Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
rs1saa CONN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2O 1891.
THE WORLDS HEART BURSTING WITH
 TROUBLE.


 Do you know that the worlds heart is bursting with trouble, and if you could make that world believe that the religion of Jesus Christ is a soothing onnipotence the whole world would surrender tomorrow-yea, would sur render this hour9 The day before James A Garfield was inaugurated as president I was in the cars going from Richmond to Washington. A gentle man seated next to me in the cars knew me, and we were soon in familiar con- versation. It was just after bereave- ment, and was speaking to him from an overburdened heart about the sor- row I was suffering. Looking at his cheerful face said: "I guess you have escaped all trouble. should judge from your countenance that you have come through free from all misfortune"
 Then he looked at me with a look shall never forget and whispered in my ear: Sir, you know nothing about trouble. My wife has been in an in sane asylum for fifteen years" And then he turned and looked out of the window and into the night with a silence was too overpowered to break. That was another illustration of the fact that no one escapes trouble. Why, that man seated next to you in church has on his soul weight compared with which d mountain is feather That woman seated next to you in church has grief the recital of which would make your body, mind and soul shud der.
 When you are mending your net for this wide, deep sea of humanity take out that wire thread of criticism and that horsehair thread of harshness, and put in soft silken thread of Christian sympathy. Yea, when you are mending your nets tear out those old threads of gruffness and weave ip few thfeads of politeness and geniality I In the house of God let all the Christian faces beam with look that means welcome Say good morning" to the stranger as he enters your pew, and at the close shake hands with him and say, "How did you like the music9' Why, you would be to that man a panel of the door of heaven; you would be to him note of the doxology that seraphs sing when new soul enters That man is a thousand miles from home, and he has just heard by tele- graph that his child is sick with scarlet fever, and his boy at college has got into disgrace, and he has had business D troubles, and is so homesick he can hardly keep from crying Just one word of brotherly kindness from you would lift him into a small heaven.
 have in other days entered pew in church, and the woman at the other end of the pew looked at me as much as to say, "How dare you9 This is my pew, and pay the rent for it." We'll, crouched in the other corner and made myself as small as possible and felt as though had been stealing some thing. So there are people who have sharp edge to their religion. and they act as though they thought most peo- pie had been elected to be damned and they were glad of it. Oh. let us brighten up our manner and appear in utmost gentlemanliness or lady.lood.
 AVOID ABRUPTNEss.
 The object ill fly fishing is to throw the fly far out, and then let it drop gently down and keep it gently rising and falling w., tln' w.sters, and not plunge it like a manoi vars anchor; and abruptness and harslness of man ner must be avoided in our attempt at usefulness. know a man in New York who is more sunsh;ny and genial when he has dyspepsia than when he is not suffering from that depressing trouble have found out his secret. When he starts out in the morning with such depression he asks for special grace to keep from snapoing up any body that day, and puts forth addi- tional determination to be kindly and genial, and by the help of God he ac- complishes it. Many of our nets need to be lnended in these respects, the black threads and the rough threads taken out, and the bright threads and the golden threads of Christian genial ity woven in.
 In addition I, this, we need to mend our nets with more threads of patience. It is no rare thing for a fisherman to spend one whole day lefore he can take a St. Lawrence pike or an Ohio salmon or Long lslanl pickerel or a Cayuga black L:.ss, or a Delaware cat 6sh, and he does that day after day without particular Encouragement. But what lac., of patience if we do not immediately succeed in soul catch ing We are apt to give it up and say, II will never try again. Into all our edge and all through the center. great, ] long, stout threads of Christian pa tience. How patient God has been with us! Can we not be patient with our fellows2 I had presented me from Scotland few days ago an ornament ed inkstand, the wooded parts of which were made from a piece of a tree cut down by MT. Gladstone. at Hawarden, and sent by him to Scotland by re- quest.
 | me lnclQonC reIuluOeu luo O1 tAo AsACe that a woman who had long been on MT. Gladstone's estate had way ward boy, and in her despair she asked MT. Gladstone to take the boy in hand. While prime minister of England, with all the mighty affairs of the kingdom in his hand, he took that boy in his study and counseled him, and then knelt down and prayed with him, and the boy was saved. If we all had hearts of sympathy like that, what
 would be to us impossible? ''Is it no1 delightful that can sing so wellS" saiC