Connecticut western news., 1892-02-25

cant chair, not made vacant by death, for death never enters there; it is a vacant chair for you. W;ll you take it9
 HEAVEN AND EARTH IN CLOSE SYMPATHY
 My subject also impresses me with the idea that heaven and earth are in close sympathy. People talk of heaven as though it were great way off. They say it is hundreds of thou. sands of miles before you reach the first star, and then you go hundreds of thousands of miles before you get to the second star, and then it is mil lions of miles before you reach heav- en. They say heaven is the center of the universe and we are on the rim of the universe. That is not the idea of my text. I think the heart of heaven beats very close to our world. We measure distances by the time taken to traverse those dis. tances.
 It used to be a long distance to San Francisco. Many weeks and months were passed before you could reach that city. Now it is six or seven days. It used to be six weeks before you could voyage from here to Liv. erpool. Now you can go that dis tance in six or seven days. And so ] measure the distance between eartl and heaven and l find it is only [ flash. 1t is one instant here, and an other instant there. It is very neal today. Do you not feel the breath of heaven on your face2 Christ says in one place it is not twenty -foui hours distance, when he says to tht penitent thief, This day, this day shalt thou be with me in Paradise. It is not day, it is not an hour, it i not minute, it is not second.
 Oh, how near heaven is to earth By oceanic cable you send a message AS it is expensive to send message you compress a great deal of meanin, in few words. Sometimes in tw, words you can put vast meaning And 1t seems to me that the angels o God who carry news from earth heaven, need to take up this hour, L regard to your soul, only two word in order to l1indle with gladness al the redeemed before tle throne, onl, two words, Father saved" 'mothe saved, son saved, daughter saved. And there is joy in heaven anon the angels of God over one slime, that repenteth."
 THE SALVATION OF THE SOUL.
 My subject also impresses me wit the fact that the salvation of the sou is of vast importance If you shoul make S20o, 900 this year, do you SUI heaven? It would not be of enougl importance or significance to be caI ried heavenward. If at the nex quadrennial election you are madt president of the United States, do yor suppose that news would be carried to heaven2 Do you suppose that tho news of revolution in France or Spain would be carried to heaven These things are not of enough i'm portance; but there is ore item tha. is sure to be carried. It is the saliva ton of your soul; it is your repent ance before God.
 The flying hoofs of Gods courier clash through the gates and the new goes from gate to mansion and iron mansion to temple and from tempt, to throne, and there is joy iL heaven" among the angels of Goo over one sinner forgiven. 1t must bC of vast importance to be of any mo ment in heaven, your salvation it. that land where gladnesses are tho everyday occurrence in that lanI. where the common stones of the ficlt. are jasper and emerald and chryso prasus and carbuncle and sardonyx And yet the news of your salvation makes joy before the throne of God
 You remember years ago stage driver in the White mountains be came very reckless. He had larg number of passengers on the stage, and the stage was drawn by six horses, wild and ungovernable, and he drove near the precipice, and h. drove off, the stage with its preciou freight rolling down the embank ment, and many were slain, but few were saved. l suppose when they wrote home they wrote with con gratulations at their rescue. Tn, angels of God look down and they see men driving on the edge of greai precipices of ruin and danger drawn by wild, leaping, foaming and un governable perils in this life, and i any shall escape before they capsizc do you not suppose the angels of Got rejoice, crying: Good, goodl Save from sin, saved from death, savoe from hell, saved forever2"
 The supreme court of the Unite States docs not adjourn for anythin. trifling. It must be the death of a cabinet minister, or the death of a president, or some matter of very great moment. When l find ell heaven adjourning its other joys for this one joy, I make up my mind it is of very great importance if heav- en can afford to adjourn all other festivities to celebrate this one tri- umph.
 Do you wonder that so many of these Christian people have toiled night and day in this work of soul saving, if it is of such vast impor- tancel Do you wonder that Kettle ton and Finley and Bishop Asbury and John Wesley and George White. field and Paul and angels and Christ and God stripped themselves for the work2 Around that one soul circles the mist, the fire, the darkness, the joy, the anthem, the wailing, the hallelujah and the woe of Gods uni. verse. If the soul is saved, then lin comes to trumpet and fingers to harp