Connecticut western news., 1890-12-24


 Christian scientists and the infdel scientists to settle that question, while I tell you have seen the same thing. "Whatp' say you, ''not the sun stand ing stina' Yes. The same miracle is performed nowadays. The wicked do not live out half their day, and the sun sets at noon. But let man start out in battle for God and the truth and against sin, and the day of his useful ness is prolonged and prolonged and prolonged.
 THOUGH DEAD THEIR WORKS DO FOL-
 4 LOW THEM.
 John Summerfield was a constructive Methodist He looked fearfully white, l am told, as he stood in old Sands Street church, in Brooklyn, preaching Christ, and when he stood on the an niversary platform in New York plead ing for the Bible until unusual and un- known glories rolled forth from that book. When he was dying his pillow was brushed with the wings of the angel from the skies, the messenger that God sent down. Did John Summerfield's sun set2 Did John Summerfeld's day end9' Oh, no. He lives on in his burning utterances in behalf of the Christian church.
 Robert McCheyne was consumptive Presbyterian. It was said when he preached he coughed so it seemed as if he would never preach again His name is fragrant in all Christendom, that name mightier today than was ever his living presence. He lived to preach the gospel in Aberdeen, Edin- burgh and Dundee, but he went away very early. He preached himself into the grave. Has Robert McCheyne's sun set? Is Robert McCheyne's day ended2 Oh, no. His dying delirium was filled with prayer, and when he lifted his hand to pronounce the bene- diction upon his family and the bene- diction upon his country he seemed to say: "I cannot die now. l want to live on and on. want to start an in fuence for the church that will never cease. am only 30 years of age. Sun of my Christian ministry, stand still over Scotland" And it stood still.
 A long time ago there was a Chris tian woman, very consecrated, and she had a drunken husband, and so on came the night of domestic trouble. She lost her children, and there came the night of bereavement. She was very ill, and there came the night of sickness Her soul departed, and there came the night of death But llthese nights of trouble and dark ness and sor- row and sickness were illulnined by the grace of the gospel, and people came many miles to see how cheerfully a Christian could be sick and how cheer fully Christian could die. The moon that illumined that night of trouble E was a reflection from the Sun of right eousness. In the last hour of that night-that night of darkness and sick ness and misfortune. as she lifted her hand toward heaven, those who stood nearest her pillow could hear the whis- per for she wanted to live on in the generations that were to follow, conse- crated to God; she wanted to have an influence long after she had entered upon her eternal reward, and while her hand was lifted and her lips were nov ing those who stood nearest her pillow could hear her say, Thou moon, stand still in the valley of Ajalonv
 FIVE MORE KINGS TO BE BKHEADED.
 But Joshua was not quite through. There was time for five funerals be- fore the sun of that prolonged day set. Who will preach their funeral ser mona Massillon preached the funeral sermon over Louis XVI Who will preach the funeral sermon of those five dead Hngs-king of Jerusalem, king of Hebron, king of Jarnuth, king of La chish, king of Eg1oni Let it be by Joshua. What is his te1ti What shall be the epitaph put on the door of the tombs There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.'
 But before you fasten up the door l want five more kings beheaded and thrust in: King Alcohol, King Fraud, King Lust, King Superstition, King In fidelity. Let them be beheaded and hurl them in. Then fasten up the door forever. What shall the inscription and what shall the epitaph bet For all Christian philanthropists of all aees are going to come and look at it. What shall the inscription be9 There shall not any man be able to stand be fore thee all the days of thy life"
 But it is time for Joshua to go home H e is no years old. Washington went down the Potomac, and at Mount Yer non closed his days Wellington died peacefully at Apsley House. Now, where shall Joshua rest2 Why, he is to have his greatest battle now. After no years he has to meet 8 king, who has moro subjects than all the present population of the earth, his throne pyramid of skulls, his parterre the grave yards and the cemeteries of the world, his chariot the worlds hearse- the king of terrors. But if this is Josh ua's greatest battle it is going to be Joshua's greatest victory. He gathers bis friends around him and gives his valedictory, and it is full of reminis conce. .H.
 Young men tell what they are going to do; old men tell what they have done. And as you have heard a grand father or great-grandfather, seated by the evening fire, tell of Monmouth or Yorktown, and then lift the crutch or staff, as though it were a musket to fight, and show how the old battles wore won, so Joshua gathers bis friends around his dying couch, and he tells them the story of what he has been through, and as he lies there, his white lOckS snOwi.1g down on his wrinkled