Connecticut western news., 1891-10-08

can cry out i'll the face Of earth ano hell and heaven. ITO this end was ] born"
 Do not wait for extraordinary quail. fications. Philip the Conqueror gained his greatest victories seated on a mule, and if you wait for some caparisoned Bucephalus to ride into the conflict you will never get into the world wide fight at all. Samson slew the Lords enemies with the jawbone of the stupidest beast created. Shamgar slew six hundred o1 the Lords enemies with an OK goad. Under God, spittle cured the blind mans eyes in the New Testament story. Take all the faculty you have and say 70 Lordl Here is what have, show me the field and back me up by om nipotent power. Anywhere, anyhow, any time for God"
 WORDS OF SALVATION.
 Two men riding on horseback came to a trough to water the horses While the horses were drinking, one of the men said to the other a few words about the value of the soul, and then they rode away, and in opposite direc. tions But the words uttered were the salvation of the one to whom they were uttered, and he became the Rev. MT. Champion, one of the most distin guished missionaries in heathen lands, for years wondering who did for him the Christian kindness, and not finding out until, in a bundle of books sent him to Africa, he found the biography o1 Brainerd Taylor and 8 picture of him, and the missionary recognized the face in that book as the man who, at the watering trough for horses. had said the thing that saved his soul What opportunities you have had in the past What opportunities you have now What opportunities you will have in the days to come.
 Put on your hat, 0 woman, this afternoon, and go in and comfort that young mother who lost her babe last summer. Put on your hat, o man, and go over and see that merchant who was compelled yesterday to make an assignment and tell him of the ever lasting riches remaining for all those who serve the Lord. Can you singi Go and sing for that man who cannot get well, and you v,i help him into heaven. Let 1t be your brain, your tongue, your eyes, your ears, your heart, your lungs, your hands, your feet, your body, your mind, your soul. your life, your death, your time, your eternity for God, feeling in your soul ITO this end was born"
 It may be helpful to some if recite my own experience in this regard. started for the law without asking any divine direction. consulted my own tastes. liked lawyers and courtrooms and judges and juries, and I reveled ill hearing the Frelinghuysens and the Bradleys of the New Jersey bar, and as assistant of the county clerk. at sixteen years of age, I searched titles, natural ized foreigners, recorded deeds, re- ceived the confession of judgments. swore witnesses and juries and grand juries. But after awhile felt call to the Gospel ministry and entered it, and felt some satisfaction in the work.
 But one summer, when was resting at Sharon Springs, and while seated in the park ot that village, said to my self, ''If have an especial work to dc in the world I ought to find it out now" and with that determination prayed as had never before prayed, and got the divine direction and wrote 1t down in my memorandum book, and l saw my Hfework then as plainly as see it now. Oh, do not be satisfied with general directions. Get specific directions. Do not shoot at random Take aim and fire Concentrate. Ma poleon's success in battle came from his theory of breaking through the enemy's ranks at one point, not trying to meet the whole line of the enemy's force by similar force.
 One reason why he lost Waterlu. was because he did not work his usua! theory and spread his force out over a wide range. Oh, Christian man, oil Christian woman, break through some where. Not general engagement foi God, but particular engagement, and made in answer to prayer. If there are sixteen hundred million people in the world. then there are sixteen hundred million different missions to fulfill, diff ferent styles of work to do, different orbits in which to revolve, and if yo; do not get the divine direction there are at least fifteen hundred and ninety nine million possibilities that you will make a mistake On your knees be fore God get the matter settled, so that you can firmly say. ''To this end was l born"
 THK CL1MACTERIC CONSIDERATION.
 And now come to the climacteric consideration. AS near as l can tell, you were built for a happy eternity, all the disasters which have happened to your nature to be overcome by the blood of the Lamb if you will heartily accept that Christly arrangement. We are all rejoiced at the increase in l'; man longevity. People live. as near as can observe, about ten years longer than they used to. The modern doc tors do not bleed their patients on all occasions as did the former doctors In those times, if man had fever they bled him. if he had consumption they bled him. if he had rheumatism n.Ay bled him, and if they could not make out exactly what was the matter they bled him. N.ien time phlebotony was deaths coadjutor.
 All this has changed. From the way I see people skipping about at eighty years of age l conclude that life insur ance companies will have to change their table of risks and charge a man no more premium at seventy than they used to do when he was sixty, and no