Connecticut western news., 1890-08-13

body, and traps for the soul that have taken some who are more willy than you. When they launch ship they break against the side of 1t a bottle oi wine That is sort of superstition among sailors. But oh, on the launch ing of every day, that we might strike against it at least one earnest prayer for divine protection! That would not be superstition; that would be Chris tian.
 Then at the apex of the day, at the tip top of the hours, equidistant from morning and night, look three ways. Look backward to the forenoon; look ahead to the afternoon; look up to that Saviour who presides over all. You want bread at noon. You may find no place in which to kneel amid the cot ton bales and the tierces of rice; but fl Jonah could find room to pray in the whales belly, most certainly you wiD never be in such Q crowded place that you cannot pray. Bread at nooni When the evening hour comes, and yom head is buzzing with the days engage. ments, and your whole nature is sore from the abrasion of rough life, and you see a great many duties you have neglected, then commune with Christ, asking his pardon, thanking him foa his love. That would be aqueer even. ing repast at which there was no bread.
 THE GOSPEL IS PLAIN.
 This is the nutrlment and life of the plain gospel that recommend you. ] do not know how some of our ministen make it so intricate and elaborate and mystifying a thing. It seems as if they had sort of mongrelism in religion part thumanitarianism, part spirituansm, part nothingarianism; and soanetimea you think they are building their tenn pie out of the Rock of Ages" but you find there is no rock in it at all. It ia stucco. The gospel is plain. It ia bread. There are no fogs lowering over this river of life. All the foga hover over the marsh of human specu- lation. If you cannot tell, when you hear a man preach, whether or not he believes in the plenary inspiration d the Scriptures, it Is because he does not believe in 1t. If, when you hear . man preach, you cannot tell whether or not he believes that sin is inborn, 1t is be- cause he does not think 1t is congenital. If, when you hear a man talk in pulpit or prayer meeting, you cannot make up your mind whether or not he be- lieves> in regeneration, it Is because hs does not believe in it. If, when you hear man speak on religious themes, you cannot make up your mind whether or not he thinks the righteous and the wicked will come out at the same place, then 1t is because he really believes their destihies are contermi. nous
 Do not talk to me about man being doubtful about the doctrines oi grace. He is not doubtful to me ct ell. Bread Is bread, and know 1t the mo ment I see it. I had cornfleld which I cultured with my own hand. I did dot ask once in all the summer, "s this cornT I did not hunt up The Agriculturist to get picture of corn. I was born in sight of a cornfield, and know all about it. When these IL. raelites came to Canaan and looked on upon the fields the cry was "Cornl cornw And if man has once tasted of this heavenly bread he knows it right away. He can tell this corn of the gospel Canaan from ''the chAn which the wind driveth away" blem God so many have found this gospel corn. It is the bread of which fl . man eat he shall never hunger. set the gladness of your soul to the tunes of "Arier and Antioch. ring tho wedding bells, for Christ and your soul are married, and there is no power on earth or in hell to get out letters of di- vorcement.
 AGROUND AND FAR FROM HEAVEN.
 But alas for the famine struck! Enough corn, yet it seems you have no sickle to cut it, no mill to grind 1t, no fire to bake it, no appetite to eat 1t Starving to death when the plain ia golden with magnificent harvesti
 rode ssAme thirteen miles to see thu Alexande. large steamship that va beached near Southampton, Lon Island. It was splendid vessel. D l walked up and down the decks and in the cabins said, ''What pity that this vessel should go to piec0 or be lying here idlel" Tho coast wreck CTS had spent thirty thousand dollaxs trying to get her of, and they succeed ed once, but she came back again to the old place. While was walking on deck every part of the vessel trem- bled with the beating of the surf on one side. Since then I heard that that vessel, which was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, was sold for three thousand five hundred, and knocked to pieces. They had given up the idea of getting her to sail again. How sug- gestive all this is to mel There arc those here who are aground in religious things. Once you started for heaven, but you are now aground. Several times it was thought you had started again heavenward, but you soon got back to the old place, and there Is not much prospect you will ever reach tho harbor of the blessed. Gods wreckers; I fear, will pronounce you a hopeless case. Reached for eternity! And then it will be written in heaven concerning some one of your size and complexion and age and name that he was invited to be saved, but refused the offer, and starved to death within sight of the fields and granaries full of the old corn of Canaan.
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