Connecticut western news., 1892-03-24

iet us DC sad apour those who shove of from this world under Christly pilotage. Don't let us be SO agitated about our own going off this little barge or sloop or canal boat of a world to get on some Great Eastern of the heavens. Don't let us per sist in wanting to stay in this barn, this shed, this outhouse of a world, when all the kings palaces, already occupied by many of our best friends, are swinging wide open their gatee to let us in.
 THE HEAVENLY MANs1oNs.
 When read, Tn my Fathers house are many mansions" do moi know but that each world is a room, and as many rooms as there are worlds, stellar stairs, stellar galler ies, stellar railways, stellar windows, stellar dcmes. How our departed friends must pity us shut up in these cramped apartments, tired if we walk fifteen miles, when they some morning. by one stroke of wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar sys- tenn and be back in time for matinsi Perhaps yondcr twinkling constella- ton is the residence of the martyrs; that group of twelve luminaries is the celestial home of the Apostles. Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling place of angels cherubic, seraphic. archangelic. A mansion with as many rooms as worlds, and all their windows illuminated for fes- hvity.
 Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimulates our expectation How little ii makes the present, and how stu pendous it makes the futurel How it consoles us about our pious dead, who, instead of being boxed up and under the ground, have the range of as many rooms as there are worlds, and welcome everywhere, for it is the Fathers house, in which there are many mansionsi O Lord Goa of the Seven Stars and Orion, how can I endure the transport, the ec- stacy, of such vision must obey my text and seek him. l will seek him. seek him now, for l call to mind that it is not the material uni. verse that is most valuable, but the spiritual, and that each of us has a soul worth more than all the worlds which the inspired herdsman saw from his booth on the hills of Tekoa.
 had studied it before, but the ca thedral of Cologne, Germany, never impressed me as it did tho last timeI saw it It is admittedly the grandest Gothic structure in the world; its foundation laid in i24S. only eight or nine years ago completed More than six hundred years in building All Europe taxed for it's construction. It's chapel of the Magi with precious stones enough to purchase king. dom. Its chapel of St. Agnes with masterpieces of painting. Its spire springing five hundred and eleven feet into the heavens It's stained glass the chorus of all rich colors Statues encirchng the pillars and on. circling all. Statues above statues until sculpture can do no moro, but faints and falls back against carved stalls and down on pavements over which tho kings and queens of the earth have walked to confession. Nave and aisles and transept and portals combining the splendors of sunrise. Interlaced, interfoliated, intercolumned grandeur. As stood outside, loSlsing at the double range of flying buttresses and the forest of pinnacles, higher and higher and higher. until l almost reeled from dizziness, exclaimed. Great dox. ology in stonel Frozen prayer of many nationsr
 THE HUMBLE SOUL.
 But while standing there I saw poor man enter and put down his pack and lneel beside his burden on the hard floor of that cathedral And tears of deep emotion came into my eyes as I said to myself; There is a soul worth more than all the mate rial surroundings. That man will live after the last pinnacle has fallen, and not one stone of all that cathe- dral glory shall remain uncrumbled. He is now a Lazarus in rags and pow erty and weariness, but immortal, end n con of tho Lord God Al. mighty; and the prayer he now oilers. though amid many supersti- tions, I believe God will hear; and among the Apostles whose sculp- tured forms stand in the surrounding niches he will at last be lifted. and into the presence of that Christ whose sufferings are represented by the crucifix before which he bows; and be raised in due time out of all hts povsrties into the glorious home built for him and built for us by Him who maketh the Seven Stars and Orion" a..