Connecticut western news., 1890-10-01


 ject no people as unclean, and whereas he previously thought he must preach only to the Jews now he goes to preach to the Gentiles, who were considered unclean.
 TWO DREAMS.
 Notice how the two dreams meet Peters dream on the housetop, Cor nelius' dream at Cesarea. So I have noticed providences meet, distant events meet, dreams meet. Every dream is hunting up some other dream, and every event is searching for some other event. In the Fifteenth century Q492) the great event was the discov- cry of America. The art of printing, born in the same century, goes out to meet that discovery and make the New World an intelligent world. The Dec laration of Independence, announcing equal rights, meets Robert Burns
 A mans man for a that.
 The United States was getting too large to be managed by one govern ment, and telegraphy was invented to compress within an hour the whole continent. Armies in the cival war were to be fitted out with clothing, and the sewing machine invention came out to make it possible. Immense farming acreage is presented in this country, enough to support millions of our native born and millions of foreigners; but the old style of blow and scythe and reaper and thresher cannot do the work, and there come steam blows, steam harrows, steam reapers, steam rakes, steam threshers, and the work is accomplished. The forests of the earth fail to afford sufficient fuel, and so the coal mines surrender suffciency. The cotton crops were luxuriant, but of comparatively little value, for they could not be managed; and so, at just the right time Hargreaves came with his invention of the spinning jenny, a' Arkwright with his roller, and Whitney with his cotton gin The world, after pottering along with tallow candles and whale oil, was crying for better light and more of it, and the hills of Pennsylvania poured out rivers of oil, and kerosene illumined the nations. But the oil wells began to fail, and then the electric light comes forth to turn night into day.
 So all events are woven together, and the world is magnifcently governed, because it is divinely governed. We criticise things and think the divine machinery is going wrong, and put our ov,,i1 tho vu1no1c &o ot them crushed. But I say, hands off! Things are coming out gloriously. Cor nelius may be in Cesarea, and Peter in Joppa, but their dreams meet. It is one hand that is managing the world, and that is Gods hand; and one mind that is planning all things for good, and that is Gods mind; and one heart that is filled with love and pardon and sym pathy, and that is Gods heart. Have faith in him. Fret about nothing Things are not at loose ends. There are no accidents All will come out right in your history and in the world. As you are waking from one dream up stairs an explanatory dream will be knocking at the gate down stairs. WHERE JONAH EMBARKED. Standing here in Joppa I remember that where we this morning disembark- ed the prophet Jonah embarked. For the first time in my life fully under stand that story God told Jonah to go to Nineveh, but the prophet declin- ed that call and came here to Joppa. I was for weeks, while in the Holy Land, consulting with tourist com panies as to how I could take Min eveh in my journey. They did not en- courage the undertaking. It is a most tedious ride to Nineveh amid desert. Now I see an additional reason why Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh. He not only revolted because of the disagreeable message he was called to deliver at Nineveh, but because it was a long way and tough, and bandit in fested, so he came here to Joppa and took ship. But, alas, for the disastrous voyage! He paid his full fare for the whole voyage, but the ship company did not fill their part of the contract To this day they have not paid back 1 that passage money. Why people should doubt the story of Jonah ana the whale is more of a mystery than the Bible event itself. do not need the fact that Pliny, the historian, re- cords that the skeleton of a whale forty feet long, and with a hide a foot and a l half thick, was brought from Joppa to Rome.
 The event recorded in the book of Jonah has occurred thousand times. The Lord always has a whale outside l the harbor for man who starts in the 1 wrong direction. Recreant Jonah! do not wonder that even the whale was ! sick of him. This prophet was put in the Bible not as an example, but as g warning, because the world not only ! needs lighthouses, but buoys to show where the rocks are The Bible story 1 of him ends by showing the prophet il fit of the sulks. He was mad because ] Nineveh was not destroyed, and ther he went out to pout, and sat under z big leaf, using it for shade from the ! tropical sun, and when worm dis 1 turbed that leaf, and it withered, an6 | the sun smote Jonah, he flew into { great rage, and said, "It is better fol ! mo to die than to live" A prophet il ! a rage because he had lost his umbrella 1 Beware of petulance!
 | VIVID CONTRASTS.
 l But standing here on the housetoI \ st Joppa, look off upon the sand { near the beach, and almost expected ' to find them crimsoned and incarna B dined. But no; the rains long agt washed away the last sign of the Napo < leonic massacre. Napoleon was march IL 4L.oI,o.1 Ahn 4S ho1