much exposure working up some case of crime in company with a detective He sits down at midnight to write out his notes from memorandum scrawled on pad under unfavorable circum- stances. His st 'ength is gone. Fidelity to the public intelligence, fidelity to his own livelihood, demands that he keep up. He must keep up. He stimulates. Again and again he does that, and he goes down. You may criticise his judgment in the matter, but have mercy Remember the process Do not be hard.
 My friends, this text will come to fulfill ment in some cases in this world. The huntsman in Farmstesn was shot by some y son of the huntsman was in the same forest, and hs accideutally shot man, and the man in dying said: "God is just. I shot your fathsr just here twenty years ago" A bishop cage for all those who do not think as we do-an iron cage in which the captive can neither lie down nor stand straight up.'' It was fashioned-the awful instrument of pun. ishment After awhile the Bishop offended Louis XI., and for fourteen years he was in that same cage, and could neither lie down nor stand up. 1t is poor rule that will not work both ways. "With what measure Ye mete. it shall be measured to you again"
 "Oh, my friends, let us be resolved toscold less and pray more! That which in the Bible is used as the symbol of all gracious inf1u- ences is the dove, not the porcupine. We may so unsklllfully manage the llfe-boat that we shall run down those whom we want to res cue. The first preparation for Christian uss fulness is warm-hearted common sense, prac. tical sympathy for those whom we want to save. What haadway will we make in the Judgment if in this world we have been hard on those who have gone astrays What head way will you and I make in the last Great ishs The Bible says; "They shall have judg ment without mercy that showeth no mercy" I see the scribes of Heaven looking up into the face of such a man, saying: "What! you plead for mercy, you, who in all your life never had any mercy on your fellows! Don you remember how hard you were in your opinions of those who were astray! Don't you remember when you ought to have given a helping hand you employed hard heel! Mercy! You must misspeak yourself when you plead for mercy here Mercy. for others but no mercy for you. Look" says the scribes of heaven, Hook at that inseription over the Throne of Ju lg- ment. the Throne of Gods Judgment See it coming out letter by letter, word by word, sentence by sentence, until your startled wis ion reads it and your remorseful spirit ap- propriates it: "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Depart ye cursed!'