Connecticut western news., 1889-10-23

 mighty Jesus! It shall not be told on earth, or in hell. or in heaven, that three Hebrew children had the Son of God beside them in the fire, and that a whole church was forsaken by the Lord when they went through a furnace about two hundred feet wide.
 OLord .Jesusl shall we take out of Thy hand the flowers and the fruits, and the brightness and the joys, and then turn away because Thou dost give us one cup of bitter Eess to drinks Oh, no, Jesus! we will drink it dry. But how 1t is changed! Blessed Jesus. what hast Thou put into the cup to sweeten ity Why, it has become the wine of heaven, and our souls grow strong. I come now, and place both of my feet down into the blackened ashes of our consumed church, and 1 cry out with an exhilaration that I never felt since the day of my souls emanci- patton. "yictory! victory through our Lord Jesus ChristF'
 Your harps, ye trembling saints,
 Down from the willows take,
 Loud to the praise of love divine
 Bid every string awake.
 We are also rc-enforced by the catholicity that have already referred to. We arc in the Academy today. not because we have no other place to go. Last Sabbath morning at 9 o'clock we had but one church; now we have about thirty, all at our disposal. Their pastors and their trustees say: "You may take our main audience rooms, you may take our lecture rooms, you may take our church parlors, you may baptise in our baptisteries, | and sit on our anxious seats." Oh! If there be any larger hearted ministers or larger hearted churches anywhere than in Brooklyn, tell me where they arc, that mSy go and see them before die. The millennium has come. People keep wondering when it is coming. It has come. The lion and the lamb lie down together, and the tiger cats straw like an OK, l should like to have seen two of the old time bigots, with their swords, fighting through that great fire on schermerhorn swords would have melted, and they who wielded them would have learned war no more. can never say word against any other denominations of Christians. thank God never have been have been told ought to be, and have tried to be, but have not enough material in me to make such structure. Every time get the thing most done, there comes . fire or of God shake out on this air, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men," do not know but I see on the horizon the first gleam of the morning which shall unite all denominations in one organization, distinguished only by the To- then the Church of Thyatira, and the Church of Thessalonica. and the Church of Antioch. and the Church of Lao dicea. So do not know but that in the fu-
 
 simply distinction of locality, and not of creed, as the Church of New York, the Church of Brooklyn, the Church of Boston, the Church of Charleston, the Church of Madras, the Church of Constantinople, the Church of America.
 My dear brethren, we cannot afford to be severely divided. Standing in front of the great foes of our common Christianity, we want to put on the whole armor of God aud march down in solid column, shoulder to I q or sCn Cnr1 ry,o frfp And during this last week; when saw the rushing to and fro and the excitement, said to myself, II do not know just where we shall start again, but am bound for the. kingdom anyhow" I do not want to go just yet. want to be pastor of this people until am about cighty-nine years of age, but 1 have sometimes thought that there are such glories ahead that may be persuaded to go little earlier-for instance, at eighty-two or eighty-three; but I really think that, if we could have an appreciation of what God has in reserve for us, we would want to go, step- | ping right out of the Academy of Music into | the glories of the skies.
 | An! that Is a good land. Why, they tell me that in that land they never have a heart ache. They tell me tha. man might walk | five hundred years in that land and never see tear or hear sigh. They tell me that our friends who have left us and gone there, they take hold of the hand of Jesus familiar | ly, and that they open that hand and see in the palm of 1t healed wound that must have | been very cruel before 1t was healed. And they tell me that there is no winter there, that the sewing girl never wades through the snow bank to her daily toll, and that the clock never strikes twelve for the night, but only twelve for the day.
 See that light in the window. I wonder | who set it there. "Oh!" you say, "my father that went into glory must have set that light in the window" No; guess again. | ''My mother, who died fifteen years ago in Jesus, think must have set thnt light there" No; guess again. You say, "My darling lit- tie child that last summer put away for the light there in the window" No; guess again. Jesus set it there; and he will keep 1t burning until the day we, put our finger on the latch of the door and go in to be home oceH forever ,t on when my sight gets black n | When in the last weariness ] cannot take another step, just help me put my foot on that doorsill. When my ear catches no more the voices of wife and child, let me go right of the harpers whose fingers fy over the strings with the anthems of the free.
 Heaven never burns down, The fires of 1 the last day. that are already ktndled in the heart of the earth, but are hidden because God keeps down the hatches-those internal | fires will after while break through the crust, and the plains, and the mountains, and | the seas will be consumed, and the flames | will fling their long arms into the skies but | all the terrors of burning world will do no more harm to that heavenly temple than the | fires of the setting sun which kinde up the | window glass of the house on wonder hlll top. Oh, blessed land! But I do. not want to go there until see the Brooklyn Taber- nacle rebuilt. You say, "Will 1t ber' You morrow, morning. or if the next spring will put garlands on its head. You and may not do it-you and may not live to sec IL; but the Church of God does not stand on two legs nor on thousand legs.
 How did the Israelites get through the Red seal seay l suppose somebody may have come will get your feet wet; you will spoil your ever heard of getting through such see as thatw th How did they get through it. Did rgGs Hd sc No. ba they sy ihs left, No They went forward in the strength of tho Lord Almighty; and that is tue way we mean to get through the Red sea. RS going forward. But, says some one. "f we should build 8 larger chnrch, would you be able with your voice to fll itfp Why, have been wearing myself out for the last sixteen years trying to keep my voice in. Give me room where l can preach the glories of Christ and the grandeurs of heaven,
 Forward! We have to march on. break. treat impossible. Throw away your Enap- sack if 1t impedes your march. Keep your sword arm free. Strike for Christ and His Kingdom while you may. No people ever had better mission than you are sent on. Prove yourselves worthy. Ii am not fit to be your leader, set me aside. The brightest goal on earth that can think of is a country parsonage amidst the mountains, But l am not afraid to lead you. I have some dollars they are at your disposal, l have good phy- l SiCaI health. if is long if lasts II have enthusiasm of soul; I will not keep 1t back from your service, I have some faith in God, and shall direct 1t toward the re- building of our new spiritual house. Come