Connecticut western news., 1891-01-21

supply is not exhausted. There is just as much mercy and coincidence and soothing power in God as before the first grave was dug, or the first tear started, or the first heart broken, or the first accident happened, or the first fortune vanished. Those of us who have felt the consolatory power of re- ligion have right to speak out of our own experiences and say "Comel"
 HOW TO COME.
 What dismal work of coincidence the world makes when it attempts to con dole! The plaster they spread does not stick. The broken bones under their bandage do not knit: A farmer was lost in the snow storm on a prairie of the far west. Night coming on, and altar he was almost frantic from not knowing which way to go, his sleigh struck the rut of another sleigh, and he said, II will follow this rut, and it will take me out to safety" He hastened on until he heard the bells of the pre- ceding horses, but. coming up, he found that that man was also lost, and, as is the tendency of those who are thus confused ill the forest or on the moors, they were both moving in a circle, and the runner of the one lost sleigh was following the runner of the other lost sleigh round and round. At last it oc- cured to them to look at the north star, which was peering through the night, and by the direction of that star they got home again. Those who fol low the advice of this world in time of perplexity are in fearful round; for it is one bewildered soul following anoth- CT bewildered soul, and only those who have in such time got their eye on the morning star of our Christian faith can find their way out, or be strong enough to lead others with an all persuasive invitation.
 "But," says some one, ''you Chris tian people keep telling us to come, yet you do not tell us how to como. That charge shall not be true on this occasion. Come believing! Come re- penting! Come praying! After all that God has been doing for six thou sand years, some time through patri- archs and sometimes through prophets, and at last through the continuation of all tragedies on Gclgotha, can any one think that God will not welcome your coming2 Will a father at vast out lay construct a mansion for his son, and lay out parks white with statues and green with foliage, and all a-sparkle with fountains. and then not allow bis son to live in the house or walk in the parks? Has God built this house of gospel mercy. and will he then refuse entrance to his children2 Will gov ernment at great expense build life saving stations all along the coast, and boats that can hover unhurt like a petrel over the widest surge, and then when the lifeboat has reached the wreck of a ship in the offing not allow the drowning to seize tho lifeline or take the boat for the shore in safetys Shall God provide at the cost of his only sons assassination escape for a sinking world, and then turn a deaf ear to the cry that comes up from the breakers?
 THEN YOU HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH
 TO LIFE.
 "But, you say, there are so many things have to believe, and so many things in the shape of creed that have to adopt, that I am kept back. " No, no! You need not believe but two things-namely, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and that you are one of them. But, " you say, 'I do believe both of these things!" Do you really believe them with all your heart? "Yes." Why. then you have passed from death into life. Why, then you are son or daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why, then you are an heir or an heiress of an inheritance that will declare divi- dends from now until long after the stars are dead! Hallelujah! Prince of God, why do you not come and take your coronet? Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do you not mount your throne? Pass up into the light. Your boat is anchored, why do you not go ashore2 Just plant your feet hard down, and you will feel under them the Rock of Ages.
 I challenge the universe for one in- stance in which a man in the right spirit appealed for the salvation of the gospel and did not get it. Man alive! are you going to let all the years of your life go away with you without your having this great peace, this glorious hope, this bright expect ancy? Are you going to let the pearl of great price lie in the dust at your feet because you are too indolent or too proud to stoop down and pick it up? Will you wear the chain of evil habit when near by you is the hammer that could with enc stroke snap the shackle2 Will you stay in the prison of sin when here is gospel key that could unlock your incarceration2 No; no! As the one word ''Come'' has sometimes brought many souls to Christ, will try the experiment of piling up into a mountain and then sending down in an avalanche of power many of these gos- pei "Coulcs. Come thou and all thy house into the ark ]" ''Colne unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest" "Come, for all things are now ready" 1.-The Spirit and the Bride say 'Cone;;' and let him that heareth say Come and let him that is athirst come"
 The stroke of one bell in tower may be sweet, but a score of bells we'll tuned, and rightly lifted, and skillfully swung in one great chime fill the heavens with