Connecticut western news., 1889-11-13
and their architecture and masonry were by

and their architecture and masonry were by tie OmnipOtent God.
 We want to see the buildings. or ruins of old buildings that were erected hundreds and They lived 40 or 70 years, but the arches they lifted. the p intings they pencied, the sculp- ture ih y chselled, the roads they laid out, understand, are yet to be seen, and we want you to show them to us. l can hardly wait until Monday morning. l must also see Rome. We want to be impressed with the fact that what men do on q small scale or large scale lasts d thousand years, lasts for ever; that we build for eternity, and that we do so in very short space of time. God is the only old living presence. But it is an old age without any of the intrmties or limita- tions of old age.
 There is passage of scripture which speaks of the birth of the mountains, for there was time when the Andes were born, and the Pyranees were born, and the Sierra Nevadas were born, but before the birth of those mountains the Bible tells us, God was born, aye was never born at all, because he always existed. Psalm xc., }: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." How short is human life, what an- tiquity attaches to it's worth! How everast- ing is God! Show us the antiquities, the things that were. old when America was dis covered, old when Paul went up and down these streets sightseeing. old when Christ was born, must. l must also see Rome!
 Another reason for our visit to this city is that we want to see the places where the mightiest intellects and the greatest natures wrought for our Christian religion. We have been told ill America by some people of swollen heads that the Christian religion is pusillanimous thing, good for children under years of age and small-brained people, but not for the intelligent and swarthy minded. We have heard of your Constantine, tie mighty, who pointed lis army to the cross, saving: 'By this conquer.' If there be any thing here connected With his reign or his military history, show it to us.
 The mightiest intellect of the ages was the religion lie was willing to labor and suffer and die, there must be something exalted and sublime and tremendous in its and show me every place he visited, and show me, if you can, Where he was tried, and which of your roads lead out to Ostia, that may sec where he went to die. We expect before we finish this journey to see Lake Galilec and the places where Simon, Peter and Andrew tshed, and perhaps we may drop net or a hook and line into those waters ourselves: but when following the track of those lesser apos- ties will l .arn quite another lesson. want while in this city of Rome to study the relig- ion of the brainiest of the apostles. I want to follow, as far as we can trace it, the track of this great intellect of my text who wanted to see Rome also. He was logician, he was mctaphysician, he was an all conQuering orator, he was poet of the highest type. He had nature that could swamp the lead ing men of his own day, and, hurled against the Sanhedrim, he made it tremble. He learned all he could get in the school of his native village; then he had gone to q higher school, and there had mastered the Greek and the Hebrew and perfected himself in beles lettres, until, in after years, he astound- ed the Cretans, and the Corinthians, and the Athenians, by quotations from their own authors
 l have never found anything in Carlyle or Goethe or Herbert Spencer that could com pare ill strength or beauty with Paurs epis- ties. do not think there is anything in the writings of Sir William Hamilton that shows such mental discipline as you find in Paurs argument about justification and resurrec- tion. 1 have not found anything in Milton finer in the way of imagination than I can find in Paups illustrations drawn from the amphitheatre: There was nothing in Robert Emmct pleading for his life, or in Edmund Burke arraigning Warren Hastings in Vest minister Hall, that compared with the scene in the court room when, before robcd off, cials, Paul bowed and began his speech, say because shall answer for myself this day."
 repeat that a religion that can capture man like that must have some power in it. It is time our wiseacres stopped talking as though all the brain of the world were op- posed to Christianity. Where Paul leads we Christ has, Tn the different ages of the world, has in his discipleship Mozart and Handel in music, a Raphael and Reynolds in paint ing, an Angelo and 2 Canova in sculpture, a Rush and Harvey in medicine, a Grotus and a Washington ill statesmanship, Black stone, Marshall and a Kent in the law and the time will come when the religion of Christ will conquer all the observatories and uni versailles, and philosophy will, through her telescope, behold the morning star of Jesus, | work together for good," and with her geo logical hammer discern the ''Rock of Ages" Oh, instead of covering and shivering when the sceptic stands before us, and talks of religion as though it were q pusilanimous thing-instead of that, let us take out our New Testament and read the story of Paul at Rome, or come and see this city for ourselves, and learn that it could have been 10 weak gospel that actuated such Q man, but that it is an all conquering gospel. Aye! for all ages the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation.
 Men, brethren and fathers! I thank you for this opportunity of preaching the gosp, to you that are at Rome also. The churches of America salute you. Upon you who are, like us, strangers in Rome, pray the pro you who are resident here, I pray grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. After tarryng here few days we resume our journey for Pales- tine, and we shall never meet again, either in Italy or America, or what is called the Holy Land, but there is holier land, and there we may meet, saved by the grace that in the same way saves Italian and American and there in that supernal cline, after em- bracing him who, by his sufferings on the hill back of Jerusalem, made our heaven possible, and given salutation to our own kindred, whose departure broke our hearts on earth, we shall, I think, seek out the travelling preacher and mighty hero of the text who marked out his journey through Macedonia and Achaia to Jerusalem, saying ..After I have been there, I must also see ROme.v