Connecticut western news., 1890-05-07

y y J will-yet very narrowly, ''as with the skin of your teeth" God and your own soul only know what the struggle | is. Omnipotent grace has pulled out many soul that was deeper in the mire than you are. They line the beach of heaven-the multitude whom God has rescued from the thrall of suicidal habits. If you this day turn your back on the wrong and start anew God will help you Oh, the weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for awhile and then turn you off. If you ask for their pardon they will give it and say they will try you again; but, falling away again under the power of temptation, they cast you off forever. But God for gives seventy times seven; yea, seven hundred times; yea, though this be the ten thousandth time He is more earnest, more sympathetic, more help full this last time than when you took your first misstep.
 l A VICTOR AT LAST.
 l H,- with all the influences favorable fer right life, men make so many mistakes, how much harder is it when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue, and pulls man down with hands of destruction! If, under such circumstances, he break away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side, and bend and twist, and watch for an opportunity to get in heavier stroke, until with one final effort, in which the muscles are distended, and the veins stand out, and the blood starts, the swarthy habit falls under the knee of the victor-escaped at last as "with the skin of his teeth"
 The ship Emma bound from Gotten burg to Harwich, was sailing on, when the man on the lookout saw something that he pronounced vessel bottom up. There was something on it that looked like a sea gull, but was after ward found to be a waving handker chief. In the small boat the crew pushed out to the wreck, and found that it was capsized vessel, and that three men had been digging their way out through the bottom of the ship When the vessel capsized they had no means of escape. The captain took his penknife and dug away through the blanks until his knife broke. Then an old nail was found, with which they attempted to scrape their way out of the darkness, each one working until his hand was we'll nigh paralyzed, and he sank back faint and sick. After long and tedious work, the light broke through the bottom of the ship. A handkerchief was hoisted. Help came. They were taken on board the vessel and saved. Did ever men come so near watery grave without dropping into it2 How narrowly they escaped escaped only with the skin of their teeth"
 There are merwho have been cap sized of evil passions, and capsized mid-ocean, and they are thousand miles away from any shore of help. They have for years been trying to dig their way out. They have been digging away and digging away, but they can never be delivered unless they will hoist some signal of distress. However weak and feeble it may be, Christ will see it, and bear down upon the helpless craft and take them on board; and 1t will be known in earth and in heaven how narrowly they es- caped-' escaped as with the skin of their teeth.''
 BUSINESS PERPLEXITIES.
 There are others who, in attempting to come to God, must run between a great many business perplexities. If man go over to business at 10 o'clock in the morning, and comes away at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, he has some time for religion; but how shall you find time for religious contemplation when you are driven from sunrise to sunset, and have been for five years going behind in business, and are ire quently dunned by creditors whom you cannot pay, and when, from Mon day morning until Saturday night, you are lodging bills that you cannot meet2 You walk day by day in un- certainties that have kept your brain on fire for the past three years. Some with less business trouble than you have gone crazy. The clerk has heard noise in the back counting room, and gone in and found the chief man of the firm raving maniac; or the wife has heard the bang of a pistol in the back parlor, and gone in, stum- bling over the dead body of her hus- banda suicide
 There are in this house today three hundred man pursued, harassed, trod- den down end scalped of business per plexities, and which way to turn next they do not know Now God will not be hard on you. He knows what ob- a stacles are in the way of your being a Christian, and your first effort in the right direction he will crown with suc- cess Do not let Satan, with cotton bAlcs and kegs and hogsheads and counters and stocks of unstable goods, block up yolr way to heaven. Gather up all your energies. Tighten the girdle about your Joins. Take an ago nizing look into the face of God, and then say, "Here goes one grand effort for life eternal! p and then bound away for heaven, escaping as with the skin of your teeth
 CHRISTIAN HEROES.
 In the last day it will be found thai Hugh Latimer and John Knox and Huss and Ridley were not the great est martyrs, but Christian men who went up incorrupt from the contami nations and perplexities of Wal street, Water street, Pearl street Broad street, State street and Thire