Connecticut western news., 1891-03-18

she sat just where you sit now. It was no dream. was wide awake. There was no delusion in the matter saw her just as plainly as see you. Wife, I wish you would take these strings of of me. There are strings spun all around my body. wish you would take them off of me-" 1 saw it was delirium. ''Oh," replied his wife, my dear, there is nothing there, there is nothing there" He went on and said: "Just where you sit, MT. Talmage, my mother sat. She said to me, Henry, do wish you would do better got out of bed, put my arms around her and said: Mother, I want to do better. I have been trying to do better. Won't you help me to do bet ter2 You used to help me- No mis- take about it, no delusion I saw her the cap and the apron and the spec tacles, just as she used to look twenty years ago; but l do wish you would take these strings away; they annoy me SO. can hardly talk. Won't you take them away7" knelt down and prayed, conscious of the fact that he did not realize what l was saying. ] got up. said, "Good-by; hope you will be better soon." He said, Good by, good-by."
 That night his soul went to the God who gave it. Arrangements were made for the obsequies Some said, Don't bring him in the church he was too dis solute." "Oh," said, "bring him. He was a good friend of mine while he was alive, and I shall stand by him now that he is dead. Bring him to the church"
 AN AWFUL RUIN
 As I sat in the pulpit and saw his body coming up through the aisle felt as if could weep tears of blood. l told the people that day: This man had his virtues, and good many of them. He had his faults, and a good many of them. But if there is any man in this audience who is without sin let him cast the first stone at this coffin lid" On one side of the pulpit sat that little child, rosy, sweet faced, as beautiful as any little child that sat at your table this morning, warrant you. She looked up wistfully, not knowing the full sorrows of an orphan child. Oh, her countenance haunts me today, like some sweet face looking upon us through horrid dream. On the other side of the pulpit were the men who had destroyed him. There they sat, hard visaged, some of them pale from exhausting disease, some of them flushed until it seemed as if the fires of iniquity famed through the cheek and cracked the lips. They were the men who had done the work They were the men who had bound him hand and foot. They had kindled the fires. They had poured the worm wood and gall into that orphans cup Did they weep? No. Did they sigh re- pentingly2 No. Did they say, What pity that such a brave man should be slain?" No, no; not one bloated hand was lifted to wipe tear from a bloated cheek. They sat and looked at the coffin like vultures gazing at the carcass of lamb whose heart they had ripped out! I cried in their ears as plainly as I could, There is God and aSudgment day." Did they tremble Oh, no, no They went back from the house of God and that night, though their victim lay in Oakwood cemetery, I was told that they blasphened, and they drank, and they gambled, and there was not one less customer in all the houses of iniquity. This destroyed man was a Samson in physical strength, but Delilah sheared him, and the Philistines of evil companionship dug his eyes out and threw him into the prison, of evil habits But in the hour of his death he rose up and took hold of the two pillared curses of God against drunkenness and uncleanness, and threw himself forward, until down upon him and his companions there came the thunders of an eternal catas- trophe.
 Again: Any amusement that gives you a distast.s for domestic life is bad How many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amuselnents The father went off. the mother went off, the child went off. There are today the fragments before me of blasted households. Oh, if you have wandered away, would like to charm you back by the sound of that one word 'home." Do you not know that you have but little more time to give to domestic welfare? Do you not see father, that your children are soon to go out into the world, and all,the in fluence for good you are to have over them you must have how? Death will break in on your conjugal relations, and alas, if you have to stand over the grave of one who perished from your neglect!
 UNBELIEvING HUsBAND; BELIEVING
 WIFE. a.'
 I saw wayward husband standing at the deajl.i,ed of his Christian wife, and I saw her point to ring on her finger, and heard her say to her hus- banl, Do you see that ring?" He re- piled, Yes, I sec it." 'sWell," said she, do you remember who put it there?" Yes" "said he. "Ip put it there,' ' and all the past seemed to rush upon him. By the memory of that day when, in the presence of men and angels, you promised to be faithful in joy and sor- row, and in sickness and in health; by the memory of those pleasant hours when you sat together in your new home, talking of bright future; by the cradle and the joyful hour when one life was spared and another given by that sick bed. when the little one lifted up the hands and called for help, and you knew he must die, and ha n1t one arm around each of y0nl