Connecticut western news., 1891-06-17

dreds of years, into a splendid pande monium on a small scale. Abaddon the Thirdl You go up and assault that old Episcopal church, which has been storming the heavens for centuries with the sublimest prayers that were ever uttered-church of Bishop Leighton, Bishop White and Bishop Mcnvaine, and get that denomination discussing men instead of discussing the eternities Abaddon the Fourthl You go up to that old Methodist church, which has, through her revivals, sent millions to heaven which we would otherwise have added to our population; the church of Wesley and Matthew Simp- son, against which we have an especial grudge, and get them 50 absorbed in discussing whether women shall take port in her conference that they shall not have so much time to discuss how many sons and daughters she will take to glory"
 THE SLY AND SUBTLE WORK OF SATAN.
 What amazes me most is that all people do not see that the entire move ment at this time all over Christendom is satanic Many of the internal at tacks are sly and hidden and strategic and SO ingenious that they are not easily discovered. But here is bold and un- covered attempt of the powers of dark ness to split up the churches, to get ministers to take each other by the throat, to make religion a laughing stock of earth and hell, to leave the Bible with no more respect or authen- ticity than an old almanac of 1922, which told what would be the change of weather six months ahead and in what quarter of the moon it is best to plant turnips In word, the effort is to stop the evangelization of the world.
 It seems to me very much like this: There has been railroad accident and many are wounded and dying. There are several drug stores near the scene of casualty All the doctors and drug gists are needed, and needed right away Bandages, stimulants. an@s- thetics, medicines of all sorts What are the doctors and druggists doingf Discussing the contents of some old bottles on the top shelf bottles of med icine which some doctors and druggists mixed two or three hundred years ago. Come, doctorsl" Come, druggistsl' cry the people, 'and help these wound ed and dying that are being brought from beneath the timbers of the crushed rail train In a little while it will be too late Come, for Gods sakel Come right away!" "No," says a doctor, mot until we have settled whether the medicine on that top shelf was rightly mixed say there were too many drops of laudanum in it, and this other man says there were too many drops of campfire, and we must get this ques ton settled before we can attend to the railroad accident"
 And one doctor takes another doctor by the collar and pushes him back against the counter, and one of the druggists says, 'If you will not admit that am right about that one bottle will smash every bottle in your apothe cary store" and he proceeds to smash. Meanwhile, on the lower shelf, plainly marked and within easy reach, are all the medicines needed for the helping of the sufferers by the accident, and in that drawer, easily opened, are band ages and splints, for the lack of which fifty people are dying outside the drug store. Before I apply this thought, every one sees it's application. Here is this old world, and it is off track. Sin and sorrow have collided with it. The groan of agony is fourteen hundred million voiced.
 God has opened for relief and cure a great sanitarium, a great house of mer cy, and all it's shelves are filled with balsams, with catholicons, with help glorious help, tremendous help, help so easily administered that you need not get upon any step ladder to reach it. You can reach it on your knees and then hand it to all the suffering, and the shining and the dying Comfort for all the troubledl Pardon for all the guilty I Peace for all the dying! But while the world is needing the relief and perish ing for lack of it, what of the churcha Why, it is full of fighting doctors On the top shelf are some old bottles which several hundred years ago Calvin or Arminius, or the members of the synod of Dort, or the formers of the Nicene creed filled with boly mixtures and un til we get revision of these old bottles and find out whether we must take a teaspoonful or a tablespoonful, and whether before or after meals, let the nations suffer and groan and die. Save the bottles by all means, if you cannot save anything elsel
 Now, what part shall you and l take in this controversy which fills all Chris tendon with clangora My advice is: Take no part. In time of riot all mayors of cities advise good citizens to stay at home or in their places of busi ness, and in this time of religious riot l advise you to go about your regular work for God. Leave the bottles on the higher shelves for others to fight about and take the two bottles on the shelf within easy reach, the two bottles which are all this dying world needs; the one filled with potion which is for the cleansing of all sin, the other filled. with potion which Is for the soothing of all suffering. Two Gospel bottlesl Christ mixed them out of his own tears and blood In them is no human adEixture Spend no time on the mysteriesl You, man only five or six feet high, ought not try to wade an ocean thousand feet deep.
 My own experience has been vivid l devoted the most of my time for years in trying to understand Gods