Connecticut western news., 1890-04-02

more to you than can DC the longest day of previous summer. Your opportunity now, as compared with previous opportunities, may be small as rat terrier compared with the lion which at Matabosa, fatally wounded by the gun of David Livingstone, in its death agony leaped upon the mis- sionary explorer and with its jaws crushed the bone of his arm to splint- CTS, and then rolled over and expired, but, Better is living dog than a dead lion."
 THEIR CHANGE IS GONE.
 My text also means that the condi- tion of the most wretched man alive IS better than that of the most favored sinners departed. The chance of these last is gone. Where they are they can not make any earthly assets available. After Charlemagne was dead he was set in an ornamented sepulcher on golden throne, and a crown was put on his cold brow, and a scepter in his stiff hand, but that gave him no do minion in the next world. One of the most intensely interesting things l saw last winter in Egypt was Pharaoh of olden times, the very Pharaoh who oppressed the Israelites. The inscrip- tions on his sarcophagus and the writ ing on his mummy bandages prove beyond controversy that he was the Pharaoh of Bible times.
 All the Psychologists and the ex- plorations agree that it is the old scoundrel himself. Visible are the very teeth with which he gnashed against the Israelitish brick makers. There are the sockets of the merciless eyes with which he looked upon the overburdened people of God. There is the hair that foated in the breeze off the Red sea. There are the very lips with which he commanded them
 to make bricks without straw. Thous-
 ands of years afterward, when the
 wrappings of the mummy were un-
 rolled, old Pharaoh lifted up his arm
 as if in imploration, but his skinny
 bones cannot again clutch his shattered
 scepter. He is a dead lion. And is
 not any man now living, in the fact
 that he has opportunity of repentance
 and salvation, better off than any of
 those departed ones who, by authority
 or possessions or influence, were posi-
 lively leonine, and yet wicked2
 What a thing to congratulate you
 on is your life! Why, it is worth
 more than all the gems of the universe
 kindled into one precious stone. am
 alive! What does that mean2 Why,
 it means that still have all opportu-
 nifty of being saved myself and help
 ing others to be saved. To be alive
 Why, it means that I have yet anoth-
 CT chance to correct my past mistakes
 and make sure work for heaven. Alive,
 are wei Come, let us celebrate it by
 new resolutions, new self examina-
 ton, new consecration and a new ca
 reer The smallest and most insignii-
 cant today is worth to us more than
 five hundred yesterdays. Taking ad-
 vantage of the present. let us get par.
 don for all the past and security for all
 the future. Where are our forgiven
 sins7 1 don't know. God don't know either. He says, Your sins and in. iquities will l remember no more." WONDERFUL ENCOURAGEMENT.
 What encouragement in the text fo, all Christian workers! Despair of nc ones salvation. While there is life there is hope. When in England a young lady asked for class in Sun day school, the superintendent said
 Better go out on the street and gel your own class" She brought in g ragged and filthy boy. The superin tendent gave him good apparel. In g few Sundays he absented himself. In quiry discovered that in street fight he had his decent apparel torn off. He was brought in and a second time res pectably clad After a few Sundays
 he again disappeared, and it was found that he was again ragged and wretch ed. 'Then," said the teacher, i've can do nothing with him." But the super. intendent fitted him up again and
 started him again.
 After a while the gospel took hold of him and his heart changed. He started for the ministry and became g foreign missionary and on heather
 grounds lived, and translated the Scriptures, and preached, until among the most illustrious names of the Church on earth and in heaven is the name of glorious Robert Morrison. Go forth and save the lost, and re. member however depraved, however ragged, and however filthy and un- done child Is, or man is, or wo man is. they are worth an effort. would rather have 'thelr opportunity than any that will ever be given to those who lived in magnificent sin and splendid unrighteousness and then wrapped their gorgeous tapestry around them and without prayer ex. pired Better is living dog than a dead lion."
 In the great day it will be found that the last shall be first. There are in the grog shops and in the haunts of iniquity today those who will yet be models of holiness and preach Christ to the people. In yonder group of young men who came here with nc useful purpose, there Is one who will yet live for Christ and perhaps die for him. In pulpit stood a stranger preaching, and he said: ''The last time 1 was in this church was fifteen years ago, and the circumstances were peculiar. Three young men had come expecting to disturb the service, and they had stones ill their pockets which tuey expected to hurl at the preacher One of the young men referred to re fused to take part ill the assault, and the others, ill disgust at his coward ice, left the building. One of the three was hanged for forgery. An other is in prison, condemned to death for murder. I was the third, but the grace of God saved me"
 My hearers, give no one up. The case may seem desperate, but the grace of God likes to undertake dead lift
 l proclaim it this day to all the people Free Grace! Living and dying, be that my theme-Free Grace! Sound it across the continent, sound 1t across the seas-Free Grace Spell out those
 words in flowers, lift them in arches build them in thrones, roll them il oratorios-Free Grace That will ye Edenize the earth and people heavel
 with nations redeemed. Free Grace!