Connecticut western news., 1891-01-28

the doom of those who despise God and defy the laws of men. How was it at the deluge? Do you suppose it came through long northeast storm. so that people for days before were sure it was coming? No; suppose the morning was bright; that cal1nness brooded on the waters; that beauty sat enthroned on the hills, when suddenly the heav ems burst, and the mountains sank like anchors into the sea that dashed clear over the Andes and the Himalayas.
 The Red sea was divided. The Egyp- hans tried to cross it. There could be no danger. The Israelites had just gone through. Where they had gone why not the Egyptians2 Oh, it was such beautiful walking placel A pavement of tinged shells and pearls, and on either side two great walls of water-solid. There can be no danger. Forward, great host of the Egyptians! Clap the cymbals and blow the trump cts of victory After them! We will catch them yet, and they shall be de- stroyed. But the walls begin to trem- ble They rockl They fall! The rush ing watersl The shriek of drowning menl The swimming of the war horses in vain for the shore! The strewing of the great host on the bottom of the sea, or pitched by the angry wave on the beach-a battered, bruised and loathsome wreck! Suddenly destruc tion came. One half hour before they could not have believed 1t. Destroyed, and without remedy.
 am just setting forth fact which you have noticed as well as l. Ananias comes to the apostle. The apostle says, Did you sell the land for so much2" He says, "Yes." It was lie. Dead as quick as that! Sapphira, his wife, comes in. ''Did you sell the land for so much2" "Yes" It was a lie; and quick as that she was deadl Gods judgments are upon those who despise and defy him. They come suddenly.
 The destroying angel went through Egypt Do you suppose that any of the people knew that he was coming2 Did they hear the flap of his great wing9 Nol no! Suddenly, unexpectedly, he came.
 Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot bird standing on a sprig near by. If they are skilled they pride themselves on taking it on the wing, and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sports man, and he loves to take men flying under the very sun. He loves to take them on the wing.
 HEED WHAT FOLLOwSl
 Are there any here who are unpre- pared for the eternal world? Are there any here who have been living without God and without hope? Let me say to you that you had better accept of the Lord Jesus Christ, lest suddenly your last chance be gone. The lungs will cease to breathe, the heart will stop. The time will come when you shall go no more to the office, or to the store, or to the shop, Nothing will be left but Death and Judgment and Eterni- ty. Oh flee to God this hour! If there be one in this presence who has wandered far away from Christ, though he may not have heard the call of the gospel for many a year, invite him now to come and be saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to the stronghold of the gospel! Now is the accepted time |; now is the day of salvation.
 Goodnight, my young friendsl May you have rosy sleep, guarded by him who never slumbers! May you awake in the morning strong and well! But oh! art thou despiser of God? Is this thy last night on earth? Should'st though be awakened in the night by something, thou knowest not what, and there be shadows floating in the room, and handwriting on the wall, and you feel that your last hour is come, and there be fainting at the heart, and tremor in the limb, and a catching of the breath-then thy doom would be but an echo of the words of the text, "In that night was Belshaz gar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain"
 Hear the invitation of the gospel ! There may be some one in this house to whom I shall never speak again, and therefore let it be in the words of the Gospel, and not in my own, with which I close: "Ho, every one that thirsteth! Come ye to the waters. And let him that hath no money come. buy wine and milk without money, and without price, Come unto me, al ye who are weary and heavy laden, and will give you rest" Oh! that my Lord Jesus would now make him self so attractive to your souls that you cannot resist him; and that, if .. ou have never prayed before, or have not prayed since those days when you knelt down at your mothers knee, then that tonight you might pray, saying: Just as am, without one plea,
 But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bid st me come to thee, Lamb of God, come!
 But if you cannot think of so long a prayer as that, will give you a shorter prayer that you can say, 'God be mer- ciful to me, a sinner!'' Or, if you can not think of so long prayer as that,
 I will give you still shorter one that
 you may utter, "Lord, save me, or perish!'' Or if that be too long 8
 prayer, you need not utter one word.
 Just look and live!
 The armed despots of the Old World
 who may be contemplating plundering
 the United States are respectfully in- formed that Uncle Sam has recently
 perfected a new Springfield rife that
 speeds a bullet 2,200 feet per second,