Connecticut western news., 1890-08-13


 was failure. So it is with all infidel scientists. They are trying to live on telescopes and crucibles and proto- plasms, and they charge us with cant, not realizing that there is no such in tolerable cant in all the world as this perpetual talk we are hearing about positive philosophy" and ''the ab- solute," and "the great to be-" and ''the everlasting no," and ''the higher unity" and ''the latent poten. tialities," and 'the cathedral of the i'm. mensities." I have been translatinp what these men have been writing, and l have been translating what they have been doing, and I will tell you what it all means. It means that they want to kill God! And my only wonder is that God has not killed them. I have in other days tasted of their confections and I come back and tell you today that there is no nutriment or life ol health in anything but the bread made out of the old corn of the gospel What do mean by that2 I mean that Christ is the bread of life, and taking him you live and live forever
 CHRIST IS READY.
 But you say corn is of but little prac tical use unless it is threshed and ground and baked. answer, this gospel corn has gone through that process. When on Calvary all the hoofs of human scorn came down on the heart of Christ, and all the fails of satanic fury beat him long and fast, was not the corn threshed2 When the mills of Gods indig. nation against sin caught Christ between the upper and neither rollers, was not the corn ground9 When Jesus descend. ed into hell, and the flames of the lost world wrapped him all about, was not the corn baked9 Oh, yes! Christ h ready, his pardon all ready, his peace all ready, everything ready in Christ. Are you ready for him9
 You say, '"That is such simple gos- pel!" I know it is. You say you thought religion was strange mixture of elaborate compounds. No;. it is so plain that any abecedarian may under stand it. In its simplicity is it's power. If you could this morning realize that Christ died to save from sin and death and hell not only your minister and your neighbor and your father or your child, but you, it would make this hour like the judgment day for agita- tions, and, no longer able to keep your seat, you would leap up crying, 'Fol me! for mer' God grant that you, my brother, may see this gospel with your own eyes, and hear with your own ears, and feel with your own heart that you are 8 lost soul, but that Christ comes for your extrication. Can you not take that truth and digest 1t, and make it part of your immortal life' It is only bread.
 You have noticed that invalids can not take all kinds of food. The food that will do for one will not do fol another There are kinds of food which will produce, in case of invalid ism, very speedy death. But you have noticed that all persons, however weak they may be, can take bread. Oh soul sick with sin, invalid in your trans gressions, think this gospel will agree with you! I think if you cannot take anything else you can take this! Lost -found Sunken-raised! Condemned -pardoned! Cast out invited inl That is the old corn of the Gospel.
 ARE YOU TIRED OF JEsUs2
 You have often seen q wheel with spokes of different colors, and when the wheel was rapidly turned all the colors blended into 8 rainbow of ex quisite beauty. wish could today take the peace, and the life, and the joy and glory of Christ, and turn them be- fore your soul with such speed and such strength that you would be en, chanted with the revolving splendor of that name which is above every name-the name written once with tears of exile and in blood of martyr dom, but written now in burnished crown and lifted scepter and transan- gelic throne.
 There is another characteristic about bread, and that is, you never get tired of it. There are people here seventy years of age who find it just as appro priate for their appetite as they did when, ill boyhood their mother cut a slice of it clear around the loaf. You have not got tired of bread, and that is characteristic of the gospel Old Christian man, are you tired of Jesusi If so, let us take his name out of ou1 Bible, and let us with pen and ink erase that name wherever we see it. Let us cast it out of our hymnology, and let '"Thele is d Fountain" and Rock ol Ages" go into Expenditures. Let us tear down the communion table where we celebrate his love. Let us dash down the baptismZl bowl where we were consecrated to him. Let us hurl Jesus from our heart, and ask some other hero to come in. Let us say, ''Go away, Jesus; I want an other companion, another friend, than thou art" Could you doit? The years of your past life, aged man, would utter protest against it, and the graves o1 your Christian dead would charge you with being an ingrate, and your little grandchildren would say, ''Grandfather, don't do that Jesus is the one to whom we say our prayers at night, and who is tc open heaven when we die Grandfather, don't do that" Tired of Jesus9 The Burgundy rose you pluck from the gar den is not so fresh and fair and beauti- full. Tired of Jesus2 As well get weary of the spring morning, and the voices of the mountain runnel, and the quiet of your own home, and the gladness o1 your own children. Jesus is bread, and the appetite for that is never obliterated.