Connecticut western news., 1891-10-08
s. c. BECKLEY, Editor and Prop


enough to express it's length or breadth or depth or height. For happy eter- nifty you were born unless you run yourself against the divine intentions If, standing in your presence, my eye should fall upon the feeblest soul here as that soul will appear when the world lets it up, and heaven entrances it, suppose would be so overpowered that should drop down as one dead. You have examined the family Bible and explored the family records, and you may have daguerreotypes of some of the kindred of previous generations, you have had photographs taken of what you were in boyhood or girlhood, and what you were ten years later, and 1t Is very interesting to any one to be able to look back upon pictures of what he was ten or twenty or thirty years ago; but have you ever had picture taken of what you may be and what you will be if you seek after God and feel the Spirits regenerating powerf Where shall plant the camera to take the pictureq l plant 1t on this plat form direct 1t toward you. Sit still or stand still while take the picture A WONDERFUL PICTURE.
 It shall be an instantaneous picture. Therel have 1t It is done. You can see the picture in its imperfect state and get some idea of what it will be when thoroughly developed. There Is your resurrected body, SO brilliant that the monday sun Is 8 patch of mid night compared with it. There is your soul, so pure that all the forces of di- abolism could not spot it with an i'm perfection. There is your being, SO mighty and so swift that flight from heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter and back again to heaven would not weary you, and a world on each shoul- der would not crush you. An eye that shall never shed a tear. An energy that shall never feel a fatigue. A brow that shall never throb with pain. You are young again, though you died of decrepitude. You are well again, though you coughed or shivered your self into the tomb. Your everyday as. sociates are the apostles and prophets and martyrs and most exalted souls, masculine and feminine, of all the cen- turies. The archangel to you no em- barrassment. God himself your pres sent and everlasting joy. That is an instantaneous picture of what you may be, and what I am sure some of you will be. If you realize that it is an i'm perfect picture my apology is what the apostle John said, ''It doth not yet ap- pear what we shall be" ITO this end was born" If did not think SO would be overwhelmed with melan- choly.
 The world does very well for little while-eighty or a hundred or hun dred and fifty years-and l think that human longevity may yet be improved up to that prolongation for now there | is so little room between our cradle and our grave we cannot accomplish much. But who would want to dwell in this world for all eternity9 Some think this earth will finally be turned into a heaven. Perhaps it may, but it would have to undergo radical repairs, and through eNminations and evolutions and revolutions and transformations l infinite to make it desirable for eternal l residence.
 All the east winds would have to be- come west winds, and all the winters changed to springtides, and the volca- noes extinguished, and the oceans chained to their beds, and the epidem- ics forbidden entrance, and the world SO fixed up that I think it would take more to repair this old world than to make an entirely new one. But must say do not care where heaven is if we can only get there, whether garden ized America or an emparadised Flu rope, or world central to the whole universe ''To this end was I born" If each one of us could say that, we would go with faces shining and hopes exhilarant amid earth's worst misfor- tunes and trials Only a little while and then the rapture Only little while and then the reunion Only little while and then the transfgura ton.
 LOSE EVERYTHING FOR HEAVEN In the Seventeenth century all Flu rope was threatened with wave of Asiatic barbarian and Vienna was es- pecially besieged. The king and his court had fled, and nothing could save the city from being overwhelmed unless the king of Poland, John Sobieski, to whom they had sent for help, should with bis army come down for the relief, and from every roof and tower the in habitants of Vienna watched and waited and hoped until. on the morning of September II, the rising sun threw an unusual and unparaL leled brilliancy It was the reflection on the swords and shields and hel- nets of John Sobiesk and his army coming down over the hills to the res cue, and that day not only Vienna, but Europe, was saved. And see you not, oh. ye souls besieged with sin and sor row, that light breaks in, the swords, and the shields. and the helmets of divine rescue bathed in the rising sun of heavenly deliverancei Let every thing else go rather than let heaven 90. What a strange thing 1t must be to feel ones self born to an earthly crown. but you have been born for throne on which you may reign after the last monarch of all the earth shall have gone to dust.
 Invite you to start now for your own coronation, to come in and take the title deeds to your everlasting in heritance. Through an impassioned prayer take heaven and all of its rap lures What a poor farthing is all that this world can offer you compared with pardon here and life immortal beyond