Connecticut western news., 1892-10-06

q pillow in death and our joy for eternity
 Walk all up and down this Bible do mainl Try every path. Plunge in al the prophecies and come out at the epistles. Go with the patriarchs unti you meet the evangelists. Rummage and ransack, as children who are moi satisfied when they come to a new house until they know what is in every room and into what every door opens. Ope1 every jewel casket Examine the sky lights. Forever be asking questions Put to higher use than was intended the oriental proverb, "Hold all the skirts of thy mantle extended when heaven i, raining gold"
 Passing from Bonn to Coblentz or the Rhine, the scenery is comparatively tame. But from Coblentz to Mayence it is enchanting. You sit on deck and feel as if this last sflash Of beauty must exhaust the scene; but in a moment there is turn of the river, which GOV CTS up the former view with more lux uriant vineyards, and more defiant cas ties, and bolder bluffs, vine wreathed and grapes so ripe that if the hills be tou ched they would bleed their rich life away into the bowls of Bingen and Hockheimer. Here and there there arc streams of water melting into the river like smaller joys swallowed in the bosom of great gladness.
 And when night begins to throw its black mantle over the shoulder of the hills, and you are approaching disem. barkation at Mayence, the lights along the shore fairly bewitch the scene with their beauty, giving one thrill that he feels but once, yet that lasts him for. ever. So this river of Gods Word is not 8 straight stream, but winding splen- dor-at every turn new wonders to at tract, still riper vintage pressing to the brink and crowded with castles of strength-Stolzenfels and Johannisber- ger as nothing compared with the strong tower into which the righteous run and are saved-and our disemb mbarkation at last in the evening amid the lights that gleam from the shore of heaven. The trouble is that the vast majority of Bi- ble voyagers stop at Coblentz, where the chief glories begin.
 BoUNDLEss SEA.
 The sea of Gods Word is not like Gen. nesaret, twelve miles by six, but bound less, and in any one direction you can sail on forever. Why then confne your, self to a short psalm or to few verses of an epistle? The largest fish are not near the shore. Hoist all sail to the winds of heaven. Take hold of both oars and pull away. Be like some of the whalers that went out from New Bed ford or Portsmouth to be gone for two or three years. Yea, calculate on life time voyage. You do not want to land O ye mariners, for eternity! Launch out into the deepi
 The text is appropriate to all Chris tians of shallow experience. Doubts and fears have in our day been almost elected to the parliament of Christian graces. Some consider it bad sign not to have any doubts. Doubts and fears are not signs of health, but testers and carbun- cles. You have valuable house or farm. It is suggested that the title is not good. You employ counsel. You have the deeds examined. You search the record for mortgages, judgments and liens. You are not satisfied until you have 8 certificate, signed by the great seal of the state, assuring you that the title is good. Yet how many leave their title to heaven an undecided mat ter! Why do you not 80 to the records and find out? Give yourself no rest, day or night, until you can read your title clear to mansions in the skies.
 Christian character is to come up to higher standards. We have now to hunt through our library to find one Robert MCheyne, or one Edward Pay son, or one Harlan Page. The time will come when we will find half dozen of them sitting in the same seat with us. The grace of God can make great deal better men than those have mentioned. Christians seem afraid they will get heterodox by going too far. They do not believe in Christian perfection. There is no danger of your being per feet for some time yet. I will keep watch and give you notice in time, if you get too near perfection for the safety of your theology.
 One-half of you Christians are simply stuck in the mud. Why not cut loose from everything but God? Give not to him that formal petition mades up of "Os"-"O Lord" this and 70 Lord" that. When people are cold and have nothing to say to God they strew thei1 prayers with "O's" and Forever and ever, Amen" and things to fill up. Tell God what you want with the feeling that he is ready to give it, and believe | that you will receive, and you shall have | it. Shed that old prayer you have been making these ten years. It is high time that you outgrew it. Throw it aside with your old ledgers, and your old hats, and your old shoes. Take a review oi your present wants, of your present sim and of you present blessings. With { sharp blade cut away your past hal
 and half Christian life, and with new
 determination, and new plans, and new
 expectations launch out into the deep. POINTERS TO FISHERMEN.
 | The text is appropriate to all who ar,
 engaged in Christian work. The churci
 of God has been fishing along tn,
 shore. We set our net in a good, calm
 place, and in sight of fine chapel, ant
 we go down every Sunday to see if thu
 fish have been wise enough to come int
 our net. We might learn something
 from that boy with his hook and hne
 He throws his line from the bridge-nt
 fish. He sits down on log-no fish
 He stands in the sunlight and casts tn,
 line, but no fish. He goes up by thu
 mill dam, and stands behind the bank
 where the fish cannot see him, and h,
 has hardly dropped the hook before tn,
 cork goes under. The fish come to hin
 as fast as he can throw them ashore. In other words, in our Christian worl
 why do we not go where the fish are? I
 is not so easy to catch souls in church | for they know that we are irving f,