Connecticut western news., 1892-09-15

' wash in the water that stands in the basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at al most every step of the journey you will be crying out, Create within me a clean heartr'
 If you have no such aspirations as that it proves that you have mistaken your way, and if you will only look up and see the fingerboard above your head you may read upon it the words, "There is way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death" Without holiness no man shall see the Lord, and if you have any idea that you can carry along your sins, your lusts, your world hness and yet get to the end of the Christian race you are so awfully mis- taken that, in the name of God, this morning shatter the delusion.
 Still further, the road spoken of is 8 plain road. "The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein"- that is, if man is three-fourths an idiot he can find this road just as we'll as if he were philosopher. The i'm bacile boy, the laughingstock of the street, and followed by mob hooting at him, has only just to knock once at the gate of heaven and it swings open, while there has been many a man who can lecture about pneumatics and chem istry, and tell the story of Faraday's theory of electrical polarization, and yet has been shut out of heaven. There has been many man who stood in an ob servatory and swept the heavens with his telescope, and yet he has not been able to see the Morning Star.
 Many man has been familiar with all the higher branches of mathematics and yet could not do the simple sum, What shall 1t profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Many. man has been fine reader ot tragedies and poems and yet could not tread his title clear to mansions in the skies." Many man has botanized across the continent and yet did not know the "Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley" But if one shall come in the right spirit, asking the way to heaven, he will find it plain way. The pardon is plain. The peace is plain. Everything is plain.
 He who tries to get on the road to heaven through the New Testament teaching will get on beautifully. He who goes through philosophical discus sion will not get on at all. Christ says, "Come to me, and 1 will take all your sins away, and l will take all your troubles away" Now, what is the use of my discussing it any more? Is not that plain? If you wanted to go to Lon don, and I pointed you out highway thoroughly laid out, would be wise in detaining you by a geological discussion about the gravel you will pass over. or a physiological discussion about the muscles you will have to bring into playi No. After this Bible has pointed you the way to heaven, is it wise for me to detain you with any discussion about the nature of the human will, or whether the atonement is limited or unimitedi There is the road-go on it. It is plain way.
 ''This is faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" And that is you, and that is me. Any little child here can understand this as well as can. Unless you become as 8 little child, you cannot see the king dom of God" If you are saved, it will not be as philosopher, it will be as a little child. "Of such is the kingdom of heaven" Unless you get the spirit of little children, you will never come out at their glorious destiny.
 THE SAFE ROAD.
 Still further, this road to heaven is a safe road. Sometimes the traveller in those ancient highways would think himself perfectly secure, not knowing there was lion by the way burying his head deep between his paws, and then when the right moment came, under the fearful spring, the mans life was gone and there was 8 mauled carcass by the roadside. But, says my text, "No lion shall be there" wish I could make you feel this morning your entire se- curity. tell you plainly that one min ute after man has become child of God he is as safe as though he had been ten thousand years in heavan. He may slip, he may slide, he may stumble, but he cannot be destroyed. Kept by the power of God through faith unto com plete salvation. Everlastingly safe.
 The severest trial to which you can subject Christian man is to kill him, and that is glory. In other words, the worst thing that can happen child of God is heaven. The body is only the old slippers that he throws aside just before putting on the sandals of light. His soul, you cannot hurt it. No fires can consume it. No floods can drown it. No devils can capture it.
 Firm and unmoved are they
 Who rest their souls on God;
 Fixed as the ground where David stood Or where the ark abode.
 His soul is safe. His reputation is safe. Everything is safe. But" you say, suppose his store burns up?' Why, then it will only be change of investments from earthly to heavenly securities. But" you say, suppose his name goes down under the hoof of scorn and contempt?' The name will be so much brighter in glory. Suppose his physical health fails?'' God will pour into him the floods of everlasting health, and 1t will not make any differ. ence. Earthly subtraction is heavenly addition. The tears of earth are the crystal heaven. As they take rags and tatters and put them through the paper mill and they come out beautiful white sheets of paper, so often the rags of earthly Restitution, under the cylin- ders of death, come out a white scroll upon which shall be written eternal emancipation.
 There was one passage of Scripture the force of which I never understood until one day at Chamounix, with Mont Blanc on one side and Montanvent on the other, opened my Bible and read, "As the mountains are around about Jerusalem, so is the Lord around about them that fear him. The surroundings
 were an omnipotent commentary. | Though troubles assail and dangers alright,