Connecticut western news., 1890-06-11


 is drowned in the booming of the great siege guns Stand back, and let the long line of ambulances pass. Groan to groan. Uncover, and look upon the trenches of the dead. Blood! blood! a deluge of blood!
 But the redeemed of heaven, looking upon the glorious arch that spans the throne, shall see that the deluge is over No batteries are planted on those hills; no barricades blocking those streets; no hostile flag above those walls; no smoke of burning villages; no shrieks of butchered men; but peace! German and Frenchman who fell with arms in- terlocked in hate on the field of death, now, through Christ in heaven, stand with arms interlocked in love. Arms stacked forever; shields of battle hung up. The dove instead of the eagle; the lamb instead of the lion. There shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all Gods holy mount, for there is rain bow round about the throne. ALL TEARS SHALL BE DRIED THERE.
 Now the earth is covered with the deluge of sorrow Trouble! trouble! The very first utterance when we come into the world is cry. Without any teaching we learn to weep. What has so wrinkled that mans face2 What has so prematurely whitened his hair9 What calls out that sigh? What starts that tear2 Trouble! trouble! I find it in the cellar of poverty, and far up among the heights on the top of the crags; for this also hath gone over the tops of the highest mountains. No escape from it. You go into the store, and it meets you at your counting desk; you go into the street, and it meets you at the corner; you go into the house, and it meets you at the door. Tears of poverty! tears of persecution! tears of bereavement!- "a deluge of tears! Gathered together from all the earth they could float an ark larger than Noah's.
 But the glorified, looking up to the bow that spans the throne, shall see that the deluge is over. No shivering wretch on the palace step; no blind man at the gate of the heavenly tenn pie asking for aims; no grindingsof the screw driver on coffin lid. They look up at the rainbow and read, in lines of yellow, and red, and green, and blue, and orange, and indigo, and violet, '"They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throre shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes," Thank God for the glory spanning the throne!
 In our boyhood we had superstition that at the foot of the rainbow there was casket of buried gold but have to announce that at the foot of this rainbow of heaven there is a box made out of the wood of the cross. Open it, and you find all the treasures of heaven.
 Oh, that our eyes may all look upon this bow of promise, lifted by Christ's own hand! We shall trace the separate lines of beauty across the Armament. In the line of red shall see the blood of my Lord; in the blue, the bruises that colored his cheek; in the green, the freshness of his grace; in the violet, his humility; in all that curve of beauty, the bend of his right arm of love swung over all the redeemed.
 But mind what told you at the be- ginning, and what tell you at the close that none but Noah's family in the ark saw the rainbow, and that -only those who are at last in Christ shall dis cover it amid the glories of heaven.
 Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of Godn