Connecticut western news., 1890-04-30

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 EXPRESSIVE IMAGERY.
 Would David set forth the freshness and beauty of genuine Christian char acte-he sees an eagle starting from its nest just after the moulting season, its old feathers shed, and it's wings and breast decked with new down and plumes, it's body as finely feathered as that of her young ones just beginning to try the speed of their wings. Thus rejuvenated and replumed is the Chris tian's faith and hope by every season of communion with God. 'Thy youth is renewed like the eagles" Would Solomon represent the annoyance of a contentious womans tongue, he points to a leakage in the top of his house or tent, where, throughout the stormy day, the water comes through, falling upon the foor-dripl drip! dripl and he says, "A continual dripping in very rainy day and a contentious wo- man are alike" Would Christ set forth the character of those who make great profession of piety, but have no fruit, he compares them to barren fig trees, which have very large and showy leaves, and nothing but leaves. Would Job illustrate de- ceitful friendships, he speaks of brooks in those climes, that wind about in different directions, and dry up when you want to drink out of them: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away" David when he would impress us with the despondency into which he had sunk, compares it to quagmire of those regions, through which he had doubtless sometimes tried to walk, but sunk in up to his neck, and he cried, II sink in deep mire where there is no standing" Would Habakkuk set forth the capacity which God gives the good man to walk safely amid the widest perils, he points to the wild animal called the hind walking over slippery rocks. and leaping from wild crag to wild crag, by the peculiar make of it's hoofs able calmly to sustain itself in the most dangerous places: 1.-The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like minds feet"
 Job makes all natural objects pay tribute to the royalty of his book. As you go through some chapters of Job you feel as if it were bright spring morning, and as you see the glittering drops from the grass under your feet, you say with that patriarch, "Who hath begotten the drops of the dew9" And now, as you read on, you seem in the silent midnight to behold the waving of great light upon your path, and you look up to find 1t the aurora borealis, which Job described so long ago as ''the bright light in the clouds and the splendor that cometh out of the north" As you read on there is darkness hurtling in the heav- ems, and the showers break loose till the birds fly for hiding place and the mountain torrents in red fury foam over the rocky shelving; and with the same poet you exc1aim, "Who can number the clouds in wisdom, or who can stay the bottles of heavenG' As you read on you feel your self coming in frosty climes, and in fancy, wading through the snow, you say, with that same inspired writer, Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow2" And while the sharp sleet drives in your face, and the hail stings your cheek, you quote him again: "Hast thou seen the treas ures of the hail2" In the Psalmist's writings I hear the voices of the sea "Deep calleth unto deep;" and the roar of forests: 1.-The Lord shaketh the vii derness of Kadesh;" and the loud peal of the black tempest: "The God o1 glory thundereth and the rustic oi the long silk on the we'll filled husks 1.-The valleys are covered with corn; ; and the cry of wild beasts: "The young lions roar after their prev" the hum of palm trees and cedars: 1.-The right eous shall flourish like palm tree; he shall grow like cedar in Lebanon;' the sough of wings and the swirl o1 fins: Dominion over the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea-"
 PRESENTATION OF CHRISTIAN TRUTHS. The truths of the gospel might have been presented in technical terms, and by the means of dry definitions, but under these the world would not have listened or felt. How could the safety of trusting upon Christ have been pre- sented, were it not for the figure of 8 rock2 How could the gladdening eff. feet of the gospel have been set forth, had not Zacharias thought of the dawn of the morning, exclaiming: ''The day spring from on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darkness" How could the souls in tense longing for Christ have been presented so well as by the emblem ot natural hunger and natural thirst2 As the lake gathers into it's bosom the shadow of hills around, and the gleam of stars above, so, in these great deeps of divine truth, all objects in nature are grandly reflected. We walk forth in the spring time, and everything breathes of the Resurrection. Bright blossom and strlnging grass speak to us of the coming up ot those whom we 1 h"-.. -'' white robes of their joy and coronation they shall appear. And when in the autumn of the year nature breaches thousands o1 | funeral sermons from the text, "We all do fade as leaf" and scatters he1 elegies in our path, we cannot helI but think of sickness and the tomb Es:al winter, being dead, yet speak etu." The world will not be argued into the right It will be tenderly il lustrated into the right. Tell them what religion is like. When the mother tried to tell her dying chile what heaven was she compared it tc light. But that hurts my eyes, said the dying girl. Then the mother compared heaven to music. But any sound hurts me; 1 am so weak, saio the dying child. Then she was tole that heaven was like mothers arms
 "Oh, take me therel" she said ''If i
 is like mothers arms, take me there r The appropriate simile had been found at last.
 Another contribution which th' natural world is making to the king dom of Christ is the defense and aic
 which the elements are compelled t<