Connecticut western news., 1892-12-22

in some way this ship of a struggling earth, l think, is mirrored to distant worlds. Surely this ore experiment of a world unloosing itself from God will be enough for all worlds and all eter- mites.
 But notice that as other worlds rolled into the first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis, they also appear in the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation. They will take part in the scenes of that occasion, which shall be the earth's winding up and tremen- dous occasion for you and me person. ally. My father was on the turnpike road between Trenton and Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was coming through the night from the legislative halls, where he was serving bis state, to his home, where there was sickness. I often heard him tell about it. It was the night of the 18th and the morning of the 18th of November, 1883.
 The sky was cloudless and the air clear. Suddenly the whole heavens be- came a scene never to be forgo ten. From the constellation Leo meteors be- gan to shoot out in all directions. For the two hours between four and six in the morning it was estimated that a thousand meteors minute flashed and expired. It grew lighter than monday. Arrows of fire. Balls of fire. Trails of fire. Showers of fire. Some of the ap- pearances were larger than the full moon. All around the heavens explo- sion followed explosion. Sounds as we'll as sights. The air filled with uproar. All the luminaries of the sky seemed to have received marching orders. The heavens ribbed and interlaced and gar landed with meteoric display. From horizon to horizon everything in com bustion and confagration.
 Many brain that night gave way. It was an awful strain on strongest nerves. Millions of people fell on their knees in prayer. Was the world ending, or was there some great event for which all heaven was illuminated? For eight mo- mentous hours the phenomenon lasted. East, west, north, south--it looked as Though the heavens were in maniac dis order. Astronomers watching that night ,aid that those meteors started from s,200 miles above the earth's surface and moved with ten times the speed of cannon ball.
 The owner of a plantation in South Carolina says of that night scene: Il was suddenly awakened by the most distress ing cries that ever fell on my ears. Shrieks of horror and cries of mercy I could hear from most of the negroes on three plantations, amounting in all to about six or eight hundred. While ear nestly listening for the cause heard 8 faint voice near the door calling my aa4ne. I arose, and taking my sword stood at the door. At this moment I heard the same voice still beseeching me to rise, and saying, Oh, my God! the world is on firer I then opened the door, and it is difficult to say which excited me most, the awfulness of the scene or the distressed cries of the negroes. Up ward of one hundred lay prostrate on the ground-some speeches. and some uttering the bitterest cries, but most with their hands raised imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was truly awful, for never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell to- ward the earth" But the excitement | thus described by the southern planter ran among the whites as well as the blacks; among the intelligent as we'll as the superstitious.
 THE STAR SHOWER OF 1888.
 The spectacle ceased not until the ris- ing sun of the November morning eclipsed it, and the whole American na- tion sat down exhausted with the agita- | Af iorh% tn ha h | the earth itself shall become falling star. The Bible closes with such scene of falling lights-not only fdgety mete- | ors, but grave old stars. St. John saw | it in prospect and wrote, "The stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as fig
 tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind." What a | time that will be when worlds drop! Rain of planets. Gravitatiou letting loose her grip on worlds. Cancellations | flying apart. Galaxies dissolved.
 | The great orchard of the universe, swept by the last hurricane, letting down the stars like ripened fruit. Our | old earth will go with the rest, and let it | go, for it will have existed long enough | to complete its tremendous experiment.
 But there will be enough worlds left to
 make heaven out of, if any more
 heaven needs to be built. That day
 finding us in Christ, our nature regen-
 erated, and our sins pardoned, and our
 nope triumphant, we will feel no more
 alarm than when in September, passing
 through an orchard. you hear the app es
 thump to the ground, or through con
 servatory and you hear an untimely fig
 drop on the floor.
 You will only go up stairs into another
 story, better lighted story, better
 furnished story, better ventilated
 story, better pictured story, and in o a
 story where already many of your kin.
 dred are waiting for you. and where
 prophets and apostles and martyrs will
 pay you celestial visitation, and where
 with rapture beyond the most radiant
 anticipation, you shall bow before him
 that "buildeth his stories in the heaven | Church Muffs-