Connecticut western news., 1890-09-24

mia, and I have shaken hands with tens of thousands of people and talked with men of all sections and degrees, and have to tell you 1t is all peace, and in all the states of the Union you could not now marshal military com pany Gf. one hundred soldiers to fight againss the United States government unless you got your men out of the penitentiary. Did the corrupt and gangrened political parties do this work of rectification and pacificationf Nol It was by divine interpretation that the crooked has been made straight.
 On the 2d of December, 1851, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte rode down the Champs Elysee of Paris, and under the hoofs of his horse republic was trampled as the rider went to take a throne It was the outrage of the cent ury. For nineteen long years the wrong triumphed. The will of one man who wanted to remain emperor kept down nation who wanted g re- public. But September, 1870. arrived. and Sedan unrolled it's crimson scroll. The emperor surrenders with 83, 900 troops, 419 field guns, 6,O00 horses and 60, GOO muskets. From that day the ballot box was up and the throne was down. Free institutions have been substituted for an infamous monarchy. Thank Godl The crooked has been made straight.
 But why go so far to find fulf1llment of my text9 In all our lives there are crooked things that need to be made straight, and each nearer or reader will enumerate for himself or herself. With one it is dilapidated physical health, and you are saying, Why cannot be in good health when have such opportu- mites and such responsibilities Alas for the sick headaches, and the rheu- matic joints, and the neuralgia thrusts, and the lame footi But you will be we'll soon. Life at the longest is an abbre- viated durance. There is a black doc tor that will cure you. Some people call him death.
 No disease was ever able to stand be- fore his touch. Use all the means af- forded for physical recuperation, but if they fail the hour of release is not far away. There need be no incurables. There is no sorrow that heaven cannot cure. Those who in this world have always been we'll will not get the best part of heaven. They will not have the advantage of contrast. They were well before they left this world, and why should they be so graduated at being well in the next world2 But to those who on earth were hindered or broken down in health what con- trast as they step into that domain where there has never been an aching brow, or lame foot, or infamed muscle, or disordered nerve! For forty years there may have been a stepping in the back, or twisted muscle, or curved spine, or crooked limb, but the prom ise has been fulfilled, ''The crooked shall be made straight"
 MATCHES NOT MADE IN HEAVEN
 In many 8 domestic life are difficult ties to be removed. There are thou sands of matches that were not made in heaven. Some of the lovelest women have been united to some of the mean est men, and some of the grandest men to the most worthless women. There may be no sufficient cause of divorce ment, but there has never been any ac- cord. For them the wedding march ought never to have been played. The twain divergent in sentiment, the north pole and the south pole might just as well have been married. A twist of nettles would have been more appro- priate than @ garland of orange blos- soms. The unutterable mistake was made to please parents, or for the ac- quisitiOn of estate, or for heightening of social position, or from thorough thoughtlessness. call the attention of such to the rapid dissolution of families.
 This thought, which is a sadness to 8 happy marital state, might be oonsola- tory to those unequallY yoked. Avery short path is the path of life. The rolling years will give quick emancipa- tion- Everybody for discipline must F have some kind of trouble, and that is your trouble. Put in 8 song now and then to cheer your spirit. Make the best of things. Find in God that peace which no one else can bestow. The days and months and years are crowd ing past, and the last of the procession so far as you are concerned will soon have gone by. Remember that some of the best men and women who have ever lived have had the same lifetime misfortune. They bore up under it, and SO can you. The expiration of the life of one of you will after while remove the af1iction. Let the one that remains make no hypocritical mourning at the obsequies of the one that goes, or i1ni- tate those whom we have all noticed who fought like cats and dogs all their married state and then could not get organs to sound dirges doleful enough, or furnishing stores to prepare weeds black enough, or tombstone cutters to chisel epitaphs eulogistic enough.
 It is matter of congratulation that the unhappiest conjugal relation will terminate. The crooked shall be made straight. In the ages of the world when people lived five or six or eight or nine hundred years such consolation for any kind of trouble would have been napt. It would have brought no relief to some of those old patriarchs to say ''you will have only seven hun dred more years of this" But life has been abbreviated by the cutting of of century after century until we can con- sole people, whether their trouble be